What exactly is the ohms-per-foot of wet pasta?!? :-) On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 8:45 AM Devin Heitmueller via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I ended up going to this on Saturday, and I will say it was a lot of fun. Plenty of vintage gear (only *slightly* vintage for this crowd, I suspect), they had a CTF involving 1990's era routers/T1s/etc.
The winning entry for the DSL competition involved somebody sending 6Mbps of traffic over a pair of wet spaghetti (yes, literally they used two pieces of wet pasta).
The cost was very reasonable and it is just a car drive away (i.e. no airfare required), so I would recommend to others in the area for next year.
The only negative in my book was that it was on Friday/Saturday rather than Saturday/Sunday, and I couldn't miss work to go on both days.
Devin
On Fri, Oct 11, 2024, 9:24 PM Herbert Johnson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Did anyone hear of *JAWNCON.ORG <http://JAWNCON.ORG>* and if so are you going?
I checked out the Web site and list of talks, and the general tenor of the event. I like what I'm reading about. This year's talks are networking and telecom. It's not my primary tech interest (retrotechnology.com) but I don't mind hanging out with those techs, many of my computing friends have those interests. And I like the old-tech consideration (that's me). I'll look up the videos for this year, maybe see it next year, it's half an hour's drive away from me.
I see they have a radio-amateur license workshop and testing. There was a lot of early telecom tech in vintage amateur radio: X.25 packet radio for instance. The conference developers might want to find some old-hams to talk about that work. There's a little bit of packet radio on my Web site, as it was an early use of microprocessors.
Not so off topic I think.
regards Herb (not a bot) Johnson
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