I made it to the nostalgia panel on saturday night. It was pretty amusing. Captain Crunch joined the panel along with Dan, dnm, grey and Damon. It was a bit of a popcorn affair puncuated by ascii art(pr0n), and assembly code. Captain Crunch was great. I know he was at Defcon, but I've been out of the cons for a while, so it was my first chance to hear him. He talked about how he got into … [Read more...]
Toorcon Day 1
September 30, 2006 By 3 Comments
[12am] We hit the opening keynote by Cory Doctorow. He had some interesting things to say about patterns in eula agreements and the restriction of rights to enforce business models.[Simple Nomad] followed up with his talk called 'State of the Enemy State' - his observations regarding government security, just how advanced real time encryption cracking probably is and predictions on some … [Read more...]
WT-300 Cluster
September 30, 2006 By 7 Comments
[Sprite_tm] sent in his latest project. It's a cluster built from hacked Acer WT-300 windows CE terminals. The resulting speed wasn't too impressive (10 200Mhz Geode cpus) but the road to get it done is interesting. He had to whip up a flash programmer to get the device to boot from ide devices. Then he added IDE headers and IDE Cf adapters. … [Read more...]
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