2004 Meeting notes
2005 Meeting notes
2006 Meeting notes
2007 Meeting notes
2009 Meeting notes
January 10's meeting
Red Hat CertificationMommy, Why is There a Server in the House?
Moblin
Microsoft Exchange
Groupwise
Postfix
Sendmail
Media centres (LinuxMCE, XBMC, AppleTV, MythTV)
SquirrelMail
Horde
Kindle
Barns and Noble nook
Storage (IDE, SATA, iSCSI, Fiber Channel, Solid State, Holographic)
Zipit Z1/Z2
Marvel wifi chipset
X10 protocol
Ring2Skype (free world wide incoming phone numbers)
Blackberry/ BlackBerry JDE
Sun Ray
Magnetic field simulation
Palm
E-Ink
Conductive gloves
Solar powered drop-boxes for WIFI and RFID
Remote group projects and software
RFID passports and ID's
BrumCon
DEFCON
Shmoocon
Brainshare
Ideapad U1 hybrid notebook tablet
LabVeiw
Lisp
SPSS
Multisim
SolidWorks
AutoCAD
Eagle
Nexus One
Tablet PC's
Windows XP tablet edition
Tyan/ASUS motherboards
Free swag from companies
Over the top security for home use (RSA SecurID)
De-bricking equipment
HP Embedded XP/ Debian thin clients
Scratchbox
Getting a Sun Ray to work with Debian
Opensolaris
Apples open source mentality
Satellite monitoring via TV equipment, SkyStar 2 + software and getting a satellite modem to work passively.
N900/ Maemo 5
1000mW Wireless cards
Dell and not being able to boot of the internal SD reader
Why Ubuntu is a bad server OS
OpenSUSE VS SUSE Linux Enterprise
Microsoft SPOT Wrist Watch
Running MacOS X Panther on a 25MHz Centris
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
IRIX Warez (Adobe Photoshop 3.0.5)
Why people like calculators so much
Companies that disable features in firmware but still leave the hardware.
Ubiquiti
Making music with old hardware (floppy drive, etc)
Injecting SMS
DECT
Skype asterisk integration
Linux Terminal Server Project
OpenBTS
Cray Windows HPC Integrated Workstation/Cluster
HPBSD
Cash points running Windows and OS2
The Interactive Kiosk Attack Tool
Windows Embedded POSRead Issues
Windows mobile 6
Developing for mobile platforms
Learning C
K&R
NetBSD
Tru64
VAX
Computer Books
Windows based pay phones and Internet kiosks
OSX86 Distros
BSS/ESS & large wireless networks
DWM - Dynamic Window Manager
Clustering in Windows 2000/03/08 vs Novell NCS vs Linux HA
Small Business Server options (Windows SBS, Novell SBS, Open Source, etc)
Android vs iPhone
Programming missiles using QBasic
Fun with BASIC as a kid (offensive words in a loop on store/school computers, fork bombs)
Microsoft book for kids
February 10's meeting
Loose RAM in Dell serversWiFi on a campus network
Wardriving/warwalking
Old Ericsson PBX's
Recovering config files from Cisco kit without passwords
Prolific USB-to-RS232 adapters
OpenSUSE live cd's
Retaining a set of DOS disks just incase Netware falls over
15 year old mistakes
Chocolate cake
Distributing applications via MSI on ZENworks
Outrageous Checkpoint licensing costs
Breaking the rules & incriminating yourself
DDOSing Apache
It was a toilet, now it's a server room
"Broadcast storm protection"
"Layer 2.5 switches"
Tiny USB network card
Phantom keystroker
Cheap switches with fibre interfaces
Experience of HP switches
Nagios client for Android
Nokia N900
iPad
Wireless mini-pci-e cards
dash shell
I hate ubuntu server because of reason x
Encrypted ext3 partitions
Does OS X support encrypted volumes?
Photobooth.app clone bundled with OpenSUSE
Going flash free (It's ok, I can still view animated gifs)
STP
Fingerprint scanners
Brainshare Conf
High-end Xerox/Canon/Richoh printers
March 6th meeting
OpenBSD on memory stickOpenSUSE
How bloated Linux distributions have become
Updated tools and why building from source is the best idea (Kismet, Wireshark, Ettercap, nmap/Zenmap)
Older tools that are still fun (Driftnet, Netwox, Evilgrade, Unicornscan)
Hacking on a boat
Blackberry and Java
Local networked equipment
Starting a mid month meeting
GPS
Flash and the use of Blender
Rhino 3D
Maya
Solid Works
OpenSolaris
FreeCD's
Conferences
Salt Lake City
Apple's app removal
War driving
Alfa Wireless cards
Master mode
Cross compiling
N900, not a great phone, more a dev tool
FPGA network cards
Clustering
Reusing hardware
Capture the Flag
Hacker spaces
Laptop bags
Tool kits
Final Cut Pro on a Mini 9
Traveling
Click Online
Why non tech people feel the need to make tech shows
Next gen Windows phone and the Xbox dev team.
Microsoft Surface, being able to tell you want drink you have (Gin, Rohypnol?)
Ruby
Perl
Job interviews and recruiters
linkedin stalkers
Download Speeds
Samknows signup
Pier to Pier
CentOS 4.0
Splice
Routers
Getting free OEM products
System-on-a-chip
Windows CE
USB video cards
NSLU2
Fake AP's
Juniper's platforms utilizing FPGAs for the forwarding engine, not all application-specific integrated circuits
Passive aggressive SSIDs
HTML5
Exchange, Push, IMAP
Microsoft Silverlight
LG watch phone and other tech watches
Will it Blend
Google's mobile app's
Sunbird/ Lighting
Government trying to ban open AP / Open Rights Group
April 3rd meeting
Salt Lake City SUSE/Novel conferenceNovel/SUSE swag (stuffed toys, bags, memory stick, t-shirt, the list goes on)
Backwards compatibility
VM (zen/VMware) and VM's inside of VM's (and braking out of them)
Wireshark and its up coming features
Pentesters
CTF
DEFCON
Grinder
CNC machines
Codewarrior
AVR Studio 4
Eclipse
xkcd and other April fool things
Media hardware and their insecurity (Myth TV, SlingBox, DreamBox and other network based devices)
dlink
Green Switches
VIA
OpenBSD
NetBSD
Linksys SOHO load balancers
Metasploit's non exploit features
OpenVAS
TCP replay
Bugs fixed in NT 4 service packs
Why some code is shit
NLP
FPGA
Fiber VS copper
High tech camping
Hacker spaces
Flash
Web developers
Dangerous things you did as a kid
Racks and cooling
What is really needed from a web stand point for a community
PHP
Pointless features (gold plating and diamond encrusted)
Using an iPhone as a signal generator to test Oscilloscopes
Build Brighton
Flash Brighton
Bullet time iPhone app and AR15 case
Hello Kitty Glocks and AR15's
Airpwn
Quantum cryptography
Blowfish encryption algorithm
Fiber Optic Man in the Middle Attack
Karma
IDS/IPS
Mid month meetings
Learning electronics and electronic simulation
Guessing peoples passwords
IBM SPSS Statistics and using it to find pattens
BrumCon
RFID and active RFID devices
GPS and using it for time (OpenNTPd)
OpenSolaris
Otterbox cases
File systems and hardware
Python
Distributed compiling
Perl
Clustering
Word lists
Lynx
Asterisk Radio Networks
Active directory and Mac's
Buffalo routers
ATA commands
IRC bouncers
Tor
Internet while flying
Alfa cards still too pricey
Globalsat BU-353
VOIP
BitchX, IRSSI, screen
Crossing animals and plants in a lab and general GM (glow in the dark web developers)
Brainwashing web developers
OpenDPI - The Open Source Deep Packet Inspection Engine
Bastille and SELinux
NSA/CIA weak encryption
LED throwies
Gentoo
How long it takes to build Firefox from source
555/556/558 timers
Building robots
Self destructing thumb drives, rugged memory sticks
Fooling finger print scanners
Random number generators and using a Geiger counter as one.
Strontium-90, Caesium-137, Radium, Tritium
Cameras
Oracle database's and Solaris
Oracle unbreakable Linux AKA old Red Hat
Vodafone Sure Signal
Analyzing firmwares
PS3 and Sony removing other OS support/ gaining full access to the hardware
Programming books
Universal software radio peripheral and software defined radio as a whole
Intercepting and injecting data to wireless keyboards
Google maps/ BN2600 wifi data page for the site
building jdk from source is a pain
User groups, community & everyones 2 pence contribution
PCI-E cards with SSD storage
RAID Controller with large caches & cache controllers
Using SSD for metadata cache with cheap low spec sata disks to obtain high performance (Poor mans SAS)
Network engineering may be the perfect role for getting away from web developers
Everyone has moved away
Curry & Mid month meetings
Interviews
How many people are there on the mailing lists?
Network monitoring via jabber & twitter
SANE User Group
1337 usernames
Office router has to be scanned for PCI Compliance
Xgrid for simplified distributed computing
Xgrid support in Apple pro apps, logic pro (logic nodes)
The dongle crack for logic pro 7 which effective turns logic pro into logic express
Using rtmpdump and mplayer to watch streaming porn is ASCII
May 7th meeting
Maltego
Faking AP's
Mesh networking and the law
UAV's
Mobile phone interception
Phone taps
Nanotechnology
Folding@home/SETI@home
PPC/Cell
Cisco
PI's
GPS (tracking, faking data)
Email and its place in relation to the laws
Antennas
Wifi sniper rifle Shitty / good
Firewalls
Oracle unbreakable Linux
Damn vulnerable Linux
Local root exploits
Vulnerability in web-based applications
The ipad and its use within schools and with old people.
Robot suits
Pill size camera bots with legs
Remote sensing via implants and the treatment of of illnesses via implants
Cancer research
Old networking equipment
NVIDIA ION
Lead based and high silver content based solder vs lead free solder
IPcop
ADSL routers
Cheap but good wireless cards
GuruPlug Server/ GuruPlug Display
Full hard drive encryption
Personal privacy
Unified threat management
Antiviruses
Moving a company from Windows to OSX
Copper cyanide solution in PCB manufacture
X10
Carnivorous robots
Mid-month meeting
Who we have met from the mailing list
Desktop operating systems
Flickr
Encryption and its over heads
False positives
Secure OS
Real Time OS
Getting information from companies by using educational email addresses and bogus research outlines.
Keeping your skills up to date and training.
Getting hardware built commercially
UK/US police
How many people you know that have changed their SSH port to 1337
PIC
AVR
RFID
Teensy USB Board
eZ430-Chronos Wireless Watch
OpentTracker APRS
Prepaid credit cards and their uses
Google mashups
Objective-C
GUI for everything (bad or good thing?)
Galileo satellite-navigation
Developments of internal cards
Powering things with human blood
GSM and 3G modules
WiMAX take up in the UK, Africa and Israel
Helical antenna design
Spying on satellites via used satellite modems
Writing drivers
KDE (older versions vs new)
Deleting Facebook and Twitter accounts
SSH honeypots on mobile phones
Pentoo (security-focused livecd based on Gentoo)
Custom Kernels
Instabilities in aircraft design
CAE
Magnetohydrodynamics
Computational fluid dynamics
How useless tech shops are
Mac ports and building open source software for both PPC and Intel based Macs
pkgsrc
IBM, token ring, PS/1, PS/2, MCA & all we got is a mouse & keyboard port
Booting windows from flash
Dell DRAC & vflash
Dell KVM over IP
Ironman 2
Windows 7 OGR?
Legal issues with security disclosure
Kevin Warwick
Do you actually know what data you're processing in distributed computing projects
Making heavy computation more appealing (cancer research simulator)
Using reverse slang when naming products (Oracle unbreakable Linux?)
iPhone adverts
Warez & AV software
IBM Fabrication plant
Freescale PowerPC
Swapping serial ports for USB
Kernel debugging over firewire on the Macintosh
June 4th meeting
Authentication methodsSpanning Tree Protocol and the HP alternative.
Network loops
Creating loops
Building SpecTools
OpenSUSE Build Service
The Loop Daddy
WiSpy Spectrum Analyzer
RSA
RFID and breakout boards
Think Geek and its cheaper german cousin www.getdigital.de
Spark Fun
Generating your own power
Spark gap generators
Jammers
Phone coverages
Portuguese man of war
Banana spiders
Password managers
Novell netware
Dropbox
Banned books that are still for sale of Amazon
Railguns
Dooms day weapons
Automated tracking systems
Zen and other ADSL providers
Bug out bags
Paint ball
Ham radio
Keyboards
Radio scanner
Getting around DECT
Recovering Windows passwords
Getting around passwords on other OS
SUSE and Ubuntu on SPARC hardware
Apple fan boys
Geek clothing
Geek pointless toys
LED Gimp masks (conductive thread)
Moblin
Gimp
Photoshop
What if Adobe just gave up on Apple?
MeeGo
The MacBook air
i5 vs i7
Intel's new chips for mobile phones
ARM
Will the need for iphone/ipad developers drop?
Cheap iPad alternatives
Windows 7 vs OSX vs Linux security
Foxhole radio
How many times the music at buddies has been repeated .
TOR, Proxies, sending data through a VPS.
Getting VPS with prepaid credit cards.
GPS and firmware
Operating systems used on the international space stations.
Radio BBS
Making Linux look like OSX (trolling)
Super Mario Flash game
Google war driving
Data protection
CCTV
Mark Thomas
What Google has on you?
Security clearance
Thermite vs hard drives
Making radios out of random junk
Tech camping
Conferences
Other 2600 meetings
Flying to the US with lock picks.
Building computers
Investigation of extramarital affairs
Keyloggers (open source software and hardware)
Photocopiers with hard drives
3Com switches and network cards
CISCO switches
DLINK switches
HTML5 vs Flash for streaming video in relation to bandwidth
Poorly installed cabling
Electromagnetic interference
Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko via polonium
Developing for Nokia
Phones you lusted for as a kid/younger man (Nokia communicator)
Fun things to do with printers and photocopiers
Work-group printer technologys
Scramjets and Ramjets
Experimental aircraft
Suitcase reactors
Plasmafication
Small cameras
Chemical lasers
Theoretical physics
Sound based anti riot devices
Microwave anti riot devices
Vaporisation/gasification MDMA for riot/ siege pacification.
People not liking their picture taken
Mid month meeting on the 18th
Alternative energy
Rolling blackouts
File systems and old school UNIX guru's
The search for a good mail client
VoIP integration with OSX (linking in phone books and click to dial)
Phone systems old and new and interlinking them.
Foursquare
pleaserobme.com
PLA radio
Alibaba
Buying electrical component and cables of ebay from china (cheap price but the shipping is what gets you)
System-on-a-chip
Google TV
Apple TV
Power line networking and its security
Adding SMA connectors to wireless cards
WiFi hat
Locating rogue access points
Large Hadron Collider
Is time elliptical or linear
Location based services
Cloning phones and phone based loggers
Military aircraft and NASA using FireWire ( IEEE 1394b) and its insecurity's
Cloud computing
Making Nitrous Oxide
Rocket fuel
Radioactive spiders (spider man)
Nvidia Quadro graphic cards (why the Quadro FX 5800 is worth the money)
Colour eink and video playback
Flexible displays
Galileo satellites, built in Guildford and running on ARM.
Weaknesses in quantum cryptography
Spying on fibre
June 18th mid month meeting
Novell eDirectory, LDAP, Open directory
The new Mac mini and other Apple products
Mobile phone screens
Virtual boy
Augmented reality gaming
DS 3D
Mono
Fortran, MATLAB and Simulink
Doing things cheaply VS doing things right
SGI Nintendo Ultra 64
Racks
Buying cable in bulk (Blackbox, Comm Direct)
Netbooks
Disaster recovery plans
Fun at BT
VoIP
z/OS , AIX
The effects of long term use of computers on the human body
QT4
KDE
Certifications
Educational computing
What the everyday man/woman needs from a computer.
Software becoming bloated
Commenting code
Upgrading video cards in Macs
Virtualization technologies
The creepy IBM Linux adverts
Tech meetings
OpenVAS
Super computers and cooling them
CAE on IBM and Sun hardware (SPARC VS POWER6 and Cell CPU)
The oil spill
Foxcon
Wigle
VNC VS rdesktop
Juniper, FreeBSD, FPGA, HDL
Antenna design and using the human body
Trying to go a day with out using a computer
Crosswords
The death of news papers and magazines (moving online and making money).
Having 5 to 20% of your work time for personal coding projects
Do open source projects need a dictator at the top to set a direction and keep people on track?
Moving from one OS onto another.
July 3rd meeting
Retro Gaming3D
The new iPhone
VoIP (Cisco, Polycom, SIP, Inter-Asterisk exchange protocol)
Truecrypt
Pricing up hardware
Other mobile phones
The new Xbox 360 redesign
Nintendo
Knock of games (the great giana sisters, fake tetras)
WarVOX
KillBee and ZigBee war driving
Tax laws
MP3 players
HTC EVO
WiMax/ 4G networks
A good use for the 6GHz band
d-star
Networking computers on 433MHz, 800MHz and 900MHz
Liquid metal antennas
How much power is too much power.
Next mid month meeting on the 16th
Damn Vulnerable Linux
GasLand
Hello Kitty
WPA and WPA2 old and new issues
Flying Squirrel Linux
Network-Fuzzing
Protecting phones
KDE
Gold vending machines
Cracking safes and picking locks
July 16th mid month meeting
Transferring attachmentsIntegrating Apple products into a large scale network
HOPE
DEFCON
Exotic Liability
Open On-Chip Debugger
What you have done for the open source community
Suse
BSD
IR and making massive TV b-gones (IR gimp mask)
Oscilloscopes and protocol analysers
JTAG protocol decoding
Fast chargers and battery technology
Hacker Spaces
Pay levels for the IT industry
Certifications
Spending too much money on ebay
Ghost chili
Going for Thai food next month
Banks
Running a business VS working for a company
Zigbee integration with Kismet
Zigbee vulnerabilities and its use in devices
Embedded OpenSolaris
Arcade cabinets and getting them to read notes
Pentesting and automated tools
Clarion ClarionMind (800MHz Z500 Intel Atom processor)
Odroid (Android based handheld gaming)
Beer serving robots
Wired for war
Point and Click App dev on Android
Leapster Explorer (low cost Linux handheld)
Writing documentation
2600, the magazine and the book
Social engineering
Professional security people getting their sites vandalised
Tomorrow's world
Clicks story on the loss of unlimited data on phones.
N900
Falling asleep on the train.
KDE, Gnome,XFCE, FLUXBOX
Trigger happy TV
Phone Jacker/Face Jacker
Prank calls that are destructive.
The need for a burger king style crown for the loop king
Fast eaters
Reflashing the BIOS from in the OS
Old BIOS viruses and the invention of the dual BIOS
Strange signs in English in other counties
Area 51
Lego Mindstorm and other robotic kits
SGI, Sun, QNX
Uses for old mini Crays and Windows HPC
Gentoo
Odd fascination with shredding trucks
GPS Zombie game (MobileDead)
4Chan, Asylum nation and general shock imagery
OpenDNS and Google DNS
Nvidia handheld/board game combo
Browser based vulnerabilities
August 6th meeting
DefCon (Good talks/fun things/the badge/slides)
LDAP
Novell eDirectory
Well written tech books
Mac's and other assorted Apple products
Traditional education VS self learning
Importing and exporting to China
80's action films and the upcoming The Expendables film.
The new Tron film and what operating systems films used
CGI
China and Japan's ability to copy western products, plus their original ideas.
Star Wars and Star Trek apps
Unicornscan
How many books you read
The new Kindle
Nuclear isomers (hafnium, triggering decay for power generation)
Engineering biological (microbial) fuel cells.
Bugs in SUSE
Thunderbird business integration
The openSUSE Build Service
Making your own OpenSolaris distro
Old hardware and the first computer you owned.
Building a 2.4GHz transmitter out of an old microwave
VoIP Hopper
Netgear Stora (two internal bays, plus USB)
10Gb copper switching
Gamers and the money they will spend on hardware
Music games
Japanese clubs and how much fun they are.
Updating solutions
HOPE 2600 Meetings: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow BN2600 shout-out
Bluetooth
Other peoples views on hacker spaces
Off site storage companies
Going back to Gnome from KDE
Open source and Apple
Credit card foursquare/titter site
Gmail
Large scale implementation of IMAP
Blackberry secure remote wipe
This months mid month meeting is on Friday the 20th and Thai food.
Comic books
New SUSE Moblin build
Taking academic papers with a pinch of salt
Laser projectors in mobile phones.
August 20th mid month meeting
Bubba Ho tep and the legend that is Bruce CampbellThe Expendables
What is classed as an old film.
Flickr
Coding for Android
Strange Amazon and Last.fm recommendation
Tom Green
Mac
Apple patents and phones spying on you
Linux on a watch
PC game anti cheat systems
PC games VS console games
Ergonomics
GCC and other compilers
EZ430-Chronos
Suse
OpenBSD
OpenSolaris (is it dead?)
SPARC hardware and Ubuntu giving up.
Wireless cards and antenna
Cloning Bluetooth devices
Oracle
Python
IDE's
RT3070 chipset issues in Linux and other chipsets
Bluetooth dongles and modding them
Building a new PC
Myth TV
Zbox
Bugs in Linux
Windows 7
EL Backlight vs LED
Farnell
Good coffee
Extensible firmware interface
Holidays
2600's around the world
Old tech guys
Lock picks
EFF
iWoz and Steve Wozniak
WiFi drones
Serial data
OpenMesh
Kismet
The Kernel
WiSpy
The Linux Community (Upstream)
Robots
New updates in nmap 5.35DC1
EAGLE Layout Editor
Having boards made and things companies will not do.
Spideroak
KDE daily builds
Gnome Slab
Bare PCB and liking the look over a plastic case.
Blowing out an amp
Exagrid
Solid State Drives
Cisco's cool ad (coloured glasses and hidden text)
Choqok and OAuth
Binary watches and the Tokyo Flash Pimp watch
Student numbers and dealing with the IT infrastructure
Keyboards (Cherry keyboards Klingon and Stargate. Das Keyboard, IBM model M, split keyboards.)
Cleaning electronics with isopropanol
Chaos Communication Camp 2011
Hackintosh
PPC still going strong
Electronic waste
Tux work ID card
PCMCIA and ExpressCard
DECT
Working with surface mount component and reworking boards with a reworking tool/hot air gun.
September 3rd meeting
Brighton 2m/70cm repeaters
Modding radios
LDAP
PackETH
Music
UK 2600's
