Is there still a group?

I'm not sure if anyone still subscribes to this blog.  I'm back in Hilo and would love to get it started again. I've showed up to the Prince Kuhio food court a few times but it's different and smaller and I haven't seen any 2600 groups.

If anyone still reads and this and would like to start meeting again please comment.

Ownership

I am no longer living in the islands or running any meetings. If any of the members are interested in taking over this blog, please contact me.

Round table

Found this picture on my phone and thought everyone might enjoy it.

Next Meeting: February 5, 2010!

Aloha everyone!

January's meeting was great, as usual. All of our regular members showed up, and we confused the other people in the food court with our laptops and routers all over the tables. So... a pretty normal meeting.

Here are some highlights:

• We flashed some WRT routers with Tomato OS. This is getting to be a regular activity!
• Also, we had a lot of discussion on international politics and interesting websites. Next time maybe we can write them down to be posted up here later.
• I was particularly pleased with my work recovering a Cisco wireless bridge. I might write up a post about it, if I remember.
• And we swapped hacking zines and back issues of 2600.

The next Hilo 2600 meeting will be this coming Friday, February 5. (Feel free to bring any old tech that somebody else might want.)

And hey, don't forget, the Winter issue of 2600 is out on the shelves, if you aren't a subscriber. I especially liked the article about portable wireless networks.

Next meeting: January 8, 2010

Hello hackers! Our fearless founder Sandy has moved back to the mainland, where he'll probably stay for at least a year or two. For now, I've taken over updating this blog.

First order of business for 2010: the first Friday in January is also the first day in January. And being New Years Day, the mall is probably closed.

So, at the December meeting we decided to bump this one back to the second Friday: January 8th. We don't really have a specific agenda planned out, but we'll probably be talking about shiny new tech stuff and fixing broken old stuff. If you're coming for the first time, we'll be the ones at the food court with laptops and random electronics all over the table.

In the meantime, the Winter issue might be released before this meeting (or on the same day). If you want to keep an eye on it, I recommend subscribing to the rss feed at 2600.com.

Dec Meeting

Was awesome. Topics discussed included:

• Implications of Google's DNS
• Homopolar motors
• Neodymium magnets and their relationship with the hard drive industry
• Attempted and successfull unbricking of a linksys wrt wifi router.

Aloha.

October meeting

October's meeting went well. 7 members total, up from 5 last month and the 3 the previous. Going strong.

Discussed power inverters, boot CDs, WiFi, 3rd party firmware for WiFi routers and others.

August Meeting

We met once again at the fabolous Prince Kuhio food court for fine dining and discussion.

I put flyers in Summer issue of 2600. Hopefully September's meeting will draw a few new people. If you came here because of that flyer you're invited to join us next month. Please post here with any questions you have.

We'll be easy to spot as we're likely the only ones to bring laptops to the mall on a Friday night.

July Meeting

July's meeting saw tight discussion about netbooks, usb drives, Windows 7, WiFi secruity.

Looking forward to this Friday's August meeting, hope to see everyone there!

June Meeting

A small and short meeting, two of us attending

Discussed Google's Wave, Bing, and Storage Prices.

March meeting

We had a successful Febraury meeting with one new person joining. Talked about installing Ubuntu on an older Dell Inspiron.

March's meeting also a success. Talked about full disk encryption, hollowing books, hax5.com, stackoverflow.com, 2600 hard cover, netbooks, kismet, WEP cracking and finding a job.

January meeting

I am contiuing to meet in the food court in Prince Kuhio plaza near the arcade. 

Also we're listed in the 2600 meeting list. Hopefully that'll help bring in a few more people to February's meeting.

Happy new year.

1st Meeting

First meeting was a success. We had three attendees which is not bad for a first meeting on a remote island that's not O'ahu, right?
We covered electronic voting, RFID, digital storage and data management.
Please join us for out next meeting, November 7th.

Hilo's Premiere 2600 meeting!

The closest 2600 meeting is in Honolulu, but I'd like to avoid traveling. Lets see if we can get a regular meeting going in Hilo. Hopefully there will be a few interested minds that will come by and check us out

First meeting will be held at Prince Kuhio Plaza in the food court near the arcade.



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