Saturday July 14 - KISes
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hugmeOptyx's panel was awesome!! he would give a paragraph then get an applause, give a paragraph, get another applause, everyone loved KIS (kernel intrusion system) - his new software. At the end as he was answering questions. he called on one of his friends who started yelling about how what he was doing was wrong and said "You may be laughing, but you know who isn't laughing? Richard Stallman isn't laughing, he is mad" at this point one another friend who looks like Stallman jumps up and sys "I'm mad!!" They started coming up the isle and Optyx got out of his seat and started walking down the isle, they met in the middle of the floor and wrestled on the floor. it was hilarious!!! They got up laughing and Optyx said "Thank you" Everyone stood up and clapped. he then threw disks out to the audience who were started diving into the isles for them.
I tried again to join the CTF network, same result. The hardware panel I went to was BAD. I did go however to the 8-bit 8-pin pane, it was great, I got lots of good notes. I even entered the hardware contest. you had to draw a design for a piece of hardware that could be built with the starter unit. I turned min in but didn't win. :-( I went to a panel about wireless networking, it was STUPID. The entire panel was some random chick talking about wireless networks that have been set up in strange places. the panel went something like this: "So this one time at Burning man, this friend of mine set up an Internet connection in the middle of the desert. yea that was really cool, and so this other time in Texas we set up this other wireless network, yea that was really cool too." This was the entire panel. I left.
The Quantum Cryptology panel was lame, The guy only talked about 1 type of quantum computer where Melon discussed 5, he gave the theory with no explanations. he mentioned them like there would only be one use for them ever. "so quantum computers will be able to crack encrypted messages much faster" was pretty much all he said in about 50 different ways. well DUH!! It's a faster computer.he showed slides that looked neat but he nor anyone else could explain what was in them, it was very sad. then after the panel nobody had any questions (I think they just wanted him off of the stage) after melons panel we had to cut it off because of all the questions she was being asked.
We told Optyx and Dystic that we would take them out to dinner, Dystic had other things to attend to so Rocket, monster, Colleen (the preaker grrl) Optyx, his friend and I went out. We discussed the con and came up with some great idea's for next year. I took notes. I then hung out with Colleen, her husband and their 5 year old for a while. that night Th group of us tried to go to the fish show but again we showed up too late. So we went to go check out the coaster. too later again. they had just closed. So we played video games (at least that was still open) Then went back to the hotel and hung out. I went to bed early but didn't get much sleep, you would thing I would have slept like a baby but I couldn't.
The dealers room was not that great, for one thing the dealers got screwed when they found out about the fee they had to pay for their table. Angus was not happy. For this reason all of the dealers charged more. The hardware was incredibly expensive, I got a couple of T-shirts but not the one I wanted. The one I was after said "My other computer is your workstation" but I was too late for that one. I did pick up some "Owned by CDC" stickers for my work mates and a couple of T-shirts for grrl.
I tried again to join the CTF network, same result. The hardware panel I went to was BAD. I did go however to the 8-bit 8-pin pane, it was great, I got lots of good notes. I even entered the hardware contest. you had to draw a design for a piece of hardware that could be built with the starter unit. I turned min in but didn't win. :-( I went to a panel about wireless networking, it was STUPID. The entire panel was some random chick talking about wireless networks that have been set up in strange places. the panel went something like this: "So this one time at Burning man, this friend of mine set up an Internet connection in the middle of the desert. yea that was really cool, and so this other time in Texas we set up this other wireless network, yea that was really cool too." This was the entire panel. I left.
The Quantum Cryptology panel was lame, The guy only talked about 1 type of quantum computer where Melon discussed 5, he gave the theory with no explanations. he mentioned them like there would only be one use for them ever. "so quantum computers will be able to crack encrypted messages much faster" was pretty much all he said in about 50 different ways. well DUH!! It's a faster computer.he showed slides that looked neat but he nor anyone else could explain what was in them, it was very sad. then after the panel nobody had any questions (I think they just wanted him off of the stage) after melons panel we had to cut it off because of all the questions she was being asked.
We told Optyx and Dystic that we would take them out to dinner, Dystic had other things to attend to so Rocket, monster, Colleen (the preaker grrl) Optyx, his friend and I went out. We discussed the con and came up with some great idea's for next year. I took notes. I then hung out with Colleen, her husband and their 5 year old for a while. that night Th group of us tried to go to the fish show but again we showed up too late. So we went to go check out the coaster. too later again. they had just closed. So we played video games (at least that was still open) Then went back to the hotel and hung out. I went to bed early but didn't get much sleep, you would thing I would have slept like a baby but I couldn't.
The dealers room was not that great, for one thing the dealers got screwed when they found out about the fee they had to pay for their table. Angus was not happy. For this reason all of the dealers charged more. The hardware was incredibly expensive, I got a couple of T-shirts but not the one I wanted. The one I was after said "My other computer is your workstation" but I was too late for that one. I did pick up some "Owned by CDC" stickers for my work mates and a couple of T-shirts for grrl.
