From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Tue Nov 3 19:03:17 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 3:03:17 +0000 Subject: APM: Nov. 12 TRG Maker SIG Message-ID: <20091104030318.0NMRT.99959.root@hrndva-web22-z01> Hello, Just a quick reminder that next Thursday, Nov. 12, is the first and only TRG Maker SIG in the month of Nov. The topics will be 'Circuit Bending' and 'Lego Mindstorms'. If you have other projects, topics, or things you'd like to share feel free to bring them up. We consider this an 'Open Microphone' event. We also would like to ask that you let others know of our efforts and invite them to share. The event goes from 7pm to 10pm, with regular Robot Group business from 8pm to 8:30pm. We look forward to seeing you there! For the circuit bending please bring hand tools, soldering equipment, meters, oscilloscopes, electronics components, etc. Don't forget to bring the device you want to bend! Happy Thanksgiving! -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Tue Nov 3 20:01:13 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 4:01:13 +0000 Subject: APM: Interesting Perl 5 app... Message-ID: <20091104040113.AHBQ0.100943.root@hrndva-web22-z01> So, I'm sitting here reading 'Pattern Recognition' with no thought of Perl and still it comes up... CHOMBO The Chombo package provides a set of tools for implementing finite difference methods for the solution of partial differential equations on block-structured adaptively refined rectangular grids. Both elliptic and time-dependent modules are included. Support for parallel platforms and standardized self-describing file formats are included. https://seesar.lbl.gov/ANAG/chombo/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_Recognition_(novel) -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Sun Nov 8 20:07:08 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 4:07:08 +0000 Subject: APM: Hacking Society Austin - Tue. Nov. 10, 2009 7pm Message-ID: <20091109040708.G3Q32.163894.root@hrndva-web16-z01> The next physical meeting of the Hacking Society Austin group will be this Tuesday at the HEB Central Market Cafe. Look for the red covered "Applied Cryptography" book. http://www.hackingsociety.org/ http://www.centralmarket.com/Stores/Austin-Central.aspx -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Mon Nov 9 05:41:05 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 13:41:05 +0000 Subject: APM: Austin Perl Mongers Wed. Nov. 11 7pm Message-ID: <20091109134105.MT5P6.195038.root@hrndva-web22-z01> It's once again time to gather and share perls of Perl wisdom... http://www.mangiapizza.com/33/Gracy_Farms.html 7pm and look for the Perl books! -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Mon Nov 9 22:28:22 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 6:28:22 +0000 Subject: APM: From Novice to Adept: Pronouns in Perl Message-ID: <20091110062822.ROSB9.189579.root@hrndva-web16-z01> http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2009/11/from-novice-to-adept-pronouns-in-perl.html -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Tue Nov 10 06:22:14 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:22:14 +0000 Subject: APM: Some topics for tonights Hacking Society meeting... Message-ID: <20091110142214.KT3NC.329096.root@hrndva-web11-z01> Good Morning, I'd like to propose a small change in the way the Hack Society meetings are held. In particular I'd like to ask all/any attendees to bring some topics of discussion from current events that will involve science-technology and having impact on our society in social, economic, legal, etc. ways. My current list is: MIT News -- What computer science can teach economics ZDNet -- The importance of Sixth Sense going open source Book Review -- "The Big Question: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics and Science" Steven E. Landsburg Science Daily -- 'Plasmobot': Scientists to Design First Robot Using Mould SCOTUS Blog -- Analysis: The "Lorenzo Jones" case emerges (re: Bilski case on business process patents) The RackspaceCloud Blog -- NoSQL Ecosystem (re: non-RDBMS DBs and scaling issues) Examiner.com -- US Navy ordered to listen for Martian Radio Broadbasts in 1924 (ie before official SETI programs) Esquire -- Augmented Reality issue Ars Technica -- Examining science on the fringes: vital, but generally wrong The way this would work is you find something that strikes your fancy that may/will have an impact in 'hacking' society and bring an exemplar like a print out of the article, the book, magazine, etc. If you have technology demonstrations they are welcome as well. There is wi-fi provided by the venue if you need net access. 7-9pm at the HEB Central Market on N. Lamar, look for the red covered "Applied Cryptography" book. http://www.centralmarket.com/Stores/Austin-Central.aspx Thank you for participating! -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Wed Nov 11 10:52:23 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:52:23 +0000 Subject: APM: Tonight's shindig... Message-ID: <20091111185224.ISBFO.168786.root@hrndva-web09-z01> Sorry for the late notice but I'm not going to be able to attend tonight, work calls. -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Wed Nov 11 10:53:46 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:53:46 +0000 Subject: APM: Tonight's shindig... Message-ID: <20091111185346.0UYR8.168816.root@hrndva-web09-z01> Sorry for the late notice but I'm not going to be able to attend tonight, work calls. -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From mark at marklehmann.com Tue Nov 17 14:44:52 2009 From: mark at marklehmann.com (Mark Lehmann) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:44:52 -0600 Subject: APM: [JOB POSTING] Austin Job Position: PHP/Perl Developer - TX Message-ID: <8fa2a6330911171444g27ab6984v553016032466f8aa@mail.gmail.com> If you like doing Perl, MySQL and PHP and are looking for some contract work, take a look at this. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Date: Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:17 AM Subject: Position: PHP/Perl Developer - TX My name is Nitin and I'm an IT recruiter at Pyramid Consulting, Inc. 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URL: From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Tue Nov 17 14:46:15 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:46:15 +0000 Subject: APM: Q: TRG Maker SIG interest in BEAM, nervous networks, biomimetics, etc.? Message-ID: <20091117224615.UCKN0.16389.root@hrndva-web23-z02> Hi, I've ordered some pager motors (10ea on this first order) and will begin putting some effort into exploring some simple applications to nervous/neural networks, BEAM robotics, biomimetics, etc. At this time I've got two aspects that I'm looking to explore: - using old VCRs, cassette decks, game consoles, etc. to get mechanisms and related hardware/electronics to explore BEAM and similar robotics - biomimetics; in particular I'm looking to build a small 1ft dia model of my hovercraft project. The primary goal being to explore the skirt construction pattern and optical mouse sensor applications to dead reckoning (which by implication means at least some simple propulsion/navigation). Secondarily I've got this crazy idea of taking a plastic bottle (eg water or soft drink) and using it as a platform for doing some basic exploration into flagellated propulsion. It would have sensors and the basic control architecture would be a very simplified Box Jelly CNS. Maybe we could get limited access to the pool across the hall for testing???? Both of these would be good application frameworks for using small footprint SBC packages as well as off-board computing resources. I'll be ordering some kits of resistors and capacitors as my own supply is down to a couple of boxes of each. In addition we'd like to get a small collection of used electronic consumer devices to get additional parts and pieces from. As a related aside, because of the paucity of TRG Maker SIG meetings this month and next I'd like to propose that we bring our Lego Mindstorm work to the regular meetings to try and keep some inertia going, assuming it doesn't conflict with other business of course. -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Sun Nov 22 18:52:39 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:52:39 -0600 Subject: APM: Head-hunter Pass-along... Message-ID: <20091123025240.8P90W.113228.root@hrndva-web02-z02> ? Holly Hawk has sent you an InMail: Can you help me, Avanade is looking for a Systems Engineer for a consulting role in Austin, TX Hi James Choate, Hello! My name is Amy Morehart and I am a recruiter for Avanade. Avanade Inc is a progressive technology consulting organization and a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture designed to rapidly deliver business-critical solutions built from Microsoft technologies. Our clients are among the world?s leading Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies and our employees enjoy rich and challenging careers. Our goal is to be the world's premier technology integrator. Our corporate headquarters are based in Seattle , we enjoy unprecedented access to Microsoft's development laboratories and continually train our people on the latest Microsoft products and technologies. You can find more about Avanade at www.avanade.com. Currently we have a requirement for a Systems Engineer as a Consultant for a strong opportunity based in Austin, TX. We are looking for individuals with experience in building servers, determine the networking details, troubleshooting environmental problems, supporting Exchange 2007, setting up virtual server environments, reimaging and upgrading hardware etc. Our consultants work with best of breed technologies every day while helping our clients solve complex business problems. I wanted to check with you and see if you knew of anyone in your professional circle who could fill this role, or if you feel it might be a fit for you? Please let me know if you would like me to call you with more detail. Thank you for networking. Amy Amy Morehart- Recruiter ASR/AIMS Sourcing Avanade Inc amy.morehart at avanade.com Mobile (512) 775-3890 www.avanade.com -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- --