A quick note from hack.rva about events that are coming up in the next few weeks. February 4 – RVAsec badge planning (weekly) February 6 – Noise Night (bi-weekly) February 7 – Open Hack Night (weekly) February 9 – Movies at hack.rva (?!?!?!) February 12 – Resume Workshop for IT Pros (one-time!) February 14 – [...]
You asked for more workshops, here is one of many to come. This event is the Soldering 101 class. Learn how to solder like a pro on Saturday, February 16th, 2013 @ 10:00AM. We’ll teach you to sling rosin and make great joints so that all your projects are well connected and able push electrons [...]
First and foremost, this informal membership drive that we’ve had over late December / early January has been awesome. There are now more members on the books than ever before. Hack.rva is incredibly close to having a positive cash-flow for the first time in its history. To help push us over the edge, we have [...]
For 2013, hack.rva needs a new t-shirt design so all of our members can look even more awesome. So dust off your crayons, oil pastels, watercolors, Inkscape, or whatever your chosen medium may be. Come up with a kick-ass design and and submit it to jamie.e.duncan@gmail.com. All designs will go up on a poll for [...]
Last night we had over 30 people at Open Hack night. Pretty awesome for the week before Christmas. Some of the stuff we’ll have coming up in early 2013: The tech lab side of the hackerspace will be getting an overhaul We should be having at least one workshop, designed by the new Workshop Team, [...]
The hackerspace had some troubles towards the end of the year, and for a minute there we weren’t sure if we were going to be able to keep going on. Thankfully, hackers did what they do best. We worked together to solve a large problem. The number of hackers, new and old, who are stepping [...]
Database Design class is tomorrow. Sign up at http://hackrva20121013.eventbrite.com/ I’ll provide copies of MySQL Workbench and a primary MySQL server deployed within HackRVAs network that we can run some simple queries off of. I’ll also lead everyone through the process of setting up a server in two Linux distributions, Fedora and Ubuntu. Then I’ll cover table [...]
After finding a killer deal on deals.woot I scored Diablo 3, Battlefield 3, and Skyrim @ my Walmart via ad match $31.44. Here’s how. TL;DR Version – Know the small print before you go. Don’t volunteer information that will invalidate your argument. Be persistent. http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/0c64cce9-913f-41f5-bd99-47a96b278894/elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-for-pc#34 Tonight after finding this deal (Skyrim for PC (and others) [...]
Arrr Matey! Sure as the south wind blow twixt m’nethers today September 19th 2012 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day so hoist ye main sails, swab ye poop deck, and fly yer Jolly Roger.
If you’re a Star Trek fan you’ll want to listen to the last episode of Chris Hardwick’s The Nerdist podcast. Michael Dorn (@akaWorf on twitter) gave an in depth look at a post-Star Trek:TNG life. Frankly, as a pilot and the former owner of two military fighter jets I’d say he’s not doing too bad. He gives an [...]
