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Submission + - VHS presents VHSdecel - The latest in startup incubation (vhsdecel.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @04:34PM

An anonymous reader writes: After recently celebrating its 5 year anniversary, the Vancouver Hackspace (VHS) have now decided it's time to give back to the global community, and the Vancouver community in particular. It does so by offering a unique and experimental startup incubator programme that leverages — between its members, keyholders and other experts — more than 100+ years of hands-on experience in hands-on development and being at the pen-ultimate forefront of new technology.

VHS is proud to present VHSdecel, a brand new proud Canadian hands-on alternative to academic product development and startup incubator. VHS is the opensource equivalent of traditional startup incubators. VHSdecel aims to alleviate the stress of a startup by providing the tools and experience of our veteran hackers to make startups fun again.

About VHS

The Vancouver Hackspace, locally better known as VHS, was founded in 2008. Its mission, to provide a common workspace where its members, hackers, makers, crafters and otherwise (technically) creative people could work on projects and find like-minded people, in sharing knowledge and ideas.

Comment Re:Mintchip is designed to track you (Score 2) 84

by Robbat2 on Thursday August 16, 2012 @12:46PM (#41012841) Attached to: Voting Begins For Canadian Digital Currency App

You missed something critical posted by the AC. He said you have to assign a unique prime number to each user. Not simply a number.
The 30 millionith prime is 573259391. The 50 millionith prime is 982451653. I couldn't find the 60 millionith prime anywhere, and another 20M should be enough room for the corporations. In either case ceil(log2(573259391)) == ceil(log2(982451653)) == 30. The beauty of this is you can multiply two large primes, take the modulo and somebody with the primes can still verify/extract them later: This isn't very different from doing RSA crypto with very short primes...

Comment Seriously tape backup (Score 3, Informative) 326

by Robbat2 on Friday August 10, 2012 @05:08PM (#40951473) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best On-Site Backup Plan?

Look for a used LTO3/LTO4 tape drive, then bulk-buy tapes.
Write each set of content to two tapes, ideally of different brands, and store in different places if you're really concerned.

I've been backing up to LTO3 tapes for ~3 years now, i've got 50+ tapes, mostly in my safety deposit box at the bank (cost $75/year)

LTO4 based on eBay prices right now would be an initial expenditure of ~$1k for the drive, and $25-30 per 800GB of storage.

The cloud options aren't really feasible for me, as the upload time & bandwidth cost is horrendous.

Comment Gentoo Statistics (Score 1) 101

by Robbat2 on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @08:23PM (#36160660) Attached to: 10,000 Commits To an Open-source Project

http://dev.gentoo.org/~tove/stats/gentoo-x86/cvs-log-sum.txt

I'm number 20 on that list, having recently surpassed 10k commits to Gentoo myself (in 7 years). The top of our list is somebody with 70k commits.

- robbat2@gentoo

Comment Watt's Up Pro (Score 2, Insightful) 172

by Robbat2 on Friday September 24, 2010 @04:57PM (#33692014) Attached to: Real-Time Power Monitoring Options?

I use the Watt's Up Pro, but it's for monitoring a single outlet.

Do you intend to monitor your entire house, or just some devices?

Comment Another vote for WiSpy (Score 1) 499

by Robbat2 on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @01:45AM (#32726932) Attached to: Tracking Down Wi-Fi Interference?

I have the original WiSpy model, from when they first hit the market, and I still use it extensively.

It's been insanely useful in tracing the problems, just put it on a laptop, with a long USB extension cable, and wander around. I will admit that I've only used it on Linux, as I don't have any Windows around, but it's been perfectly suited to my needs.

A friend of mine was having a similar interference problem, during a subset of hours, and I traced it to one of the neighbours that would prepared dinner while using a set of wireless headphones.

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