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Welcome to the unoffical Rubicon 2003 Website

Retro 1999 style
Rubicon Quote:

Brian: This one had the fountain, right?
Denis: Yeah.. fountain dead center.
RijilV: I've got some methyl purple for that foun...errrr nevermind
Denis: buhahahahaaa.
Jim: It might be a good idea to turn the fountain off for the event.
Denis: hrmm..
RijilV: you said "might" ... hahaha
Jim: The hotel was very receptive to pulling all kinds of shit for it.
Denis: Why? I don't see it destracting us?
Jim: It is a little loud.
Jim: And tempting.
Denis: hrmm.. yeah.. I'll give it that.
Brian: little tempting? Super fscking tempting, even for me...

More Rubicon Quotes
Rubicon 5 will be March 28-30th, 2003 at the Fairlane Holiday-Inn in Detroit. It'll be $50 for students and $110 for everyone else. Until then interact with us.

The Rubicon Webboard that RBCP of the Phone Losers of America was cool enough to setup. You can post as a guest or register a user if you plan on spending the rest of your life on there, like the rest of us.

Also we have a goofy mailing list that Sebastien setup for us because he rocks. Those of you who know Sebastien will know he lives in France, and as a result, the mailing list subscription is in French...

Hotel Information:

Eyeball: I first noticed people doing this on cryptome and thought it was really cool. So I eyeballed the Rubicon 2003 hotel.

FloorPlans: We'll see if I can pull this off.

Payphones: I stole these from RBCP. Numbers are 313-996-8589, 313-593-0051 and 313-996-8590.

Phone Information: Ameritech provides the hotel phone service on a DMS100, located at 17651 Michigan Ave.. Here is the rest of the info I managed to dig up on it:

English Name: DRBR FAIRBORN DSO
CCLI:DRBRMIFBDS0
Switch Type:DMS100
Vendor:Nortel
Street:17651 Michigan
City:Dearborn
Zip:48126
Rate Center:DETROITZN6
Host CLLI:NA004
Current Generic Status:EXISTING
In Service Date:8/29/87
Territory:3
LATA:Detroit
Lata#:340
MPA:1A
Tandem CLLI:WAYNMIMN20T
Vertical:5554
Horizontal:2848
Total Bus NALS:13991
Total Res NALS:11701
Total NALS:25692
Geo Loc:M66120
Building CLLI:DRBRMIFB
Contact:313-336-9323
Feature:OnOff
Call Back:*69*89
Call Forwarding:72#73#
Call Screening:*60*60
Call Waiting:-*70
Caller ID:-*69
Repeat Dailing:*66*86

Other prefixes on switch: 240, 253, 271, 425, 436, 438, 441, 583, 593, 982, 996.

Other Switch present at location: DRBRMIFBDS1 (DMS100)

Prefixes assigned to DRBRMIFBDS1: 206, 248, 317, 322, 323, 337, 390, 594, 619, 621, 722, 755, 845.

Standard Business phone plan includes Caller ID, Call Forwarding, Call Waiting, Three Way Calling, and Automatic Callback.

For contact regarding business accounts: 800-324-8622

Top 5 closest...

Fast Food:
Wendy's (313) 593-4449 0.5 miles
A&W (313) 336-7665 0.9 miles
Subway (313) 441-6515 1.6 miles
Mc Donald's (313) 271-1014 1.8 miles
Burger King (313) 336-4624 1.9 miles

Supplies:
Radio Shack (313) 441-4188 0.4 miles
CompUSA (313) 240-7000 0.5 miles
OfficeDepot (313) 441-6900 0.5 miles
K-Mark (313) 271-8801 0.8 miles
Best Buy (313) 240-6655 1.2 miles

Liquor Stores:
Fairlane Liquor (313) 336-0060 0.5 miles
Serv-U-Well (313) 581-6610 1.1 miles
Semma Party (313) 336-7999 1.4 miles
Victory Liquor (313) 581-7933 1.5 miles
Sak's (313) 584-4637 2.4 miles

Restaurants:
Chili's (313) 271-2339 0.0 miles
3 Brothers (313) 271-1227 0.9 miles
Olive Garden (313) 240-6100 1.2 miles
TGI Friday's (313) 271-2610 1.7 miles
Applebee's (313) 561-1187 4.5 miles

Pizza:
Pizza Place (313) 336-4600 0.5 miles
Little Caesars (313) 271-5766 0.8 miles
Steve's (313) 240-6677 1.1 miles
Primo's (313) 846-6950 1.2 miles
Bellacino's (313) 982-9000 1.9 miles

Useful places:
Mustang Bar (313) 336-0204 0.5 miles
Gas Station (313) 240-8530 0.6 miles
Tattos (313) 541-3346 1.6 miles
Motorcity Casino (313) 237-7711 9.5 miles
Meijer (734) 367-0001 10.7 miles

Tips, Hints, Suggestions:

What to Expect: Rubicon is three full days, non-stop. At any hour of the day there is live DJ's in the network room and tons of people playing around on a free-for-all network. Durning the "waking" hours there are speeches covering a wide range of technical and sometimes not-so-technical topics. Don't plan on sleeping much, no one does.

Try to remember that just about everyone there is an anti-social computer geek, so don't feel intimidated going up to someone and asking them questions or just starting a friendly converstaion, you are in a group of people who are like you.

At night things get a bit on the crazy side. A good number of people stay up drinking and having a great time, if you don't drink that isn't a problem at all, just expect to deal with drunk people.

The network is NOT SAFE. Don't plan on checking your email or logging on to AIM from the network, your password will be deftly snarfed, and whatever you do don't buy anything online! This isn't to say once you plug your computer in to the network it is going to be hacked, but you should have a good idea of what your are running and try to shut down services (ie, don't share your C: read write).

What to bring: Here is a small list of stuff to bring.

  • A computer, notebooks work good because you don't have to worry about leaving them in the network room unattended and they're easier to bring.
  • Your server's SSH keys on said computer
  • Power strips and patch cable. Don't count on there being enough to go around so bring your own.
  • If you can spare it, a cheap hub or switch.
  • Three days worth of clothing, so you don't stink.
  • If you smoke, lots of smokes.
  • Sandwiches, pop, snacks. Its a good idea, and will save you the price of eating out the whole time.
  • PDA for exchaning contact info.
  • Talkabout to talk to other people with Talkabouts.
  • Real radio gear, for messing with the Talkabout people and hotel staff. (grin)
  • Note paper for taking notes during the speeches.
  • Gear you want to sell.
  • Extra cash incase someone brings some gear you want.
  • A camera, to blackmail people later with.
  • Stuff you want to promote, just keep in mind we might show up and promote ourselves.

    How to Handle the Hotel: Typically the hotel will let you have up to 5 people in a room, if you are on a budget this is a good idea. Try to get as many people as you know to go with you, or you can check on the mailing list and webboard for room sharing arrangements.
    The hotel has a vested interest in keeping the hotel in nice condition. Try to remember than when you're running around, and be mindful of the fact that whatever damage is done to the hotel comes back upon the organizers. That said, have fun anyway, just keep it in mind.

  • Registration:

    Hotel: If you want to save $30/night, register with the hotel early. They need registration in by Feburary 28th, or you'll end up paying $30 more a night. Call them up 313-336-3340 and say you are with the "RC5 Conference" (idiot hotel people couldn't get our name straight, just go along with it). You'll save yourself a bundle, otherwise it is $109 / night.

    Rubicon: Save yourself $10 by registering early for Rubicon, once again before Feburary 28th. Just mail in either $40 for student or $100 for everyone else to:

    Rubi Con
    P.O. Box 6002
    Plymouth, MI 48170-0002

    If you get moving on it, you're saving $80, which is a good chunk of change.

    Legal:

    Liquor Laws: Michigan prohibits the sale of liquor from 2am to 7am. Also, it is illegal for a minor to transport liquor. The legal intoxication limit is 0.10%, and Michigan is a "zero tolerance" state.

    Police: Dearborn's finests even have their own webpage. They're at 16099 Michigan Ave and have a whole bunch of fun numbers to call like (313) 943-2078 for their "Underwater Recovery Team".

    Lawyers: For generic criminal defense, there is none better than Jon Posner. He can be reached at:

    Mogill, Posner & Cohen

    3060 Penobscot Building
    645 Griswold
    Detroit, Michigan 48226-1279

    Phone: (313) 962-7210
    Fax: (313) 961-7799

    For computer crimes, there aren't any lawyers I know that are really special in the Detroit area.

    If you are caught doing somthing outside of the Con, please don't mention Rubicon.

    Tidbits:

    Scanning: Cityfreq has some good info on Dearborn for frequencies to scan. I hope you life Ford.

    The Sun: Since it is unlikely you'll be on a normal schedual, its a good idea to know when that sun thing is going to do its thing.

    Date B.Twilight Sunrise Transit Sun Set E.Twilight
    3-28 5:55 a.m. 6:23 a.m. 12:38 p.m. 6:54 p.m. 7:23 p.m.
    3-29 5:53 a.m. 6:21 a.m. 12:38 p.m. 6:55 p.m. 7:24 p.m.
    3-30 5:51 a.m. 6:20 a.m. 12:37 p.m. 6:57 p.m. 7:25 p.m.

    Net Connection: There is an ISDN line already run there. We plan on doing something a bit speedier, but it is something we have to fall back upon. Whatever it is, it'll be up more than last year.

    Historic: For all who are confused, yes, Rubicon 1999 was at the same hotel. Believe it or not we convinced them one way or the other to let us back. This is also the hotel that MacHack has their conferences at, going on 20 years or something close to that.

    Disclaimer: This is not the Offical Rubicon website, which is a http://www.rubi-con.org . Don't read too much into this site, I just wanted a bit more out of a website and had some time on my hands, this isn't an indictation of a split or something, geeze... Some of you might have liked the way this site looked before, I didn't. Send me comments and suggestions at rijilv@rubi-con.org.
    Hope to see you at Rubicon 2003!