[include exe within exe]

I'm not much of a coder (other than the odd bit of php) so I don't know for sure but... Could you fork one exe into an alternate data stream of the other?

Who knows?! :-P

I might do a bit of experimenting later on when I've finished doing more important stuff like drinking my coffee.

Drinking coffee is very important.

[how do you retrieve password hashes?]

I'm afraid I don't have the knowledge to furnish you with details about how the programs actually get the hashes from the file: I can tell you that the passwords / users file on a default WinXP install is: C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\sam

The SAM file is just a text file as far as I know, although windows won't let you open it while windows is running.

If you boot from a Linux live cd or similar with NTFS support you could open it up and have a look at it.

Or you could make a copy of the file with the windows recovery console (There's an option for it when you boot from a winxp cd).

Of course, you could use one of the programs you mentioned too :-P

[Streaming audio over a network with VLC]

Well firstly I'd like to say "Hello, world!" and I hope you're all eating well etc.

I've been watching Hak5 since the 1st series, and I've even popped into IRC once or twice over the years.

I recently started putting together a site to document the stuff I get up to, and to try and tune my rather rusty php / html and css skills.

I wrote a little guide / blog / diary / whatever you want to call it on streaming audio over a network with VLC the other day and thought I might share. I know everyone loves all the three letter acronyms that start with V.

My problem was that I wanted to use my hifi and big speakers to listen to music from my laptop without having to plug anything into it. I decided streaming it to the desktop machine that my hifi is hooked up to would be a good idea.

Take a look anyway: http://sbt.org.uk/vlcstreaming.php

It's not an advanced guide by any means, but I thought it might prove useful to someone.

There's a couple of other things on there too (Really... I haven't put much up yet) if you fancy having a poke about. Like how to share an SSH session on *nix with dtach, or send keystrokes with VBScript.

Any comments would be really appreciated :-)