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That's kinda an indirect way, unless you modified it IIRC. Irongeek did a little something about this, but i haven't played around with it, but it might work for you. http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=securit...udf-flash-drive

http://www.hak5.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=913 Look into some of the sites on that thread. Backtrack is fun to mess around with, but having a good knowledge base is better then messing around with trinkets and programs.

double post....thought that was hinky..sorry

Very true, not sure what hardware hacks you do, but C might be a decent fit.

C++ can be a good place to start for some, other like Python. I believe most programming languages are interchangeable, most can do the same thing, some just do it better then others, and those also have some short comings in other areas. Try a few out and see what style you like the most, then that one will be the easiest to learn.

I believe there are apps for the android for war driving, so I would think there would be something for windows os, possibly for a jail broken iphone, but pretty sure something like that wouldn't make it into their legit market.

They are everywhere, I'm generally happy if there are only 75% idiots at my jobs. Generally, the 25% make up for everyone else.

Networking, configuring business routers and the like. If I had a few days and a lot of paper, I could do it well enough, but I really dislike it.

First off, I believe that if I am paying them for 15 mbps, then I should get what I pay for. If they can't deliver they they either need to upgrade their equipment or not offer it. What Comast did a while back (and might still do it now, I'm not sure) was their speed-boost. You'd pay for like 8 or 12, then if there wan't a lot of traffic, you might be able to get up to 16. I might be wrong on that, it was explained kinda crappily to me a few years ago, but what was explained to me seemed like a good idea. A little off topic, but if i'm downloading 100 movies/iso's/ton of data, why should what I am paying for suffer since they have old equipment. That's not really on topic for net neutrality, but I wanted to make that point anyways. I came into this debate a little late a few months ago, but I think I understand most of the main points of it, so if i get some points wrong, or they are unrelated, sorry. One of the main reason the internet is so great, is that it is free. It ranges from online banking and news, to the under-bowels of sites like 4chan. Having to choose an ISP on what sites I can access is ridiculous, if I can only access digg.com/pandora/whatever else on one, but that one has websites/services blocked that you need for your job, you'd either have to find shitter versions of the good sites that have grown because of their innovation, or have an account for each ISP. Someone mentioned open source, and if a ISP only allowed sites that payed them extra to allow them to be viewed, why would an ISP offer these types of sites or open communities at all? There might not be an organization behind it, it might just be 1 guy that bought hosting for a forum. Why would an ISP offer these types of sites if the owner can't pay for it? It would "cost" the ISP to carry the site to your monitor, which it wouldn't be compensated for, other then from your ISP account cost. If I believed for 1 second that all the extra money the would get would be used to upgrade their infrastructure, or in new technologies to make the ISP faster, I wouldn't mind it as much as I do now. But you know damn well it's going into profits and huge bonuses for the execs. There were a few other topics I wanted to touch on, but I think I went rambling and most of this might not be coherent enough for everyone else to understand, so I think I'll take a break and gather my thoughts again.

You can change how much ram is allocated for the VM under the settings then system tab. This is how much ram the VM can use. I think the min for ubuntu is like 192 megs, but while you do this, your host machine won't be able to use that ram, so it could become a balancing act.

Just because it was done in the past doesn't mean that the new people were able to do it. I don't mind these types of threads as long as there isn't 2 active at the same time, or within a month or 2 of each other.

No need to burn the ISO to a disc or anything. It sounds like your planning on selecting the ISO from inside the VM of of which the ISO has the OS for. You just select the ISO in the storage part of settings for the VM you want to install it on. You have to do this before you turn the virtual machine on, if you don't, it has nothing to boot and gives you that no boot media error. I honestly have no idea what I was going to type after the pic, I'm no longer sure if the pic is even needed anymore, but I'm uploading it anyway, incase it helps. I'll be back and make more sense tomorrow if you are still having issues. Best of luck! DISCLAIMER** And as this night progresses things make less and less sense to me, so if I read something wrong or don't answer your question and go off on a rant, I'll be back tomorrow refreshed and hopefully can correct anything I say now, should it be wrong.

NP, I would offer for you to PM me if you have any questions...but in like the 2 years I've been a member here I've only gotten 1 PM, so chances are it'd be like 2012 before i realized I had another message. =P But you understand how to set up an ISO, for when you download it?

The "empty" thing I was saying before, is the CD/DVD for your virtual machine, and you have the option of letting it use your actual optical drive, or using an image of a CD/DVD (the iso). The VM will read the ISO just like a cd, no extracting or anything needed. As for the ISO files, if your a student and your school is part of the Microsoft academic alliance, you can download them. I've heard rumors of "unsavory" places on the "interwebs" where one could procure such things, but those just might be rumors... I also think there might be a Microsoft single user download for XP for free from Microsoft, but I can't remember when or where I heard that, or even if I heard it right. I heard there is issues running win 7 in a VM, I'll make one here in a few minutes to test it.

You either need a virtualbox hard drive file, an ISO image, or a actual CD of whatever OS you want to install. Click the settings button, then storage, there should be whatever you named the hard drive.vdi, and then "empty" under that. (If you have an ISO of your OS), then to the right of that, CD/DVD device, and there should be a folder with a little upwards arrow. Click the folder with the arrow, then add, then select your ISO and hit ok or whatever. if you have the cd/dvd, just select the drive it's in. If you have the VDI hard drive file, use that instead of creating a new hard drive. I think I understand what you were saying, if I was way off, let me know.

Oh yea, extremely corny, but hilarious and awesome.

You haven't expressed this exactly, I thought I'd cover all the bases, you held down the router reset button for 30 secs, then try to connect to 192.168.1.1, and use the login admin for the user name and admin for the password. Be sure you either have a dynamic IP or if you have a static one it's in the 192.168.1.0 /24 subnet

Hackers all the way, too many good quotes from it....trust your technolust for one. I might have to watch it now.

Yea, that pops up every time I install it, and it says there is issues with my network cards I think. Still works every time though.

How did you know the IP is in the 169.254. range if you don't know what it's address is? Is that what it was before, or is that the address the router gives your computer?

There was a recent Hak5 episode where he made a firewall/router, pretty interesting, and very applicable. And port forwarding is a setting on most routers, I didn't think there was anything on consoles/computers. As for trying to get more performance for your xbox, you could set up QoS, but unless you have a lot of info going through your router, it won't make a difference, since chances are your router is much, much faster then your internet connection, so the bottle neck is your ISP connection

LOL, car needs those things? my first car didn't even have power steering or power brakes. I guess i'm just an old fashioned type of guy. An I would guess the E-brake would be good as long as you don't just yank/slam it. Also depending on you car, downshifting is always an option, would be tough on those cars that only have a drive, second and first though...I think third would do decent going 60-ish...it wouldn't be good for the engine. but alot better then slamming into a semi...unless you flip it.

If you do a factory reset the IP should be 192.168.1.1, but yours is saying it's in the 169.254's? That's a APAA address, which IIRC, is only used when it tries to get an IP from a DHCP server when there isn't one available.

I have the exact same issue with selling myself and in the same boat just graduating and only having 2 jobs doing tech support. But for what it's worth i did find a few sites to help with the cover letter and resume if anyone is interested. cover letter : http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/25...g-to-companies/ resume : http://www.more.com/6502/23409-resume-do-s-don-ts#1 There are tons of sites out there but I did find those helpful still.

What, if anything, is the router doing? lights? flashing? broadcasting? And I assume they don't know what they were doing when this happened and that it did this all by itself? What I call the magic tech syndrome. From what I can recall, a common way to brick these is something happened during a firmware update, or bad firmware that it got updated to. But if they are bad with tech I assume they weren't messing around with that. Was there a power surge or black-out or anything that could have fried something?