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OK, I'm planning to buy a Hauppauge 1600 PCI card. I'll let you know how it works out. I think I might check out free Windows DVR software like GB-PVR or MediaPortal. EDIT: It's working out well, in Windows anyway. The digital tuner in the 1600 doesn't have Linux drivers. (The analog tuner can use the 150 drivers.) But it's nice to have two tuners in one card: both can be used at the same time.

I've checked out the site and the software looks like it'll do the job. But I'm still not sure which hardware to buy. A lot of the reports about various tuners are out of date and filled with reports of broken features. So if there's anybody out there with a working system, can I get a look at your hardware specs? Of course, a pre-built box with a reasonable form factor and price tag would be great, but I'm beginning to realize that's probably not available.

Can I watch/record digital TV (ATSC) in linux? What's my best option, a PCI card? How about a linux-based set-top box? That would be just what I'm looking for.

Well if you are a student like VaKo was, you could probably use Final Cut or Premier in an on-campus lab. Or at the very least, qualify for an educational discount. How about Sony Vegas -- isn't that what Darren/Paul use to put Hak5 together? Whatever you do, check out a book or some videos on using the software. For years, I was wasting time dragging around clips on the timeline when I could have been using much more powerful methods of placing the right amount of video into the right spot. Now that I've bothered to learn, my video editing projects are going much faster.

After seeing how easy it is to get useful information out of wifi packet sniffing each week on Hak5, I'm now using a VPN whenever I'm using public wifi. I run one at home, sure, but with ADSL the connection is little better than dialup. My other option would be to use a VPN that my university provides. I already use it a lot to access servers on campus that are not available from off-campus IP addresses, but it also provides a connection to the internet. So here's the question: is it ethical to route *all* my traffic through a corporate or educational VPN? Is that preferred by institutions with the hope of preventing sniffing of their secrets sent over the internet? Or is it a bad idea that will slow down everyone else's access? I can't see the college encouraging every student in a coffee shop to give this a try, somehow. But what do you think?

Got any ideas? I'd like to give 'em a try.

What a cheesy idea

I think this article is just what you're looking for ... Controlling the Serial Port with PHP By: Rob Williams http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=8658A

I'm sure any Linux magazine (or the slick new BSD mag) would be proud to have that illustration on their cover.

Also Windows 7, and finally a use for widescreen: taskbar down the right :) The theme is "College of Fine Arts" (from Microsoft) EDIT: A 2 meg screenshot? I should be shot. Fixed.

Here's a link to the old 3CX 6: http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?k...mp;docid=833791 And here's the episode where Matt explains it: http://www.hak5.org/productionnotes/episode-503 EDIT: And please try not to double post. :)

You won't need to save the recovery drive on the SSD. A far better option would be to use the included HP software to burn a recovery DVD that has the same stuff on it. But a larger hard drive is a good idea. Theoretically, the more bits that are packed onto a drive, the closer they are and the faster the seek and read times should be. Plus you'll have more space. :)

It came out in 2004. Wikipedia: "However, unlike the previous game's purely real-time tactics implementation, Ground Control II does have a resource system called Acquisition which is earned through the capturing of Victory Locations and destruction of enemy forces." So I think that kind of ruins it for me. But I was looking at another game from the same guys, World in Conflict. I'm going to check that out. :)

I really liked Ground Control. No economy to worry about, just battle strategy. It's actually been released for free, if you want to relive the cutting edge graphics of 10 years ago. Can anyone recommend a similar game?

I like English. It's often useful in social engineering. ;)

I first was sent over to Hak5 because I was playing around with the idea of doing a tech show on the local community-access channel. This was back in the brick wall days. Kinda forgot about it. Fast forward to late last year, and I won a Bank of America USB flash drive in a contest. It came with some annoying autorun stuff that couldn't be removed with a standard reformat. A little googling later, and I found a thread on the forums about not only removing it, but also using tools to customize the nifty little chip that made it possible. Thanks, hak5. Now I watch the show because I think a web-controlled RC car with a camera is awesome, and I've always wanted to build one. Hardware haks all the way!

Well, how about PS3 Cell Processor Architecture? ;)

Yes, great for learning BASIC. The shortcut statements on the keyboard almost made up for it being impossible to type on. My first computer was a 486-DX with 8 megs of memory and Windows 95 with Microsoft Plus! (silly themes). It had a 14.4 modem, a fuzzy monitor (soon replaced with kick-ass sony trinitron), a 2x cd-rom, and a loud dot-matrix printer (replaced with an epson inkjet much to everyone's relief). This was in 1996.

Yes obviously the example code works fine. Quick and dirty solution: try loading the example CSS code last, either by putting it at the end of your single CSS file on your client's site or by putting it in the last CSS file to load. That will make sure whatever code that is breaking the centering is overridden by the properly-working example. You might also want to post this problem at webmasterworld, where I take all my broken CSS. Their forum rules that disallow linking will help you get to the bottom of the problem by untangling your spaghetti code into a simple example.

The best advice I have is to practice your presentation beforehand. The kids will not have the patience to wait while you figure something out or ramble on.

I used to live in Sacramento, sadly just out of range of the coverage area. It's very-high-speed DSL and really a great deal. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-verse Coverage check: https://uverse1.att.com/un/launchAMSS.do?ta...iceabilityCheck Of course, what you really want is FIOS from Verizon.

Why not write directly from one disk to the other?

I'm more familiar with Windows, but was planning to use a usb live linux because I can't clone the disk I'm booting from, right? The problem is it's a laptop hard drive I'm looking to clone and I only have one usb to ide adapter (to plug in the second disk). EDIT: Also, the original disk is a bit flakey so the less fiddling with it the better.

I'm looking to make a bootable copy of a hard disk. What should I use to copy everything to the new disk? dd? The new disk that I'll be copying to is larger. Will I be able to create a new partition with the leftover space?

While you can never go wrong with more available wattage, there's no point in overdoing it: high-wattage power supplies are expensive to buy, and expensive to run (because they waste power). When evaluating your 250W, it's important to note that 250W is the instant (or peak) wattage it can supply. The continuous wattage is lower. (How much lower depends on the quality of the PSU.) So, check out the continuous wattage this PSU offers (on a spec sheet or on the PSU case itself) and see if that is above the 206W or whatever you need.