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    How does the hakhouse broadcast setup work?

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    This must have already been answered somewhere, but we've seen that hakhouse live uses real camcorders rather than webcams. How? What model? Via Firewire? Special software required?

    If someone can point me to the long forgotten forum thread or blog post, that would be great. I just can't find it, but I did run a search, I swear! :) Thanks.

    Linux TV tuner?

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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.

    Episode 6x22

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    Good point, I'm almost missing him!

    I'm definitely missing him! But this was one of the best interviews I've ever seen on Hak5. The hardware looks great. Good job Darren and Snubs and the Boxee crew. :)

    Linux TV tuner?

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    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 A lot of the reports about various tuners are out of date and filled with reports of broken features.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.

    Episode 5x20

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    Definitely one of the most noob friendly episodes of the past 2 seasons.

    I'll second that. Not particularly revolutionary and no real "original" content. But if you didn't know about truecrypt this would be an entertaining introduction.

    I prefer hardware hacks. Darren, how's that hakhouse rover project coming along?

    premiere altenative

    in Questions

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    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.

    VPN Use

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    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?

    BBS.Hak5.org

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    I've intermittently played with both Gopher and BBS systems, and am always interesting in seeing interesting hacks on old systems.

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

    new laptop hard drive

    in Everything Else

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    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. :)

    RTS anyone??

    in Gaming

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    @ wire how long till ground control 2 comes out?

    It came out in 2004. :lol:

    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. :)

    Episode 5x09

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    Oh crap, I can't believe that was left in the timeline. I blame it on editing burn-out. 35 weeks later I'm off my game.

    Until I can get a fix up on the servers consider it a directors cut.

    Frak!

    I see a market for a secondary audio track with 'director's commentary'

    Episode 5x07

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    Hey, the BBS works! Now that's awesome (and a real blast from ... 2007?)

    Now /~snubs/ et al need to point to "under construction" pages ... or redirects, whatever works.

    Hak5

    in Everything Else

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    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!

    What was your first PC?

    in Everything Else

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    As my signature says, this was my first computer: A Timex-Sinclair 1000. Good for learning BASIC and not much else.

    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.

    Centering CSS website content

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    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.

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