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I'm concerned about the supposedly "unlimited" bandwidth and hosting space they are offering. Obviously these are limited and if you push it, you'll find out what the limit is. If you do go with this company, make sure to register your domain somewhere else! That way, you can easily switch to another webhost if things go wrong.

I've hosted a fair number of low-traffic websites with ICDsoft, which runs shared hosting boxes at Savvis in Washington, DC, US. They have very responsive customer support, ready to go the extra mile to install oddball libraries or help your figure out their custom control panel, especially considering their rock-bottom price. Not recommended for high-traffic operations, but for "user created HTML pages" on your own domain name, this might be just what you're looking for.

You might be able to fool it by tripping whatever sensors inside the printer "feel" the ink cartridge. Look at how the black cartridge is inserted and if there's any photoelectric sensors or contact switches. If you fool it, then you may hit two other problems: the printer senses a problem with the ink cartridges, or the cartridges form part of the paper path and you can't print anything because the paper jams. I would suggest that you sell this printer on craigslist and buy a monochrome laser if that's what you want. My personal favorite is the Samsung ML-2510.

The best hakpack I had was my one-man-band reporter's kit, which fit in a lowepro camera bag: Canon DSLR, Sony tape recorder and 90 minute tape, Reporter's notebook, Pencils, Extra CF card and camera battery

Nope. Hak5 is special, there's no other show (notes) like this. I mean, the show notes are massive! But you might also like Systm. Daily? Hourly? Every second? Google. Weekly? As reference material? PHP.net, the place for all kinds of useful php function examples (that's my language of choice).

Nice, Sparda. Like the Magic School Bus, but with Mr. Kitchen in the driver's seat. "Well, looks like that rocket worked and we're here in space! Wait, we forgot to pack the oxygen tanks ..."

For those of you (like me) with wobbly internet connections here's the text version: http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9...;nav=menu1362_2 I'm going to avoid making any comments about the quality of reporting in this article.

Heh, but Chrome doesn't have any options though! (Well, some features can be turned on and off.) The thing I like about Chrome is the pop-in pop-out tabs. That's it's one killer feature that no other browser has. Also, the independent processes are pretty cool (that will be a feature in IE 8) and the smart address bar is good (but also in FF 3). The smart homepage I could take or leave, but Opera offers a similar feature. The thing I hate about Chrome is that it's not Firefox :P Whenever I try to use Chrome to get something done, it always manages to get in the way. The limited context (right-click) menu is infuriating. There's nothing useful like "view selection source" or "view image." I do hope that Chrome makes it as a browser though, because it will be good for Webkit/Safari compliant design on websites. Right now, that's another annoyance.

Yes, I think there's blatant sensationalism going on here. I'm in j-school now and I promise not to do this when I'm working for the local TV news. As often happens it seems the reporter didn't have time to talk to everyone involved (Dell, the University, Verizon, Ubuntu reps) and find out what was really going on. Probably a simple call to a local computer repair shop could have elicited an explanation of openoffice. Hell, even talking to the IT department at the station ... Here's a story that didn't get reported though: my university switched from Gateway to Dell leasing a few years ago, and has now started renting the Dells to students living off campus. One problem: they don't have modems. So, if you don't have high-speed access, you're screwed. Especially if you were planning to use our free dialup.

I like this guide: http://www.arsgeek.com/2007/06/14/how-to-d...-windows-vista/

This is an excellent use for an old computer: make it a new ... server. That's the word you're looking for, I think. In order for this server to be seen from beyond the linksys router, you'll need to have the right ports forwarded to the computer (or you could just put it in the dmz).

You could try to decipher the error codes, but I highly recommend The Lazy Admin's guide to Debugging STOP Errors With WinDBG.

The nice thing about utorrent is the scheduling preferences, where you can set different download and upload speed caps for different times of the day (or days of the week). But in general, I would definitely say the problem is your upload speed cap is set too high or isn't set at all. Let us know if setting it around 30 kbps as suggested fixes your issue. That's the simple fix. If your router has QoS, you could set bittorrent to a lower priority than everything else and then upload speed caps wouldn't be necessary. That's the best solution, because it allows you to use all of your network bandwidth (although you may then be in danger of exceeding comcast's monthly usage caps).

Hak5 is very close to going HD but they're not there yet. If you're just looking for the best quicktime video download of the show, it's marked as mp4 on hak5.org (revision3 site calls it "large quicktime" on the episode pages).

downloads.openwrt.org is up and running and all those urls that wget appears to be failing on in your install are accessible. Maybe there was just some server downtime?

Yep, I've seen a lot of Mac OS 6 shareware that requested a postcard. For further reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcardware

My learning has mostly happened through various projects. Plan something specific you'd like to do and then see if you can (with some research) do it. That way you'll have a cool project at the end rather than just a head full of knowledge. But of course you must first know what is possible, so some reading (and introductory programming classes) are a good idea. Try the community college for cheap, real-world classes. Perl is an excellent language for web-based hacking (and I mean hacking in the tinkering sense) because of the extensive repository of available code modules.

My thoughts exactly. If your professor is on board with this idea then if it goes wrong they will hold some of the responsibility for it.

Thanks dallaskorben! Those are some great sites to check out. Does the giant digikey catalog have photos for the products? The website isn't very revealing. I'm looking at this item now: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_i...roducts_id=7835 It's not what I had in mind (buttons too small) but one look and I want it anyway.

If you've created a connection in (Windows XP) My Network Places to a specific Clarkconnect (Samba share) with a certain username, it's only for that username/password/server combo. You'll need to set up a new connection to connect to a different one or to connect to the same one with a different username. There is a checkbox to store the password but the username is part of the connection.

That's a tasty-looking pineapple, can I get a slice just for posting in this thread? In other news, it's clear you've been totally owned. All pineapples are rigged to play with your wifi. (Plus, some may explode).

We have a radio shack but I wouldn't put them in the category of electronics parts stores anymore. The last time I was over there for some dpdt switches a year ago they had exactly one switch. They've basically tried to fit a whole store full of LEDs, motors, lights, wires, switches, microcontrollers, etc into one toolbox to make room for the latest compaq computer, tv set, cell phone, etc that they're selling. Might be worth a look anyway, though. There's one close by so it couldn't hurt.

I'm in the US and I'm looking to buy some illuminated pushbutton switches (so when the spst switch is in the on position it lights up). I think buying them locally is out of the question (we don't have dedicated electronics parts stores around here). Where should I be looking online? A quick google isn't coming up with a good retail option. I need 10 or so, preferably different or interchangeable colors. EDIT: Something that looks like an elevator button would be ideal.

Have you considered incorporating these slick buttons? http://hak5.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=11073

Nice! Well let us know how it goes vector. We've been pestering the hak5 crew to get an internet-drivable robot in the hakhouse. Thinkgeek offers this geeky but even-more-pricey version: http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/8698/ And this is going to require a bit more haktastic skills to enable internet control (like a controller board to close the right circuits on the remote control, and a video card to capture the camera) but it's cheap ... http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/8698/