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  1. If you run kismet with mysql in the background, you can run gpsdrive at the same time and as Kismet drops APs into the db, gpsdrive will mark them on your map in real time.

    Throw in Festival and you can have it read off SSIDs as it finds them.

  2. I've had the itch for building an XBox based Beowulf cluster since the original XBox came out. I bought one off of eBay last month and have finally gotten it cracked. Going through the xbox-linux.org distros now to see which one I want to work with.

    For $200 you could have 4 XBoxes running.

    I also want to look into the current interest of using GPUs as standard processors. Without having the XBoxes connected to video, it's additional cycles sitting idle.

    As soon as I get the one set up and configured, I'll order the second one and get it clustering.

  3. Would it make any difference if I learned C#? I guess I need to stay away from .net all together but what languages would provide flexibility like this that VB can't? I'm stuck on VB at the moment but in the next two years I should know C# as well and maybe Java with the classes I'm taking, so by all means I'm more than willing to learn a new language if it provides additional benefits.

    Don't let me turn you off to anything. I hate VB because it was Microsoft's lame and late attempt of getting in on the web's server side. Biggest flaw, no dynamic includes. And then sticking it into .net was like putting a Model T's engine in a new Vette. I do C# cause it pays. But then, I do a lot of things for money I wouldn't do on my own.

    From the grand scheme of code management and deployment, C# is not a bad way to do things. It's major flaw is the lack of data persistence. Having to re-instantiate every object needed for every request creates unnecessary overhead on the web and db machines and load on your network. It's biggest strength is being able to maintain a business rules layer of compiled objects which your devs can access in their web layer development. This provides code lock down and protection for complex environments. There are a lot of C# jobs out there. Not a bad way to make a living.

    If you learn C# and Java, PHP's not that far off for you. And if you're looking to make a living at web or internet app development, the broader your skills, the better off you will be. Might be worth looking into Ruby and ColdFusion as well. You could learn CF in a weekend, it's cake to work with. Look through Monster or Dice and you will see lots of dev jobs where knowledge of multiple platforms is required.

  4. If you want the textbox update to happen in the browser real time without a forms submission, you're gonna need to do it with javascript. Are you planning on a post submission?

    Writing that in JS is fairly straightforward. And using eval() on the final string will let you execute the expression as a JS command. If you're planning on vb executing it, see if it supports an eval() style string evaluator.

  5. You can team/bond any number of NICs within ESXi as long as you have the drivers for them. And they will be presented to the VMs as one. And the iSCSI support is pretty extensive.

    I don't think you have enough servers to tax that SAN, you have a pretty good setup there. I think you'll be just fine with iSCSI, speed wise. You just need to configure your ethernet switch properly. Get a switch that supports VLANs and trunk a dedicated VLAN for iSCSI to each server. If you can dedicate a NIC to iSCSI, even better.

    Check to see if you can team a NIC in vmware, I don't think you can. You can etherchannel a few NICs but you need to configure it perfectly on the ESX box and the switch. Not sure if ESXi has all the options needed for that. If you do NIC teaming inside a VM, you will gain no benefit. Only when the ESX NICs are spread across an etherchannel do you get load balancing. Otherwise you just get 2 virtual NICs running to 1 physical NIC.

  6. If you have the time, I might suggest listening to the February episodes of the Linux Link Tech Show podcast. They did a month of MythTV. A ton of useful information.

    I want to build a NAS and mythtv backend only machine. I have a case that will hold plenty of hard drives and all that. As far as motherboard and processor and networking is concerned, I'm looking to go relatively cheap on this but have a good enough performance to have fast transfer speeds and stream HD quality vids from the mythbackend.
  7. Hey everyone

    I was just wondering if anyone knew of any good cons to go to in florida?

    What area of FL are you limited to?

    And is this hacker only? Or do you have an interest in gaming, anime, sci-fi, comic, etc?

  8. After reading the UK meet up thread I decided I am going to take a trip to Londong this summer.

    Anyone get any places they would recommend visiting?

    Anything science related would be awesome

    Bletchley Park: http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/

    I would also recommend that if you plan on any train trips, buy the tickets before you go. You will get a better rate.

    London Pass: http://www.londonpass.com/

    If you plan to visit enough of the places on the pass to make it worth buying, add the travel card. It's an unlimited Underground card. The travel card is only available outside the UK. You can't buy it in London.

  9. and the the second list contains the same style of information, what im looking to do is compare the two lists, the second list is larger and will have more data in it. i only need to verify that items in the first list are in the second list.

    Use a pair of embedded for loops. This will give you a chance to test every possible pairing of the two lists.

  10. You might know this already but Mac Unix based. Although it's not Linux it's not all that different at the command line.

    If someone is looking to learn GNU/Linux, Mac OS X is not the place to do it.

    It may be a derivative of BSD, but it's not a Linux type friendly environment. And it's not the place to be installing GNU/Linux apps. Being dependent on something like DarwinPorts to get all those apps is not reliable. Not to mention the mess the interface creates.

    And running a VM gives you the opportunity to do things without worrying about killing your machine.

  11. One suggestion might be a virtualization environment for your Mac, like Parallels.

    You could run two Linux VMs simultaneously in their own vlan. This would let you play with network tools.

    This would also be an easy way of installing distros without having to worry about hw compatibility issues. And when you're done with a distro and want to play with another one, you just delete it.

  12. Just curious, but are you running a Zywall as your work's firewall (that is, do you have one at each end of the VPN)? If you configure the VPN between the firewalls you can create a couple policies to allow all traffic from your side of the VPN out, but not allow traffic to come in.

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