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  1. I think it really is just a matter of size and GDP. At the end of the day, there is no single European country that has a GDP like America does. However the EU as a whole is larger and is starting to act more and more like a single nation. Another interesting thing to watch with GDP is China's rapid growth. In the past 5 years they have surpassed France, UK, and Germany and now they are 3rd behind only Japan and US and growing at a much faster clip then either of those nations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_count...y_GDP_(nominal)
  2. Originally I had a core2 Mini and I triple headed the linux box however the mini was so slow compared to the other boxes that I found myself rarely using it for anything. Also I wanted to dual head the mac and make it an even 2x2x2 for each computer. So I was looking at the mac pro's but the price was really hard to swallow. I have seen the latest generation quad core xeon mac pro's score just under 200 on xbench, and my hackintosh which is around $900 worth of hardware (including 200 for efix) scores a 211, My core2 mini score is 83. Ever since I built this thing it has been my go-to machine for most tasks. I really like the OS and I have not had any stability issues.
  3. I think the reason for the smaller file size on the HD torrent is because it's not a full season. I believe HD started near the end of S4, during the CES episodes.
  4. This is exactly what I am doing. I have a 6 monitor array and 2 monitors dedicated to each system. I use synergy to do the controlling. I really don't think the lack of security is a big deal if you are the only one using your local network. But just to be extra safe I went ahead and utilized the 2nd lan interfaces in my motherboards by plugging all 3 machines into their own switch which is offline from the rest of the network. I then setup static IP's for those interfaces that are on a separate subnet and used those addresses for synergy. I posted a picture of the setup in this other thread: http://hak5.org/forums/index.php?s=&sh...st&p=124988
  5. I use AVG Free edition on all of my windows installs - works great.
  6. Paste that into the website and it will add your hardware to it's database.
  7. What are you going to use it for? ... edit I just read your last post. If your simply using it for a file server you might want to consider windows home server. It will allow you to do a "non-raid" array that is very slick. You can have as many hdd's as you want, all different types and sizes, working together to create one large volume.
  8. I was messing with this about a year ago - I could not get outlook 2003 to connect to exchange under wine however I was able to get it working using crossover instead of wine. I used a win2k bottle and then went into the control panel, mail applet to setup the exchange account.
  9. Lorex is a solid solution as far as low cost surveillance goes. It is a lot cheaper then most other brands and the image quality is rather impressive. I am not a huge fan of their DVR interface - it will get the job done however it is not very elegant. As for the appliances, look into LG products. They are making pretty much everything IP controllable these days, not just in the kitchen but also washer/dryer. As for the server, I typically recommend control4 to most people - you can accomplish everything that can be done with a higher end system such as lifeware, creston, amx, etc, for a fraction of the price. It is an embedded linux based solution and it is rock solid. However this is not much of a DIYer approach as I don't think you can even buy the products directly, its only sold to installers such as myself. For a DIYer, I would look into using HAI as your base. They have been doing this for a long time and have a solid reputation for making reliable products at reasonable prices. I would stay far away from x10 as most of that stuff is simply garbage. http://www.homeauto.com/
  10. home automation is a big part of my business. We do high end AV, computing, and full home automation. It is pretty cool. We sell life-ware and control4 based systems. http://life-ware.com/ http://www.control4.com/ As for the locks there are a ton of companies now making controllable locks. I have not seen any token based locks however that is an interesting idea. We used the Schlage LiNK locks on a recent project and the customer loves it. http://consumer.schlage.com/LiNK/
  11. If the efix was simply a usb stick with some software then it would have been cloned a long time ago. Drivers are not a problem as long as your using hardware from the compatibility list. As for the price, it is relative, even with the extra $200 you can still build a machine that will out perform a high end mac pro for half the price. To me, the $200 is a small price to pay to be able to build my own custom mac without having to deal with the boatload of issues that I was having with osx86.
  12. Regarding the whole value argument, both sides make a valid point. It is really a personal preference for so many reasons. For starters that value of a dollar is not equal for everyone - and that is only partly based on how much they have. To some people, the extra money is not great enough to even consider, and to everyone else the weight of the consideration is unique - means more or less to one person vs another. To other people who don't want to mess around with a hackintosh, the ability to run OSX as their OS is worth something. Then there are the people who want to keep everything in the apple ecosystem, and this connivence to them, holds monetary value. Finally you have misc emotional reasons, Apple after all is credited for creating what is now known as "Evangelism Marketing" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelism_marketing People create a strong bond to the brand and it simply feels good when they purchase and use their products.
  13. EFIX!!! None of the problems you are describing happen with an Efix hackintosh. I installed OSX on my efix equipped hardware by booting off the genuine OSX CD that came with my real mac mini. I did not have to do anything special outside of making the efix my primary boot device in the bios - beyond that I did the exact same procedure I would do when installing OSX on my mac mini. I have run every update that Apple has sent down the line and they all went off without a hitch - and my hackintosh has never crashed. The only non-stable thing has been the safari 4 beta locking up or simply closing for no good reason. However that has also happened on my Mini. I love OSX and I have been using it as my goto system for most things since I built it.
  14. My family had an Apple II GS when I was a little kid. It rocked.
  15. Opensuse deserves to be on the list - It has one of the largest user bases and its proprietary cousins (sled and sles) are very popular in the corporate world. It is very well supported, you will be able to find pre-compiled binaries for just about everything you need. http://www.opensuse.org
  16. hah, honestly I am not 100% sure what the electric bill is here, my admin does the bills/books. I know it more then doubles in the summer for the AC which has to work very hard 24/7 to keep the temp in check. Even during the winter (im in minneapolis) I have to keep the door/window open quite often and I rarely touch the heat. As for the 360, we use it for gaming and messing with - it has hacked DVD drive firmware. Also the wii has a D2C Wii Key soldered into it. We have the velocity media center we use for media, I have both xbmc installed and of course windows media center - which I use for TV/DVR via the HD cable cards.
  17. If you don't think your l337 enough then you should refrain from signing up to be a speaker/presenter ;) By all means you should go though! You will learn a ton and meet a bunch of like minded people.
  18. Airodump-ng does not do the cracking, it captures packets and creates a file that you then have to use aircrack-ng to actually crack and get the key with. airodump-ng will run forever, collecting packets until you tell it to stop. You should have a *.cap file that was created by airodump during those 2.5 hours. Run it threw aircrack and see if it comes up with a key. If you had 5K+ IV's you should be good. Chances are though that if you didn't successfully do the fake association and injection that your cap file won't have enough good IV's, even after 2.5 hours. A non-active router can be the hardest to crack since you don't have any real traffic to capture IV's from. This is where the attacks come into play.
  19. Check out Airoscript - http://airoscript.aircrack-ng.org - it combines all of the aircrack-ng utilities into one very easy to use script. I'm pretty sure it comes with backtrack 3.x +
  20. I need to grab all the old stuff since I just stumbled upon hak5 earlier this week. I'll be the labrat on this one, I can tell you right away by looking at it that it will not get any of the s1 apps because you forgot the wget syntax on those lines :) I never used a mass wget script like this so I had a slight fear that it might try and execute all the wgets at once. I did a quick test script with just 3 episodes and they do go 1 and a time. So just add the wget before the s1 urls and the download part will work fine. I am going to do it now and I'll let you know if the other scripts work once I get to that point. For the newbs out there, this will not work on windows unless your using cygwin... Simply copy/paste the code into a new document using vi, nano, pico, etc save it, chmod +x to give it execute permissions, then run it with ./filename (unless you put in your bin dir, not recommended since the script will download the files to the dir that the script resides in) Thanks for the scripts JohnyCake, this will save me some time for sure.
  21. If your short on $$ and you are just trying to learn - you can go the emulation route: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/networking/?p=419 Otherwise just buy used from ebay - as the previous poster stated, equipment with a bad port or 2 will go for next to nothing, and most likely will not effect your training.
  22. I rented the apartment directly below mine to use as office space. This way I can leach off the 50Mbit internet and it makes for an easy commute. Excuse the mess and the bad quality, I used my phone to take these pictures. Here is my Desk: That is 6 22" dell lcd's The left two screens are my Linux box (opensuse 11.1 32bit on core 2 e7300, 4gb ddr2 800, nvidia 7950GT) The top middle and top right is my doze machine (xp sp3 32bit on quad core Q6600, 4gb ddr2 1066, ati HD 4850, 300GB WD Velociraptor) The bottom middle and bottom right is my hackintosh (10.5.6 on core 2 e8500, 4gb ddr2 800, nvidia 8800GTX) I run synergy to share the single keyboard and mouse with all 3 machines - it also shares my clipboard (shares over network, you select which machine to control via mouse position, when you hit the edge of one monitor it will auto-switch to the next computer - very cool stuff http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/) Keyboard is a Das Keyboard, 2nd gen, blank keys, mouse is a Logitech G9 Here is my 2nd desk, behind me That is where I work on customer machines, in the picture is a customers Sony that I just reformatted. That is one of my laptops, its a travelmate 6292 Here is my business partners rig One machine, 3 22" samsung LCD's, I don't recall his specs but I am pretty sure he spent around 5k on the hardware. He runs Vista sp1 32bit. This is my administrative assistants desk - above it is our 50" samsung plasma flanked by Niles speakers, above the center channel is a Wii bar :) Now for the rack: From the top: 24 port D-link GB switch Cable modem (comcast business class, 50mb down 10 mb up, no speed boost, no meter) Cisco 1805 Router Xbox 360, Wii Yamaha RX-V663 A/V receiver Panamax M5300-PM Power Center Velocity Micro Media Center (win7 beta 32bit on Quad Q9550, 4GB DDR2 1066, nvida 9800GTX, dual ATI Digital Cable Tuners w/ Comcast digital cable cards) Custom Windows Home Server (quad q6600, 4GB DDR 1066, 4x 1TB, 3x 1.5 TB HDD's = 9.5TB storage array - case is expandable to 20 total HDDs)
  23. Hello Hak5 forum goers. I came across a link to a Hak5 episode in another forum and now I am hooked. Very good podcast. I have watched about 10 episodes and now I am checking out the various community portals. I signed on to the IRC channel on mint, it looks like there is one on rev3 as well, what gives with that? Well I will get my idle on. Not much chatting going on right now over there so I thought I would check out the forums. My name is Brian aka 5ive/Five Favourite game: COD4 Favourite OS: OSX Favourite console: Wii Other hobbies: Snowboarding/Mountain Biking Car: Jetta / Cargo Van Occupation: small business owner, IT/AV Services
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