Trax
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Wow talk about trying to screw you.
Get yourself a router. I don't see why it would cause any kind of issue with their network. when they ask you to probably install software just tell them you don't want to install their software and to just give you the configuration information. plug it into the router and your done.
i have had ISP's try to pull this kind of crap with me in the past, all i ever had to do was to put a router in. I even had one ISP tell me that their internet was for use with 1 computer only. they never even knew that i had 4 set up.
Depending on what kind of load your going to put on it though you might want to go ahead and spring for the larger package. but i know personally i have a 16 Mbps connection that even with 3 computers going full time, torrents downloading, gaming, video streaming etc.. i never come close to using that up. i MAY start feeling a pinch if i only had a 4 Mbps connection though.
also check if they cap your bandwidth usage. not all that common anymore, but i know if my parents download more then 450mb per day they get their net locked out and have to pay a fee to have it turned back on again (satellite).
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a few post's below yours i was going through issue's with TOR and getting it setup.
http://www.hak5.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=17366
All i did was follow the instructions to the letter except i didn't use Pilpo just Privoxy.
and also if i remember right BT4 is based on ubuntu, so look at the ubuntu documentation regarding TOR and Privoxy
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Finally got TOR working correctly. removed Polipo and installed privoxy added the 1 line to the config file in privoxy and it started working just fine.
yay glade that pain in the arse is over. Thank you everyone for your help.
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did you replace the config file with the other one from tor?
they have different names so i just opened the original one with gedit under root and copy and pasted the new one into that (replacing the old one) and saved it. if you replaced it with the new config file and used the new file name that might be why it wont work.
Yep i replaced the contents of the config file with the TOR one. i've been going through and seeing if i needed to adjust any settings. so far i've tried uncommenting
heres the config file for Polipo
# Sample configuration file for Polipo. -*-sh-*- # You should not need to edit this configuration file; all configuration # variables have reasonable defaults. # This file only contains some of the configuration variables; see the # list given by ``polipo -v'' and the manual for more. ### Basic configuration ### ******************* # Uncomment one of these if you want to allow remote clients to # connect: # proxyAddress = "::0" # both IPv4 and IPv6 # proxyAddress = "0.0.0.0" # IPv4 only # If you are enabling 'proxyAddress' above, then you want to enable the # 'allowedClients' variable to the address of your network, e.g. # allowedClients = 127.0.0.1, 192.168.42.0/24 # allowedClients = 127.0.0.1 # Uncomment this if you want your Polipo to identify itself by # something else than the host name: # proxyName = "polipo.example.org" # Uncomment this if there's only one user using this instance of Polipo: cacheIsShared = false # Uncomment this if you want to use a parent proxy: # parentProxy = "squid.example.org:3128" # Uncomment this if you want to use a parent SOCKS proxy: socksParentProxy = "localhost:9050" socksProxyType = socks5 ### Memory ### ****** # Uncomment this if you want Polipo to use a ridiculously small amount # of memory (a hundred C-64 worth or so): # chunkHighMark = 819200 # objectHighMark = 128 # Uncomment this if you've got plenty of memory: # chunkHighMark = 50331648 # objectHighMark = 16384 ### On-disk data ### ************ # Uncomment this if you want to disable the on-disk cache: # diskCacheRoot = "" # Uncomment this if you want to put the on-disk cache in a # non-standard location: # diskCacheRoot = "~/.polipo-cache/" # Uncomment this if you want to disable the local web server: # localDocumentRoot = "" # Uncomment this if you want to enable the pages under /polipo/index? # and /polipo/servers?. This is a serious privacy leak if your proxy # is shared. # disableIndexing = false # disableServersList = false ### Domain Name System ### ****************** # Uncomment this if you want to contact IPv4 hosts only (and make DNS # queries somewhat faster): # dnsQueryIPv6 = no # Uncomment this if you want Polipo to prefer IPv4 to IPv6 for # double-stack hosts: # dnsQueryIPv6 = reluctantly # Uncomment this to disable Polipo's DNS resolver and use the system's # default resolver instead. If you do that, Polipo will freeze during # every DNS query: # dnsUseGethostbyname = yes ### HTTP ### **** # Uncomment this if you want to enable detection of proxy loops. # This will cause your hostname (or whatever you put into proxyName # above) to be included in every request: # disableVia=false # Uncomment this if you want to slightly reduce the amount of # information that you leak about yourself: # censoredHeaders = from, accept-language # censorReferer = maybe # Uncomment this if you're paranoid. This will break a lot of sites, # though: # censoredHeaders = set-cookie, cookie, cookie2, from, accept-language # censorReferer = true # Uncomment this if you want to use Poor Man's Multiplexing; increase # the sizes if you're on a fast line. They should each amount to a few # seconds' worth of transfer; if pmmSize is small, you'll want # pmmFirstSize to be larger. # Note that PMM is somewhat unreliable. # pmmFirstSize = 16384 # pmmSize = 8192 # Uncomment this if your user-agent does something reasonable with # Warning headers (most don't): # relaxTransparency = maybe # Uncomment this if you never want to revalidate instances for which # data is available (this is not a good idea): # relaxTransparency = yes # Uncomment this if you have no network: # proxyOffline = yes # Uncomment this if you want to avoid revalidating instances with a # Vary header (this is not a good idea): # mindlesslyCacheVary = true
I'm in chat if you want to go through this and not post whore the forums
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Do you know if TOR is up and connected correctly? Or is the problem after your connected to the TOR network?
EDIT:: Also, what does it show when you go to :: https://check.torproject.org/?
Nothing it won't pull any websites up at all just gives me a gray blank browser window.
I followed the instructions at http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en
I am thinking i may have screwed up when installing Polipo.
I remember having trouble with the
su 'make install'
command. that might be where the whole thing fell apart, but it did install polipo.
ETA Now i'm working on it agian, i am getting an error stating that my proxy server is refusing connections
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Well i installed Tor but have run into problems. every time i enable it i get a blank browser screen. anyone know a Wiki or forums that can help me trouble shoot this? it seems that there is no real support info on the TOR site.
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So I would like to start that I am not a complete dunce with computers but, I am by no means on a level that I would like and I am in no way close to where I would like to be in the I.T. world. As such I decided to go back to school now that I am able to afford it and, finally get a degree. However looking over the courses and talking with people in classes (who seem to know less than me) I am starting to wonder if I would be better skipping school and spending my money on certs or there is a good school to attend.
That being said the school I was going to attend is Devry University. While I am finally able to afford going back I still face several problems. One being I will be employed full time so Devry (the degree that I had chosen from them was data forensics which is another interest of mine) offered both on-line and in-call options with on-site instructors which can work easily around my schedule. Aside from Devry in my area I would be forced to attend a school such as ITT or vaderott (sp). My personal goal is to go into information security and I would like to do penetration testing but, I am keeping my options open. My other option is however to skip school and go for certs such as the CEH or the CISSP along with more common certs like the CCNA. does anyone have any experience with this issue in a constructive manner?
Thank you in advance for your help
P.S. The most I have been able to afford up to this point is to be a sophomore in college. My experience is little more than a service write at a tech bench(what the geek squad called a Counter operations agent) during that time I did attempt the CISSP once as the test was paid for as a gift to me by from friends. My score on it was a 688 but, I have not been able to afford retaking it until now. My current job does little to advance my technical skills as it is a simple vendor job for a tech company. (I admit it I am paid to be a fan-boy)
Heh i'm partly there with you. i've been going back to school to try and get some kind of degree and have been wishing i hadn't.
But my circumstance's are a bit different. i was laid off in oct of 08 and entered school in jan or feb of 09. one of my main problems though has been lack of derrection. while i have allot of interest's (IE Computers, manufacturing, welding, blacksmithing etc...) i have not been able to find something that i would like to do as a career.
One of the things i found out personally is that the trade schools like devry, ITT etc cost way to much money for what you get. on top of that from what i have heard from various employers is that they look at the degrees from them as little more then someone without any. now i may have heard wrong but i've known far to many people with BS/BA degrees that have ended up flipping burgers or doing sales.
please excise this a bit as its alcohol fueled atm...
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Have you tried TOR?
Wow i had never heard of TOR before.
Thank you i will try it out.
for future reference I take it what i was looking for was http://www.torproject.org/
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sometimes i'm visiting a site that i don't exactly want to have my IP address. any suggestions for reasonably fast anonymous proxy?
all i'm looking for is good ol port 80 so relatively low bandwidth required. just viewing some non video based sites.
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This isn't entirely correct. If you want to phrase it that way you would need to say "your network is only has fast as its slowest link on the path from source to destination"
You can have a mixed mixed speeds. Anything which is on the gigabit network will be able to take advantage of the gigabit speed, but will only be limited if they are accessing something on a slower lan. And anything on the slower lan will be limited to that speed, even if they are accessing something on the gigbit network.,
Your right sorry sometimes i get ahead of myself.
Oki, Personally i would stay away from anything with an internal antenna. i know you live in a small place, but so do I, and my POS netgear WNR3500 has a internal antenna (got it for free sssooo) will give me around 75% signal strength from only about 8 feet away.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16833124343
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16833124385
its only a $10 difference in price.
Oh the free router part, If you are with Comcast cable( at least in my area) they will now give you a free router, but like i said its a POS the only good part is that so far i havn't maxed out the ram in it like i used to do on my old WRT.
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thanks for the great info ill look into all that!
lol @ 100 miles. that would be so awesome. with that i can connect to my network from anywhere in the state. lol
well heres the quote form wikipeida
VenezuelaAnother notable unamplified Wi-Fi link is a 279 km link[9] achieved by (Latin American Networking School)[10].
* Pico del Águila - El Baúl Link.
* frequency: 2412 MHz
* link established in 2006
* IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), channel 1, bandwidth 22 MHz
* Wireless routers: Linksys WRT54G, OpenWrt firmware at el Águila and DD-WRT firmware at El Baúl.
* Length: 279 km (173 mi).
* Parabolic dish antennas were used at both ends, recycled from satellite service.
* At El Aguila site an aluminum mesh reflector 9 ft (2.74 m) diameter, center-fed, at El Baúl a fiberglass solid reflector, offset-fed, 8 by 9 ft (2.44 by 2.74 m). On both ends the feeds were 12 dBi Yagis.
* Linksys WRT54g routers fed the antennas with short LMR400 cables, so the effective gain of the complete antenna is estimated at about 30 dBi.
* This is the largest known range attained with this technology, improving on a previous US record of 125 miles (201 km) achieved last year in U.S. The Swedish space agency attained 310 km (190 mi), but using 6 watt amplifiers to reach an overhead stratospheric balloon.
also you got me on the *ohh i wonder what kick ass routers are out there* kick you might want to research it a bit more but the linksys WRT160NL seems like it might be a good way to go right now, plus i think its around $40 cheaper. its on sale at newegg right now
kind of low on the rom memory though http://dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Linksys_WRT160NL
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ok so this is whats going on in my head right now. is this correct? can i hook up the old router in conjunction with the new one so im still able to connect? an being that the pen test network is on a seperate router then the regular computers theres no way they can interact with home network right? i dont want them to. i want them to be totally separate but ofcourse i still need to connect to them.
Ok few things, your network is only has fast as its slowest link. So with that in mind if you want to run say a gigabit network but your old router is only say 100mps fast, it will slow down the rest of the network. Yes you can set your router into bridged mode and have it for extra ports on the network but you will need to tweak a couple of settings on it.
also keep in mind firmware upgrades. I know i love using DD-WRT haven't tried open WRT yet, there's also Tomato. and probably a couple others i don't know about.
for me i would look at the Linksys WRT series of routers. next to building your own *like so http://www.hak5.org/episodes/episode-718* i think they are the best IMHO for home users. they now make them with extra memory so linux geeks can get in there and flash new firmware onto it. (look for something like the old WRT54GL) the L stood for Linux based.
you can check their website for the linux based routers and also check out the DD-WRT forums for some reviews and some really good info on routers. I heard of one of these routers being molded to send a wifi signal over 100 miles.
also so you don't wish you had in the future make sure it can do Wireless N and Gigabit speeds.
ETA: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices has a good list on it. it looks like the new Linksys E2100L is a nice piece of hardware but doesn't look like its supported by DD-WRT yet. mmm Atheros chipset...
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*gasp* gnome > KDE
I would expect nothing less from a MAC user.....the one on the bottom of your post was probably one of the last good ones made..
well really ever since their first Ipod came out the quality of mac products had declined significantly.
alright off to the river to get drunk and wet. enough of my Mac hate.
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I've powered mine before with a 3v watch battery.
glade i'm not the only one who thought about this.
does it also have a way to charge the battery or do you just replace them?
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alright i'll bite.
This is my laptop's desktop.
BTW if someone knows how to take care of the screen going blank and locking up on any sort of suspend or hibernate please let me know. I'm getting ready to drop Kubuntu completely but I'm not a fan of the gnome desktop, yet i've like how polished ubuntu is compared to some of the other distros i've tired.
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A writeup? Anything specific you want me to write about?
For now, you can have the schematics:
As you can see the only really complicated part is the power supply, the LCD and buttons are just connected directly to the microcontroller.
Very cool are you using an Arduino Mega? *just trying to decipher some of the schematic*
I guess the only part thats left *to the best of my n00b knowledge* is the code for the microcontroler or any modification you had to make to the kernel in order to get the whole system to work.
It was projects like yours that got me started with watching programs on revision 3 in the first place, system was one of my favorite shows and then i found Hak5
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Very cool I would love to hear more about the hardware involved.
What hardware are you using the run the LCD and Controls?
(ETA: Just noticed you had to code the software to work with the LCD. I really look forward to a writeup.)
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i used to have a 2nd gen rx7. now im rockin a '97 240sx with a sr20det at 14.5 PSI.
lol @ geo metro. i seen an ad awhile ago selling two of them for $500. both cars together for $500. 3 cylinders certainly do have good fuel economy put i wouldnt recommend pulling out into the highway unless theres no cars coming for about a mile. lol
I grew out of the need to go fast when i moved out of LA and up to Oregon. The speed limit out here is for the most part still 55mph people MIGHT do 70 in the fast lane no where near the 80-90 they did down south *at least when it wasn't bumper to bumper*
even when i was down there i had 2 cars my daily driver a Mazda 323 and my toy car a 88 Turbo II. cars are tools and should be used as such IMHO. you want gas mileage and comfort for your commute to work. you want speed and fun on the track.
Please Please Please keep it on the track. i've seen too many car accidents back in the day. to many people got hurt by doing street racing, or as i'm guessing by your car choice Drifting up in the mountains. tons of people lost their cars and lives up on that road when i was into it. then every kid with some kind of Japanese car started going up there and taking their car into the side of the mountain or worse off the cliff.
Ok sorry for sounding like an old geezer just please be safe about it.
Back on topic. Geo Metros are great. its allot more fun for me to be able to go 100's of miles farther and cheaper then i could with my old 7. I admit there was nothing like feeling that turbo kick in and getting slammed back into your seat. but now i just want to get from point a to point b as cheaply as i can.
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Although not custom one of the hosts of a podcast I listen to always raves about this place - http://www.doghousesystems.com/
If you don't mind getting your hands dirty I'd recommend making one yourself, it isn't as hard as it may seem as y ou'll find your motherboard manual will explain a lot of the hardware instalation procedures. It will help you save quite a bit of money as like Razor512 said you will pay the builders of the computer quite a hefty sum for it.
Just for shits i wanted to see what that websites best computer would add up to on new egg down to the case and power supply
Qty. Product Description Savings Total Price1 Thermaltake Armor+MX VH8000BWS Black Aluminum / Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
$129.99
2 Western Digital Caviar Black WD5001AALS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
$139.98
($69.99 each)
2 EVGA 015-P3-1489-AR GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
$1,299.98
($649.99 each)
1 CORSAIR HX Series CMPSU-1000HX 1000W ATX12V 2.2 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply
$229.99
1 Kingston HyperX 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 Desktop Memory Model KHX1333C7D3K3/6GX
$167.99
1 ASUS P6T LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
$229.99
1 Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition Gulftown 3.33GHz LGA 1366 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80613I7980X
$999.99
Subtotal: $3,197.91
That is the same computer that doghouse charges $4,395 for
so your paying them $1,100 to put everything together for you and perhaps tweak a setting or two.
Now keep in mind there are a few things i would really change on this. 2 500gb drives? eh i would go with at least a 1 TB hard drive and a SSD, Better memory was only about $20 more there where also better motherboards on there for i think $50-$100 more. Last but not least i would use a non integrated sound card. i HATE onboard sound.
so there you have it the amount of money that people make off of you when you buy a off the shelf computer. even the high end ones will use sub par components as well because they save $20 or so.
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stand alone ECU's are the best. i with i could afford one. what kind of car did you have it in?
The 2 i worked with the most where Haltech's and Microtech's I always wanted to do the megasquirt but never really had the software down *back in version 1*
Those days are quite a while back now the RX-7 has been gone for around 5 years now.
one of these days i hope to have a car i'll be willing to toss another standalone on, perhaps a geo metro and tune the fuel economy through the roof.
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I wonder if its tied into the cars ECU as well, if so let the good times roll.
Wirelessly hacking the car and then messing around with it. changing the radio station, rolling down the windows turning the heater on max, hell you could even blow their engine or make it run better by adjusting the fuel and ignition map.
us geeks and nerds have been doing this same thing for years now. back in 2000 i was working on a design for a in car PC to not only work my media and GPS, but also work the stand alone ECU that i had installed.
I love how the more governments try to domesticate the net, the more wild it becomes.
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What's the purpose of having a battery? Are you going to get a keyboard and some how attach it to program on the move?
a standard usb port only provides i think its 500ma of power. This 500ma can quickly get used up by crap, how much USB shit is there out on the market? everything from nerf style rocket launchers to little boxs that make noise even a dog that humps your usb port. all of these draw power. and it doesn't take very many until that power is completely taped out of a port. (IE My G15 keyboard sucks pretty much the full 500ma of power that the USB port provides on its own)
Now i can't say what the power draw of the Teensy plus the Micro SD card slot is. but i can't see it being all that low.
The whole thought of this is to extend the amount of port options available to you. not just the Ports on the case itself but also those on any Hubs or keyboards that might be available .
and lets not forget we are talking about a wonderful piece of tech that can do pretty much anything we want it to. so there may very well be other use's besides this for having some on-board power available.
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I am a n00b in general but i had a thought about the Rubber Ducky after sitting there in front of my G15 keyboard.
One of the problems i have ran into at least with my g15 and some other USB hubs is that their power supply can tend to be tapped from the other devices on the chain. like my keyboard does.
so my thoughts are why not use an external power supply to make sure that your device will be able to function instead of relying on the computer to supply the power. yes it makes the design a bit more complicated but not by much. the main hindrance i see is that adding a charging circuit might elevate the complexity up to a level where it would not be worth it.
Perhaps someone with more electronics experience can chime in here.
I love the idea of the rubber ducky and see it as a source for doing all sorts of fun stuff. like perhaps typing out a message to the user in the microsoft sam voice. kind of takes the stealthy goodness out of it but it could be fun to say.. plug this thing into any windows computer and have it suddenly turn into a evil computer.
ok enough of my insane ramblings back to lurking
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ok TV shows BTW I haven't had a working TV in 2 years now mostly Hulu or downlaods if i can't find what i'm looking for.
Mythbusters
Duel Survival (another one of those survival shows but it pairs a hippie and a former spec ops guy 'funny as hell')
The Colony (1st season was pretty good 2nd has not had some of the coolness factor)
Warehouse 13
Chuck
Stargate Universe
South Park
Weeds
Bullshit!
and on Revision 3
Hak5 (duh)
Tekzilla
Scam School
Dig reel
Penn Point
And of course this is not all at 1 time as the seasons stop