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Thanks a ton mike. I'm not sure what to do next then... heh. Right now I'm trying to get my openbsd server up, to no avail. I've got alot of HD space I can donate (not give away, but have it being used for this).

I totally misread your post, and thought you were pro-government-wiretapping. (for those of you who saw this post before the edit, since it was an argument against that.) I totally agree with you.

Of course. I'm quite certain they already do. Just dont do anything that will provoke them. I'll see if the Marines has anything like it when I can.

NTLM has just been given new appeal, (thanks mikesown) with a very interesting point made. Silivrenion has imformed me that the largest rainbow tables for MD5 are 1.5TB, space that I doubt most of us have. I'm curious to know how large NTLM tables are (largest), and how feasible it is.

Shame shame shame, of course Nintendo has been ported to the PC! There is a howto on converting SNES controllers to the PC, and zsnes http://zsnes.com/ provides a SNES to USB adapter (in case you want to use the controller in a SNES, or you have some strange, morbid fear of sodering irons...) Almost all the worthwile SNES and NES games have been ported to PC, and quite a good amount of N64 games as well. (These are called Roms, if you're gonna google/wikipedia). There are Gamecube emulators out there as well, but those play 1, maybe 2 games, and are slow and choppy. ZSNES is an open source SNES (if you didn't guess that bit from the name) emulator, for *NIX and Windows (SNES9x or something similar has a Max OS X port), written mostly in x86 assembly and C. I grew up playing Super Mario World for SNES, and I love playing chrono trigger and old mario games, and apps like these let me do it all from my PC!

Custom would be very cool. Maybe, since it lists your "rank" twice, one of them could be custom, and the other the actual rank. Say, in the Hak5 font, your actual rank. In the plain font, a custom value, with 20-30 characters, maybe more. Other forums have setups similar to that, I mean, I'm listened as "Linux User - Forum Noob" or something on the CAD forums (because I've made a whopping 6 posts, half of which included the word "BitTorrent" and got deleted by some uptight admin).

The logitech is out of stock on think geek. Ah well, there are other places to aquire. I'm probably gonna grab a Saitek keyboard (the nice ones that have the wrist wrest and light-up keys), a Das Keyboard, and one of those logitechs. Right now I'm using some emachines POS, but I'm used to it, so that means I'll want to keep it as long as I can, untill I break it, somehow... Thanks and peace out!

Returning this thread to keyboards, I'm in the market for a good, reliable wireless keyboard and mouse combo for my bedroom (where wires would be unrealistic). Price isn't really a problem, but the less I spend, the better (as it generally is). As far as KVMs and whatnot, have you guys ever heard of Synergy? http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ I'm setting this up both in my office and home, it's quicker than a KVM switch, and it's much better graphics-wise than other alternatives, like VNC. (Plus it doesn't require special hardware, like a KVM switch does.) I have no idea what the maximum number of computers you can have on it, but you can configure which side of the screen you want it to use, so it's ideal for vertical + horizontal setups (like the ones they advertise on those rediculously huge "media desks" or whatever they are.) However, for FVWM-Crystal and E16/E17 users, that could be an anoyance, since you couldn't switch virtual desktops without it switching physical desktops. Off to catch some ZzZ's.

MD5 is very widely used on nearly every major Linux distro. As mentioned, SHA1 is very popular in the Unix world and Silivrenion informs me that SHA1 is next on the list after MD5.

I'm all for SHA1 then, which is quite widely used, and I think without salt. Alot of IRC networks and other use it to store oper block passwords (as I discovered by experience *nod to Silivrenion*). As you can see, this would be extremely usefull. Maybe SHA1, then NTLM, then whatever they want to come out besides MD5? MD5 is still very widely used, so it would be very usefull. Maybe SHA1 and NTLM after MD5? I'm just worried we might do it all for kaput.

I'm all for doing MD5 next, but... MD5 is most widely used on Linux and BSD, to my knowledge. However, most *NIX distros now use md5 + salt, which makes Rainbow Tables nearly ineffective. I'm sure there is a work around of sorts, but I just thought that this would be good to mention, before we all start generating almost-useless MD5 tables.