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  1. I see two possible ways of doing this without requiring some sort of circuit/micro-controller or advanced key hook teqnikes to catch key presses. First way is get a card writer and program the card contain the string "5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5" So they get 10 credits every time the card is swiped. The only other way I can think of is add another button called labeled "free play" When pressed it would run a program that would pop up over mame. The box would prompt the user to swipe the card, in the popup have an invisible text box that was set to the default cursor location, So when the card it swiped the text box gets the Card information and most readers send an enter key press an the end (would press the OK button on the window). If the card info is the same as the one stored it would "press" the button 5 a few times.
  2. I guess i worded the question a little weird because no one read it correctly. I'm not asking what to do with my laptop, (going to throw it away) I'm asking what used laptop should I buy (what to look for when i'm browsing ebay or junk shops) All it needs to do is read PDF's and thats it. EDIT: I accidently stumbled upon this DT Research WEB DT366 This would be cool, ALSO i've alaws wanted a way to walk away from my computer and bring my screen with me (like instructions or diagrams for working on my car) These thing can run Remote desktop.
  3. Well my old and crappy laptop that I was attempting to convert to an e-book reader is too old and too crappy. (and is slowly dying) So, i was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on another model of old and crappy laptops.
  4. FireTime

    win95

    Thanks for the info. RedHat installed fairly easy but getting video problems. Even with the correct resolution set it dosen't use the full screen, there is 1 inch of black on the right and 1/2 everywhere else.
  5. FireTime

    win95

    bah, I know 95 is bad but it's not the plague you make it out to be. I'm dealing with someseriously bad hardware. I'll try out 98 for a while and see if it fast enough. 128mb of PC66 ram Intel Mobile Pentium II @ 400MHz (1.6v) L1=32KB: (16KB code; 16KB data) L2=256KB No nic card (I have a pc card for wired/wireless)
  6. FireTime

    win95

    http://inferno.slug.org/pdf/toshiba/tecra8000.pdf PAT800U-KB51 I had win 2000 on it before and that ran as smooth as sandpaper.
  7. FireTime

    win95

    After giving up on my hopes of installing DSL on my junk laptop (serious compatibility problems). I decided to install win 95 on this laptop (probability going to the least system intensive operating system that can still read PDF's) Back in the day I have done this many times but now I have completely forgot everything. After booting with a boot floppy i get in windows95 DOS from there I cd to the R: (idk why R) the cd-rom spins up and I run Setup.exe. After that completes it tells me to restart. Once it restarts it never boots. Just get a blinking cursor(not DOS) My guess is that it's not setting the MBR because I don't think win 95 used a boot.ini. Any Ideas?
  8. check this out. wavebubble It's an advanced project, You will need to know a pcb factory, Or how to etch your own. Also connection the micro controller requires advanced (but bot impossible) soldering technique. I almost built one of these in the day but then college decided that I don't deserve any spending money. BTW that website has a few fun projects if your just getting into electronics. (minty Boost)
  9. more daft punk I'm using windows7 desktop wallpaper sideshow, changes every 30 minutes.
  10. Dont do anything stupid at school, back in hi-school most of my "friends" who did really dumb stuff (defaced some of the schools websites) ended up getting expelled, 2 weeks ISS, or community service. I often hit a road block with our school locking down things that they didn't mean to. Educational programs, and even the e-mail client would time out if the administration tighten down some settings too much. One way to combat this if the administrators forget to block the group polity editor you can remove most/all the restrictions that novel places on a computer. *NOTE* If you school doesn't have a drive imager installed (Drive shield or deep Freeze) that reverts the computer after every restart MAKE SURE TO REVERT ANY AND ALL CHANGES YOU MAKE. If you dont you will piss off the IT people, and it will destroy the computer slowly. (they place those restriction on the computer for more reasons than to block you from getting to myspace.) *THOUGHTS* Don't be an idiot. Change things back if your computer dosen't refresh after every restart. Although this can be used in a good way, using this in a such a way that violates your school rules is still against the rules even tho you just changed a setting that was freely available to the users. Having dumb IT people doesn't protect you. In fact it makes it worse because they think that changing a setting from a users account is magic and can only be accomplished with hacking. (hacking > changing as setting in the eyes the the computer illiterate principle.) Before reading the following spoiler please heed my warnings. If that is disabled your SOL. The only other way around this is doing things that I wont share because you will be removed from your school if found doing. If it's still active you will be able to set the permissions for different applications and windows settings. Examples of being an idiot include but are not limited to... Setting your account to all available free space on the server. Changing passwords Changing immages on a public school website. Installing Halo on the server Installing 1.6 on the server Installing Unreal Tournament on the server Going to myspace,live journal. Releasing the IP of a computer (then setting 0.0.0.0 to the default connection) Removing the schools monitoring software Disabling the antivirus permeatly Installing a mail bomber Installing a key logger Installing a port scanner ON THE FUCKING SERVER Installing over $5000 of cracked software. Installing KaZaA, Limewire, WinMX, Napster,Grokster, or frostwire Installing a windows messenger spammer. Installing an IP stealer on the network. (after reviewing this list i feel sorry for the It guy at my old HS)
  11. Realtek onboard sound cards already have the technology available to separate the front and back ports into two separate audio cards. Under advanced settings there is an option to toggle between muting back ports when a front jack is used or separate front and back ports into virtual audio cards. If you need the ports on the back you could do some modding. 1/8in jacks are fairly easy to solder to from the inside.
  12. I don't know, we said that there is a gun in painkiller shoots shurikens lightning, I ran out and bought it.
  13. install PLoP from a floppy. It allows the oldest of computers to boot from USB. http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html
  14. cool stuff, but take some aspirin before you attempt to go on that endeavor. If you have a lesser known computer (like my everex) you will be slamming your face against the screen.
  15. Finally got some one to e-mail me the source code! All of this goes into the root of your webserver (I perfer wos / mowes portable) DATABASE Layout 'Title'=VARCHAR(100)|'Path'=VARCHAR(255)|Count=INT run.php <?php ////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Connects to the database and selects one of the least played movies ////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Fuzzy number adjustes how close to the end of the least played list // ie: a valie of 1 will play the last movie // but a number of 5 will randomally chose one of the last 5 movies on the list // // recomend chosing a mumber that is about 15-25% of the number of movies $fuzzy = 5; // Connect the database $con = mysql_connect("localhost","TheMovieChannel","thepass"); if (!$con) { die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); } // select database mysql_select_db("channel", $con); //Generate a list of movies with the lest played first $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM movie ORDER BY Count DESC"); // the "fuzzy" range $rnds = rand(0,$fuzzy); //count down the list randomally for ( $counter = 0; $counter <= $rnds; $counter ++) { $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); } //place database valuse in varaiables $theTitle = $row['Title']; $thePath = $row['Path']; $theCount = $row['Count']; //generate the batch file contense //executes the movie //then runs this program again after movie compleats $progs = 'cd "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\ vlc.exe "C:\Documents and Settings\Movie\My Documents\My Videos\\' . $thePath . '" -f Intermission.exe cd "C:\Documents and Settings\Movie\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\ chrome.exe "http://127.0.0.1/run.php"'; //add one to all the count value of all movies mysql_query("UPDATE movie SET Count=Count+1"); //set the current playing movie to a count value of zero mysql_query("UPDATE movie SET Count = '0' WHERE Path = '" . $thePath . "' AND Title = '" . $theTitle . "'"); //finish database commands mysql_close($con); //save the bat program $myFile = "run.bat"; $fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file"); fwrite($fh, $progs); fclose($fh); //Run the executer that initlizes the bat without waiting for the bat to finish exec("run.vbs"); ?> <html> <head> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function closeWin(thetime) { setTimeout("window.close()", thetime); } //--> </script> </head> <body bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFFFF" onLoad="closeWin('20')"> <h1></h1> </body> </html> run.vbs Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.run "%comspec% /c run.bat",0 Set WshShell = Nothing add.html <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="save.php"> <table width="220" border="1"> <tr> <td width="92">Title</td> <td width="112"> <input type="text" name="title" id="title" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Path</td> <td><input type="text" name="path" id="path" /></td> </tr> </table> <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" /> </form> </body> </html> save.php <?php $title = $_POST["title"]; $path = $_POST["path"]; $con = mysql_connect("localhost","PhiKap","1138"); if (!$con) { die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); } mysql_select_db("channel", $con); $sql = "INSERT INTO movie (Title, Path, Count) VALUES ('" . $title . "', '" . $path . "', '0')"; mysql_query($sql); mysql_close($con); echo $sql; ?> This code needs some major updating (and spell checking), I'll be working on it this weekend. ALSO, This code requires Google chrome to be installed on the computer( but you could change with a few edits)
  16. Daft Punk FTW! Cant wait for there new album (even tho there is no guarantee it well be released in 09)
  17. One of the positives of living in a fraternity or a hack house; The Terabyte was voted in by the house, So everyone has $4.75 added onto there bill, instead of shelling the $1XX my self for it. Also the old computer was a Frankenstein. Case from a kodac print thing, Compaq mobo+processor, old ATI videocard that I bought for $5 off facebook market place, pc ram I found in randome desk in the basement, and I donated the second DVD drive from my computer for installing the software and for Ripping DVD's to divix movies using "Xilisoft DVD to DivX Converter" or the free program "Freez DVD Ripper". But yah, all of the other components have rely added up. I have spend about $112 personally buring parts and shipping them 1 by 1. If I would have knows ahead of time I could have saven allot on money shipping all of the stuff at once. I'll try to get some one upstate to e-mail the code so I can share it. (And clean it up) EDIT: I've uploaded the Intermission program to Google code, you can download the program and the source fla file HERE EDIT EDIT: I forgot to mention the CATV filter, Updated origional post
  18. Just thought you would like to know, FireDog (The late Circuit City equivalent), the super hard final question on there application technology test is.... How do you find the IP of the current computer.
  19. It can select any channel from 2-95 and 100~125 for CAtv. It also can display channels 14~64 on broadcast (UHF) Those numbers are not exact, but yes you can use a bunch of channels. Also a thing to keep in mind, I wasn't having much luck broadcasting over an existing channel, thats why we use channel 123.
  20. A while back, Episode #8 I think, There was discussion about connecting your computer to the coax line in your house to watch IPTV on TV. Thought the Idea was grand so I took it and ran. I have been building a Movie channel for my fraternity house for the past few weeks. The Setup requires... 1x old crappy computer that can handle running a small web server(WOS/Mowes portable) running super special software (php, bat, VB script, VLC, Flash Projector), can play Standard definition Divix-Avi files, and has video out. 1x "special" agile RF modulator( this was something very important that I felt was left out of the original hak5 segment.) The modulator must be "agile". This means that when it broadcasts its signal there is limited degradation of signal of near by channels. This is the one that I purchased. If you use a normal RF modulator you will kill all channels from 1- to about 40 depending on the modulator. 1x CA tv combiner, You cant just use a normal splitter in reverse. (i've tried, looks line trying to pick up tv ftom 500 miles away with rabbit ears.) This is the one that I purchased. 1x CAtv Notch filter. This filter removes the signal/interference from your incoming cable lines on the channel that you select. If you dont do this your cable will over power your modulator. Here are two different models 64-70, 75-80 Thats it for parts, aside for a few coax cables and a few audio video lines to connect the pc to the modulator. For hookup here is the wiring diagram that i created for our house Yours will be different as our house has 4 CAtv lines from the street (because were just that cool). After everything is wired up test it out with a video iPod/Zune or something that dosent require any time to setup to see if everything is working. If it is awesome! Next is the computer. FIRST THING, format it. Install whatever, I chose windows because part is programmed in bat (because i'm lazy, and this project was originally kinda hacked together) Next is get some space. Find all the IDE hard-drives in the tri-county area, or get an external terabyte as I did. After that is the software. Since i'm away from home I don't have the source code with me but I can share with you the general concept. Starts at the web server. PHP asks the database what is the 5 least played movies so far. Selects one of those 5 and flags it as the most recently played movie. Generate a bat file that tells VLC to play the Movie, then runs a program called 'Intermission' then run this php script all over again. One it creates this bat php runs a simple VB script command that allows the execution of the bat without php needing to wait for its completion. So php quits and the Bat is run. The bat plays the movie in vlc and waits for it to finish. Vlc auto closes and the Bat runs 'Intermission' Intermission is an executable Flash Projector that displays important upcoming events, news, and other stuff pertinent to our fraternity. (it's modeled after adult swim). After a quick quote Intermission quits and the batch executes the php file then quits, And the process repeats. ---------------------------------------- Thats the Whole Shabang. Things to keep in mind, My movie channel is not 100% setup, because i'm not at home right now. But the programs works, and the CAtv wiring is setup and tested working. The two halves haven't met yet. I know many of you are going to say, why use php and my SQL!! Two reasons, 1) php. 2) This project is always being constantly improved and I felt that php would give the most room to do so with the ideas that I want to add. The next major add-on once everything us up and running is text message voting. The Intermission program will give you 4-6 movies that could be played next and you get to vote on them by sending the server a text message (ends up being an e-mail) that php will pop3 then read and decide what to play next. Also Users will be able to locally log into the web server and select movies that should be up for vote next time around. Another addition is the ability to administrate the movie channel from any computer. I can login and change what text is displayed in between movies, skip movies from the browser, or add mew movies from anywhere in the house without ever needing to go in the basement. So far this project has been a blast! And a slight drain on the wallet. I did get funding for the external HD, but the adapters, agile RF, CAtv Notch filter, and combiner were unforeseen expenses that I shelled out for. (college budget) But apart from that it has given me a chance to do things with mostly web languages(php and Flash actionsctipt) that there not normally intended for. It has really expanded my mind on what you can do with these languages.
  21. Check out conforums. Free forums with a great support board/community. Dosent have all the bells and whistles as phpBB or InvisionFree. But only has 2 un-obtrusive ads. Also customization is a little different. They give you access to a header and a footer for each page which may not seem like much, but there are a ton of great scripts on the support site that lets you change almost anything. Here is a screen shot of my old forum theme that I made back in the day to show you that it's possible to completely transform the look. Side note, the graphics request board is where I originally learned how to use photoshop, one mini banner at a time.(man I haven't been on that site in years)
  22. You have to be cautious if you decide to block the dDos attack. If the attack is originating from the other players connection you could end up blocking his x-box live connection to your x-box. This was a popular form of hacking that Microsoft has gotten much better noticing. SO you could end up being banned by Microsoft instead of the dDos attacker. So as Sparda stated, just change your IP.
  23. Favorite? thats a hard one, Loved the strider cats in the orange box, but the rapid fire jokes in the beginning of the Zack & Wiki review takes the cake. I remember busting out laughing at 3 am watching it, waking up most everyone on my floor.
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