Dr Zaius

http://www.dictionary.com/ But seriously, you need to be a bit more specific on what type of hardware you want to hack. I guess you could browse http://www.hackaday.com/ for things that you like.

I believe this extension may be of some help: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/115/

I would suggest that you try to get your head around the manual and ask on the Bochs discussion boards when you get confused. I mean no offence, but debugging windows 98 is not only a huge and complicated task but it can also be illegal. Say you find a memory leak in a DLL and fix it, any sort of patching/reverse-engineering is certainly frowned upon by Microsoft. Check the specifics of the EULA for Windows 98 before you do anything. You do have to consider the size of the task at hand, your one person trying to debug an operating system that took a team of coders years to create. I would say your job is akin to cutting down a jungle with a butterknife.

From what I understand he is trying to run Windows 98 in a virtual machine using Bochs(http://bochs.sourceforge.net/) on Windows XP. I've never used Bochs myself, but unless you have some sort of special purpose for using it (tracing, debugging etc) then VMWare certainly looks like a more user friendly approach. If you do indeed want to stick with Bochs then check out the documentation on their site or maybe ask in their forums. I'm not too sure how many Bochs experts we have here, but I can guarantee your likely to find alot of people able to help you on the official discussion board for Bochs.

I've never had a harddrive die on me other than old ~500mb drives from the dark ages that I have lyring around. Although about 4 years ago I did have a nightmare with a 4gb Fujitsu drive... At the moment its all Seagate Barracudas, 1x 80GB IDE, 1x 250GB SATA, 1x 300GB SATA. It's quite surprising really, the 80gig is around 5 years old and has received heavy use for all of that time with multiple formats/partitioning etc. I've always bought Seagate because thats what has been reliable for me, I did have an 80gb IDE Western Digital drive for a while with no problems though.

If it's bricked and not covered by any store guarantee or anything then you don't have much to lose so you might aswell try soldering on a serial cable, can't brick it too much more... :P Or find a bored techie and insist he debricks it for you.

Obviously he *CAN* threaten you if you have to beg others to help you. Give him what he deserves? Sure, let me go bake him a cake...

As far as public trackers go mininova(mininova.org) is what I normally use. Occasionaly I'll check out TorrentSpy or The Pirate Bay.

Well unless your ISP has some sort of policy on torrents/p2p then I imagine that it would be illegal for them to snoop and find out what your doing. I would definately read your terms of use very carefully. I would you have a good case against them depending on their policy. Personally I think they just saw you using torrents from a well known tracker and the red flag went up. However you also mention something about the MPAA etc, it could be that your ISP has recieved an email from them concerning you in general or just a general threatening letter to your ISP. Usually you would be getting sued by now if it was targetting at you specifically. But alot of ISPs have been intimidated into a legal grey area when it comes to disconnecting users for pirating. As for stopping them from detecting you, it really depends on how exactly they are detecting you in the first place. Only thing I can think of right now is to use non-standard ports or even randomise the ports you use, most torrent clients have a few options for these sorts of things.

WTF? You buy other people's boots? :shock: If your serious then I feel I should enlighten you. "Boot" is the British English term commonly used to describe the rear luggage compartment of a vehicle. It's the equivalent of the word "trunk", well actually I think trunk is both a British and American English word just it's not used much outside the US? Anyway a boot sale is where everyone turns up somewhere(often a vacant parking lot) and sells old junk out of their boot, these "meetings" can vary greatly in size, formality and the type of goods/crap on sale. But yeah they are a goldmine for alot of hitech equipment as the sellers often don't have a clue what they're selling.

Ever consider that a friendly admin removed them for you? 49,000 emails aren't going to go unnoticed by any competent college admin.

I'm not a Thunderbird user so I don't know how it stores it's settings etc. But wouldn't having separate user accounts in windows be a better option? That way you can keep all of your private stuff separate from the rest of your family.

I don't have a problem with computer illiterate people who don't have a clue about computer security, but only on the condition that they are willing to learn how to secure their computer. It's really not that hard for the average joe to do. Just that alot of people refuse to learn new things, or they treat their computer/internet access the same as a phone or TV, if it's broken they get a new one or get a "professional" to fix it. Still the biggest problem with computer security is nothing new to this world, human stupidity and ignorance, things we've been plagued with since the start of mankind.

Yeah its hard to gauge what to suggest, everyone will be starting at different levels of expertise and wanting to focus on different areas. Perhaps once we gather a bit more content we should shift this to the Hak.5 Wiki?

http://www.irongeek.com/ - Excellent tutorials/information/articles. http://www.antionline.com/ - Tutorials, tools and forums full of helpful people. http://www.governmentsecurity.org has quite alot of resources including good forums and papers but registration is closed to the public there again, however one of it's sister sites http://www.datastronghold.com/ has alot of information and is a gateway to membership at governmentsecurity.org if you write your own article. http://www.l0t3k.org/security/ - an archive of articles and tools, mostly aimed at someone using *nix though. Not updated as much as it used to be. http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.mspx - The official place to find out about security in Microsoft products. http://www.binrev.com/ - Produce a good IPTV show and also have forums that are usually helpful.

My only other idea is to try the method XP Home users have to use to get debug privileges on their account(XPHome does not have secpol, gpedit etc): Get the Windows Resource Kit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en The particular tool we're interested in is Ntrights.exe, and then use a command like: ntrights +r SeDebugPrivilege +u barrytone (replace "barrytone" with whatever your user account is named) You'll have to reboot for this to take effect, I don't know if this will be any different to simply changing the Group Policy settings like you have been.

This might be a stupid question, but are you sure you have cain and abel using the right network interface? Go into the configure menu and check that it is indeed configured to use your wireless adaptor.

Very strange, what if you add a group instead of a user to the Debug Programs policy does it stay there then? Can any users sucessfully use programs that require debugger priviledges, such as the built-in Administrator account?

Yeah it's back up now, only 3 of us there though...

I think the two word trends aren't too reliable, if you look up just "frog" or "dwarf": http://google.com/trends?q=frog&ctab=1...ll&date=all http://google.com/trends?q=dwarf&ctab=...ll&date=all You can see NZ is pretty high up the list for both of them and that probably influences the rankings. Either that or this country has become overun with dwarf and frog sex fanatics behind my back... although NZ doesn't even feature on the top 10 for "sex": http://google.com/trends?q=sex&ctab=1&...ll&date=all but we are number 2 for "porn": http://google.com/trends?q=porn&ctab=1...ll&date=all and number 3 for "pron" http://google.com/trends?q=pron&ctab=1...ll&date=all and number 6 for "pr0n" http://google.com/trends?q=pr0n&ctab=1...ll&date=all Also of interest is if you look at the cities for "frog sex" and "dwarf sex": http://google.com/trends?q=frog+sex&ct...ll&date=all http://google.com/trends?q=dwarf+sex&c...ll&date=all You'll see that there isn't a New Zealand city in the top10.

We're also number one for "dwarf sex"... Also it appears Norway is the most 1337 country out there: http://google.com/trends?q=1337&ctab=1...ll&date=all

Yes I would imagine this would be the problem, hotmail's SMTP server isn't going to allow you to send email to any non @hotmail.com addresses.

Yeah that would definately open up an easy way of injecting code/modifying the save games. But with internet/wifi/card reader etc theres already going to a whole lot of possible ways of hacking the PS3. Unlike the PS2 where it is rather complex and often costly.

*quickly replies with all his bank details to obviously honourable Nigerian Doctor* Theres just so many things wrong with that story it's not funny, normally it's atleast plausible. Secret soviet military space stations? They had enough problems keeping MIR up there, no way they could have supported another space station, let alone a military one that no one else knows about. If this space station is so secret then surely Abacha Tunde wouldn't be permitted to tell his cousin about it? Shouldn't their be a squad of Russian Commandos on thier way to silence this doctor for emailing you this information? In fact this Doctor has emailed this highly sensitive information to thousands of people over the last 2 years, how can he still be alive? Why hasn't the secret space station been discovered by the American Government, they get spam too... His place taken up by reserve cargo? Well considering the Russians went to all the trouble of finding someone in Nigeria and training them secretly and then secretly sending them to space, wouldn't that suggest Abacha Tunde is some sort of ultimate super special astronaut that's more important than your average Cosmonaut or "cargo". Why would the Russians waste valuable time and money sending him supply flights? Why can't he just come back on one of these supply flights? Why haven't the Americans who definately must know about his secret space station gone and rescued him? Perhaps it could have something to with the fact he's been there for 14 years... I'm not an expert on living in space but I'm sure after that amount of time it would be near impossible for him to survive coming back to earth. Unless the super secret space station has artificial gravity? So the Russian's have stranded him up there for 14 years, they keep feeding him but refuse to bring him home. Yes they also keep paying him insane amounts of money... Are they scared he might somehow get in contact with a lawyer and sue for pay for a secret job from a government that no longer exists? Why don't the Russian's just ask him if he's willing to use his wages to pay for a return trip? I'm sure he could send back a cheque on the next supply flight? Why is money from a secret job being put into a trust anyway? Behind schedule? Why wait 14 years to try and arrange this? Did you just forget about your long lost Nigerian cousin who is just up there floating on a super secret Soviet military space station? What kind of human being could do that? Why don't I just take all of your money and not send you back a cent? It's not like you or your cousin can do much about it.

Every single forum out there that even remotely deals with computer security related issues has a constant stream of the stereotypical "wanting to hack *webmail provider*" type people. Even on forums where such people are instantly banned they still post. They're like Skynet, you can't stop it even with the help of Arnie and a large cache of weapons.