moonlit

That could be debateable, many Core2-based chips are very, very good overclockers, even the budget ones, and on stock air too. Not that I run overclocked day to day, but during testing my E2180 ran 1GHz above its 2GHz rating without a problem, with the stock cooler.

http://www.gotoassist.com/hak5 You typo'd, there's no C in Hak.

I would recommend still having a main OS for using heavy applications or games, but you can easily create some form of selection menu when you boot into your chosen main OS to give you a choice of OSs to boot next (including an option to quit and use the main OS). For example, with VirtualBox, you can run regular or headless VMs via the command line, so you could either have it boot full screen or RDP into it. If you have a server, you can use VirtualBox's RDP server to make your other machines thin clients of sorts, which would connect to the server's headless VMs via RDP. A handy feature of VBox's RDP is that it will, if your client is configured for it, change the VM's resolution to match the thin client's. For example, if I RDP into a headless Ubuntu VM with my phone, it will change the resolution to 320x240 and fit it onto my phone's LCD without scaling or scrolling, it looks and feels nearly native.

I should clarify my above post, I don't necessarily think that it was a bad decision, but I do think that all sides of the equasion were perhaps misunderstood at various points in the numerous discussions and debates in a vicous circle of nagative feedback and some of those involved may have been painted in a light which they might not have deserved. Irrelevant now, perhaps, but everything in this chapter happened for a reason, much as it has in previous chapters, and I think certain motives were misread or misinterpreted due to preconceptions, misconceptions and miscommunication. I do think the DNS alteration should've been handled better, but it's done now, MintIRC and Hak5 have officially parted ways, and I think it's probably for the best, no more of the aforementioned discussions or debates to be misunderstood or irritated by, and everyone knows where they stand. Still, I hope Hak5 and Zone9 have a fruitful and productive two-way relationship and the respective communities accept each other with open arms. I know Zone9 certainly has a different way of working, perhaps for the best, but I do hope that concerns previously noted will still be taken into account as they were put across for the benefit of the community, not for those who ran it.

Irrelevant as this might seem, allow me to make a point: I love my phone as a PDA but the phone part sucks, sometimes I complain. I love energy drinks, they're expensive, sometimes I complain. Chicks are nice to look at, sometimes they have flaws, I complain. Booze is great, sometimes I get hangovers, I complain. I love my eeepc, sometimes I wish it was a better model, sometimes I complain. I love music, sometimes the lyrics spoil a great tune, sometimes I complain. Linux is free, open source, highly portable, sometimes it just doesn't work, sometimes I complain. Alright, so sometimes it's easy to sound more pissed off online because context and tone are sometimes lost, and sometimes you have to tolerate and express your dislike for the bad bits to appreciate and enjoy the good bits. Does that mean I wish my phone, my energy drink, women, booze, Asus laptops, music and Linux never existed and should be slaughtered mercilessly? Absolutely not. Nothing, and I mean nothing, is perfect. People are not perfect, media is never perfect, and communities are certainly never perfect. Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad, regardless of which side of the coin you're on, and sometimes that's just life. Oh yeah, http://hak5.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=14294 http://hak5.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=14290

Personally I prefer ImgBurn (free) or Windows 7's built in ISO burner for ISOs, but if that software's capable then all is well. You definitely burned the ISO as an ISO and not just copied the ISO to a data disc?

Being an Orange customer, I'm hoping to (eventually, if/when this all happens) reap the benefits of improved coverage - I can get T-Mobile HSDPA (actually, Virgin HSDPA, runs on T-Mobile) in my house but not Orange HSDPA, it's just a shame I'm not actually on T-Mobile (or Virgin) with a phone I use day to day... Edit: As for names, I'd like to see a revival of One2One somehow.

Thought I might add some nice facts about UK mobile networks: Orange: France Telecom (French) Founded by Hutchison Telecom (Chinese, division of Hutchison Whampoa), sold to Mannesmann AG (German), Mannesmann AG acquired by Vodafone and Orange was sold to France Telecom due to the ownership of two mobile network licences. T-Mobile: Deutsche Telekom (German) (Supports Virgin Mobile) Previously Mercury One2One, One2One, and founded by Mercury Communications (British). Later owned by Cable and Wireless (British) and MediaOne Group (American, previously US West Media Group). Purchased by Deutsche Telekom and rebranded T-Mobile. First 1800MHz GSM network. Three: Hutchison 3G (Chinese, division of Hutchison Whampoa) UTMS network only, 2G provided by roaming agreements. Vodafone: Vodafone (British) Owned by Racal Strategic Radio Ltd (British, division of Racal Electronics PLC), Millicom (Luxembourg) and Hambros Technology Trust (British). Minority shareholders later bought out resulting in total ownership by Racal. Subsequently demerged, rebranded Vodafone Group. Purchased many companies, part owns Verizon Wireless (American) with Bell Atlantic Corp (American). O2: Telefonica (Spanish) (Supports Tesco Mobile) Originally BT Cellnet, Cellnet, part owned by both British Telecom (British) and Securicor (British, now known as G4S, previously known as Group4Securicor). Demerged to become O2 UK under mmO2 (British, later O2 PLC) and purchased by Telefonica.

...M-E-R-G-I-N-G. So yeah, T-Mobile UK has after much speculation decided they'd like to merge with Orange. I don't really know what to say on the matter, but I think it's sufficiently interesting to discuss. With that said, what do you Brits imagine will happen? Will they pick a single name? What will it be? Is anyone here on either of those networks and what will it do to your choice of network in future? Discuss! Sources: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/08/orange_t_mobile/ http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/08/t-mobil...o-longer-clash/ Press Release: http://newsroom.orange.co.uk/2009/09/08/de...obile-champion/ Edit: I should point out that Three UK's 2G calling runs on Orange and Virgin Mobile runs entirely on T-Mobile's network. Should be interesting. Edit2: More info: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/08/t_orange/

I haven't looked into it but I've often heard that even cheap phones are location-aware, so I don't think it's necessarily impossible. I considered a project involving a cheap phone and an external (either serial or bluetooth) GPS unit which would act as a tracker, that could be done for very little especially if it was based on a used prepay phone. Ultimately I abandoned it because, well, I don't know Java, so I wouldn't have been able to easily write the necessary application (though I did later write the same thing for Windows and successfully tested SMSing my laptop with an HSDPA modem attached and having it SMS me back with its co-ordinates, which is essentially the same thing).

For a brief moment I considered the possibility of a sticky on this... then I realised the only thing it'd say is "Nuke it." in a single post, so perhaps it's not really such a good idea.

The spell checker isn't always right, though, sometimes it will wrongly guess what you're trying to write and insert the wrong word for you. The region your spell check is set to also makes a difference, a misconfigured spellcheck in the UK might mean you miss a lot of letters or end up with Zs where Zs shouldn't be. As for accusations of cheating, VaKo, I know what that one's like, one of the final straws for me in English class was an accusation of cheating when I wrote a huge essay on the history of Microsoft Windows, apparently I would've had to have been 20-odd to have written it and clearly copied it from a magazine. I promptly exploded, it was the first instance for some considerable time that I'd made that much of an effort in any form of school work and was told it was inadmissable because I clearly wasn't capable of such work. Fucking teachers. Can you tell I hold a grudge? Back to the topic, though, I think it depends on the person. I don't use spell check if I can help it and I generally ignore automatic highlights. I don't actually use Word (or really any other text editor beyond Wordpad) so I don't get all that fun spelling and grammar checking, if I get really stuck I'll google a word (and sticking "define:" before it will give you inspiration for synonyms too). I can see how it might be easy to rely on but I always strive to learn how to spell as many words as I possibly can, and to keep my grammar in check as much as possible (sometimes it's easy to let it slide online). Semi-related, if you want lazy and stupid, just look anywhere online. Contracting of words to single letters, complete disregard for spelling or grammar, general abuse and misuse of the English (and American) language. Sure, language evolves, but I'm not about to adopt "u" and "cuz" into my everyday online lexicon.

Hardly unusual though, when's the last time you got a McDonalds that looked like the menu? Do cosmetic products really make you look like a supermodel or a chiselled superman? Is Lynx (Axe) really going to make you irresistable to every member of the opposite sex? Let's face it, they're never gonna advertise that the pool is too small for a 6 year old to comfortably fit in, or that the slide is barely long enough to reach past the end of your legs. Most people expect ads or box art to glorify the product somewhat. That's not to say it's necessarily acceptable, there's a limit to how different a product can reasonably be from the box are or the posters, but some amount of visual enhacement is to be expected.

I wouldn't worry about RAID if you're using a laptop, but there's no reason you couldn't use the laptop as a NAS. If you use the internal drive and/or external 1.8"/2.5" drives, they'll be slower but you'll use less power (no extra wall warts) and it'll be more compact and if that battery still works, it'll have a battery backup. If you want more speed, you can use a PCMCIA/CardBus (depending on the laptop's age) SATA card.

That was my thought after considering it for a while, you can't give the driver values that the physical hardware can't create, not from the input side of the hardware at least, you could in software, but that's a little useless here. If the driver's written properly, there shouldn't be any data that comes out of the hardware which can't be handled.

The only ways I can think of to exploit analog audio in/out is either by some fluke involving the audio stack and some meticulously crafted sound, or via some app which uses audio input as data (for example an audio editing suite or an app which takes audio data and interprets it as sensor data or perhaps translates it into digital data like data over radio), the latter being the more likely scenario but still extremely difficult if it could be done at all. Of course, I'm no expert and I could be missing something obvious, but it wouldn't be easy any way you slice it.

Absolutely no idea, but try Unetbootin instead, it's specifically designed to cram liveCDs onto USB sticks.

Hah, welcome to Linux. Just so this post has a point, though, an SD card (regardless of capacity or physical size) in a card reader is, as far as the computer's concerned, a USB stick, so it'll behave exactly the same as a flash drive.

The only smartphone I've owned is my current phone, an HTC TyTN II, aka Kaiser, Tilt, Stellar. It runs Windows Mobile 6 (and 6.5, if you check out xda-developers) and a fairly well developed (but not perfect) port of Android. I can't compare this to any other smartphone but battery life is half decent (in the range of days, not hours) if I don't hammer it all day long, it has Office on it and browsing's a breeze with Opera Mobile. It has GPS, 3G, wifi, bluetooth and a full hardware keyboard. Can tether via bluetooth, USB or even wifi (especially helpful is WMWifiRouter, turns your device into a 3G wifi router). Solid construction, despite the sliding screen, and the screen itself is clear, reasonably large (though fairly average for a WM device). Touchscreen works well, but could be a touch more sensitive. Has very little onboard storage but that's pretty much the rule with these older WM phones, not the exception, but it does have an SDHC-capable microSD slot which happily takes 8GB and larger cards. On the downsides, it's quite large and a little heavy, it's an older model which has been superceded. However, that does mean you can pick one up used for a very reasonable price. If you hammer it all day, your battery will be dead in short order, but that's the case with any smartphone. I recommend carrying a spare battery or two if you plan to use heavy GPS and data, especially at the same time, or if you're often travelling, at least a car charger. WM's UI does sort of deserve its criticism but while I agree that it needs work, the OS itself is very powerful and feels quite the opposite to Android on the same device, very raw, ready to be used however you feel like, Android feels a lot more UI-centric and, while I'm sure it's also powerful, feels a little "soft". But yeah, that's kind of why I put this info up originally, so people could get to play with smartphone OSs and see what they preferred - the hardware's a little different, sure, but you can see that in a store on the shelf or online in spec sheets and such.

That works ;)

Report it to IT. If it's infected some/all of the network, they need to know, and they will reimage your laptop.

You gonna expand on that at all?

If you're going to break into a system, where's the challenge in asking someone what the hash is? I won't give the "your own box" speech here, you know the drill, but even if you're recovering your own password there are plenty of methods you can try yourself, why bother asking someone else?

Awesome, very helpful, thanks Moonlit.

What they said, I'm a mediocre coder and, while I have used that to help me learn other things, it's not at all essential. I'd specifically echo what VaKo said, curiosity, a drive to learn and the ability to think outside the box are all important, and much more important than coding. Don't get me wrong, it can be useful, for example it helped me learn somethings about GPS, GSM modems and bluetooth, but I could've learnt most of it with a terminal emulator just fine, I just chose to do it the hard way. Otherwise though, there's not much I've actually used my programming skills (however weak) for which has actually required them.