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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/20/anti_sec_spoof/ Prank, so says El Reg.

Also, it's not a "him" or "her", it's thousands of compromised machines aiming at no-one in particular, professional spammers who just pebbledash any forum their bots can find. Bots have been able to register their own accounts for years, they appear just like any regular user (except the viagra posts, random/badly generated names and other little things you get to recognise). Still, this thread's a year old and I don't think we've had much of a problem lately.

64bit isn't really necessary, 32bit works just fine and it's compatible with pretty much everything. As for Gnome, well, personally I would say that BT is what it is, I don't like KDE but if I'm using BT then it doesn't get in my way. It comes as a package and frankly since BT isn't meant to be a desktop distro anyway I see little need for Gnome (or any other major changes). If you want it that bad, you could work Gnome in there yourself, or even better, just install your own distro however you like it and add in the parts of BT you need, most of it is available as standalone apps anyway.

The hardware doesn't necessarily need any special write-protection, the OS can do that, for example you could have a Linux distro which mounts the drive only to image it using dd or similar.

Mount it, buy a DVB-S satellite card or a Dreambox or something, scan for cool crap. There's tons of stuff falling from them there satellites.

SP2+ requires you to have an admin account to begin with, thus negating the entire point. You can do it with an admin account but not with a fully patched machine and a limited account.

It got patched in XP SP2. Very old trick, probably covered elsewhere on the forum somewhere, I forget.

Reverse SSH

This Alfa is better than the old b/g one. Costs a little more, but has a/n capability too.

Welcome, enjoy your stay. Thanks to nVidia, then, that your super awesome graphics card work in Linux at all. I really do dislike this "waaah, my machine is unclean, I needs teh source!" attitude. nVidia could just tell the Linux community to get bent but it didn't, it provided a working, useful driver and for that I believe Linux users should be thankful. When's the last time you heard a Windows user say "hey, that's not good enough, nVidia, I want your source code!"? Right, never. You're right, you are unusual in that sense. Most people don't want to have to learn how to do that stuff, or even do it if they do know how. I'm sure I could learn to do it myself but I refuse to in principle, it's just too much time and effort for something that, on any other OS, I don't have to do. Still, there's the binary option, and whenever I use Linux I appreciate that. I agree that dual-booting when one OS does everything is a bit pointless, why would you even install the second OS if it just duplicates functionality, uses valuable disk space, and makes you reboot when you want to do something it can't do? Virtual machines, on the other hand, are just dandy. When I get sick of them, I just kill the window, it's gone, I have my regular OS right there underneath. Wonderful. I also agree that Linux is a "RPITA" to set up. Actually, that's not entirely true. It depends on what hardware you have and how determined you are to sabotage yourself with specific requirements. In a VM, I can set up Ubuntu in minutes (excluding install, most of which it does itself anyway)... yet if I decide I want to set up Gentoo on my desktop with all kinds of weird and wonderful hardware, it probably won't be so easy. I'll take the Ubuntu install with the standard hardware, thanks. As for customisable, yes, it is more customisable than Windows but that doesn't necessarily mean it's *easily* customisable. For example, I took at look at changing the usplash graphic on Ubuntu 8.10 earlier, just because I had a VM which wasn't really doing anything and I thought it might be neat to install XBMC on it and have it boot with no sign that it was even Ubuntu. Great, I thought, now let's take a look and see what's involved... I should not have to compile *anything* to change a boot screen. I may have had to compile apps to create and/or install the bootscreen and I would've definitely had to compile the bootscreen itself. This is customisation, sure, but it definitely isn't fun. Sure, single out one technology (ActiveX) from one product (Internet Explorer) which was created years ago, which few people seem to even use any more, which can be turned off, which doesn't even run in alternative browsers and which might've actually been useful had it not been for a few oversights in the way of security. I'd say that's a pretty weak example. You can get OSX for generic hardware, check out the OSX86 project(s) and various distros based on the research within it. Against the EULA, probably, and possibly against the law in your region, but it works. Sometimes.

Alfa AWUS050NH. Conversation over.

Well, you could start by not admitting that in a public forum. Especially this one.

*sigh* I wasn't going to say anything, but I have to say I took Snubs' comment as a little bit petty too. If it wasn't intended as petty then it was certainly pointless and unhelpful.

No can do without a proxy, you can spoof IP addresses but by doing that you remove any ability to communicate: you send a request to the server, the server sends the response to the IP you're spoofing, and your machine sees no reply. That's why you need the proxy, so all requests and responses are actually sent via that 3rd machine.

Skype.

Apparently not. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that your primary language is not English but I will say that this is an English-speaking forum and you're making fuck all sense, so get a better translator.

Actually I think the BattleBots/Robot Wars thing was one of the best episodes they ever did, it had zero overlap with Hak5 or Tekzilla, it was pure hardware (which is what I feel Systm was for), not covered elsewhere and something I believe is quite popular in the hardware crowd. It gave a great intro to building such a machine and was very interesting to someone who followed those shows but hadn't really seen a bot in person, or had no idea how to build one or what's required. It also had the added bonus of being out of the studio and it had someone experienced in that particular area which was nice, Systm occasionally had a habit of being a bit weak (or downright wrong) on the technical details. I'm tempted to keep writing here, I know there's more I want to say but I can't think straight right now, so I'll leave it there. To sum up though, I think that episode defined what I saw Systm as and I think it was a near-perfect episode.

BT will happily use a wifi adapter as long as it's USB and you tell VMWare to use the adapter, works just like native if you have it set up correctly. It won't work if you have a card style adapter (PCI/PCIe, and their mobile variants) with VMWare. That said, PCI cards may work in KVM/xen because they support PCI passthrough, YMMV and it's probably more work than it's worth considering you can just natively boot a CD without modifying your current OS, but it might be fun to play with.

Yup, absolutely not real, as Seshan said everything about that URL is sketchy, the lack of an official Steam domain, the .tk TLD, the message itself isn't technically sound either. I have to agree with Sparda though, they've managed to keep it relatively clean for an awfully long time, and kudos to them for that.

I'd say I know a decent amount about computing having used an awful lot of platforms with different user interfaces both graphical and text and Linux still gives me shit. I want it to work, I really really do, and I have done since I found it some years ago, it has advantages (it's free, it's open source, it's portable platform-wise, it boot from USB without complaining and so on) but it still has massive usability issues. That said, it does well as an embedded OS, if I don't know it's Linux then it's doing its job, if it's a phone OS then it should behave like a phone, if it's a DVR OS then it needs to behave like a DVR, and often we've seen it as being very capable of that, even the Kindle is based on it. Do you count those as applications where those who know little to nothing about computers should never use it? I bitch about Linux an awful lot, but I do so because it leaves me no choice. Every few months, some new version or distro comes out and it claims to be the second coming on a polycarb disc, and for 5 minutes it is, until I actually try to do anything with it. Again though, I'm not an anti-Linux fanboy, I just want to spend my time using my computer instead of configuring and fixing it. Somewhat back on topic though, this is part of Linux' problem in my mind: half the fans want the good ol' code 'n' CLI from back in the 80s where no-one with less than 15 years of computing experience should use it and the other half want it to be the death of Windows so their 95 year old grandmother can use it. Maybe there's room for both, but if people worked together then maybe Linux would have less issues for both crowds. Will it happen? No, not with thousands of distros with thousands of developers with their own agendas pulling in thousands of different directions. No such thing as too much choice? I disagree. This post wasn't nearly as structured as I originally intended it to be, but I'm hoping you might be able to pick out the relevant points.

At the end of 108 they do say it'll be the last show in that format and they'll be back on Tekzilla at a later date.

http://revision3.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28800 So Systm's finally dead, through a process of becoming ever more software-oriented it was dying at the roots and now it's gone. Not so bad in itself, perhaps, if it never had the time or money available to it to really keep it a strong hardware show, but the worst part is that it'll be turned into a short segment which will be a part of Tekzilla. Kind of ironic, really: "It's kind of fitting. Kevin Rose, Dan Huard and David Prager launched Systm because they were frustrated with the show they were currently working on. They wanted a place to go deep on tech without having to cram a six hour project into a 3 minute TV segment." -Patrick Norton Sigh. Oh well, thanks for the older episodes, here's hoping this doesn't shit on the Systm name we all used to know and love.

Dahn sahf, so they say, and it's really difficult to type that with an accent... ...but somewhere around the Bournemouth area, give or take a few miles. It wouldn't be impossible for me to make it, but money's a bit shit atm, and weighing up the options I was falling more towards not going. I would like to attend, as long as there'll be more than like... 2 people going, and if I had to find a way then I probably could work something out. I figured it was probably best to let people know the likelihood of me not being there was very high, rather than continuing to say that I would be there. I'll keep you updated if the chance increases at all, but it's getting a little close now, and train fares will start to ramp up as we get closer and advance fares get rarer.

Should be fine, but watch for shorts, very nasty when data's involved. The other downside is that too much splicing may result in too much current being drawn on a single wire and it may shut down/damage the PSU or potentially even catch fire, though as long as you keep it reasonable then you're probably fine,