moonlit

Slight change in priorities. First drink, then food. Plus, food will probably be really cheap by comparison. That's great and all, but getting to this thing is kind of a priority ;) Drink is going to be a key resource though :D

I think Ian would be great for this, he organises in his sleep from what I can tell, it'd be great to have him on board. I'm gonna lay down a vote for "the more the merrier", it's a(n unofficial) Hak.5 even, and it still can (and will) be if there's others there, we can still meet each other, and do the stuff we were gonna do anyway, but with even more people. From what I can tell it's gonna be fairly "anything goes" anyway, so if we did split off in to groups to go do whatever then we'd just have more people do go with. I don't think involving other groups would negatively affect this at all, I'm up for it! Oh yeah, on the subject of hostels I'd agree this is gonna be a bunch of broke hackers for the most part, so cheap is most definitely good. I reckon the bulk of the cash is gonna be travel really, and then food and drink. My edit button's gonna wear out soon... Obviously the focus is this particular meetup and well see soon enough how well it's gonna work out, but I think a regular thing would be great, I think the EU community (and I'm biased, but Brit community) needs a few more events, and adding another one to the list would be awesome.

I'M GOING TO KILL SOMEONE IF ANYONE ELSE OFFERS LINUX AS A SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM! Seriously... people use Windows for a reason, or collection of reasons, and if they have reasons to use Windows then that's obviously what they're going to use. Linux isn't a fix to the problem, it's like saying "meh, my Ford needs a service" "waaaah, get a Honda!!!!!!". It's NOT a viable answer! Fuck sake!

...what?

Looks like it's Windows being odd, but what VaKo said... ...just to make sure though, check none of those drives have autorun.inf files in the root of them pointing to an icon that doesn't exist.

What is this, primary school? Play nice, damnit.

He was cool though... ...wonder if anyone had the hots for Soo...

Inspired by http://www.theregister.com/2007/05/31/security_analogies/, I figured it'd be nice to have a thread of analogies for when you need to explain something security or computing related to those who think the last half an hour of stuff you said was in another language... Post away!

Alternatively, buy this: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/product...p;c=us&l=en. That's basically what I just described, only pre-assembled, guarenteed and supplied by Dell. Runs on ~12v (give or take a volt or two) so it only needs 1 battery, too. Maybe build a small enclusure with a power strip and 2 battery chargers, 2 batteries and a cigarette lighter socket in it, that was you don't even have to modify the adapter. Then you'll have a multi purpose very heavy duty 12/24v power supply (maybe add a switch?) for various things, laptop, phone(s), lights, fans, a whole range of mobile devices, including *anything* that works in a car or a truck. Could be an ideal solution for a place where the electricity goes off regularly. Perhaps add an inverter anyway to run stuff that can't be run from 12/24v? Could add up in price to have 2 or more batteries, and an inverter, and chargers and everything else but it could be a very elegant, very functional solution to the problem. As for your question though, the Dell part linked above and one single car battery would do the trick. Remember though that car batteries don't like being drained, and doing so may severely cripple or kill the battery. Make sure you charge it well when it's not in use, and don't completely drain the battery while you're using it.

Resistors would be a really wasteful way of doing this, and an inverter (the 12v -> full wall voltage thing) isn't much better. A 24v battery, or 2x12v car batteries will work, but you'll wanna build a small voltage regulation circuit. I don't know much about them, nor have I made one, but I know that's basically the best way to do it in terms of efficiency and run time. If that fails, an inverter is the basic plug and play option, but it will sap your battery dry long before a voltage regulator connected directly to the laptop would.

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Reinstall Windows, pretty much guarenteed to fix it.

It's been said, but TheBroken came first by a long way. Hak5's sketch was a parody of that, hence the name, the music and the whole thing being uncannily like the intro to thebroken.

A Mac (at least an x86 Mac, which is what BT would run on) *is* a PC.

Make sure your ports are forwarded. As for VLC, http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/

If you really would prefer to stream than share the files to play locally, try VLC, it can stream audio and video over a network.

I wouldn't bother, they do very little in terms of improving anything. As mentioned they do remove keys that do nothing or are no longer used but the improvements will be less than neglegable. A couple of KB freed space and no noticable speed increase. If you really want to clean it up, reinstall Windows. If you have no reason to rifle through the registry and it's not causing any problems I would just leave it.

They should've wiped it before selling it... ...but yeah, just reinstall the OS.

Sounds like a refresh rate/resolution problem. Google tells me this monitor is a 14" and a lot of 14" CRTs can't cope with >70Hz or>800x600. Some even less, but you say SVGA so I'm guessing 800x6000 compatible. Try screwing with your xorg.conf (or equivelant).

No reason to lock the thread (and that's coming from trigger-happy Moonlit), stays open, link remains.

Second opinion? Fake.

Depending on the scenario you could use nLite to create a custom, and to some extent, preconfigured Windows installation to pop in the drive and walk away from... on the downside, this does require reinstalling.

...or anywhere around Hak5? uStream gets another vote from me.

Now now, no need to make this personal... Calm... breathe... *in...out*... take a chilled one from the fridge, walk away from the thread. :)