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Hey everybody me and famicoman have been playing around with synchronet and this is what resulted of it..., now remember that this thing is still in early beta so it will need quite a bit of work before it's finished any questions/comments are very welcome, and we could use some board game requests. you can telnet to the BBS at hak5.servebbs.org:2323

I've been messing with the RSS alarm clock from episode 3, and every time i run the batch i get these following error's C:alarm>perl rss2html5.pl http://www.digg.com/rss/index.xml >> alarm.txt Can't locate DateTime/Format/Mail.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl/site/lib /Perl/lib .) at C:/Perl/site/lib/XML/RSS.pm line 6. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/Perl/site/lib/XML/RSS.pm line 6. Compilation failed in require at rss2html5.pl line 16. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at rss2html5.pl line 16. C:alarm> if anybody could help me out it would be awesome, i know almost nothing about perl

yeah, it seems like people either love it or hate it

The other day i was bored surfing around and came across this (http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/CreateCD.htm) and my mind just filled with how many uses this utility could have.The one that i found the most useful is from a backup standpoint, you could use a CD-RW, and a simple batch file to do it. This could be useful in many situations but is almost border-line impractical, i don't know. Got any other uses for this utility?

For my vidcast issue9 we're trying something a littel bit experimental with some colorforms and some voice-overs we think it's pritty damn funny, and i'd love to hear some feedback on it. Watch it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=LxWkznZ-tQs

I was actually able to get vista to run smoothly on a pentium3 @ 733mhz with 384mb of ram. No aero glass or 3d stuff tho i bet i could get it if i had a better vid card other than the 16mb that was in it at the time.

In the summer of 2006 around july i think, i was bored and playing basketball at the park behing my house.And on this one particular day a minivan pulled up and threw a bunch of stuff into the dumpster, at the time i didn't think anything of it intill i glanced over and noticed that he was throwing in a keyboard. I continued to play bb, and waited for the van to leave as soon as it did i ran over to the dumpster and looked inside, and to my suprise there was 2 monitors a keyboard a mouse and one of the p2's that my school has 1,000's of. I quickly jumped into the dumpster grabed the p2 and ran home. When i booted it up it had a clean install of windows 98, it had 256mb of ram, and an 8gb hd. so i wiped the hd installed windows 2000 threw in a 40gb drive and since that day it has been serving music and files to my network, hosting the occasional doom game , ftp, webserver, backup server, F@H, it generated 2 rainbow tables, and it has done other misc stuff all at the same time. The cpu is always running at 100% and it's never been offline for more than 5 min over the past 6 months. i'm also thinking about adding some more hd's to it, because right now there's under 80gb of storege spanned out across the 3 drives and it's supposed to be a file server :( but other than not enough storege the thing's great (and this time it's in the right thread :P)

god dammet you guys are right i did mean to post it as a reply in the old hardware thread /me feels like a dumbass.

In the summer of 2006 around july i think, i was bored and playing basketball at the park behing my house.And on this one particular day a minivan pulled up and threw a bunch of stuff into the dumpster, at the time i didn't think anything of it intill i glanced over and noticed that he was throwing in a keyboard. I continued to play bb, and waited for the van to leave as soon as it did i ran over to the dumpster and looked inside, and to my suprise there was 2 monitors a keyboard a mouse and one of the p2's that my school has 1,000's of. I quickly jumped into the dumpster grabed the p2 and ran home. When i booted it up it had a clean install of windows 98, it had 256mb of ram, and an 8gb hd. so i wiped the hd installed windows 2000 threw in a 40gb drive and since that day it has been serving music and files to my network, hosting the occasional doom game , ftp, webserver, backup server, F@H, it generated 2 rainbow tables, and it has done other misc stuff all at the same time. The cpu is always running at 100% and it's never been offline for more than 5 min over the past 6 months. i'm also thinking about adding some more hd's to it, because right now there's under 80gb of storege spanned out across the 3 drives and it's supposed to be a file server :P

It really surprises me sometimes how much the average user really knows about computers, just yesterday i had to teach everybody in my reading class how to use a thumbdrive and then after that i had to teach them how to access their ftp accounts from home and this one kid was laughing a littel bit every time i said ftp, and later i asked him why and ftp also stands for "FuckThePolice". And when i used to have a tutor i can't tell you how many times i've had to show her how to delete e-mails, one day she was complaing cause she "lost all her work" and i asked her where she saved it and she just looked at me funny.

Most of the hak5 community, includeing myself has at one point in time reused a piece of computer equipment that most would have considered junk, for a practical use. Post some of your ideas of how, or stories/pictures of how you have or are reuseing old hardware

i still have one of those old KVM's well KV and no mouse, the thing sucks it's really worn out and sometimes it takes a turns of the nob to get the screen to come up.

My pile of network stuff Good old server1 (the empty space between it and the wall is where my smoothwall should be, but it turns out computers work better when they don't have bad motherboards.) tags on front of server http://www.flickr.com/photos/7798713@N08/4...in/photostream/ ^link to flickr with picture tags

post some pictures of some servers here, doesn't matter what kind.