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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.

Maybe somebody will copy one for ya, but your better off trying to find a torrent maybe of one of the beta's of xp. or now that i think about it just use a copy of '98

i used to have a program for windows 3.11 that would switch the wallpapers, i think i got it off a floppie that i found or something idk it's long long gone by now.

we could use some alternatives, because like they said in the episode if your at school or work and the admin notices that you have been visiting "www.ircatwork.com" it's kinda obvious what your doing. somebody should go register a few good domain names :)

i saw this on digg a few days ago, and i think it's a great idea less moving parts is always a good thing. i was going to get a 4gb flash card with the ide adapter to use with my smoothwall but then gave up the idea because 4gb wasn't enough

almost 89.99 percent of the time (or at least in my experences) i've had to re-install xp after a motherboard upgrade, normally just a blue screen of death and then nothing

yeah we have all seen that one time or another, i like the computer man one better tho

I think that a business like that would be a great idea, and i would for sure love to work there, and about the usb thing you were talking about a lot of novelty devices like that never did very well but i would like to see yours end up like the rubiks cube, except idk what good and mp3 player in my usb hub would do

DSL was my first live linux cd that i ever used i remember freaking out my teachers with it in the 4th grade, but anyway's i've forgotten about it intill now and i just got a brand new 512mb sandisk cruzer so i'm gonna go check out the latest version

Can you stop with the just google it? I've seen you say that about 3 or 4 times in the last 12 hours, quit it, will you? Sure, I say it sometimes, but if that's all you've got to say, maybe you might want to think a bit harder next time you post. i agree and disagree with the whole "just google it" thing, because sometimes you can just google it. but google isn't the end all know all

It's just a matter of preferance, i like the ibm t-40's and the macbook pro's but for a out in the field kinda laptop i would get a thinkpad all of the best lappy's i've owned were thinkpads and anyways they're a lot cheeper than the macbook pro's. but if you want the best of both worlds go with a macbook. and on a side note if you drop ur expensive laptop it will haunt u for the rest of your life, i still wake up in the middle of the night with a cold sweat thinking about my t-40 crashing into the cement