comcipher
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I can identify with him. I've talked to people about 20 times more useless when it comes to their PC.
Worth the listen, but i've herd / read a ton of these types of thigns online. One of my all time favorites is the lady who requested a new cupholder because hers broke.
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That's a really vague question. Since you're asking it, i'm going to assume you probably know very little if anything about how networking / computers / security works. I suggest doing some research, get some books ,read articles online, etc.
Your question can be equated to this: I know the person's address, can I break into their house?
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I've never had any of the resource problems mentioned in this thread about Azureus. And the updates are well worth it, especially the last couple versions because they support torrent encryption which will often result in better download speeds. My roommate tried uTorrent for awhile, but then permanently switched to Azureus.
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I built a Myth TV box and run it for about 8 months but I didn’t think much of it, I now just buy Xbox’s which you can get for £70 new or £20 uses and use XBMC on stick Gentoo on them and have everything running of a central server.
Are you just using XBMC to watch video files and play music and the like? MythTV is primarily used as a PVR so you can record and watch TV shows. That's my primary use for it, but I also use it to play video files and do stuff like check the weather or my Netflix queue.
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What kind of hardware do you have that myth can't work with? It works quite well with virtually everything out there right now, I haven't heard of alot of problems after the last updates.
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That little bit about the technology behind the hidden cameras is pretty interesting. One of the IPTV shows should try and get a tour of a set like that, like Systm, FTS, or (of course) Hak5.
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You may want to check out Security Now. They've been talking about all kinds of things relating to home network security for months and months, tons of episodes to listen to, their on #40 right now. They have discussed encryption, wireless standards, firewalls, routers, VPNs, etc. Very good, fairly in-depth.
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The lock mechanisim itself could be a little servo motor with a piston attached to push the lock over to lock or unlock it. Then you would have to attach some electronics to it to tell it when / which way to turn the lock, and some method to activate that via RFID or cell phone. I don't know alot about RFID, but a self contained little unit that sticks on the back of your door would be pretty sweet to have.
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It would be fun to do a little segment on running linux on the Linksys WRT54G (pretty sure that's the right model, the really common 802.11g router ). Or, how to build a smoothwall router. I had one for awhile but after a couple moves I stoped using it. Maybe i'll re-build it sometime.
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I wanted to play with photoshop, and photoshoping a hott girl is a lot less boring then doing something inanimate like a random pic or a wall. Makes for good eye candy. BTW, it's Lexa Doig from Andromeda / Stargate SG-1 / some other random movies.
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No, MythTV wasn't bought out by anyone, nor will it ever be. It's a wonderful open source media center program, I built mine about a year ago and can hardly live without it. Hell, I watch Hak5 on it. Download on the PC, then transfer it over to Myth (or stream it) and watch it on a nice TV.
If you're interested in building your own, I really recommend going over to www.mysettopbox.tv and checking out Knoppmyth. Fantastic installer program that takes all the guesswork out of configuring your own system and offers plenty of configurability. Now that I look, they've come out with a new version within the last couple days... time to upgrade perhaps....
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Nice desktop comcipher - let me have it. 8)
Here's the link.... recently got bored and started playing with photoshop to make them:
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In that case yes, MythTV. Fantastic media center, and free ;)
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What do you mean by "media center" ? Like a full home theater setup, or a MythTV / TiVo?
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This was bound to happen eventually, just a matter of time. Still a fantastic service.
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If only I wasn't a complete n3wb to CS:S...... Let's play some BF2 ;)
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Keep in mind this doesn't give you a Skype in number, people can't call you (unless they are doing it through Skype). This only gives you the ability to make outgoing calls, so I doubt people will end up paying for it because they are attached to a particular number.
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Skype ( www.skype.com ) is offering free Skype out calls to landline and mobile phones in the US and Canada. Just download the Skype client, create a free account, then start calling! This offer is through the end of the year, at which point they'll decide what they want to do.
http://share.skype.com/sites/en/2006/05/fr...ndlines_an.html
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That's a tough thing to describe.... here's my stab at it:
Technolust (adj.) - The complete mental and physical atraction to Technology. See modding, hacking
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Hahahahahah!!!! I heard about this on diggnation awhile back but never saw the website. Funny shit.
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Just out of curiosity were you forced to remove your shoes going through the metal detector? I'm so sick of all the airport security... funny thing is officials were still able to sneak the same amount of weapons onto planes as they were before the crazy security beef up.
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STARCRAFT
Hacking: Where to begin
in Security
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For all the people who are new at this whole “computer†thing and don’t really understand what hacking is all about and where to begin, I offer up these links to some great places to start learning.
Please contribute to this thread and I will keep it up to date. Probably should be made sticky.
News:
www.digg.com
www.slashdot.org
Presentations:
http://www.lessig.org/freeculture/free.html <-- A speech given talking all about the problems facing culture when dealing with copyright and other digital laws.
Podcasts:
http://www.grc.com/SecurityNow.htm <-- This is fantastic for people who are new to the field. If you have the time or motivation, go back and listen to them from day 1, they assume you know very little if anything and hit on all of the major topics in the security field. Fantastic show.
IPTV Shows:
http://www.binrev.com/ <-- Produce a good IPTV show and also have forums that are usually helpful.
http://www.hak5.org <--- Duh....
Tutorial sites:
http://www.remote-exploit.org <-- Pretty good resources, some very nice video tutorials on various exploits. Defiantly check out the tutorial section.
http://www.irongeek.com/ <-- Excellent tutorials/information/articles.
http://www.antionline.com/ <-- Tutorials, tools and forums full of helpful people.
Programming Related:
Teach Yourself C in 21 Days: http://neonatus.net/C/index.html
Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days: http://cma.zdnet.com/book/c++/
The Art of Assembly Language Programming: http://maven.smith.edu/~thiebaut/ArtOfAssembly/artofasm.html
Microsoft Developers Network: http://msdn.microsoft.com
----Web Programming:
HTML: http://www.w3schools.com
PHP: http://www.php.net
ASP.NET: http://www.asp.net/Default.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=1
SQL: http://www.mysql.com
Perl: http://www.perl.com/
Python: http://www.python.org
Security Related:
SecurityFocus: http://www.securityfocus.com/
Milw0rm: http://www.milw0rm.com
SecurityForest: http://securityforest.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page