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    *nix

    in Everything Else

    Posted

    I use gentoo on a 20gb paritition for my laptop. It's a great linux distro and with the release 2006.0 you have an easier install so I suggest you give it a shot, if not I another linux distro that I enjoy is suse for usability and the packages available.

    Listen To This Mother Truckers

    in Everything Else

    Posted

    Got it today aswell. Let's for the time being just say they still sound like plain old Tool.

    Yes, maynard went back to his old voice like in the first 2 Tool CD"s and can't help but thank him for it.. not that the others sound bad but they have never changed there style dramatically... If it's true that this isn't the new album then that would be sweet.. BTW "The Pot" has an amazing bass riff.

    Why I left.. Part 2.

    in Everything Else

    Posted

    I thought my explanation was pretty detailed without giving the word for word details, some things are best kept unsaid and thats the way it should be. I'm not sure what else there is to say... it seems everyone has an understanding as to why we decided to split.

    Why I left.. Part 2.

    in Everything Else

    Posted

    Well since Harrison took the time to clearly entail detail into his reasoning for departing from Hak.5 I guess my obligation is to do the same, so here we go:

    Harrison brought up many points that relate to my reasonings as well, Including the tremendous work load on the other side of life. With interviews and side jobs in the current wave of work, it's been hard to provide dedicated, motivated and a large amount of time to Hak.5. Not that importance of it is low or insignifcant, but bills tend to take precedence over mostly everything in a our live's and no one can really deny that. Hak.5 was a venture that was never expected and has treated me very well in the most manner in terms of networking, fun, education and just good ol' fashion hacking. Drinking till 4:00 AM and coding is a lot of fun and at some point in time things just get in the way and the past few months they just have.

    Along with what Harrison said, Darren and Wess have put a tremendous amount of time, money and hardwork into something that started small and grew incredibly fast. They have never been looked at as falling short and praises to them is always needed from everyone including myself, harrison and the viewers. If it wasn't for those 2 guys, there wouldn't be Hak.5. On the other hand one of many reasons I did leave was the lack of acknowledgement on the other end. There were a lot of feet in the pool and only a few got wet, unfortunetly it did upset me in many ways the lack of acknowledgement that some people were just not getting from the shows perspective from the current members.

    Which brings me to another point, one thing to understand is when building a project relationships as friendships must stay that way, when we tried to approach a business model there was a lot of steril feelings felt through out the group. Trust is one of the major if not the most important part of a relationship , when that is lost... all is lost. Myself, I have lost trust and diginity in members of the Hak.5 crew and felt that it was my time to leave. I look down upon no one and know that the show must go on!! One of my personal issue's is not beating around the bush. If I feel something, I say something and at times... well it's not accepted and your thoughts and feelings are considered void. Over time that grew and it came to a point as if what I said went in one ear and out the other.. so with that said you can see that my feelings and reasons for leaving the show are much different then Harrisons.

    This sorta approaches the more detailed reasoning and hope that I can make this as clear and professional as possible, without sounding like a prick, jerk, loser or what ever, so here we go. I am no longer a member of Hak.5 and unlike Harrison I will not possibly be back on the show. My appologies goes to all that care and I wish the situation could be different, however the way I was raised and grew up focused around trust and honesty from those considered close to you. The viewer's, the people reading this right now.. my thanks goes to you all for enjoying any of the small work I put into the show and love every IM and email I get referring to the show or code or whatever. What a dedicated fan base you truly our sticking by Hak.5 's side no matter what, dealing with the bull shit from the digg trolls to Rev 3 Fanboys that hated us cause we weren't Rev 3. You are the ones that made Hak.5 what it is and if you just don't like what your seeing say something about it! That's what the forums are for.

    Now back to the point of reasoning, business decision's were made without the consent of the entire Hak.5 crew. The conversation has come up many times between us and the final straw was pulled and I left. I can not work with a group of people that I am suppose to trust and depend on when I feel that they have went behind my back or made decision's they have no right to make FROM MY PERSPECTIVE. In no way am I pointing the finger cause at times we are all wrong, we all do stupid things and make unresponsible decisions. However, at the current time.. well it was the final battle for me.

    As far as the advertising and money thing goes, like Harrison said; this show cannot continue with out it. It takes a lot of money and time to build something like Hak.5, though it may seem small it really is not. I encourage donations or something to keep it going, or perhaps sucking up any advertising they have to do in order to keep it running. If not, well there won't be a show.

    Harrison brought the funniest but the most honest point to myself as well, I don't want to be a star. I joined Hak.5 for fun, enjoyment, education and the joy of knowing that atleast one person is learning code and we have one more developer out there. When we took the trip to toronto, I felt some of the heads blew up in the crew and I just wanted to be home. Even though I had a shit load of fun, I didn't enjoy being the center of attention when what we do is nothing compared to what the security and coding experts do today. I am merely another geek that love's technology and when you'de rather stick a camera in my face and tell me to act on TV instead of code all day I'd say fuck you! I would rather be known for being smart or doing something good for the community then having pretty face on TV! But then again that's just me..

    Now I want to make the important point that everything is still kept completely professional and orderly, I simply do not consider myself a member of the show and know that Hak.5 will continue to bring you your monthly dose of technolust. Something that was decided way before Harrison or myself joined. As far as the future of Hak.5 is concerned I wish the crew the best and hope that it continues to grow the same it did when I was at one time a part of it. What great potential it has and it can become a mark of a new generation.

    But the most important part, viewer's continue to watch the show! I have mad respect for you all because you are what drove me to learn more and teach more on the show. You guy's / girl's rock and I got mad love for ya!!

    Jonathan

    Episode 1x03 Release

    in Hak5

    Posted

    not to bash on you all but

    you should take that author notice off of the news.php...

    it IS a direct copy of a pre-existing rss parser. The first clue was that jon uses double quotes and lengthy, very ugly code in the index.php. But news.php users single quotes around constant strings and doubles around those that require interpolation among other things.

    The copied work can be found at: http://clamav.net/lastRSS.phps

    I re-did your index.php to make it more scalable to multiple rss feeds.

    ...

    btw, php does have built in xml parsing capabilities to alleviate the need for a third party package.

    Otherwise, good show. It is getting better with every new episode.

    You may delete this post, just wanted to give you all a heads up so it doesn't blow up when you guys hit it big :-p

    //Creation of URL array

   $url = Array('http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=94102',

         'http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot',

        'http://www.wired.com/news/feeds/rss2/0,2610,31,00.xml',

        'http://www.traffic.com/feeds/rss_sanfrancisco.xml',

        'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml'

     );

    This to me is ugly why?

    Because the Array is not individually segmented for clean code. It is correct but not clean to me. When you can indvidually bring out each $url for someone else to view.. it makes it a lot easier to view an array the way I proposed it. 

      //Creation of cache directories

   foreach( $rssFeed as &$feed ) 

 {

      $feed->cache_dir = './temp';

      $feed->cache_time = 1200;

  }

    Not a bad way to implement the caching at all, however I decided not to do this for the simple fact I am adding to this, the future caching will be much more robust then implementing the cache for each feed and loading to a .temp folder.

       //Parsing URL's

   $rsFeed = array();

     $i = 0;

     foreach ( $rssFeed as &$feed )

         $rsFeed[] = $feed->parseRSS($url[$i++]);

    This is a job well done, and appreciated. I can't complain that you cut the lines literally in half. However I would highly suggest when creating object you make them distinct, individual and contained in a manner that is easy to manipulate a specific $feed->parseRSS(); Why? Say we creatre an object to parse however need to overload the function..what happens then for a specific object?

    However, the code is much appreciated and always invited.

    Later

    Episode 1x03 Release

    in Hak5

    Posted

    The parser was from lastRSS, and the show notes contained the the older version of the code, my appologies. The comments included "( originated by LastRSS ) " when finalzing the show notes the also many changes in the code from the finalized copy. If you recall Darren..how many copies of this did we have?

    Anyway's thanks for the post, it will not be deleted!

    Episode 1x03 Release

    in Hak5

    Posted

    This episode was my favorite hands down... That "Speed Painting" was fucking awesome !! lol.. As said above it really does show how much you improve episode after episode. You can tell you feel more comfortable in front of the camera...

    I loved the homebrew Newspaper Script & also the Alarm Clock Script.,.. Cant wait for the sources so hopefully I can mod a few things like I did for the Lights script in the other episodes... I actually think i was logged in as a guest when I posted the modded Lights Script....

    binauralman just woundering if you had msn messenger and if so was it possible to get your address, I have a couple questions on your newspaper script. If you do have msn but dont want to post your address on the public board just add me if you have a minute "elistian@hotmail.com"

    anyways once again guys awesome job & I think the part I love the most about the Hak5 crew is they actually interact with there fans unlike some other IPTV Shows we all know of *cough* Rev3 *cough*

    8)

    Hey man,

    My AIM: Hak5Jon

    Right now my Laptop is getting fixed, damn harddrive crashed on me, so I'm stuck using Harrison's PC, the Hak.5 server and the work PC. IM me anytime! Also, if you have any suggestions on the code, cause I know it's not fully optimized, please suggest them!

    Laterz,

    Jonathan

    Episode 1x03 Release

    in Hak5

    Posted

    Coming soon to a forum near you. Sorry, no excuses, will have them up ASAP.

    Good good. I managed to wind the TextToWave.vbs and the rss2html.pl file floating around on the net. All i need now is the newspaper stuff like the class and such and such. this is the coolest Homebrew hack yet. :D

    The code will be posted in the show notes, if you ever have any questions about it feel free to ask me: AIM, PM or Here. Also, the code was whipped together and could defintely be optimized, infact I am still cleaning up the code for personal achievment :D . Anyway's hope you get it working and if you need any help please feel free to ask!

    Episode 1x02 Release

    in Hak5

    Posted

    This explanation behind that scene is, there was a segment specifically in Alaska that we decided to scrap for the show. It didn't deliver what we wanted the viewers to see, however there is a possibility that we may release it as an easter egg of some sort.

    Episode 1x02 Release

    in Hak5

    Posted

    Thanks a lot for the script, we actually did add a logging script to manage who was connecting incase anyone set there own script to run a constant light on light off. So your idea was right were are heads were. Thanks again!

    Good Luck with the lights!

    Jonathan

    Episode 1x01 Trailer

    in Hak5

    Posted

    Thanks Alot! Upbuidling words of confidence are always appreciated! We also love suggestions, because we love to keep the audience into the show and guessing what will come out next! So please, help us out let us know what you think!

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