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    Coders will like this

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    how the hell is cobol even on there? I havn't seen that language used since the late-eighties/early nineties. (Sad part is that I have to take a semester course on it next year for my degree).

    Cobol is still used for a lot of bank mainframes. You are right though... It is very old. Then again, so is C.

    I was talking to a woman who works on bank mainframes last year some time. She said a lot of the programs have copyright notices for 1982 in the comments :roll:

    Hacker toolkit

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    But you can still fit pretty much everything you could need on one CD, two if you need a lot of things, or you could make a DVD.

    That's very true... Which is why I carry only one live CD, a couple of blank CDs, my laptop with ISOs, a couple of USB keys (only small ones unfortunately) and a few other bits and pieces like a patch cable and a null serial cable.

    Yet More Hak5 Wallpapers

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    Also might i suggest when you release a wallpaper you also release a 1280x1024 one as well. Yes was all know its not 4:3 but its what a lot of monitors run at.

    I was considering being awkward and asking for a 1280 x 768, but I'll make one myself :P

    Hacker toolkit

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    I carry 4 live cds around with me. Helix, Knoppix, Slax, and a cd called boot disk that will load the sam file on a windows machine and allow you to blank out passwords.

    Why do you carry all that you can just buy a 1 or 2 GB flash drive and build your own customised Slax using MySLAX Creator and MySLAX Modulator.

    I can't speak for degoba, but I carry CDs rather than a flash drive because almost all the machines I work on won't boot from USB :)

    Ramping up the volume with VBScript

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    After re-watching one of the episodes where a viewer asks if there is a way to make his computer's volume gradually increase to provide a gentler wakeup, I thought I'd have a go at finding my own way to do it with VBScript and a few other files.

    The first thing you need is the 2003 Resource kit from Microsoft. You can get it here:

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

    And the second this, is NirCmd. NirCmd is a really handy little exe with a ton of options for controlling windows. It's very useful for giving scripts a little bit of extra power, and it's well worth having anyway. You can get it here:

    http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

    First things first, of course... Download and install the 2003 resource kit tools. You need this for a little program called "sleep". Basically, it does nothing but wait for a specified amount of time, and then terminates.

    Then download NirCmd. NirCmd comes as 3 files in a zip file. You need to put the nircmd.exe file somewhere in your PATH. I've put it in my windows folder, but you can put it wherever you would like, as long as it's in your PATH. If you don't: you will have to edit the VBScript accordingly.

    Next comes the VBScript. Basically, what it does is to set your volume to zero using NirCmd, start your chosen music player (WinAmp in my case) using your chosen playlist, and then proceeds to up the volume in increments until the desired volume is reached.

    The VBScript looks like this:

    Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")    'Make a shell object to use



MaxVol = 30000    'Set the volume to ramp to, a value between 0 and 65535

WaitTime = 10    'Set the delay between each step up in volume (in milliseconds)

Increment = 100    'Set the amount the volume steps up by each time



PlayerPath = """c:program filesWinAmpWinAmp.exe"""    'Set the full path to your music player

PlaylistPath = """c:playlistsbeatles.m3u"""    'Set the full path to the playlist you want to use



CurVol = 0    'Make sure the volume is at 0 to start with

WshShell.Run "nircmd setsysvolume " & CurVol ,0,1



WshShell.Run PlayerPath & " " & PlaylistPath    'Start the music player with the playlist



Do While CurVol < MaxVol    'Ramp up the volume using the previously set parameters

    WshShell.Run "nircmd setsysvolume " & CurVol ,0,1

    WshShell.Run "sleep -m " & WaitTime ,0,1

    CurVol = CurVol + Increment

Loop



'And we're done!

    Save the above as a .vbs file in somewhere meaningful (c:alarmalarm.vbs perhaps), and that's pretty much it!

    You can play about with MaxVol, WaitTime and Increment to get the volume ramping to behave how you want.

    You can use the Windows 'at' command to schedule the script to run as an alarm in the morning, just as described in the Hak5 RSS alarm clock tutorial. Like so:

    at 07:00 /every:m,t,w,th,f c:alarmalarm.vbs

    Remember to change PlayerPath and PlaylistPath to suit your system. The triple quotes are needed because VBScript isn't best friends with filenames that include spaces :P

    One last thing... You may have to edit the line that executes your music player if you are using a player other than WinAmp. Not all players will let you pass a playlist file to them as an argument, but WinAmp is fine with it :)

    Have fun! And if you have any suggestions, or any problems, be sure to let me know.

    ekim meets port7

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    22:52 < Jarrydn> go write another program which tells you that 5 + 6 != 10 Wink

    22:52 < Jarrydn> that should calm you down Very Happy

    22:52 < ekim> If your must know

    22:52 < ekim> the program was to prove that 5+6 does NOT equal ten

    For some reason, I found that bit hillarious :lol:

    I remember when that happened. It started about the time I was switching network cables about :P

    Hacking HEB (and other big stores)

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    I'm not sure about other stores, but when I used to work at Staples we just had an ancient looking quad tape deck that went through all 4 tapes.

    I only worked there for 6 months, but I was very sick of the whole 15 tapes we had by the time I left :roll:

    Vaporized AMD Duron.

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    I can't understand why people would put time into doing something like then when it is so obviously fake.

    They could have at least chosen something more realistic for the fake overclock they were trying to do and had the HSF clipped on so that it was actually pretending to work properly.

    I would have to classify this under waste of space.

    I couldn't agree more.

    They could have at least said it was overclocked to 2ghz or something like that. And maybe even have the CPU at least look like it's being sufficiently cooled for such an overclock. Having the fan spinning on the heatsink would have been a start too :roll:

    Altough, looking at some of their other videos: they're a bit loopy.

    Puzzle #2

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    Right, this one's a little less mean than the last ;)

    If:

    barry = 944189

    and

    tone = 362029

    and

    hak = 13924

    then

    112117 = <What?>

    Your clue is: "ASCII 48 - 57 not included"

    Answers to me in a PM as to not spoil it for others :)

    And as before, I've checked everything as much as I can, and I'm really sorry if there is a mistake in it!

    Good luck!

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