Satal Keto

The configuration I was thinking was; Motherboard: ASRock H67M-ITX Socket LGA1155 DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) RAM: Corsair CMV4GX3M2A1333C9 2 x 2GB DDR3 SDRAM Memory BluRay Drive: Samsung SH-B123L 12x BD-ROM DVD±RW DL & RAM Lightscribe SATA Optical Drive HDD x2: Samsung HD204UI Spinpoint F4 2TB Hard Drive SATA Case, I was thinking starting off with a cardboard box until I can make something like the frames Darren has made. I have been looking around myself and I'm currently looking at 12V 150W PicoPSU-150-XT but a little offput by the price of the brick that would need to get with it (at least another £40)

I am currently looking to build myself a reasonable Home Theatre PC (HTPC), that will also act as a basic server. Unfortunately although I'm a reasonably good programmer I have very little experience with hardware, so was hoping someone would be able to point me in the right direction. As a base for the set up I have been using a recent blog post from Jeff Atawood Revisiting the Home Theater PC. The problem with this is that the PSU that is being suggested doesn't appear to have as many SATA connections as I would require, as I'm looking to have a minimum of three HDDs (two 2TB HDDs in RAID 1 and another HDD for the OS) as well as a BluRay drive. The PSU suggested in Jeff's post was a PicoPSU, which looks quite nice as they from what I've read are quite efficient, really small and more importantly for a HTPC silent. I remembered that Darren had a PSU that wasn't huge when building the cluster (episode 8x23), but when checking the notes there isn't a specific make/model which would give me a start for my search. So I was wondering whether anyone had any suggestions for PSU's that I could get that would give a few more SATA power cables and preferably be as small/efficient as possible. Thanks for any help you guys can give in advance. Satal :) UPDATE After more research I realised that Darren had specified that the PSU was a 1U, which has given me a starting point. I am now currently contempating getting this, which although it doesn't have 4 SATA power cables does have a Molex power cable so I could use a Molex to SATA converter cable. I still welcome any suggestions/comments, as I would like to ensure that I get the HTPC right first time if possible.

Hi, I was hoping that I could get some guidance from some of you guys on Object Design with Database back ends. I am trying to build what could be considered to be my first full scale application, which is a student tracker (simplification). While I have a reasonable idea of how I would go about designing the classes for the system, the bit that I don't know how to do is, how I would go about getting the data to and from the database. While I am programming this in VB.Net I think this would be a problem across all programming languages. For example with my other applications, I have done a couple of things; 1) Gathered all the data from the database when the application started up, creating the objects then. Then when the application closed sending the data back to the database. 2) Have the code which deals with getting the data in the specific class, so the student class for example would take only one constructor argument which would be the studentID, then the class code would connect to the database and populate the object fields as appropriate. 3) Variations of the above. I have also looked into LINQ, which seems like it would be very useful if you don't expect your classes to deal with any business logic and just data, but I suppose it would be possible to create a wrapper class that would include the business logic. Anyway I hope that some of you guys/girls would be kind enough to either point me in the direction of some articles that maybe you have found useful on this subject or your views on what is the best methods for doing this (obviously there isn't going to be one God design pattern for this sort of thing, but some are more generic than others). Thanks for any help/comments/suggestions in advance. Satal

Thanks :) I'll have a look at this properly when I get home from work. If anyone has any other suggestions they would be appreciated as well :)

I've been trying to find a program that I can use to download Hak5 and other revision3 shows by using their RSS feeds, I unfortunately haven't been able to find a program which fits the bill, I was wondering whether anyone has found a solution to this. I need to be able to download the small wmv so I can watch Hak5 on my way to work so I am unable to use the itunes rss feed. Thanks for any help with this in advance Satal

I saw this on Wired.com this morning while at work and I thought that it might be something that people here would be interested in. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/twittering-toaster/ Personally I think its pretty cool and would be an interesting project for people who spend alot of time twittering :D

Use the one USB you have, do what you need to install Trinity on there, then when you have done that I believe you can just copy and paste the files onto your desktop or somewhere, then once those files are safely off of the USB, install the others on the USB and then you should be able to copy the Trinity files back onto the USB. Hope that helps :D

I would hope that it isn't corrupted as its still pretty new :( I tried formatting it to Fat32 using Ubuntu using the following command It still didn't work on Vista or XP :( So hopefully some one else has an idea of what I could possibly do to try and get this working as I would like to think that my USB stick isn't corrupt as I have been using it without a problem for a couple weeks now.

I'm trying to create the Multipass described in episode 524. When I try to run PeToUSB against my 16GB SanDisk Cruzer USB, I get the following error I have tried this both on XP and on Vista (using Run As Administrator) I have tried what Darren said about formatting it to FAT32 if I get an error, but I still get the error after that, I have also tried formatting to NTFS to see if that works but without any luck. I was wondering whether anyone else had come across this problem and had managed to find a solution to this problem. Thanks for any help in advance Satal EDIT: I have also received while trying to do the same thing on a XP VM, but I'm just assuming that's something about it being on a VM

Thank you :)

I don't know whether this will be of any use but I created a video a while back on how to gain Administrator access to a Vista computer The video is available Here, you will need to click on "Watch in high quality" otherwise you wont be able to see the commands I hope that this helps P.S. I know that the name of the YouTube account is Talas Keot, but it is me, its an anagram of Satal Keto (as that name had already been taken :()

Hi, I have a server running in my living room, which I would like to be able to get access to it from uni and work. Now although I have a nice strong password (21 characters, not in the dictionary etc.) I would like to try and use something like Public Key Authentication. Although to the best of my understanding PKA is between two computers, which unfortunately would mean that I would have to generate key's on each computer the first time I use it and then add it to my servers authorized_keys. I was wondering whether anyone knows of a way that I would be able to have a key which would allow for me to connect to my server from any computer as long as I had putty and the key with me. Thanks for any help in advance Satal :D

lol DingleBerries Very concise :P

I just thought that I would post one possible answer to this MySQL has a function, CHAR() which converts a number into its ASCII version, for example CHAR(116,98,108,84,101,115,116)) Would return 'tblTest' (without the quotes).

Thanks taiyed14 very useful :)

People have already tried making automated processes to take down malicious activities (or piracy in the case which I am about to link to). Revision3 taken down by MediaDefender As you will read from that article, it isn't a good idea to be attacking the "bad" people, as you might get it wrong. Also imagine this, a cracker (Malicious hacker incase your definitions aren't up to scratch) takes control of a computer at a small school and uses it to launch attacks against a bunch of people, including your computer. Now your computer see's this, hacks back at the computer and I would assume would do some damage to the system, not only do you cut down on the resources this small INNOCENT school has, but you've also cause damage to data which may cause for the true cracker to get away without being caught. So although its a great idea, it would be extremely difficult, totally illegal (you have to break the law in order to uphold the law) and in my view immoral due to the probability that any decent hackers would be going through an intermediate system. Very similar discussion on another website (yes I have basically copied and pasted my response from that website, but it worked here as well)

I have set up a simple php script on my server which takes a GET parameter run's it through addslashes() and then uses it as a criteria so... $qry = "SELECT * FROM tblTest WHERE TestID = " . addslashes($_GET['id']); Now I know full well that this code if vulnerable, its designed to have some level of protection just to allow me to practice my SQL Injection. Now the problem I am having is that I am able to get a list of all the tables by doing the following http://homeserver/test.php?id=-1 union all select 1,table_name from information_schema.tables limit 0,1 which will get the first entry, then... http://homeserver/test.php?id=-1 union all select 1,table_name from information_schema.tables limit 1,1 to get the second entry and so on. The problem comes when I am trying to get a list of the columns in one of the tables (obviously I know what they are (id, testfield) but that's defeating the purpose). The SQL Injection that I would normally use to get the list of columns would be... http://homeserver/test.php?id=-1 union all select 1,column_name from information_schema.columns where table = 'tblTest' limit 0,1 obviously I would be incrementing the limit offset to find the other columns. Now I already mentioned I am running the get parameter through addslashes, which won't have any problem with me doing the first set of SQL Injections as there aren't any quotes or characters which get escaped, but to get the columns I need to specify the table (well it would be possible for me to use concat() to put the table name and column name together in the output, thereby not requiring to specify the table, but I would like to avoid that if possible as that would take many attempts to even find the right table) unfortunately MySQL doesn't give tables id's which would make it easier. Anyway hopefully someone will know of a decent way around this problem :) Thanks for any help in advance Satal :D

I know this might seem a little old but I was going through watching some of the old Hak5 episodes and I really enjoy the outro music, but I can't seem to find information anywhere about what it is. I was wondering whether anyone can either tell me or point me in the right direction. Thanks for any help in advance Satal :)

Thanks TorrentFlux looks very interesting, if I can get that running on a Fon then that would definately be top of the list of starting places, although a few changes would be needed to support files and RSS's for files rather than torrents (unless Hak5 start doing torrents of their episodes :P)

I run a small website which deals with programming and one of the things that I have produced is a hackable guestbook (XSS only). Basically you're able to choose the type of php filtering function is performed on the text to be displayed in the guestbook. This is primarily supposed to be for web developers to allow them to get a better understanding of what can be done against different php filtering functions, but obviously it can also be used by hackers who wish to practice their XSS in a safe and legal place where they can see what attack strings work against which functions. The posts made on the guestbook can only be viewed by the person who made the post, so there is no problem with people performing XSS against other people on my site. Anyway to the point of this thread. I have made this and I was wondering whether anyone would be willing to look at it and give feedback on it, whether it just be that they like the idea or something more in depth, like suggestions on ways to improve it. My website is at http://www.SatalKeto.co.uk, unfortunately you will need to create a login to use the XSS Area, but this is mostly to do with having a good method of ensuring that you're only going to view posts which you made. Then you need to click on "Security Areas" in the Navigation bar, then click on "XSS" which as long as you're logged in then you will be able to see a blank guestbook, that you can attack. The php filtering functions available are in a drop down box at the top of the page. Anway thank you to anyone who takes the time to look at it in advance Satal P.S. I know that especially the Security Area where the XSS area is listed, the layout isn't 100%, I do plan on fixing that, but I first want to see if people think that its worth keeping first (which I hope you do)

well shouldn't it be easy enough to have a share (whether it be on another computer or on a Network HDD like Im personally planning) mounted and then specify that location when downloading for example ctorrent -s /mnt/NAS/ download.torrent (not certain about the -s on this, haven't tried it out yet) or wget --directory-prefix=/mnt/NAS/ http://www.example.com/download.file But as long as you can mount a share and then specify that the file is going to be saved there, shouldn't that be fine?

Thanks :D You've also made me realise that there will need to be a way to stop the torrents as eventually you would probably want to stop seeding. I guess I will need to create some sort of a web interface which will allow for the user to control the torrents rather than having to SSH all the time.

Well I would be MORE than happy to provide all the details of how to make it to the Hak5 team, once I've managed to make it :D [EDIT] From what I have read a Fon router would work for what Im trying to do. Would just need to set up a SMB share with my Network HDD and create the software to deal with the actual reading the RSS feeds and downloading the files as appropriate

Hi, recently I have been thinking about trying to make myself a torrent box (similar to this) which also has the capability to download files from an RSS feed (so for example Hak5 episodes get downloaded automatically when they are added). Now the software part of this shouldn't be a problem, as I do plenty of programming already (although would probably be best for this to be written in C/C++ which I'm not fluent in, but I could still achieve the result with time), the problem for me is that I dont really want to be having an entire computer running for this as its space which could be used for other things (I only have a small flat). I was wondering whether anyone know's of anyway that I could have something like a router (Im not certain whether this is something which would be achievable with a Fon router) which runs Linux, allowing for a bit torrent client to be run and some software which would probably need to be created, which downloads files according to RSS feeds. It would probably only need enough storage for the OS and the software as would set up so files are downloaded to my network HDD. Hopefully someone might be able to give me some idea's on how I might be able to achieve this or if they know of a pre-existing system (no point re-inventing the wheel). Thanks for any suggestions/idea/etc. in advance Satal