Garda Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 I was thinking about this and thought you guys might have some amusing stories. Mine would probably not really be anything amazing. Basically the most impressive thing is getting AES-loop to work with debian. It took about an hour, cos i'm dumb, then after getting it working i found a website with somebody who already had a patched kernel that you can easily just install with dpkg. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 I have reapired a few 'dead' complex electronic devices (Tvs and what not). My gratest acheivment is probably how every thine in my room is interconnected in some way, and then (currently) interconnects with every other TV in the house so I can use my PVR any where in the house. Not that grate, but I dought any body else in my village has a setup this complex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famicoman Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 There is this really horrible iMac I have, and could not get it going online for a year or two. One night, I trouble shot the hell out of it and now it can browse online. Setting up my HTTP server and BBS were kinda hard. Took a few hours to get it all configured. Having Telephone, Cat5, and cable running into every room in the house took some work. Making things run on batteries Softmodding the XBOX (It was a big deal for me) Fixing my PS2. More to come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 I wrote a computing client that also had a bit of network support in C that contained no #ifdefs and would compile unchanged on something like 10 different platforms (Mac OSX, Linux, {Open,Net,Free}BSD, HP-UX HPPA, Solaris Sparc, Compaq Tru64, Windows, XBox, Plan9). I'm rather proud of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 hak5 and more importantly, fostering the best geek community on the web Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 I designed some of the electrical systems on the Airbus A380. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garda Posted August 27, 2006 Author Share Posted August 27, 2006 Ok, i just realised something less lame than the thing i mentioned before. Every application i need i have on a usb stick. This includes Firefox, Thunderbird, putty, vlc, 7zip, gaim, a sega and SNES emulator, Lynx and a VNC client Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLSS Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 getting hl2 to be playable on a amd xp 1500 with a geforce 2 onboard without much lagg. :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrihD Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 It was for school but we weren't really helped : creating a kind of answearing machine that controls electronic switches via the phone, depending of with combination of numbers you press (it was programmed with a fpga). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armadaender Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 While I've never achieved something as major as some of our other friends here, I've always been known to my friends as "The computer guy". And during my freshman year of college, I had people making appointments in order for me to fix their computers. In the first semester I had to have saved 30 or so laptops and the following semester around 20. Of course I never charged money for it but donations of the alcoholic nature were always welcome. The reason why I believe it's a great achievement, for me anyway, was due to the fact that for every computer I fixed, I was thanked wholesomely. Just seeing people delighted that their computer was now usable made me quite content. Also, almost all of my clients were beautiful females. My handy-work got me a few dates. Oh, I'm also the only person in my house who could set the time on the VCR (when we still had one), does that count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tx Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 Routeable audio to every room in my house.. also have cat5 running to every room. I really want to computerise it.. with rfid... so that if you start watching something in one room on the tv/cd player / media centre... it moves around rooms with you... and supports more than one user at a time... Never gonna have time for it... but still :P Other achivement, having nothing on our network at work that i havnt had some hand in setting up.. *tis my baby :P* and writeing a beskpoke content managed website for a radio station, learning php from scratch while doing it :P.. that was a while ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rFayjW98ciLoNQLDZmFRKD Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 I will tell you when it happens :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 The trail of massivly over spec'd networks i've persuaded landlords to install in the houses i've lived in? Cat6 to every room, wireless overlay, traffic filtering, dedicated torrent boxes, VPN servers... and all they wanted was something they could use to say "this house is broadband ready". Then there was the site i built for a 30 people on my course this year. At christmass I knew nothing of webdesign, by april I was thinking in php. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omega_ion Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 not exactly computer related, but probably assembling everything and launching an IQSY Tomahawk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyedie Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 I designed some of the electrical systems on the Airbus A380. um.... you win my greatest achievement is yet to come.... (almost done) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyrancher82 Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 I haven't done much... I finally learnt C/C++/ASM/PHP/CSS/etc I also made some Linux distribution called nUbuntu. Also working on a big project at the minute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madkat Posted August 28, 2006 Share Posted August 28, 2006 Ok, i just realised something less lame than the thing i mentioned before. Every application i need i have on a usb stick. This includes Firefox, Thunderbird, putty, vlc, 7zip, gaim, a sega and SNES emulator, Lynx and a VNC client Um yeah, its called www.portableapps.com :) Anyway, I haven't done much.. Kept all the computers in my house from breaking... Started a web server.. and now im learning linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted August 28, 2006 Share Posted August 28, 2006 I installed Linux!!!!!!??? lol um, I cant really think of anything exciting at this point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uber_tom Posted August 28, 2006 Share Posted August 28, 2006 I don't know about greatest, but i can remember my favourite. I was given a 386 that wouldn't boot or do anything, and i managed to revive the half-dead dos installation and the completely dead 3.11 installation with no addition software nor tools. doesn't sound like much but the only real computing experience i had at that point was my Vic-20 and the acorns at school. it was my first experience with an IBM pc and i loved it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Posted August 28, 2006 Share Posted August 28, 2006 Fixing the damn Friq 119 everytime it went down. Not a technical achievement, but i brought everyone in my fireteam home alive, twice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blizz Posted August 28, 2006 Share Posted August 28, 2006 umm, no idea.. how about knowing HOW i could do almost everything with my computer but not doing it? it sucks! another reason why i've chosen to get further into hak.5. actually doing something. great people here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt {Undead} Posted August 28, 2006 Share Posted August 28, 2006 well mines a number of things from opening a pc for the first time and learning myself what all the parts are to actually building them from scratch. solving pc problems when friends ask me to fix there pcs that are full of viruses, spyware and crap. learning html for the first time and understanding how code works in order to create things myself. Setting up a webserver and being introduced to the world of linux on my ps2 LOL. And the most important thing is, discovering the internet for the first time when I was like 14, my life changed at that point and I learned loads of things I never knew about which made me interested in pcs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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