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From a reader: "The guys over at thebroken have put
together a fun hacking videozine ( .torrent
here ). This episode covers Windows password hacking, destroying your
hard drive with 3,000 degree molten iron, console modding, and an interview
with Kevin Mitnick. Think "The Man Show" meets computers. Divx Required.
"
It's interesting to see the torrent download rate gradually increase as more and more people start linking to the file from slashdot's site and get more and more of the file. Very cool. Isn't technology wonderful?
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
While this has been plugged a few times on TSS on TechTV, I always got the feeling that it was not officially endorsed by TechTV.
Exactly. This is more or less people from TechTV doing a show that TechTV rejected the concept of just for the fun of doing it. Dan answers the phones at TSS and does an occasional segment, Kevin Rose has just been promoted to co-host of TSS as Leo Laporte will be focusing his efforts on a revamped Call For Help show starting in a couple weeks. They're also working with some of their cameraman friends from TechTV.
Even Mitnick has a TechTV connection. Darci Wood, Kevin's girlfriend used to be a contributor on TSS, and they met on the set. She left the show in order to move to L.A. to live with him.
I'd share my bandwidth if I could. But I'm not willing to expose my machine to a worm-infested, script-kiddie-prowling public internet in order to do it.
I'm curious why people prefer to do their own hosting of self made video files and not use archive.org. They have 500mbps of outgoing bandwidth and hundreds of terabytes of storage. Anyone can upload any amount of multimedia for hosting for free. They'll be around for quite a while longer than whatever rigged solution people come up with on their own.
Depending upon where you live, you may be suprised to find trucks on the interstate hauling molten aluminum. There has been one accident to my knowledge, vaporizing the occupant of a car.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Just run a HTTP connection to the tracker. btshowmetainfo from the offical bt dist will give you the tracker URL: in this case http://fpcat.homelinux.org:6969/
Stick that in a web browser, and ta-da! current stats report. I suspect that not all trackers support this, but this one does.
Not that Kevin Rose guy.
He is annoying as hell.
Tries to build this whole shady elite persona (I've seen him in person in SF) and well, it speaks for itself.
Go in the forums sometims. You will laugh your ass of at the discussions.
They think stealing wireless is "okay" and they promote too much illegal crap on the Screen Savers as well as his site.
Please, running some automated tools does not equate to being elite.
How does this make front of Slashdot anyhow? Did Kevin submit it himself? (A Reader...yeah....) or is it his Slashdot people affiliations.
Well, it has hit 1973 leechers and 381 seeds so far (2354)... and is still growing.
I think in this case the only downside would be tracker death, but that's why there is the multi-tracker "announce-list" extension (though this torrent doesn't use it).
There are lots of seeds (~20%), the file is relatively small (152.8MB), and the pieces are quite small (256KB).
It is nice to see BitTorrent being used for what it was designed: leagal mass distribution.
Could we PLEASE not start a hacker pissing war here? Because that is exactly what your comment is gonna do.
"I'm more leet than you are! Na na na na!"
Mad Software: Rantings on Developing So
These are my current BitTorrent stats:
saving: thebroken_3.avi (152.9 MB)
percent done: 26.2
time left: 43 min 29 sec
download to: thebroken_3.avi
download rate: 56.86 kB/s
upload rate: 73.17 kB/s
download total: 40.1 MiB
upload total: 73.5 MiB
I have a public IP-address (I'm not behind a NAT gateway), but I'm behind a firewall that blocks any and all incoming connections (except to port 8080, where Apache is listening). I have full access to the outside however. Given this situation,
a) How are other clients able to send upload requests at all? Do other clients send upload requests in the same TCP/IP connection where I'm downloading from them? When I look at the output of netstat, nobody is indeed connected to port 6881-6889 on my machine, but some connections have quite large Send-Q values.
b) How come I'm getting such a low download rate while I'm uploading so much? Aren't those clients detecting that I'm uploading to them or so? (I have plenty of bandwidth left)
I'm using BitTorrent 3.4.1a.
FWIW: before this firewall was installed, I could easily get 100kb/sec upload, 300kb/sec downloads (and more). The firewall does not rate limit (normal downloads actually go a lot faster than before, because our outside connection was upgraded at the same time).
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Let em put whatever they want on the show, because it is their show..If you want somethin changed, you either pay for the damn costs of hosting, production, etc, or quit bitchin about it and STFU. This was a great show and I found it very entertaining. Keep it up, guys.
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Eh - I'll take a swing at this one.
First off, I'd like to thank you for your work and extend that thanks to thebroken. It's been entertaining. There would probably be a lot less vitriol about if people maintained the perspective of this being entertainment first. However, this leads in to my intial point...
People lose their sense of entertainment when they are fed a constant stream of gross distortions of what they are familiar with. Keep in mind that you are following in the rather gigantic footsteps of Hollywood. And Hollywood has had a rather dismal track record when it comes to hackers (in any sense of the word).
Quite a few years ago, I had a hobby-job at my local ISP covering the evening shift. We ended up with a couple young entry-level helpdesk techs to train. During one of the evening's training the movie Hackers was mentioned. Us seasoned techies classified the movie as a comedy (albiet unintentional). One of our young charges listed it as inspirational.
Our young techie-in-training ended up following a continued pattern. She was really "in" to the "hacker scene". She liked the whole counter-culture / underground idea. She had her hair done in braids and wore counter-culture clothes. She had a certain facination with the concept of being feared by those outside her peer group. In short, she was all set to don the mantle of hacker as imaged by the movie Hackers.
Except for when it came to technical ability.
Our hacker-to-be had no real ability to pick up technical issues. Heck. She didn't even show any interest in actually learning more than the basics needed to do her job. She seemed to lack any resemblance of interest that would otherwise put her on a hacker's path.
But she could dress the part. Or at least, the part as defined in Hackers.
And this is likely the source of people's agrivation. Sure - this stuff is entertaining. But it is more often than not completely mistreated by Hollywood. And then to rub salt in to wound, one runs in to waves of wanna-bes that faithfully emulate that completely distorted image.
I understand how that could grate on one's nerves. Heck. I've seen it first hand. But I don't get upset over this kind of stuff. Even now that I find Hackers a little less funny all things considered.