Jenn is right. There is no money in vidcasting/iptv. To date Hak.5 has made about negative $3,000. I'm sure Jenn can attest to the same. We're doing this because it's something we love to do. As I mentioned in our first post on Hak5.org: instead of building a beowulf cluster for fun, we're building a beowulf cluster for fun, filming it, and sharing the fun with all. I can almost guarantee that the handful of IPTV shows out right now would agree to this statement, and I seriously doubt any would sell out to commercial interests.
Very happy to hear episode 3 is coming. Episode 3 of Hak.5 will be out on the 5th of October.
I think podcasting is already off the ground, look at iTunes 4.9 and 5.0. Vidcasting (or IPTV) is getting off the ground as well. There is nothing legislation can do to stop it. Unless of course we loose the first amendment.
As an avid slashdotter and now IPTV producer I would like to say hello to the fellow slashdotters. I'm one of the crew producing the monthly IPTV show Hak.5, a show about tech, homebrew hacks, mods, code, and all sorts of good stuff.
A streaming version of Episode 2 can be found at YouTube here (Flash Required).
We just finished filming a mod segment for episode 3, to be released October 5th, tonight and I'm glad I checked slashdot before going to bed.
I'll be more than happy to answer any questions about the show or IPTV in general here. Also, we're in the process of moving to a dedicated server with terabytes of bandwidth this week that will allow us to offer direct downloads of the show as well as getting listed on iTunes. Check hak5.org for updates or sign up for the newsletter
R, run
M, minimize all windows
D, show desktop (toggle)
E, explorer
There are some more but those are what I use. And its funny that you mention ctrl+esc because before I had a windows keyboard (Back in 1995), and even for some time after I got a winkeyboard, I would use CTRL+Esc alt the time. Weird how shortcut habbits can change.
Thats my problem, I'm a keyboard shortcut whore because I started in DOS and am not a big fan of windows so whenever I can acomplish something in keystrokes instead of the kludgy mouse I will.
PS. I just shift-tabbed back to add this PS, noting that i subcounciously knew it was three tabs to the submit button. there's my evidence.
not dispising the cli, started on it, will end on it. not trying to bastardize the cli, just bling it up a bit al la quake 3.
In quake 3 I would get shot dead, realize it was because of some lag problem, hit tilda and throw a command at it, hit tilda again, and get back to gaming like it never happened.
Thats what I use the console for, something up, I need to run a few commands, fix the problem, and get back to work.
And no, I'm not a big fan of this social keyword thingy either, it seems like a lame fad that'll just end up with useless AOL'ish keywords that nobody ever uses because its been spammed to death and takes to long to use.
Right on, a timeout period would be really nice, but I'm sure it could be annoying at some times to. Maybe if it became 50% transparent before completely disapearing it would be nice, then if you were writing something down from the console and it started to go you could hit a key to keep it up. who knows. Anyway, I really really want this and CTRL-ALT-S just isnt the same and you all know it.
Awesome. Now if only there were something similar for windows because I know I'll go over to my server2003 boxes and hit CTRL+~ and just sit there for a second waiting, wondering what the @%#$ is wrong with this MS box, then realize the pebkac.
I've hacked together ctrl-alt-c to open CMD which is located at the top of the screen, then I close it with alt+space, c, but its not the same.
Your missing the point. Of course I can get a terminal but hitting 3 odd keys, or use lynx, but thats not what I'm looking for. I would love to hit ~, or even ctrl-~ and have a semi-transparent console scroll down from the top of the screen al-la quake 3.
And the guy that said "weather 98715" totally got the idea. I'd probably just map weather %1 to "google weather" %1 as I like their weather service.
I'm still upset that I've searched sourceforge and never found anything similar I could even start to hack together.
Oh, and putting a CMD icon in the quick task tray is so far off. My fingers are alreay on the keyboard. I use WIN+R, cmd, enter just for that reason.
Now that that's been taken care of, I'd like to say that this is an interesting idea. As a sysadmin I spend a lot of time in a terminal and though this has not been integrated into the terminal yet, the idea of being able to run a web search through a command line interface makes me happy.
I can just imagine:
$ google -5 "firefox ftp download"
1. Index of/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases
ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
2. Index of/pub/mozilla.org/firefox
ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/
3. mozdev.org - fireftp: index
fireftp.mozdev.org/
Now what would be even cooler: You know the console from all the first person shooter games like Quake and Half-Life. Really simple, just hit Tilda and it slides down the top third of the screen. The quake 3 one even has some nifty open GL moving background. Anyway, my point is, how come to get a console in Windows I have to hit WIN+R, "CMD", [Enter]. Not fair. I've searched near and far and havent found any such console for Windows or Linux.
If a fellow slashdotter could point me in the right direction I would greatly apreciate it. I know this is a good idea, and I know I'm not the only one who would love such a program. It would be so nice to simply hit ~, run your ipconfig command, then ~ again and go back to what you were doing.
Then I guess it wont help to tell you that the next week on our quarterly conference call I received the quarterly champion award complete with glass trophy.
Find a job where the boss is an old fortran guru.
I'm the sysadmin of a company of about 100. The other day I was in the CEO's office waiting to give him a presentation on the latest version of the Intranet. The boss came in very upset, he had been having some problems with his laptop and hadn't been able to boot into windows all morning. There was a very important document on his drive that he just had to have for a meeting later that afternoon. I turned off the projector and started to attempt to recover his documents.
First I tried Bart PE, a Windows XP bootable CD. It allowed me to see the hard drive, but the file sizes were all wrong. I tried to connect it to the network but it wouldn't recognize the network card. I tried plugging in a USB flash drive but it wouldn't recognize that either.
DOS was out of the question as the drive was NTFS. Then it hit me, I had a copy of Knoppix 3.8 on me. I booted it up and it saw the network and thumbdrive instantly. I saved the boss's files and he was very impressed. While I was setting him up on a spare notebook he was playing with the menus in KDE and we made small talk about governments and businesses saving tons of cash by switching to Linux, Open Office, and other free software.
So Linux saved the day for his poor broken Windows box, just a little ironic. Now this sysadmin is never leaving without a copy of Knoppix again.
My HS ran SASI as well. I remember wardialing the school's prefix and finding a SASI dialin, but never found a password. Thought about stealing a SASI manual from a vice principal, but never did happen. Ended up phreaking DATU instead. Good times. I'm suprised anyone still runs SASI.
Wrong. I did this too. Your last point is BS. Learning sysadmin stuff if like driving, you may not be as good as the other drivers on the road at first, but once you get the hand of it there's nothing to stop you.
And I bet these people are fully capable of learning this jargon. They are capable of using a search engine and can hopefully read at an 8th grade level. But for some reason, dispite the fact that 20% of them do not know how to protect themselves online, they will become zombies before googling "define spyware" or asking jeeves "what can i do to protect my computer", or heaven forbid clicking on the windows update icon *right at the top of their start menu* and maybe even following Microsoft's 3 basic steps to securing your computer (firewall, anti-virus, windows update).
I'm sure when it comes to other things, cooking for example, they are more than likely to ask a friend for advice, get a book, or watch an educational television program. But when it comes to computers, especially AOL users (sorry for the generalization, no offense AOL/.ers) as in this article, leaving the realm of keywords, buddy lists, 10,000 smileys, punching munkies, and "you've got mail" is very unlikely to happen.
If it werent for the fact that they are going to end up becoming zombies that will aimlessly try passwords on my FTP and SMTP servers I could care less about these lusers, not for their ignorance, but their unwillingness to secure their stuff or learn.
"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself. No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself. Seriously though, if you are, do. Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers, Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously.
No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself. Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke"... there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations. I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart." Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags! "Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing." Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags! Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!
"Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill's very bright to do that." God, I'm just caught in a fucking web! "Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market - look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..." How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don't you?"
Go to a computer show or scour the Internet for a shop selling bulk CD binder inserts. I know newegg has 25 packs for not much (25 * 8 = 200 total) but you'll probably want to get them in much larger quantities.
Next go to your local evil^H^H^H^H^H Wallmart and pick up some cheap binders. I found a few 2-inchers with nice straps and velcro for $3. I picked up a few in different colors, each holding about 200 discs.
Works perfect for drivers, games, music, netflix backups, software, or anything else round and flat.
Wont it be Enterprise E, seeing that it was in space dock undergoing repairs at the end of the last Star Trek movie. I think the better question is, will B4 become Data?
Slashdot Mirror
And loose all creative control? No thanks.
--Darren
Hak5.tv
Jenn is right. There is no money in vidcasting/iptv. To date Hak.5 has made about negative $3,000. I'm sure Jenn can attest to the same. We're doing this because it's something we love to do. As I mentioned in our first post on Hak5.org: instead of building a beowulf cluster for fun, we're building a beowulf cluster for fun, filming it, and sharing the fun with all. I can almost guarantee that the handful of IPTV shows out right now would agree to this statement, and I seriously doubt any would sell out to commercial interests.
Very happy to hear episode 3 is coming. Episode 3 of Hak.5 will be out on the 5th of October.
I think podcasting is already off the ground, look at iTunes 4.9 and 5.0. Vidcasting (or IPTV) is getting off the ground as well. There is nothing legislation can do to stop it. Unless of course we loose the first amendment.
As an avid slashdotter and now IPTV producer I would like to say hello to the fellow slashdotters. I'm one of the crew producing the monthly IPTV show Hak.5, a show about tech, homebrew hacks, mods, code, and all sorts of good stuff.
Before our server melts to the ground I'll point out some links for episodes 1 and 2: Torrent Links:
Episode 1 Xvid Torrent
Episode 1 Quicktime Torrent
Episode 2 h.264 AVI
Episode 2 Xvid
Episode 2 medium quality Quicktime
Direct Download Links:
Episode 1 Quicktime
Episode 1 Xvid
Episode 2 h.264 AVI
Episode 2 Xvid
A streaming version of Episode 2 can be found at YouTube here (Flash Required).
We just finished filming a mod segment for episode 3, to be released October 5th, tonight and I'm glad I checked slashdot before going to bed.
I'll be more than happy to answer any questions about the show or IPTV in general here. Also, we're in the process of moving to a dedicated server with terabytes of bandwidth this week that will allow us to offer direct downloads of the show as well as getting listed on iTunes. Check hak5.org for updates or sign up for the newsletter
Oh yes, and in Soviet Russia, Hak.5 watches you!
--Darren
Hak5.org
Thats always pissed me off. You're probably better off going to the Green Leaf or Paul's across the street anyway.
Or how about the shopping center that J.M. Randall's is in; "Olde Towne Shopes".
It's good to see a fellow Williamsburger on Slashdot.
(Yay Tribe!)
yeah, the win key is useful.
Win +
R, run
M, minimize all windows
D, show desktop (toggle)
E, explorer
There are some more but those are what I use. And its funny that you mention ctrl+esc because before I had a windows keyboard (Back in 1995), and even for some time after I got a winkeyboard, I would use CTRL+Esc alt the time. Weird how shortcut habbits can change.
Thats my problem, I'm a keyboard shortcut whore because I started in DOS and am not a big fan of windows so whenever I can acomplish something in keystrokes instead of the kludgy mouse I will.
PS. I just shift-tabbed back to add this PS, noting that i subcounciously knew it was three tabs to the submit button. there's my evidence.
not dispising the cli, started on it, will end on it. not trying to bastardize the cli, just bling it up a bit al la quake 3.
In quake 3 I would get shot dead, realize it was because of some lag problem, hit tilda and throw a command at it, hit tilda again, and get back to gaming like it never happened.
Thats what I use the console for, something up, I need to run a few commands, fix the problem, and get back to work.
And no, I'm not a big fan of this social keyword thingy either, it seems like a lame fad that'll just end up with useless AOL'ish keywords that nobody ever uses because its been spammed to death and takes to long to use.
Right on, a timeout period would be really nice, but I'm sure it could be annoying at some times to. Maybe if it became 50% transparent before completely disapearing it would be nice, then if you were writing something down from the console and it started to go you could hit a key to keep it up. who knows. Anyway, I really really want this and CTRL-ALT-S just isnt the same and you all know it.
Awesome. Now if only there were something similar for windows because I know I'll go over to my server2003 boxes and hit CTRL+~ and just sit there for a second waiting, wondering what the @%#$ is wrong with this MS box, then realize the pebkac.
I've hacked together ctrl-alt-c to open CMD which is located at the top of the screen, then I close it with alt+space, c, but its not the same.
Anyone?
Your missing the point. Of course I can get a terminal but hitting 3 odd keys, or use lynx, but thats not what I'm looking for. I would love to hit ~, or even ctrl-~ and have a semi-transparent console scroll down from the top of the screen al-la quake 3.
And the guy that said "weather 98715" totally got the idea. I'd probably just map weather %1 to "google weather" %1 as I like their weather service.
I'm still upset that I've searched sourceforge and never found anything similar I could even start to hack together.
Oh, and putting a CMD icon in the quick task tray is so far off. My fingers are alreay on the keyboard. I use WIN+R, cmd, enter just for that reason.
I'm not sure but I think I might have retrolled.
Now that that's been taken care of, I'd like to say that this is an interesting idea. As a sysadmin I spend a lot of time in a terminal and though this has not been integrated into the terminal yet, the idea of being able to run a web search through a command line interface makes me happy.
I can just imagine:
Now what would be even cooler: You know the console from all the first person shooter games like Quake and Half-Life. Really simple, just hit Tilda and it slides down the top third of the screen. The quake 3 one even has some nifty open GL moving background. Anyway, my point is, how come to get a console in Windows I have to hit WIN+R, "CMD", [Enter]. Not fair. I've searched near and far and havent found any such console for Windows or Linux.
If a fellow slashdotter could point me in the right direction I would greatly apreciate it. I know this is a good idea, and I know I'm not the only one who would love such a program. It would be so nice to simply hit ~, run your ipconfig command, then ~ again and go back to what you were doing.
Aardwolf
I'd just like to mod this article -1 Flamebait.
Thank you,
Slashdot Reader
Then I guess it wont help to tell you that the next week on our quarterly conference call I received the quarterly champion award complete with glass trophy. Find a job where the boss is an old fortran guru.
Tools > Folder Options > View > Uncheck "Use Simple File Sharing".
Right-click folder > Sharing & Security > Share Folder > Permissions.
There ya go.
I'm the sysadmin of a company of about 100. The other day I was in the CEO's office waiting to give him a presentation on the latest version of the Intranet. The boss came in very upset, he had been having some problems with his laptop and hadn't been able to boot into windows all morning. There was a very important document on his drive that he just had to have for a meeting later that afternoon. I turned off the projector and started to attempt to recover his documents.
First I tried Bart PE, a Windows XP bootable CD. It allowed me to see the hard drive, but the file sizes were all wrong. I tried to connect it to the network but it wouldn't recognize the network card. I tried plugging in a USB flash drive but it wouldn't recognize that either.
DOS was out of the question as the drive was NTFS. Then it hit me, I had a copy of Knoppix 3.8 on me. I booted it up and it saw the network and thumbdrive instantly. I saved the boss's files and he was very impressed. While I was setting him up on a spare notebook he was playing with the menus in KDE and we made small talk about governments and businesses saving tons of cash by switching to Linux, Open Office, and other free software.
So Linux saved the day for his poor broken Windows box, just a little ironic. Now this sysadmin is never leaving without a copy of Knoppix again.
My HS ran SASI as well. I remember wardialing the school's prefix and finding a SASI dialin, but never found a password. Thought about stealing a SASI manual from a vice principal, but never did happen. Ended up phreaking DATU instead. Good times. I'm suprised anyone still runs SASI.
Is it just me, or is using currently available teleconference protocols over a VPN just as secure?
That way you could use MSN, iChat, Jabber, whatever over PPTP, IPSec, or whatever floats your boat.
Let me know if I'm way off base here.
Thanks,
Aardwolf
Wrong. I did this too. Your last point is BS. Learning sysadmin stuff if like driving, you may not be as good as the other drivers on the road at first, but once you get the hand of it there's nothing to stop you.
Installation support is free. If you cant get XP installed, call MS, the number is on the box. Free as in no cost.
I'm sure when it comes to other things, cooking for example, they are more than likely to ask a friend for advice, get a book, or watch an educational television program. But when it comes to computers, especially AOL users (sorry for the generalization, no offense AOL/.ers) as in this article, leaving the realm of keywords, buddy lists, 10,000 smileys, punching munkies, and "you've got mail" is very unlikely to happen.
If it werent for the fact that they are going to end up becoming zombies that will aimlessly try passwords on my FTP and SMTP servers I could care less about these lusers, not for their ignorance, but their unwillingness to secure their stuff or learn.--Angry Sysop
Incorrect. The amount of articles mentioning More's law will double every 18 months.
"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself. No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself. Seriously though, if you are, do. Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers, Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously.
No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself. Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke"... there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations. I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart." Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags! "Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing." Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags! Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!
"Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill's very bright to do that." God, I'm just caught in a fucking web! "Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market - look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..." How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don't you?"
Far Side Link...
Go to a computer show or scour the Internet for a shop selling bulk CD binder inserts. I know newegg has 25 packs for not much (25 * 8 = 200 total) but you'll probably want to get them in much larger quantities.
Next go to your local evil^H^H^H^H^H Wallmart and pick up some cheap binders. I found a few 2-inchers with nice straps and velcro for $3. I picked up a few in different colors, each holding about 200 discs.
Works perfect for drivers, games, music, netflix backups, software, or anything else round and flat.
Wont it be Enterprise E, seeing that it was in space dock undergoing repairs at the end of the last Star Trek movie. I think the better question is, will B4 become Data?