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October 30, 2008

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0218: Source Cast Ep 5
orginal audio from sourcecast 3.14

October 29, 2008

Hak.5
Hak5 - HappyHakoween: Password Cracking Clusters, Remote Control Services, Wireshark Packet Filtering
Matt shows us how to turn anything into a service and provide a web frontend to manage them windows server, great for game server administration. Chris Gerling wraps up his three part series on Packet Sniffing with Wireshark techniques for packet filtering. Darren harnesses the CPU power of the HakHouse for good or evil to demonstrate cluster computing. Plus details on our Hak5 Halloween LAN Party!

Power Scripting
Episode 46 - PowerScripting Podcast - Chad Miller on SQL PSX

Today we interview Chad Miller, author of the SQL PSX project. And of course we'll throw in our other usual goodies.

News

This segment is brought to you by Idera.
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Interview

Admin Script Editor (which recently received Windows IT Pro's top award) provides a true integrated scripting environment for PowerShell. Advanced features include an integrated PowerShell debugger, advanced code generating tools for Active Directory, Databases, XML files and more. Let's not forget about the exclusive PowerShell forms designer. Come see for yourself-- Admin Script Editor v3.5 is availble for a 45 day trial at AdminScriptEditor.com.

We had a great interview with Chad Miller, the author of the SQL PSX project on Codeplex. Below are some of the questions which were submitted by Ustream viewers.

glnsize : ## is powershell speading throughout his it dept?
mwjcomputing : ##How much of his day to day operations are managed using Powershell?
glnsize : ## have you looked at V2 script cmdlets?
mwjcomputing : ## When dealing with Auditors, do they have any objection to Powershell being the tool to gather the security information?
stahler : ## ADO.NET through PowerShell or SQLCMD through PowerShell?
meson : ## Any comments on a SQL database PSProvider?
mwjcomputing : ## When gathering security information, does Powershell cause any performance hit on the database?
glnsize : ##from a DBA perspective what is powershell missing?

Resources

This segment is brought to you by Quest:

Quest Software is offering Powerscripting Podcast listeners a free copy of Jeffery Hicks new book, Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM from Sapien Press. Visit quest.com/powerscripting to register for your copy, before they run out. While youâre there download their free graphical user interface, script editor and Active Directory commands.

Working with NetApp in PowerShell
Another Great Don Jones Video Demo
Dev Resources!
- PowerShell Tunnel - Make your app scriptable using PowerShell
- Creating Subversion Repositories using PowerShell
- Doug Finke - Displaying SVN Info On Your PowerShell Prompt
- Displaying GIT Branch On Your PowerShell Prompt

Tips

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0217: Linux Media and Home Automation
Linux Media and Home Automation by Brandon Beattie Utah Open Source Podcast @ http://podcast.utos.org/

October 28, 2008

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0216: What's in your toolkit part 1
threethirty talks about what he carries around in his backpack

October 27, 2008

Lab Rats
Episode 144: Geek Health and Ergonomics
In episode 144, Andy and Sean are both on the ball as they share tips about how to keep your body healthy while you're using your computer. Meanwhile, Cheryl shows off a program to help you prevent Repetitive Stress Injury.

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0215: Guide to using linux Rainbow tables
finux's student-hacker guild to using linux rainbow tables

October 24, 2008

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0214: EC Lug October 23 Meeting
EC Lug October 23rd Meeting

October 23, 2008

Couple of Admins
Episode 72 - Breathe Steve! Breathe!
Recorded: October 22, 2008 Your Host: Keith Albright and Steve Murawski Show Length: 1:15:31 This show is sponsored by Idera; Download free tools to help manage your Windows world at Idera.com. Apologies for running a little long this time. Steve cam back from his week out with a lot of great stuff to talk about. Links mentioned in this show: ITIL [...]

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0213: Fav Podcasts
monsterb and Peter64 talk about their favorite podcasts.Links:monsterb.org/Favorite Podcastsmonsterb.org/PodcastsPodiobooks.comThe Linux Link

October 22, 2008

Hak.5
Hak5 - Dissect TCP/IP, Dos Box, Alice, Day-Con, and Fon Batteries
Chris Gerling breaks down IP and TCP headers with Wireshark and building blocks. Shannon Morse shows us DosBox, a free IBM PC DOS emulator. Christine Bourquin talks about Alice, a teaching programming language for beginners. Darren Kitchen summarises his experience at Day-Con and answers some questions about Fon batteries.

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0212: The Dark Art of Autotools
The Dark Art of Autotools by John Jolly Utah open source podcast http://podcast.utos.org/

October 21, 2008

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0211: Copy fight Vol 3
threethirty continues his copyfight series

October 20, 2008

Lab Rats
Episode 143: Demystifying DPI
In episode 143, Andy and Sean explain Dots Per Inch with the assistance of a giant green eyeball, and talk about why that's different from image resolution. Cheryl shows off an application that will help you save ink while printing.

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0210: SourceCast Episode 4
original audio from sourcecast ep 4 found at sourcecast.org

October 17, 2008

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0209: Speeding Up Database Development with GenORMous
Speeding Up Database Development with GenORMous by Brian Hawkins Utah Open source podcast found at http://podcast.utos.org/

October 16, 2008

Couple of Admins
Episode 71 - The Earl Of Active Directory
Recorded: October 15, 2008 Your Host: Keith Albright and Rich Niemeier Show Length: 1:03:32 This show is sponsored by Idera; Download free tools to help manage your Windows world at Idera.com. Links mentioned in this show: OpenOffice 3.0 Released Symantec buys MessageLabs BootCD Essential Websites BartPE the original Ultimate Boot CD For Windows Boot-Land.net Microsoft’s Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset Reatogo 911CD US Government Backing DNS SEC Ports used by SMB [...]

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0208: Expressive Prgramming Part 3
uberchick continues her expressive programming series

October 15, 2008

Hak.5
Hak5 - Toorcon 2008: Robin Wood, Dan Griffin, and Jacob Appelbaum
Darren and Shannon head to San Diego for Toorcon and meet up with Robin Wood, Dan Griffin, and Jacob Appelbaum to talk about Jasager, Sharepoint Hacking, and the Cold Boot Attack. Plus Darren's travel tips and \"name that aircraft\".

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0207: Vulgar Esperanto Part 3
klaatu continues his Esperanto series

October 14, 2008

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0206: This Runs Linux
ken fallon talks about thisrunslinux.org

October 13, 2008

Lab Rats
Episode 142: Protect Your Identity
In episode 142, Andy and Sean look at how to prevent identity theft, both online and offline.

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0205: Open Source for the Windows Addict
Utah Lug Presentation http://podcast.utos.org/

October 12, 2008

Power Scripting
Episode 45 - PowerScripting Podcast - Roundtable

Today we have a rockin' roundtable which includes:

Jeffrey Snover
Don Jones
Alex Reidel
Kirk Munro

And of course we'll throw in our other usual goodies.

News

The news is brought to you by iTripoli.

What can you really do with PowerShell? With Admin Script Editor the question becomes what can't you do with PowerShell? Besides all the advanced code generating tools this is the only tool offering a true PowerShell Forms Designer. To illustrate what can be done the guys at iTripoli created a full-featured MP3/Podcast player written entirely in PowerShell and delivered as a single script. Check it out at adminscripteditor.com/player.

Sapien has announced a forthcoming forms editor called PrimalForms which will allow you to create forms, save them as XML and create PowerShell code. On top of that they are going to release it for free!
Be sure to catch the UK PowerShell UG: November 20th in Reading
Dmitry will be presenting some PowerShell sessions at Quest Connect on Oct 22nd-23rd.
New software release on IIS.net: Microsoft Web Deployment Tool - Beta 1 Go Live
If you'd like to get an early peek at Richard Siddaway's new book PowerShell in Practice, you can do so on Manning's site.

Roundtable

This segment is brought to you by Quest:

A Thousand Things 1% Better
What's most important for a posh newbie to learn?
JeffHicks : ## What do you see as the biggest obstacles to PowerShell adoption?
"PowerShell isn't complete?"

<Jay> no admin worth his salt is going to go through and update hundreds of servers with yet another thing to patch, another to mantain, another security to worry about, reboots, touching things, etc, just to be able to run a non complete technology that they haven't learned yet because it is a pain in the ass, and oh, it's not complete
cartershanklin : ## Jeffrey, do you think user adoption of PS is faster or slower than you anticipated?

Script vs. Shell
Coolest use of PowerShell that you've seen--and what's to come.
What third-party software is missing?
Is PowerShell useful for <insert concept here>?

e.g. cloud computing

Ustream Questions

rfoust : ## what is the easiest way for non-developers to find .net methods to work with in powershell? searching msdn is a pain
JeffHicks : ## Where will PowerShell be in 3-5 years?
JeffHicks : ## What will MS take responsiblity for in PowerShell and what do they expect 3rd parties to support or add?
rfoust : ## whats a good bridge for scripters wanting to convert scripts into real c# compiled cmdlets
rfoust : ## do you see cmdlet naming conflicts becoming a problem in the future? not the namespace but the actual cmdlet name
rfoust : ## do you see scripts running as a service anytime in the future?
cartershanklin : ## script scheduling, same question.
ye110wbeard : ## Can Powershell be used to email backup logs made in W2K8 Server backup?
rfoust : ## is microsoft helping Pash devlopment any?
JeffHicks : ## Is MS promoting PowerShell at the management level in orgs or letting it bubble up from the admins?
makson : ## is there a cmdlet for powershell that is equivelent to sed in bash?

Resources

From the SAPIEN blog: PrimalScript: Did you know about Snippets?
New PowerGUI PowerPack: PowerShell for WSUS
From Brandon Shell, now writing on TurboChargeAD.org: Bulking Importing User from CSV file using Quest cmdlets

Gotcha

From Stephen Campbell:

Open a cmd prompt on a Win2003 server and type the following:
mkdir c:\test1
net share test1=c:\test1 /grant:everyone,full
Now type the name commands in Powershell
new-item c:\test2 -type directory
net share test2=c:\test2 /grant:everyone,full
When I do the net share command in Powershell, the /Grant returns a syntax error. Until I remembered about the comma!! The following works great.
net share test2=c:\test2 /grant:everyone`,full

October 10, 2008

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0204: EC Lug October 9th meeting
EC Lug October 9th meeting

October 09, 2008

Couple of Admins
Episode 70 - Sharepoint Go Boom
Recorded: October 8, 2008 Your Host: Keith Albright and Steve Murawski Show Length: 1:04:29 This show is sponsored by Idera; Download free tools to help manage your Windows world at Idera.com. Links mentioned in this show: Make you Mac phone home Cronnix - Mac OS X crontab editor Google Mail Goggles Cisco VPN Client roadmap Vista 3rd Party VPN client compatibility schedule SafeNet SoftRemote VPN [...]

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0203: Alpine: How to
Klaatu talks about the virtues of the Alpine (or Pine) email client, how to set it up, special settings for using it with IMAP servers, how to configure the reply-to address correctly, and much more. Alpine Official Site Pine Official Site OGG version

October 08, 2008

Hak.5
Hak5 - Packet Sniffing 101, Social Media with Boxee, and multiple Gordon Freemans with Synergy
Chris Gerling begins a three part series on Packet Sniffing starting with the fundamentals of packet structure, the OSI model, tools and terminology. Matt harnesses the social power of media with Boxee, a social media center based on XMBC. Shannon demos out Synergy, the Half-Life 2 co-op mod, and Darren check out Cron for Windows.

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0202: cpanel whitelisting
Deepgeek talks about using cpanel, a common web front-end for budget webhost accounts, to create spam-free mobile email via whitelisting. companion article

October 07, 2008

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0201: phreaknic
droops interviews skydog the lead organizer of phreaknic

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