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January 07, 2009

Hak.5
Hak5 - GPU accelerated MD5 Brute Forcing, Easy Windows Password Recovery with Ophcrack live USB and Dave Randolph
In this first episode of '09 Dave Randolph joins us to geek out about all things video. Darren whips up a Password Cracking Cocktail and shows off a wicked fast MD5 brute force tool that harnesses the power of your Nvidia graphics card. Shannon saves the day by recovering her sisters Windows password with Ophcrack Live. And Evil Server gets his evil on while we were away on holiday.

January 06, 2009

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0266: EC Lug Decemeber 11th Meeting
EC Lug December 11th Meeting

January 05, 2009

Lab Rats
CES 2009 Special Update!
Andy and Sean deliver a special message for the fans from their limo on the Vegas strip.

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0265: CrunchBang Linux
monsterb and threethirty talk about CrunchBang Linux, Openbox and Terminator.Links:CrunchBang LinuxOpenboxTerminatorUnix Porn!Screenshots: pic1, pic2CrunchBang Repo:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/spring/ubuntu intrepid maindeb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gezakovacs/ubuntu intrepid maindeb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/spring/ubuntu intrepid maindeb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gezakovacs/ubuntu intrepid main

January 02, 2009

Couple of Admins
MOR81 - Your Mother Was A Hamster
Recorded: December 31, 2008 Your Host: Steve Murawski and Keith Albright Show Length: 42:11 This show is brought to you by Quest Software. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that [...]

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0264: Interacting with GSM Modems
Seal talks about GSM Modems

January 01, 2009

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0263: 1 year anniversary special
Enigma and Wintermute21 talk about their favorite episodes from Season 1 and discuss changes that Season 2 will bring.

December 31, 2008

Hak.5
Hak5 - Laser Range Finding and File Recovery
In this new years eve episode Jason Appelbaum joins us to talk about Laser Range Finding using the USB Missile Launcher and some custom code. Chris Gerling is in the house doing file recovery the down and dirty way. Trust your Technolust and thanks for a great '08!

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0262: Programming 101: The Basics
Xoke starts the Programming series giving some background on his experience as well as some programming fundamentals.

December 30, 2008

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0261: Force Unleashed
Enigma starts things off with the first episode of the Game review series, he reviews Force Unleashed for the Wii

December 29, 2008

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0260: All Songs considered 5: Big Dave Yates
An Ode to Dave Yates by Chad from the linuxbasement

December 27, 2008

Couple of Admins
MOR - Geek Grinch 2008
Just a little something goofy I put together for the holiday season. I had hoped to release this before the Christmas holiday, but things got hectic around the Albright homestead. I hope you enjoy. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us at the Mind Of Root podcast. Listen Now: Download Here

December 26, 2008

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0259: Drupal: From blank to blog in 30 minutes
UTOSC 2008: Drupal: From blank to blog in 30 minutes by Dirk Howard Drupal is an extensible Content Management System (CMS) that is used for blogs, forums, photo galleries and many other uses. Installing Drupal on a blank website can be done in as little as 30 minutes. All you need is a web server that can handle PHP, a MySQL or PostgreSQL database, and either FTP or shell access to the web server. Within 30 minutes you can be blogging on your own site that you can customize anyway you want.

December 25, 2008

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0258: Xmas Special
Xmas \"Live\" Special, Hosts include slick0, droops morgellon, Tottenkoph, killersmurf, fawksfyre, Enigma, PlexiE, threethirty

December 24, 2008

Hak.5
Hak5 - VMware Server, Electric Sheep, InkScape, and TreePie
In this Holiday Special Hak5 the cast delivers a smathering of thier choices in freeware/shareware, open source applicatons. Matt sings praise of the free Vmware Server product for virutual goodies. Jason Applebaum discovers his once lost joy in having hard drive space with TreePie. Shannon show her affection for our mechanical friends with ElectricSheep. Darren wish peace for the whole graphics art world with InkScape. Finally Paul decks the halls with a few of his applications for OSX.

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0257: Apps I Installed on my eee pc
Apps I installed on my eee pc. debian eee pc

December 23, 2008

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0256: Ditching ITunes
In which pixel_juice describes the steps he took to kick the iTunes habit and embrace freedom. Rockbox - http://www.rockbox.org gPodder - http://gpodder.berlios.de/ EasyTAG - http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ OGG Vorbis - http://flac.sourceforge.net/

December 22, 2008

Lab Rats
Episode 152: You got a new PC...what next?
In episode 152, Got a brand new computer? Andy and Sean take a look at what you should do first, to make sure you stay safe and don't run into troubles down the road.

Power Scripting
Episode 53 - PowerScripting Podcast - Jeffrey Snover and Bruce Payette
We have a great âCTP3 showâ lined up for you today. Our special guests are Jeffrey Snover and Bruce Payette from Microsoft.

Sponsor info

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Quest: When it comes to scripting, youâre a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Questâs PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShellâs strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.
Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today
iTripoli: What can you really do with PowerShell? With Admin Script Editor the question becomes what canât 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.

Interview

Questions for Jeffrey and Bruce from USteam

rfoust : ## what is the biggest design problem you see w/ powershell right now
glnsize : ## why was the decision made to wed V2 to w7 w2k8 r2?
xx JeffHicks : ##what can you tell mgmt who is reluctant to embrace PowerShell
xx finked : ## how did you win over the nay sayers?
xx rfoust : ## it has been said that posh wasnt meant to replace cmd. So when is cmd going to go away? $\":)\"$
qa_warrior : # will there be a way to copy a runspace?
xx spowser : ## Will a runspace/session ever be able to interact with the desktop on a remote system?
cartershanklin : ## When do we get ArgumentTransformationAttributes in script cmdlets?
xx gaurhoth : ## scvmm 2008 and scom 2007 both require Powershell V1. CTP2 fails the install requirements and fails to install. When V2 is released, whatâs being done to ensure that other product groups donât artificially limit their product to V1?
xx aleksandar : ## how big is the powershell team?
xx rfoust : ## how close does the posh team work w/ the .net team, or are you mostly just a consumer?
Jaykul : ## Is there any plan to support writing CLASSES in PowerSHell?
meson : ## Will PowerShell ever be multithreaded?
Kemis : ## Any plans to expand upon Set-ACL so itâs more on par with CACLS?
xx steve-PSB : ##In Jeffreyâs recent channel 9 interview, he referred to pushing for PowerShell to be the standard shell on various systems, including Linux and hardware devicesâ Are there other major efforts (other than Pash) to get PowerShell on other platforms?
xx Jaykul : ## What about Extension Methods and LINQ?
xx Jaykul : halr9000: .Net 3.5 brought us language integrated queries as an AMAZING way of dealing with collections of all types, and databases â when will PowerShell suport LINQ
xx Jaykul : ## halr9000: AND: in 3.5 there are a lot of âExtensionMethodsâ which show up as .Methods on various objects â is there going to be a way to access those (other than via their STATIC notation) in PowerShell
xx palen : ## What kind of relationship does pash have with the PS team?
xx rfoust : ## jsnover: when ya gonna start using twitter?
xx sepeck : ## do you ever get people who, once exposed to powershell for a week or two, who still donât like it?
xx Jaykul : ## Any chance of an (official) wPowerShell.exe (like wscript.exe) to run scripts which donât need console ui?
xx aleksandar : ## on behalf of Marco Shaw: v2 is pretty much stabilizing. Is COM support going to stay as-is or will be improved at some point (v3)?
aleksandar : ## another Marco Shawâs Q: Anything on possible v3 features? More support for transactions, for example?
jon_medd : ## do they approach third parties and encourage them to make cmdlets or wait for the third parties to ask them stuff?
xx ChadMiller : ## I understand Jeffrery was an architect on wmic. How did his wmic experience influence Powershell
xx jeffhicks: ##can CTP3 be installed on Windows 7 betas?
xx palen : ## Is navigating the registry going to be changing at all? Get-ItemProperty just is not intuitive, I donât think
aleksandar : ## is it possible to assign -whatif output to a variable (or save it in a file) other than with start-transcript
rfoust : ## is the registry ever going away or upgraded? lol probably not a question you can answer, but who knows
xx sepeck : ## will the remoting work on windows 2003?
xx cartershanklin : ## Jeffrey, where do you buy your ties?
xx glnsize : ## what if anything has been done to improve the provider experiance?
xx steve-PSB : #Are there any other books focused at developing for PowerShell (more advanced than the existing Wrox title) that you are aware of?
dmoravec : ## Are you in touch with Script Center to help them to be more PoSh
xx rfoust : ## what problem are you annoyed that you werenât able to address in posh v2
xx spowser : ## Is there any reason why a runspace cannot interact with the desktop? Critical for our Automation
xx aleksandar : ## for bruce: when can we expect powershell in action 2.0?implementation
xx finked : ## What about Add_Type -Language FSharp
finked : ## I work for investment banks in NY.Pushing an msi for PoSh to Traders machines doesnât fly well.How can this be made easier?
foust : ## are you working on posh v3 yet?
palen : ## Did I hear in the Erik Meijer interview that there will be a version of Posh that is deployable via IIS?
xx hal: do you worry about cmdlet-bloat?
JeffHicks : ##is a roadmap or can one be published?
xx JeffHicks : we need netsh cmdlets
xx finked : ## What about PioSh with Live Mesh and Oslo?
xx aleksandar : ## have you ever expected such a passionate response from the community?
xx glnsize : ## will powershell and wsman eventualy be released via windows updateâ i.e. next year or so
DManVid : ## superhero for the ânew guyâ!

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0255: Pmount
The glories of pmount - allowing you to mount arbitrary hotpluggable devices as a normal user. Pmount home page See your distribution repository for the file Slackware users can find it in sbopkg oh yeah!

December 19, 2008

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0254: Expressive Programming Vol 5: Drawing the Line
Episode 5 of uberchicks Expressive Programming series

December 18, 2008

Couple of Admins
MOR 80 - Zero-Days ’til Christmas
Recorded: December 17, 2008 Your Host: Steve Murawski and Keith Albright Show Length: 1:26:52 This show is brought to you by Quest and Idera. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts [...]

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0253: Encryption
Three Prime Numbers: 2, 3 and 5. I will call them A, B and C so A=2, B=3 and C=5 Working through x as the current position, and i being the unencrypted password and j being the encrypted as an array, so i[x] is the 'current' position we get: j[x] = ((j[x-1] + i[x] + A) * B ) MOD C The password example I give is: Encrypting 123 1 (unencrypted password) + 2 (Prime A) = 3 3 * 3 (Prime B) = 9 9 MOD 5 (Prime C) = 4 4 (previous encrypted) + 2 (current unencrypted) + 2 (Prime A) = 8 8 * 3 (Prime B) = 24 24 MOD 5 (Prime C) = 4 4 (previous encrypted) + 3 (current unencrypted) + 2 (Prime A) = 9 9 * 3 (Prime C) = 27 27 MOD 5 (Prime C) = 2 So the encrypted password is 442

December 17, 2008

Hak.5
Hak5 - SSH Tunneling, Independent Games, Updating Multiple Blogs At Once, and Password Protecting Applications
In this extensive episode Matt shows us how to setup SSH tunneling to securely transmit HTTP traffic and more while on the go. Shannon checks out some student entries to the 2009 Independent Games Festival, including City Rain, Glitch, Froggle, Blazar, and Akrasia. Darren puts together a PHP script that, in conjunction with Ping.fm, allows you to update multiple blogs at once including your own hosted Wordpress. Plus this weeks LAN Party, revamped Trivia and viewer questions.

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0252: Google App Engine 101
Google launched the App Engine service earlier this year to immense interest from the web development community. App Engine allows running applications on Google infrastructure, including BigTable, Google’s non-relational, massively scalable database. App Engine is appealing both at the low end, where small shops don’t want to have to deal with hardware procurement and systems administration, and at the high end, where the kind of “instant scaling” App Engine promises to deal with bursty traffic is the holy grail of infrastructure planning. This tutorial will cover the basics of App Engine development, including development and deployment of a simple application. If time permits we will cover some more advanced aspects of the SDK, such as the caching API. Please sign up for an App Engine account and download the SDK ahead of time so we can jump right in to the code. Basic Python knowledge will be assumed. If you are already an experienced programmer, I recommend “Dive Into Python.” If you str s complete novice, I recommend “Python for Dummies,” which despite the name really is the best basic text I’ve seen. And if you are somewhere in between, I recommend “Learning Python,” 3rd ed. “Dive into Python” is available in print and free on the web; the others are only available in print.

December 16, 2008

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0251: All Songs Considered 4: Livin With a Geek
Another song by Chad from the Linux Basement

December 15, 2008

Lab Rats
Episode 151: Mailbag #6
In episode 151, Andy and Sean answer more of your viewer mail, and Cheryl shows off a program that will help you keep all your drivers up to date.

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0250: What Ogg Player
Samsung YP-U3 Supporting without updating firmware http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=540577 Where to look for a ogg player http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/PortablePlayers MTP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol International Firmware: http://celtic.aion.hu/PROGRAM/Samsung_YP_U3/DFU.ZIP Use the U3J MTS mode (use it) (http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17656&page=4)

December 14, 2008

Power Scripting
Episode 52 - PowerScripting Podcast - CloudBerry Labs
Today we interview Michael Farnia from CloudBerry Labs. Plus our usual news, resources, and tips.

News

When it comes to scripting, youâre a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Questâs PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShellâs strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.

Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today

SAN vendor Compellent has just released a snapin with over 60-cmdlets.
SAPIEN's blog has some details about new features coming in 2009.

object browser
cmdlet tree
embedded console

Dmitry points us to a post on the PowerGUI.org forums with details of version 1.2 of their AD cmdlets.

Due Q1 or early Q2 2009
"Release would add some additional AD management cmdlets (like tombstone enumeration and un-delete), additional filtering when enumerating group memberships, user-friendly filtering by creation and last modification time, etc. More would come for proxy mode, in particular access to ActiveRoles Server change history storage and approval tasks queue. Also, we are going to make another iteration with performance optimization."

Back on Nov 21st, Joel released a new version of his Get-DNS cmdlet which works like dig on Linux.

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.

CloudBerry Labs: http://www.cloudberrylab.com/
The snapin http://www.cloudberrylab.com/?id=14
JeffHicks : ##I don't know much about Amazon's S3 service. What is it and why would I care as a Windows admin?
rfoust : ## how does authentication work?
rfoust: ## can you be connected to two accounts at once?
rfoust : ## is the powershell support cmdlets or scripts or both?
ustreamer-62178 : ## will your cloudberry stuff support Rackspace's cloud?
rfoust : ## can it auto recover from failed transfers?
cartershanklin : ## Are they looking to do more than storage? Deploy apps to EC2? Or anything else with EC2?
JeffHicks : ##do the powershell cmdlets duplicate everything you can do in the GUI? Or ore are the extra features in the GUI or PowerShell onl?
cartershanklin : ## No extensibility / API I mean
JeffHicks : ##how is their app licensed?
sepeck : ## Is this for v1 or v2 and anything related to the cloud computing tools announced with Azure at the MS PDC?

Resources

This segment is brought to you by Idera:
Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera's PowerShellPlus Professional Edition which is now available for download! The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive Learning Center. Go to www.idera.com/PodcastPeople to get your copy today!

Network troubleshooting script from Thomas Lee: Send-UDPDatagran.ps1. You can also download all of his scripts in one go at his script library.
The latest RTWA eJournal has an article by Jeff Hicks titled "Practical PowerShell: Managing WMI Events with Windows PowerShell, Part 1".
Correlate VMware disk usage withthis script by Hugo Peeters. Goes from VM's logical disks, to partitions, to vmdks, to datastores.
The guys at Microsoft's security vulnerability blog have posted a script that will disable protocol handlers to reduce the attack surface on a PC.
Script to download all of the PDC content
Here's a great list of one-liners
PowerShell WMI Wizard from Jeff Hicks

Gotcha

foreach ($OU in $myOUs) {

$myUsers = Get-QADobject -SearchRoot $OU -LdapFilter $myFilter -IncludedProperties mailNickName

$myUsers | Format-Table mailnickname

}

out-lineoutput : Object of type "Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatStartData" is not legal or not in the correct sequence. This is likely caused by a user-specified "format-table" command which is conflicting with the default formatting.

One-Liner

This was modified from an idea originally by the PowerShell Jedi. Go check out his new blog.

([wmiclass]"\\$computer\root\cimv2:win32_product").Install($msi)

December 12, 2008

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0249: Puppy 411
Getting Compiling Working in Puppy Creating a Pet Package Puppy Custom Re-Spins Puppy Custom Version for the EEE PC

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