Low Orbit Ion Cannon

Posted on January 3, 2012 by JT

Seems the worlds a buzz about the low orbit ion cannon. Even the FBI is all over it, as if it was a wepon of mass destruction. The Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) is a great peice of open source software but it is a perfect example of how a bit of information in the wrong hands can be big trouble.

First the FBI – i cant beleave how there are kids sitting in jail right now that the FBI has put there becuase they downloaded and used the LOIC, and what are they facing? 15 years!! You know how many times I get d-dosed and the provider says “Sorry for your luck, welcome to the internet”

Second are the script kiddies – How do i know they are script kiddies? They downloaded HACKING tools that are open soruce, then complain their antiviruse say its a viruse. READ the source code!

For those of you wanting to check it out goto http://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/

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MythTV on VMWARE – Debugging

Posted on December 27, 2011 by JT

After installing on centos (see Centos Compile post) i had lots of dead locks. Here is the stetup i use to reproduce them .
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Centos Upgrade 6.0 to 6.2

Posted on December 27, 2011 by JT

To easly upgrade Centos 6.x to a newer 6.x simply issue the

yum update
reboot

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Canada’s multitude of choices for telephone service

Posted on December 24, 2011 by JT

I as speaking with some pople the other day about the mass amount of choices we have as canadians for cell phone service, and it astounds me that people beleave this to be true. I mean sure, every other commercial on the radio is a cell phone company trying to push its own cell phone plan, but the reality is the chouices are not so plentiful.

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Android E-Mail – To The Cloud

Posted on December 24, 2011 by JT

Had a question today “How do i add outlook emails into my android device”.

Well the easiest way i could think of is to get a GMail account. By getting a Gmail account, you can add your other e-mail accounts as an “import” feature, and setup alternative outgoing e-mail accounts and thus making your GMail a hub for all your incomming e-mail. To add these email accounts click on the Gear at the top right corner of your gmail screen, select Gmail Settings. Once in the setting screen select the Import Account tab.
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Creating KEYS for OpenVPN Server on Windows

Posted on December 23, 2011 by JT

Ok so to create a CA for your openvpn here is what you do
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Your Face Will Be Your Password

Posted on December 23, 2011 by JT

So i read the article “Trouble Remembering Passwords In Future Face Need“. I remember last year Toshiba had this for their laptops, along with alot of other companies.

If memory serves a properly shaded picture of the owner was all you needed to unlock the computers.

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Compile MythTV with GIT on Centos 6.x

Posted on December 21, 2011 by JT

I used the Centos NetInstall disk, pointing it to the 6.2 repos to save on updates later.

Installed CENTOS using Minimal defalts. Once installed i installed Nano as i HATE VI but whatever you use is ok.

Step 1 - Enable CentosPLUS, Repositories etc
nano /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
Under [CentosPlus] change Enable to 1, Save and Exit

Install EPEL and RPM Fusion


rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/testing/6/i386/rpmfusion-free-release-6-0.1.noarch.rpm

Update your installation and reboot

yum -y update
reboot

Step 2 - Disable Nouvaeu
I guess this is optional but i need to disable Nouvaeu for nvidia drivers to work. soo


nano /boot/grub/grub.conf

Add the following to the end of the KERNEL line: rdblacklist=nouveau
Next blacklist it and rebuild initrd

echo "blacklist nouveau" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
reboot

finally after reboot remove the driver (if installed)

yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nouveau

Step 3 - Dev tools and Prerequisits
Install the Dev tools to build Myth, and the prerequisits

yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
yum -y install qt-devel lame-mp3x lame-devel qtwebkit-devel perl-Net-UPnP.noarch perl-DBI perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker python-lxml yasm MySQL-python mysql-server qt-mysql libvdpau-devel alsa-lib-devel ccache

If you are going to be using the graphical front end (IE not Backend SLAVE only on this one) install X and setup the xinitrc file
yum install xorg-x11-xinit xorg-x11-server-Xorg twm xterm
Step 4 - Download and Compile

cd /usr/src
git clone -b fixes/0.24 git://github.com/MythTV/mythtv.git mythtv
cd mythtv/mythtv
./configure

If everythign checks out


make
make install

Step 5 - Config
Configure and start database

cd database
chkconfig mysqld --level 2345 on
service mysqld start
mysql < mc.sql

Setup Libraries


echo /usr/local/lib64/ > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/locallib.conf
echo /usr/local/lib/ >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/locallib.conf
ldconfig -v

Reboot

Step 6 - Testing
Since MYTHTV keeps crashig on my i have it running in an VM environment, for testing i setup a basic config

Once i get Myth stable on this install i will update with rest config rules

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Compile nVidia v256.53 on Kernel 3.1

Posted on December 1, 2011 by JT

As luck would have it my Asus board needs to run on v256 because anything higher the audio dies after an X reboot (See nVidia Asus Board Gefore 8330.

But starting with kernel 3.0 it will no longer compile, so out came the hacker in me and started hacking away at the files and i got it to work. Not much modification needs to be made to get it to work actually. Most of it is just test to make sure the kernel is a hard-coded compatible one.

Here is how to do it
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Nvidia – ASUS board GeForce 8300 – HDMI Audio Fails

Posted on November 30, 2011 by JT

I waited patiently for a fix from Nvidia but i dont think it will come. The problem

After upgrading to nVidia driver 260.19.29, Everythign works great but after X closes the first time after a clean boot, audio dies. Apperntly im not the only one with this problem. So i read and i read and found nothing.

Basically
For all drivers >= V260:
* sound over HDMI is working exactly once after a reboot
* if I try to restart X, im losing sound permanently until I reboot the machine

But:
* if I stop X and exchange the driver by an old one (V195 or V256) WITHOUT rebooting, im getting back sound.

This does not work for any Driver >=260, swapping the driver back to one of these Versions still requires a reboot to get sound working again

No Solution? Only think you can do is run 256.53.

You can find it here

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/256.53/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.53.run

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