I’ve started a Tips page, which you can find on the top bar of this site. If there’s anything you want me to add let me know. There will be some more stuff going up onto it later on tonight.
As I am a fairly nice fellow, I took on the job of looking at a coworker’s laptop to see what was wrong with it this week. She had told me it would bluescreen right after the Windows XP logo came up when the machine was booting. I was just going to slick it as she didn’t care about any of the data on it but upon attempting to do so, I noticed some weird things going on with the hard drive, it failed to be recognized by windows setup. I double checked the BIOS boot order, as well as AHCI presence but everything was in order.
Next, I used the self-test capability I found in the BIOS, and that failed at 10%. I had a copy of the ultimate boot cd and randomly selected HDAT2 from the hard drive diagnostic tools available. This proved to be very effective. The whole process took approximately an hour or so, but rebuilt 4 bad sectors for me, and the machine booted into the Windows XP logon screen with no issues. I believe the HD still needs to be replaced, but I will let the coworker decide that for themselves.
I tried to sit down and write a couple of times during the week, but I was just too busy.
The Enterprise Fiasco from Hell
The family came down and spent 5 days with me, which was a blast for the most part. We had a horror story worthy of an entirely separate posting, but I will summarize it a bit here: Read more »
I made my appearance on hak5live last night and all I can say is that it was quite an interesting night. I was a little tense with the cameras at first but I think I managed to pretend they weren’t there after a couple of minutes.
My show and tell involved Homebrew roms obtained from http://www.pineight.com/gba/ and http://www.pdroms.de/ from within an Ubuntu 7.04 environment using an Xbox 360 controller and the VisualBoy Advance emulator. I used the VBAExpress frontend for it to save on the command-line usage.
I think we all learned quite a lot about how different production is for a live show versus a show that undergoes editing before being released. The first 35 to 40 minutes after the 30 minute delay in starting went pretty well I thought. The next time they do this it should be much more streamlined.
The show should be edited and available for download sometime in the next couple of days. Visit http://www.hak5.org and http://www.hak5live.org for more details.
