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Episode 6 - Production Notes

Today’s shoot went better than any of us could have anticipated. We shot a hacking segment with Harrison and Wess both in studio and down town and we’re very pleased with the final cut. With only two more segments to shoot tomorrow we’re all very excited about releasing this episode. Production quality is leaps and bounds above the last and our new set is near completion.

Harrison and Wess break it down on set.

You can tell by the big grin it was a good hack

We are also happy to say that our dedicated server is now up and running. It shouldn’t be long before we move direct downloads and bit torrents to that box. Again, thanks to everyone who has supported us along the way. It’s been nearly 7 months since production first started and we couldn’t have dreamed of better fans.

–Darren

Production Notes, Easter Egg Hunt and More

Production Notes:
Episode 6 is on a roll. We took some time off to attend the TechTV Holiday Meetup, do the festive holiday stuff, and give the set and graphics a face lift, but with these last few days we’re cranking out segments left and right. I’m sure the image below will leave you wondering for a few days.

Try saying Cadmium Sulfide five times fast

We’re really excited about this next release; we’ve put a lot of work into each segment as well as the set and graphics.

Easter Egg Hunt Update:
As promised I’m giving everyone who is playing the Easter egg hunt from episode 5 a heads up on the next round. The final round of the hunt will be at 5:00 AM GMT on January 1st, 2006. Yes that’s just as the ball finishes its descent at time square in NYC. Don’t worry, there is only one final question to the hunt and I doubt the extra special holiday eggnog will affect your chances of winning. Incase you have no idea what I’m talking about head over to the episode 5 Easter egg hunt page and watch the video. Winner will be announced on episode 6.

Server Update:
As you are probably all aware for the last few months we have been using our account with filefarmer as our primary direct download spot. While we’ve been happy with filefarmer’s service nothing can make ten thousand downloads fit through a ten megabit pipe in one day. Thankfully we’ve just purchased a dedicated server on a 100mbit connection which should handle the heavy load we receive for the first week and a half of the month. This also means that shortly we will be up on iTunes with a brand new RSS feed. Thank you to everyone who has generously donated and helped us make this important next step.

I wish everyone a safe and happy new year and we’ll see you, hopefully with much faster downloads, on the 5th of January in 2006.

–Darren

How Hak5 Stole Christmas

Credits: Darren Kitchen, Harrison Holland, Jamie Elkins, Santa
 
 
 
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Episode 6 - Post Meetup Wrapup

What an amazing week it has been. All of Hak.5, sans Harrison due to exams, flew up to Toronto for the December TechTVHolidayMeetup. We had the most amazing time, and got such great footage too. I’m sure you will all enjoy episode 6 due January 5th of course. For flickr pics of the event check out Sean Carruthers, Brian McKechnie, and Andrew Paranczuk. Also keep an eye on Joel Morgan’s site for a video of the event. I’d point you to one of the Hak5 flickr accounts but we were too busy enjoying the event to really take pics. I’ve got a few grainy shots from my camera phone at textamerica for what it’s worth. Here are just a few Hak.5 Toronto highlights:

Darren, Mike (CFH, CommandN), Wess, Ali, Jon rock the meetup

Mubix, Adam (WASD), Frank (techPhile), Jon (Hak.5), Darren (Hak.5), Chad (WASD), Wess (Hak.5) all getting our micro on for Kyle from Pure Pwnage.

Leo Laporte, Darren, Jon, Wess, Ali, and Mubix on the set of Call For Help 2.0 after our segment (CFH Episode 315 for those interested)

The meetup was amazing, so many great people and chatting with the fans we met there rocked. Call for Help was both entertaining and educational; watching how the pros do it was inspiring. Much love and big shoutouts to everyone who welcomed us and took care of us in Canada. Shoutouts go to Frank, Leo, Amber, Mike, Brian, Jeff, Alex, Steve, Bill, Jenna, Chad, Adam, Sean, Andy, Matt, Ringer, Katya, Mohit, Doug, Kyle, Mubix, Branson, and everyone else who made us welcome in Toronto Land.

Now that we’re back from vacation its double time to get this episode filmed and out the door by the 5th!

–Darren

Episode 1×05

In this episode of Hak.5 Wess finishes up his sub-$100 mini arcade cabinet, Darren talks streaming audio and video, Jon dives into AJAX, and Harrison plays with metasploit. Plus the Microshaft Jackhammer 5160, special guest star Frank Linhares, guest intro by Mike Lazazzera, music by Ashley Witt, and a not-so-friendly server.
 
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Episode 5 is on its way

Episode 5 is being uploaded now. We should be releasing it very soon. I’ll just give you a heads up on the crazy weekend we just had. Frank Linhares of the techPhile podcast came down Thursday to guest star in Episode 5 as well as broadcast the live techphile podcast with us. If you missed the live event you can download it over at techphile.ca. A video version will be available soon.

Frank left on the 4th, leaving me just 24 hours to quickly edit the last segments, render, upload, the whole 9-yards. Everything would have gone as planned but unexpectedly my computer started shutting down while rendering. After trying just about everything for a few hours, including building a complete new rendering box, I realized that my computer was running at almost 190′ F. Poor little Athlon. I checked the heat sink and found the biggest dust bunny I’ve ever seen. There was a huge dust bunny infestation that was clogging up the heat sink fan. Yikes!

So now I’m in the process of writing up all of the little files that go along with releasing an episode and we should see it shortly. Head over to #hak5 on irc.techphile.ca to join the party, and again I apologize for the later than normal release.

–Darren

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