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 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