First off I want to thank everyone that made the transition to the new IRC server, irc.hak5.org, successful. And thanks to everyone that’s helped us “beta test” the game server and offered suggestions. I’m sure over the coming months we’ll get to all the games that have been suggested (with the exception of multi-player-minesweeper )

And now the awesome big news. Hak.5 is being featured in the May issue of Wired Magazine! That rocks! Check us out on page 128 where we’re called “An appealing cast of übergeeks” with a “Must See!” vodcast. Thanks Wired!

Episode 10 production is going good, yet slow. Maybe it’s the senioritis kicking in since we’re working on the season finale. Last weekend we got rained out, hindering our ability to shoot the scheduled segment. So we got some inspiration and decided to shoot this little Firefox ad with Evil Server. IRC-goers can find the secret URL to the B-Roll on that .

We’re in Toronto Thursday – Sunday this week shooting some Hak.5 stuff and doing a few segments for upcoming episodes of Call for Help. Kick me an email if your in town and down for a Rickard’s Red .

Trüsten Der Technölusten,
–Darren

Good news all! We now have a new and more stable IRC server at irc.hak5.org. We welcome everyone to join us in #hak5. We’ll be slowly making the transition over the week. Thanks go to Oliver Wine for making that happen smoothly.

And in other awesome news, we’re currently beta-testing a new Hak.5 game server — sponsored by EVOLANS.com. We’re currently testing Counter-Strike: Source. You can join us on the server at game.hak5.org (password is hak5). Kick us an email or leave a comment about your experience, we want to get everything worked out before episode 10 release on May 5th.

Thanks to everyone that has been so supportive bringing these new Hak5 services online.

–Darren

Good news and bad news. The good news: the torrent RSS feeds have been fixed. The bad news: our IRC server is dieing a slow and painful death. We’re currently evaluating options and hope to move to a new IRC server by the end of the week. We’ll have details here when that takes place. If you have suggestions for IRC hosting that won’t break the bank we’d love to hear from you.

In other news, we’re evaluating several gamehosting companies and hope to have a Hak5 gameserver soon. We’ll most likely rotate the game every month and schedule an event where the Hak.5 crew will join in the fragging pleasure.

Thank you everyone for the awesome feedback on episode 9, your continued support means so much to us.

–Darren

Tonight Hak.5 will be featured on the pilot episode Torrent, a new show on G4TechTV. From the website “Torrent is a weekly one-hour television Internet-culture show for tech-savvy audiences looking for unique first-person pop-tech stories from around the world“, however Torrent’s host Amber Mac does a better job of summing it up on her blog.

The pilot episode airs on G4TechTV in Canada at 8:00 PM EST and more information can be found at Torrent’s official site.

We’re excited to be featured on such a unique community driven show and hope everyone has a chance to check it out.

–Darren

In this episode of Hak.5 Jenn Cutter from Openalpha.tv guest hosts, bringing us a PSP-Windows hack. Darren continues his quest for the ultimate vidcast-couch-potato setup with a media center remote over cell-phone. Wess puts his own spin on Dance Dance Revolution with a custom modded dance pad. Rob Fuller of mubix.com joins us to show off his USB thumbdrive toolkit.

Plus an interview with the guys from Podzinger.com, a parody we’ve dubbed ‘the token’, an intro from Sean Carruthers of labrats.tv, leet-hack interviews from Karen Johnson, and Leo Laporte of twit.tv shows his evil side.
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Is the 5th really coming up that fast? Yikes! Render farm to full speed! We just wrapped shooting what we believe to be our best episode ever and can’t wait to release it. Videora and VirtualDub are standing by ready to encode the xvid and mp4 as soon as I finish some final touches. Running time is creeping up on an hour so be prepared for a power packed episode.

Now I know we’ve made a promise from day one to release quality tech/entertainment on the 5th of each month, but I’ll level with ya. The 5th is going to be a crazy day for us for many reasons and it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen. So we’ll be releasing on the 4th! I don’t have a firm time since I’ve got a business trip that day so expect it some time that evening (EST, -5 GMT of course). For the most up to date happenings head over to the IRC chat in #hak5 on irc.techphile.ca. That’s where we’ll be holding the usual release party. If you’ve never joined us in chat for a release party before tomorrow is a perfect time to join the crew and see how much crazy fun it is.

Now without further adieu, production note screenshots hot off the timeline.

Rob Fuller joins Wess with a fantastic segment and a sexy laptop.

Back in the control room things go very wrong. Wess and Darren plan corrective action.

Wess, Jenn, and Darren all remind you to trust your technolust. It’s like using the force!

Thank you everyone for your continued support, it has pushed us to make the show better with every pixel. We hope to see you on the 4th for a rockin’ release!

–Darren