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Hak.5 on Computer America Radio tonight, plus celebrity deathmatch!

July 31, 2006

Hak.5 will be on the Computer America radio show with Carey Holzman tonight (July 31st) at 10pm Eastern (-5 GMT). Computer America is “America’s longest-running nationally syndicated radio talk show about computers”. You can tune into the radio broadcast if it’s carried in your area or listen to the Internet stream and join us in chat for the event.

I’ll make the MP3 available here on Saturday. This is a live call in show so feel free to join in!

***AND***
Tonight will be the first Hak5 celebrity deathmatch. After the show we’ll be taking on Carey Holzman in Unreal Tournament classic. Join us on irc.hak5.org for the details.

UPDATE: The UT:GOTY party is happening on noob.hak5.org

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HOPE & Hak5 doin’ the TWiT

July 23, 2006

We just got back from the HOPE conference in NYC. Big shoutout to all the fans that met up with us at the con, we really appreciate the support. We’ll have pictures up on the Hak5 group flickr soon.

Also thanks go to Leo Laporte and the rest of the twits for having us on This Week in Tech #63.

And of course, welcome newcomers. You can find out more about the show on the about page or download a few episodes from the episodes page. Our current favorites are #3, #5, and #9.

See you all on August 5th for the big season premier!!

—Darren

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Hak.5 goes to HOPE

July 14, 2006

We will be at the HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) conference in New York the weekend of July 21st. If you’ll be attending and want to join us for a tasty beverage or hook us up with a party invite please drop me a line.

Oh yes, and seeing that the season premier is coming up soon we’re releasing a special wallpaper :)

—Darren

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Episode 2×01 Production Notes 1

July 12, 2006

Whoa, am I really writing production notes already? Man those two months “off” went by quick. Though I’m sure you’re all eagerly anticipating the next release. Season two is officially off the ground with 1/3rd of the season premier complete. The rest of the segments are in pre-production and we seem to be on schedule for an amazing release on August 5th.


What do a Mac, a Gentoo box, and a Windows machine all have in common?


Wess and guest Limin Li

Ok well that’s all for now. Stay tuned for a Hak. 5 event announcement by the end of the week.

—Darren

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Hak5 Update

July 6, 2006

Call for Help
Last weekend we were in Toronto, Canada to guest on Call for Help and had an absolute blast. Pictures are on flickr from Steven Saylor, Sean Carruthers and Darren Kitchen. Look out for us on Call for Help episode #403 and #407 this month. Episodes are now available online.

4th of July Party
The Hak.4th Independence Day party was a blast. Thanks to everyone who turned up for the event both in house and online. We’ll try to get video of the pyrotechnics up on the forums soon. Pictures are on flickr from Limin Li and Mubix as well as other tid bits in the forums.

DVD & Season Two
The DVD is almost ready to go so keep your bit torrent clients ready and stay tuned this month for announcements on that. Also, I’d like to clear up some confusion about our release schedule. We did 10 months on and took 2 months off, which is why there weren’t shows on June or July 5th. Now that our batteries are fully recharged we’re full speed ahead on Season 2 Episode 1 production, to be released on August 5th. We’ll have production notes updates throughout the month.

LAN Party
The Hak.5 LAN party game for the month is Battle Field 2. The server can be found at game.hak5.org. We would like to thank everyone at EVOLANS.com for setting us up with the awesome game server just for the Hak.5 community. Wess and I have been getting a handle on the game and I’ve got to say so far if you need someone on your team to flip a hellicopter upside down and crash into a hill, I’m your man. We’ll have tournament dates posted later.

IRC
We’ve recently added some redundancy to our IRC servers. Thanks go to Mubix, Owine, and Brainkill for making it so rock solid. You can join us in #hak5 on irc.hak5.org.

Cheers,
—Darren

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