Don’t forget about tonight’s Hak5 Halloween LAN Parties! Join us in CS:S, TF2, BF2, and UT99 and add Hak5Halloween to your steam friends for a chance to randomly win cool Hak5 swag including stickers, shot glasses, buttons, and a few Pronobozo CDs. All the details are at hak5halloween.squarespace.com thanks to your LAN Party admin Joeeigel.

Matt shows us how to turn anything into a service and provide a web frontend to manage them windows server, great for game server administration. Chris Gerling wraps up his three part series on Packet Sniffing with Wireshark techniques for packet filtering. Darren harnesses the CPU power of the HakHouse for good or evil to demonstrate cluster computing. Plus details on our Hak5 Halloween LAN Party!
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Chris Gerling breaks down IP and TCP headers with Wireshark and building blocks. Shannon Morse shows us DosBox, a free IBM PC DOS emulator. Christine Bourquin talks about Alice, a teaching programming language for beginners. Darren Kitchen summarises his experience at Day-Con and answers some questions about Fon batteries. [ MP4 | XviD | WMV ] Read more

Darren and Shannon head to San Diego for Toorcon and meet up with Robin Wood, Dan Griffin, and Jacob Appelbaum to talk about Jasager, Sharepoint Hacking, and the Cold Boot Attack. Plus Darren’s travel tips and “name that aircraft”. [ MP4 | XviD | WMV ] Read more

Chris Gerling begins a three part series on Packet Sniffing starting with the fundamentals of packet structure, the OSI model, tools and terminology. Matt harnesses the social power of media with Boxee, a social media center based on XMBC. Shannon demos out Synergy, the Half-Life 2 co-op mod, and Darren check out Cron for Windows.
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We’re playing Team Fortress 2 all day today at game.hak5.org. Be sure to check out the Hak5 Steam Group for all the latest on LAN Party goodness. Also, we will not be streaming live today as previously planned. Episode 407 was shot at Toorcon last weekend and episode 408 will be shot at Day-Con next weekend. If you’re going to be in the Dayton area check out the con or follow us on Twitter.

Next LAN Party will be on October 18th. We will be playing the open source game Warsow! Party for all platforms, w00t!

Booting Windows from a USB key using the Windows Automated Installation Kit. Unlocking the Fon and Installing Jasager — Illustrated. Desktop and meeting collaboration using DimDim, the free open source online collaboration software. Turn your Windows desktop into a 3D spaces cube, and more! [ MP4 | XviD | WMV ] Read more