Step 1: Download Monkey Art
Step 2: Get Creative
Step 3: Publish Monkey Wallpaper
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit!
Winner will receive Hak5 swag as well as a do-it-yourself sock monkey kit curtesy of SockMonkey.net!
February is the month of Zombies here at Hak5. We’re playing Left4Dead (l4d.hak5.org) and Zombie Panic Source (zp.hak5.org) from now until the official show down on Saturday, February 28th.
We expect to start a Left4Dead campaign around 3:00 PM Eastern. Use the Tournament Signup form to enroll for this event and be sure to give us your Steam name so we can contact you. We’ll randomly choose four players to hack and slash with in a Left4Dead campaign. Depending on how things go we may do multiple campaigns so more players can rotate in.
If the Left4Dead server is full and you still want to get your Zombie bashing fun in join the Zombie Panic Source server. We’ve been hearing good things about this free mod so give it a download.
Overall best gamer for the party on Saturday, February 28th will be rewarded with a kickass Hak5 sticker pack including a cast signed stick of RAM. How Bad-ass!? So be sure to sign up so we can contact you if necessary.
And if you haven’t already go ahead and join the Hak5 Steam Group. See you in game.
The first day of CES was brought with many challenges. This being our first ever CES we’re a little baffled by Las Vegas architecture and geometry, which seems to have been developed on a higher plane of existence then ported to Earth in an attempt to bewilder mortals.
Regardless, we’re here in Vegas doing our thing. The five of us spent the day splitting up and covering approximately 7% of the conference floor. Things are big and things are shiny. There are never to be mass market pie-in-the-sky prototypes and there are really pretty gidgets far beyond our meager hacker budgets.
The highlight of the day, aside from finally meeting face-to-face with the Revision3 kr3w, was CES adjunct Showstoppers – a small (in comparison) press event featuring neato-new-technology peppered with the obligatory are-you-fraking-kidding-me.
We* ended the night with a Day One Pow Wow. I figured it would be fun to share with you our initial thoughts on the show, our expectations and lessons learned.
*Actually everyone else is asleep while I’m up editing down HD footage to an “uploadable” format. As it turns out bandwidth is hard to come by here. I’m paying $12 for 384k! (Don’t even start Aussies).
P.S. One more lesson learned: Turn on the LED lamp when shooting wide in front of a white table using auto exposure. Yeah, my fault. I’ll ride the Fail Bus home Sunday.
—Darren
Calling all pixel ninjas. Ever wish you could submit an Evil Server logo or action graphic to us and win cool Hak5 swag? Now you can, with our spiffy new Evil Server Logo (or action graphic) Contest! Clever, hu?
From now until Monday, December 15th we’ll be accepting submissions for this totally bad-ass contest — winner(s) of which will be judged based on style and evilness. The winning graphic(s) will become part of the new Hak5 sticker collection (and possibly other cool stuff). Read more for details. Read more
Today is the last day to enter to win the Hak5 Prize Bundle over at Raffstar. Don’t miss out!
Prize Includes:
- Autographed copy of Superman issue #648 (which features Hak5)
- Hak5 stickers. buttons, shot glasses
- Music from the show by Pronobozo
- Jinx.com gift certificate for a Hak5 t-shirt
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.
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!
I’ve gone ahead and made a few tweaks to the homepage and episode pages that looks nice and flows a bit better. Of course I’m interested in hearing your thoughts on the site and what you’d like to see.
As you may know the upcoming Saturday, September 20th will be our first LAN Party of the season. We’ll be playing counter-strike: source at game.hak5.org throughout the day. We’ll also be live streaming the setcam as we shoot episodes 405 and 406 that day.
Thanks for the great feedback so far on the show. Now we want to hear what you think we could do better throughout the site / community!
Thanks to everyone who tuned in, posted questions and called in last night. As always we had a great time. It was a lot of fun interacting with the community like this. We’ll totally have to do it again sometime. If you missed the live broadcast you can view the recording on this post or over at ustream. Read more
San Francisco, CA – August 14, 2008 – Revision3, the TV network for the Internet generation, today announced that it is bringing Hak5, a home-grown hit series fusing underground culture and mainstream IT, to its weekly lineup of pop culture shows. Covering everything from network security, open source software and forensics, to Do It Yourself projects and the homebrew scene, new episodes of Hak5 will launch September 8th on Revision3 at www.revision3.com/hak5.
“Back when we launched Tekzilla, a few fans accused us of ripping off Hak5’s brick-encrusted set. The correlation was spurious, but rather than alienate the industry’s top hackers, we decided it would be better to team up with Hak5 instead,” said Jim Louderback, CEO, Revision3. Read more
We’re broadcasting live this Friday, August 15, at 9:00 PM Eastern. Tune in here at hak5.org and join the cast for a few cocktails and an open Skype line. We’ll be taking your calls and answering questions about “the big news”
Just a heads up about some upcoming website updates in preparation for the upcoming season premiere (August 5th as usual). We’ve changed the permalink structure of the site meaning that rather than having ugly urls like hak5.org/archives/237 we now have hak5.org/episodes/season-3-episode-9. Isn’t that beautiful? mod_rewrite is taking care of any prior bookmarks you may have, everything is redirecting correctly from the old structure.
We’ll be uploading a ton of archive material over the next few weeks so if you’re subscribed to the site-wide RSS feed you’ll likely get flooded with pages.
This will not impact the xvid, mp4, or wmv feeds.
We’ll have an update on the HakHouse progress soon. The short version is we’ve moved back into the HakHouse but the first flood is still under construction meaning we don’t have a kitchen, living room, or studio.
Cheers,
Darren
