While still early in it’s development stages, Google’s upcoming Chrome OS is a neat OS to play with — especially on a netbook. While the Virtual Machine images floating around are nice for a glimpse, if you really want to immerse yourself in the Chrome OS experience it’s best to boot it from the metal. This can be achieved by “burning” this Chromium OS image to 3GB or greater USB or SD media. Here’s a torrent.
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Google voice is a powerful multi-use tool that could be used as a free SMS aggregator, that could be leveraged for anything you could come up that would fit into 140 charters, like a text based adventure game or a sms bbs. There are several different libraries that people have developed to take full advantage of Google voice’s features: Java Libary, PHP Libary, or for those who just want the raw unofficial API. The sky is the limit with this, the code that was showed is up on the forums, so head over there and get those idea up there.
Last week the news was a buzz about Google’s Chrome OS, and while we typically don’t cover tech news on the show I freaked out in my usual open source, cloud lovin’ Linux-y sorta way. So this week we’re taking a first look at Chromium OS — the FOSS project that Chrome is built on.
Another great bit of feedback from the SSH Tunneling segment in episode 614 was from Jan-Marteen in The Netherlands. His Hak5 inspired cross-platform Python and PHP scripts, available from his blog johmanx.com allow you to easily configure and save SSH tunneling options. Awesome code Jan-Marteen, thanks for sending it in!
Paul can’t hide behind the camera forever, and this week we’re pleased to have him break down the free and easy way to SSH Tunnel on a mac. After Hak5 viewer Lavi wrote in about SSHTunnel 1.6 Paul was happy to check out the program. Thanks for sending in your freeware picks!
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Ricky asks: “I just recently started using wordpress, and I am having alot of trouble trying to design a layout for it, I was wondering if you had any references or anything to help me learn how to do this, I understand HTML and only know a little of PHP. Any help would be greatly Appreciated.”
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When it comes to finding the right Linux distribution for you it’s best to try a bunch out. And what better way then to make some bootable Live Linux USB keys? Shannon demonstrates Linux Live USB — a Windows tool that makes it super simple to build a Linux USB key in minutes. It features automatic distribution downloading AND Persistence!
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HAM Radio operator Tray Murphey, N4PAT, joins to to introduce the Automatic Packet Reporting System, radio licensing, hardware and building a kit on the cheap.
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