We’ve just wrapped up post production on episode 2×02. We’re leaving tonight for Toronto, Canada to shoot segments for Call for Help and Hak5 episode 2×03. We should be back this Sunday or Monday, in time to release this episode on the 5th. I hope you’ll join us in #hak5 on irc.hak5.org for the release party then. We’ll also be throwing a semi-formal cocktail party on the 9th so if you’re in town and want to dress up to get down drop me a line.

Wess and power tools, you just can’t go wrong.

Alli’s kooky as usual. This month she’s been getting addicted to using Photoshop with a Wacom tablet.

Fresh out of the E.R. Darren comes at us with some nifty embedded BSD goodness, only slightly loopy

Thanks for the Tea Melodic and TX!

—Darren

Last night was the first day of shooting for 2×02 and we’re loving the little set upgrade. We spent a lot of time in the labs cooking up some killer segments so I’m sure everyone thirsting for Linux, BSD, and all around hackery will really enjoy what we’ve got in store for you.

Paul Tobias (Our 1337 camera operator) shows off a kick-butt hack involving apples and penguins

Brick. It’s the new black.

Cheers,
—Darren

So it turns out that Battlefield 2 servers work better with unfried motherboards. Damn. Who knew? So yeah, we ran into a little glitch last night for the LAN party. We’ve rescheduled the event for Thursday, August 24th at 9:00 PM EDT (-5 GMT).

I apologize to everyone who stayed up to play some BF2 with us. Instead we kicked it old-school and played some Unreal Tournament classic. Thanks to everyone who turned out last night, we had a blast.

Props to the HPBs who came out to frag

—Darren

Last night Wess and I were on Computer America with Carey Holzman. We had a great time and even had the opportunity to frag with him on the Hak5 Unreal Tournament server after the show. Thanks to everyone that called in and played some capture the flag with us, especially the awesome support on the red team . I’ve chopped up the audio and offer it here, sans commercials, in both mp3 and ogg goodness. Enjoy.

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The_Spleen (Carey Holzman) rocked the sniper rifle and came out in second place on the red team. We kicked butt. Better luck next time blue team .

—Darren

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!

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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

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

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

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

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

In the NOVA, Richmond, or Hampton Roads areas? Wanna blow stuff up on the 4th with Hak5? We’re throwing an Independence Day party at Hak5 Studios, Williamsburg Virginia (Google Map). Email darren@hak5.org for directions if you’re interested.

DJ Limin Li will be spinning at the event. We will webcast it for those that can’t make it.

What are you doing here? We don’t have anything to announce until this weekend. Go watch Pure Pwnage, the new episode is out.

Darren Kitchen and Jenn Cutter of OpenAlpha.tv will be on the Computer America radio show tonight at 10:00 PM Eastern.

This is a call in show so feel free to give us a ring at 1 (866) 606-8255. The Internet stream can be found here and the chat room for the event is here.

IRC UPDATE: We had an IRC hiccup but we’re back on another server for the night. irc.hak5.org is now working

—Darren