We’re back at CES 2012 for another year of awesome tech and new gadgets. What do you want to see? We’ll be covering the show floor from Monday through Friday to being you the most up to date content on what you like most. Be on the lookout for TONS of segments, which will be airing at the Revision3 CES 2012 stream.

Darren Kitchen and I will be co-hosting a LIVE show on Wednesday afternoon at 3PM (Vegas time, baby!). It’ll be airing LIVE at the Revision3 Youtube, so make sure to watch!!

Also, if you are in the Las Vegas area, we will be having a Revision3 meetup on Thursday night. Come over to the El Diablo Cantina at the Monte Carlo Hotel at 7PM for a meet and greet. We hope to see you there!

Shannon Morse hosts Hak5 on Revision3 and she co-hosts the audio podcast Bite Club Show. You can find her guest hosting various other internet shows now and then. When not geeking out with work, Shannon enjoys video games, anime, manga, traveling, building computers, and spending time with family and friends. Find more info about Shannon here.

Jason shows us how to program an Android Live Wallpaper

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.

If you’re familiar with dd it’s simply a matter of downloading the torrent, unzipping and imaging the included chrome_os.img to your media. For example, dd if=’chrome_os.img’ of=/dev/sdb where /dev/sdb is the path of your removable media.

If you’re in Windows you’ll be delighted to find that the linked zip contains a copy of WinDD, as well as writing instructions. More information can be found at this makeuseof.com article. Important tidbits include the fact that the default user and password are chronos / password and that a terminal can be accessed by CTRL+ALT+T. Oh, and the xrandr command is available if your desired resolution isn’t detected automatically. The syntax is typically xrandr -s 1024×768 or similar.

Hacking the Motorola Droid: Root Access! A Linux Doom source port on the Zipit, Booting and installing Chrome OS from USB, your WordPress picks and much more.

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Hacking the Motorola Droid: Root Access!

As expected the Motorola Droid has been rooted. That is to say there’s a hack that’ll unlock SU, or super user privileges on the phone. The hack is essentially su bundled in an unsigned update that can be run from the SD card. The unlocking process, which has changed since introduction, is outlined at this AllDroid.org forum thread.

At time of writing the process is to download this zip, rename it to update.zip and copy it to the root of your Droid’s SD card. Shutdown the Droid and start it by holding Power and X. Once greeted by an exclamation point on your screen hold the camera and volume+ buttons. From the menu choose the update.zip with the D-Pad, and once updated choose reboot.

Keep in mind that when it comes to unlocking moving targets like this it’s best to check with droid forums beforehand.

A Linux Doom Source Port

It was only a matter of time before we put Doom on The Zipit Z2. The recently unlocked linux-based wireless device is a prime candidate for fragging, what with it’s QVGA color display, WiFi and all. After unlocking, installing Doom is simply a matter or launching Fluxbox with startx and downloading PrBoom, a cross-platform Doom Source Port, with apt-get install prboom. The trick in launching PrBoom from /usr/games/ is to add the -width 320 -height 240 parameters. While PrBoom comes included with Freedoom, a free and open source Doom compatible IWAD, you may provide your own doom or Doom2-iwad parameter.

It is also worth noting that PrBoom comes with it’s own tcp game server for deathmatch. If anyone wants to try a little Zipit Z2 deathmatching hit us up. Or if you’re looking for some Doom goodness on the PC check out my favorite port, Skulltag.

Boot Chromium OS from USB

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.

If you’re familiar with dd it’s simply a matter of downloading the torrent, unzipping and imaging the included chrome_os.img to your media. For example, dd if=’chrome_os.img’ of=/dev/sdb where /dev/sdb is the path of your removable media.

If you’re in Windows you’ll be delighted to find that the linked zip contains a copy of WinDD, as well as writing instructions. More information can be found at this makeuseof.com article. Important tidbits include the fact that the default user and password are chronos / password and that a terminal can be accessed by CTRL+ALT+T. Oh, and the xrandr command is available if your desired resolution isn’t detected automatically. The syntax is typically xrandr -s 1024×768 or similar.

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!

This week we take the show on the road and perform live in Blacksburg, VA at Virginia Tech! Go Hokies and special thanks to Tim Tutt and John Ryding.

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This week we take the show on the road and perform live in Blacksburg, VA at Virginia Tech! Go Hokies and special thanks to Tim Tutt and John Ryding.

We had a blast talking tech on stage for nearly two hours, answering questions and hanging out with fans. The full show is too long to air but we hope you enjoy these snippets.

And of course, if you’re intested in having Hak5 speak at your club or university, contact us.

In this Flying-by-the-seat-of-our-pants edition of Hak5 episode 2×07 / Live Beta 2 we settle into the temporary set and check out a web app to help you IRC at work, a Mac hack for using front row with a wiimote, and a utility for recovering WPA/WEP keys. Plus your calls and an AFK award for a long lost code monkey.
 
 
 

Production Notes

Special uber thanks go to Ashley Witt for cleaning up our poor audio. I’m sure next episode will be slightly less frantic as we settle into the new place. Keep an eye on Hak5.org for updates on future live shows this month.

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In this truncated episode of Hak5 we dive into the homebrew broadcast console, our little hack behind the scenes that makes the live show tick. And unfortunately due to a jam packed schedule this month between the holidays and buying our first house thats all we had time for. Still thanks for sticking with us as we move to into the new home/studio, we’re excited to be rebuilding the set and going live more frequently. And big props and congratulations to the Community Rainbow Tables team for a job well done. See the page for more details on getting your very own 120 gig LM hash set. Be sure to stay tuned to hak5.org this month as I’m sure some fun move-in clips may surface.

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