Updates and News

2008-03-19: Moved Datacenters!

Due to our old machine (a charity-host run by our good friend Neil) was becoming ever more burded, we've elected to move our website to a new host. If you're reading this, that means you're looking at the site running on the new server. We still have to sort out HTTPS yet, so logins are broken unless you manually enter the login URL without https protocol, but we're slowly getting everything sorted out. - fwaggle

2007-08-16: Cleaning up old Hardware

Here at the central Hungry Hacker Labs, I've been cleaning house - literally. I have a bunch of old shit that I'm going through, deciding if I really want all of it, if not deciding if I want at least part of it, and acting accordingly. Oh yeah, we have a couple of new articles too.

Other than that, it's been pretty slow here. We're looking for some new projects, something fresh and interesting. If you have any ideas, don't hesitate to let us know via the talkback function. - fwaggle

2007-07-14: TimerTray Impending Release

Today I completely rewrote HungryTimer, and renamed it TimerTray in the process. It's pretty clean, but I've buggered up somewhere and can't read/write string data in the registry. Once I've figured out where I went wrong, I'll be releasing it, source code and all. I use the shit out of the thing myself, though I'm not sure if others will find it useful (it's basically a simple egg-timer).

2007-07-02: B-Trigger prototype built

Yesterday, after floating around several projects, I opened up the package to my MSP430 evaluation set and made a decision. I was either going to make a working B-trigger prototype, or kill my paintgun in the process. I've actually managed to do half of each. Read more - fwaggle

2007-06-26: ARGH I'm sick of new prototypes!

Man, I've had it up to here with trying to roll new versions of this website. For almost a year I've neglected the main website while playing with various packages such as Serendipity (not bad, in all honesty, but won't do exactly what I want, and won't handle the load as gracefully), Wordpress (utter shit, if you want my opinion, from the "What do you mean there's databases other than MySQL?" camp), and e107 (don't even get me started).

I spent the last week working feverishly to get an installation of S9y that almost did the job, but when I switched the hostnames over this morning, the website became very unresponsive at times. Fuck that shit.

So I've decided, no more fucking re-rolls. This is the engine I'm using, I'll just put up with that it's slightly hard to update, write some tools to help me, and work on improving it in general. Oh and I'll try and update at least twice this year.

2006-08-01: Hooray for new pages!

Touch program works. Hooray!

(Short and sweet)

Featured Articles

XML Parsing in Visual Basic 6

fwaggle is a closet VB6 programmer. It's true. From time to time he likes to whip out fast applications that he'll use for a few days then never support again, and VB6 is actually quite useful for this purpose. Just recently, he figured out how to parse XML in VB6, and thought he'd share it with everyone.

JTAG interface on a Dish 3700 IRD

fwaggle recently picked up a Dish 3700 Receiver at a yard sale for a price he couldn't refuse. His wife is already a happy paying customer of another satelite service - not to mention the inevitable "DMCA-anal rape" - so getting TV on it is out of the question. What else is there to do? Why, play with the firmware with the eventual goal of getting a "hello world" message on the screen, that's what! The first step involves tampering with the JTAG interface, which allows us to modify the firmware stored in flash. Wheee!

Forcing HTTPS using mod_rewrite

Strykar posts a quick tidbit showing how you can enforce the use of HTTPS using Apache's Rewrite module.

Sendmail+TLS+SMTP-AUTH

Reliable, flexible, and configurable enough to solve any mail routing needs, sendmail has withstood the test of time, but has become no less daunting in its complexity. Even the most experienced system administrators have found it challenging to configure and difficult to understand. We cut through the chase and describe how to setup Sendmail with industry standard encryption and discourage spam in less than an hour. Although described as a Slackware specific howto, the actual setup is similar for all UNIX's.

Beautifying XDM on FreeBSD

XDM's ugly xlogin widget got you down? fwaggle walks through the steps of making the xlogin widget just a bit easier on the eyes. XDM can be beautiful.

Howto: Install a Killswitch

fwaggle elected to finally explain the process of putting the killswitch on his 'burban, for those who can't figure it out for themselves.

Howto: Single Purpose SSH Keys

Prompted by someone on IRC who wanted to backup something via SSH, fwaggle decided to write about SSH's single-purpose-key mechanism, which can be utilized for this exact purpose.

Product Reviews

Video Game Review: LocoRoco (PSP)

fwaggle has actually been humming gibberish for the last two days, because of this psychedelic game.

Video Game Review: Project: Snowblind (PS2)

fwaggle decided to finally write some new content, and has decided to let you know what's what with the bargain-bin FPS for PS2: Project: Snowblind.

Movie Review: Harold and Kumar

It's a fuckin sausage-fest in here! fwaggle and the gang watched Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle so many damn times, he just had to write a movie review.