I've decided to send this here, because this is probebly one of the last
place I have access to that got real computer hackers in it,
Has most you probebly know, for the last years i've been trying to be something
that I think that is now almost totally extinct. A hacker, in the original
meaning of the sense. Not a person who brake into sites and software, but
something totoally else: a person who like and can squeese the the most power
out of his machine. A person of the type who, if in need of a software program
that is not availble anywhere, can just sit down and try to make one by
himself. The kind of a person who knows what is going on in his machine,
and can do almost whatever he can think of with it.
Unfortunatly, it seems like where I live, that kind of a person is long gone
dead.
I've been studying by myself for a long time now, but I could use the help
of another person and more information resources. The only books I can find
around here are about "how to use Word" and how to install Windows 98.
Luckly i've been in the computer scene since around 1986, since I was in
secord grade. So I had access to computers just before they became "easier",
which means that even though i'm still not the computer wizard I aspire to be,
I still have much more knowledge then the average modern user today.
Unfortunatly, as far as things go in "real life", i'm quite abit alone. No one
to study with, no one to learn from. When I went to the hacker conference
some time ago I thought that I might be able to meet other people who
thought like me. Unfortunatly, I found only crackers. The real hackers in the
area were either the visiting celebrities like Captain Crunch or the Con
managers, who were 1)too busy to talk with anyone 2)Busy anyway in
real life. So, I sepose that i'll have to continue to study alone.
What i'd like to know is this: anyone knows where I should continue?
I could use a few references to good information resources.. for example, i'm
quite the hardware newbie. As far as hardware configuration goes, I only know
that I should put this and that cable this way and not that way, and how to
set jumpers. I would like to know why is that, and how it works. Same goes
to software. I want to know what makes my machine tick, and how I can
change the ticks myself if I need/want to. The only info I could find about
such things latly was only related to cracking that thing. And cracking is
the last thing i'm intrested at.
I would also like to hear your thought on the matter.
Or Botton
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