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GUIDE TO (mostly) HARMLESS HACKING
Beginners' Series Number 4
How to use the Web
to look up information on hacking
This GTMHH may be useful even to Uberhackers (oh, no, flame alert!)
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Want to become really, really unpopular? Try asking your hacker
friends too many questions of the wrong sort.
But, but, how do we know what are the wrong questions to ask?
OK, I sympathize with your problems because I get flamed a lot,
too. That's partly because I sincerely believe in asking dumb
questions. I make my living asking dumb questions. People pay
me lots of money to go to conferences, call people on the phone
and hang out on Usenet news groups asking dumb questions so I
can find out stuff for them. And, guess what, sometimes the dumbest
questions get you the best answers. So that's why you don't see
me flaming people who ask dumb questions.
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Newbie note: Have you been too afraid to ask the dumb question,
"What is a flame?" Now you get to find out! It is a
bunch of obnoxious rantings and ravings made in email or a Usenet
post by some idiot who thinks he or she is proving his or her
mental superiority through use of foul and/or impolite language
such as "you suffer from rectocranial inversion," f***
y***, d****, b****, and of course @#$%^&*! This newbie note
is my flame against those flamers to whom I am soooo superior.
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But even though dumb questions can be good to ask, you may
not like the flames they bring down on you. So, if you want to
avoid flames, how do you find out answers for yourself?
This Guide covers one way to find out hacking information
without having to ask people questions: by surfing the Web. The
other way is to buy lots and lots of computer manuals, but that
costs a lot of money. Also, in some parts of the world it is
difficult to get manuals. Fortunately, however, almost anything
you want to learn about computers and communications is available
for free somewhere on the Web.
First, let's consider the Web search engines. Some just help
you search the Web itself. But others enable you to search Usenet
newsgroups that have been archived for many years back. Also,
the best hacker email lists are archived on the Web, as well.
More how to search the Internet-->>
