What is it like to be a hacker?

“But did you, in your three- piece psychology and 1950’s technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world…” (“The Conscience of a Hacker”, The Mentor) “Fear them not […]

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Windows Tips, Tricks and Secrets that Nobody will ever Tell you

Important Note: Before you read on, you need to keep one thing in mind. Whenever you make changes to the Windows Registry you need to Refresh it before the changes take place. Simply press F5 to refresh the registry and enable the changes. If this does not work Restart your system Exiting Windows the Cool […]

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Suspect A Virus? Here’s what you can do immediately …

Caught A Virus? If you’ve let your guard down–or even if you haven’t–it can be hard to tell if your PC is infected. Here’s what to do if you suspect the worst. Heard this one before? You must run antivirus software and keep it up to date or else your PC will get infected, you’ll […]

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20 Google Secrets

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1306756,00.asp excl.gif No Active Links, Read the Rules – Edit by Ninja excl.gif Google is clearly the best general-purpose search engine on the Web (see www.pcmag.com/searchengines) But most people don’t use it to its best advantage. Do you just plug in a keyword or two and hope for the best? That may be the quickest […]

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How to Setup an FTP Server at Home! (Just like the Pro’s)

This is a full tutorial for creating your very own FTP. The first thing to do is to go to Code: www.no-ip.com Register free at the page. (follow all the instructions you get there) Look at the top, and you see the Host Search. Write the name you want, and press Go! Then download the […]

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What options do you have if your Hard Drive goes bad?

The most common problems originate from corruption of the master boot record, FAT, or directory. Those are soft problems which can usually be taken care of with a combination of tools like Fdisk /mbr to refresh the master boot record followed by a reboot and Norton disk doctor or Spinneret. The most common hardware problems […]

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How To Change “Start” Button Text to Something Else

Step 1 – Modify Explorer.exe File In order to make the changes, the file explorer.exe located at C:\Windows needs to be edited. Since explorer.exe is a binary file it requires a special editor. For purposes of this article I have used Resource Hacker. Resource HackerTM is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete […]

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What is NetBIOS? A Complete Guide

The Magic of NetBIOS In this guide you will learn how to explore the Internet using Windows XP and NetBIOS: How to Install NetBIOS <beginnine2a.shtml> How to Use Nbtstat <beginnine2b.shtml> The Net View Command <beginnine2c.shtml> What to Do Once You Are Connected <beginnine2c.shtml> How to Break in Using the XP GUI <beginnine2d.shtml> More on the […]

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A Brief History of DOS

Contents: Disclaimer Introduction History The Memory Map Timeline and History Chart Future of DOS Postscript Bibliography Disclaimer: Although this document is purely informative, the author claims no responsibility for any misguided souls who find a way to twist its contents into anything harmful or overly offensive. Introduction: When a computer is turned on an Operating […]

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UNIX Hacking Tutorial

———————- o Intent: ———————- This phile is geared as an UNIX tutorial at first, to let you get more familiar with the operating system. UNIX is just an operating system, as is MS-DOS, AppleDOS, AmigaDOS, and others. UNIX happens to be a multi-user- multi-tasking system, thus bringing a need for security not found on MSDOS, […]

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