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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How to Install FreeBSD? A Step by Step Guide

A Step-by-Step Guide to Installing FreeBSD 5.x This guide is designed for users with moderate Linux experience and will walk you through installing and setting up a fully updated FreeBSD 5.x system. FreeBSD is a powerful, Unix-like operating system known for its stability, performance, and advanced features. Let’s get started! A. FreeBSD 5.x vs 4.x […]

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How to setup an IRC Eggdrop?

–[ What is EggDrop? ]– Note: This is taken from the readme file of EggDrop 1.3.28 Eggdrop is an IRC bot, written in C. If you don’t know what IRC is, this is probably not whatever you’re looking for! Eggdrop, being a bot, sits on a channel and takes protective measures: to keep the channel […]

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How to Set up a Secure Anonymous FTP Site

1. General Description of Setting up an “anonymous” ftp server. Create the user ftp in /etc/passwd. Use a misc group. The user’s home directory will be ~ftp where ~ftp is the root you wish anonymous users to see. Creating this user turns on anonymous ftp.Use an invalid password and user shell for better security. The […]

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