Given I?ve always loved science, I?ve tried all my life to keep fiction out of my life. It?s rather worthless knowledge to those of us who enjoy science. Why do you read non-fiction in school? I have no idea.
?If you read a book, and it isn?t non-fiction, then you aren?t into technology.?
Hahah. Even though I?ve read books on communication and etc. But science and technology is definitely NONFICTION!!
The current books / research materials I?m into right now.
Hacking Exposed 6th Edition ? Network Security Secrets and Solutions
Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, George Kurtz
?Awesome, it?s great to fill in the holes of knowledge with a little history of from the other side of hacking 
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Hacking video?s, misc sites all over the net ;0
Nothing is better as a motivation to learn something then seeing someone else do it. That is the best part about a video. Also reading is a great way to learn, but seeing someone do it, or explain it orally, is another entry to the brain
The C++ Programming Language Special Edition ? Bjarne Stroustrup
Well, this book is hard to follow, but it helps understanding some C++.
I have another book,
Learning PHP, MySQL & Javascript ? Robin Nixon
Which I really like because unlike
Learning Perl ? Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix & brian d foy
Python for Unix and Linux System Administration ? Noah Gift & Jeremy M. Jones
Python In A Nutshell, A Desktop Quick Reference ? Alex Martelli
The learning Learning PHP, MySQL & Javascript by Robin Nixon, has visual references to how a programs inner functions work together. I?ve used / tried a bunch of programming tools, but really what I?d require for a large program would be a tool that visually mapped all the functions, classes, etc. logically.
Also I wish I had this book while learning linux, since I just used Google and webforums When I took 2 classes on Linux Systems Administration
Linux+ Guide to Linux Certification ? Second Edition ? Jason W. Eckert and M. John Schitka.
Some useful tricks in that book, besides all the basics of linux. I like the alt trick for different terminal instances in command line server mode. Thanks dudes for that info
Also, I read this entire CCNA book before taking CCNA classes, all of them lol.
CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide ? Richard Deal
Which is an interesting book, while very different then the official Cisco materials, it does go into some history about networking which is very interesting.
I also had a book on Windows Server 2003, the bible which had everything in it. But honestly Microsofts documentation of servers is so good, I?m not sure why you need a book? Plus Microsoft Servers are so visual, GUI, I found that video?s for MS Servers are a really fast way for me to learn it, besides just tweaking with them
You can only read so fast, but I also have materials for the following on my reading list / video list?
CCNP materials
C++ programming tutorials and reading material
Python programming tutorials and reading material
Cracking the Code Interview, Forth Edition ? Book about code interviews, from a dude that works at Google
Programming in C ? Unix System Calls and Subroutines
SCNP materials
SGNS materials
Social Engineering ? The Art of Human Hacking
And some video?s from Stanford about Computer Programming.
I?m not sure what I language I like the best or what subject I like the best in information technology. A toss up between networking, hacking, which hacking truly is knowing how to program well in addition to network security and etc, programming in the sense of systems and utilities.
I really like scripting, networking and just know security from a organic perspective, but reading about it is very interesting. I like programming since it?s a challenge mentally. I remember learning Cubase, which was challenging from using my Yamaha EX5, predecessor to the Motif series.
Funny, since learning Windows was pretty easy. Learning Linux was fun too. Learning the basics of Python was pretty easy. Perl was a little more challenging, just because the symbols are complex to memorize. PHP is highly used and quite similar to python or even HTML, CSS.
Networking I learned as I used to hacking pretty early or just grew up needing to understand networking to do anything. The Cisco materials from the CCNA forced me to use programs like NMAP due to wanting to understand how networking works in the field.
Networking reminds me of an automobile. Knowing a cars engine, it?s sorta like knowing how a network runs. Details right? Some of the networking info in the CCNA just begs you to do analysis of packets, create your own packets too or even later to work on creating network protocols
I sorta learned programming at 10, but that?s a little early. Learning Linux, you have to compile some programs yourself, so you learn more intimately about coding. All that Cisco / Networking information I learned, you kinda get hooked on ?how it really works.? Well you memorize how packets are literally formed, sent, down to the bit level. It?s only natural to progress into programming after that point I believe.
The CCNP materials look interesting, since the CCNA materials only go so far into protocols like BGP, the master of the WAN links. Some of the other stuff in the CCNA materials is funny, like OSPF? Not many places use OSPF anymore, or do they? I?d rather setup OSPF then RIPV2 that is for sure.
But the latest and greatest information about information technology doesn?t really seem to stem from books vs. the net. The pace is so fast of technology, I swear I?ve learned more not reading books and just doing it.
For instance learning Windows?
I learned Windows intimately from the early days of being in groups. Harddrives would fail often, so I learned hardware and networking, security from the ground up. Then I needed to setup a music PC, lol. So I had to learn every service in Windows. At that point, you understand Windows so well it?s ridiculous.
Learning Linux?.
Just doing it. Didn?t know anything about linux besides a very basic class on unix. Just will and the net, you learn through trial and error.
I admit classes, books and videos expose you to stuff you might never see.
Customers and clients really expose you to real world problems, which is basically helping people with computers or technology. Common issues tend to crop up, or you learn a new skill to do something faster or to know more.
Learning Networking?
Well I knew a bunch from just needing to know the net, using firewalls and etc. But the Cisco materials are pretty ridiculous for typical use, even for server level or network configurations. I guess I should blame Cisco for programming. Reading those materials, watching videos forces learning of code. Linux too, I blame Linux for requiring me to learn code.
Learning Programming?
If you use a computer, I guess if you are an elite user, you can?t escape the programming paradox. Impossible! If you are involved in groups, coding is useful. If you work as a server admin, coding is useful. If you want to make a webpage, coding is useful. Even desktop support, scripting is useful. What about server administration, haha scripting and coding are more then useful.
Learning the System?
Hehh, using Linux or Windows, even a Mac, at least for me, forces understanding of the system to the point, well, after you know the system so well, coding just naturally comes. Also I have to say using a system, networking is only so complex, it?s natural to go into coding.
I guess the real story, for those of us who quest to deeper understanding of computers, beyond the system, beyond the network, coding comes. Naturally security is all about code, the system is really about code once you dig so far.
All I?m saying, is if you use a computer and your that kind of user, you will eventually be programming or learn to program. You can only go so far as a network admin, server admin without programming in my opinion. Even setting up a network, servers is a form of programming or so closely related, you might as well admit you are destin to learn code.
It?s terrible, since learning code seems quasi evil. Or what you can do with knowing code. The path you take. It?s funny, a ?hacker? to me still is someone who really knows how to use a computer, which means you know the systems like the back of your hand + you know how to program.
I guess I?m almost to the ?hacker? level. Once I can program fluently in C C++, and some other languages, besides just scripting, then I can essentially qualify as a hacker. To me it?s an honor to be an elite hacker, and that means you can do good or bad with it. What is bad?
I guess it?s bad to hack computers for purposes that upset the masses? I mean not all hackers are bad, jesus. People cry about hacking, even though White Hat, Grey Hat and Black Hat exist. I?m sorry, I read all the materials.
It?s what you do, that determines your moral standing. If you really want to understand internet security, I?m sorry, I think you have to be able to hack into a system, make your own packets or tools. The reversal of securing a system, to the full extent, requires custom programming for port security defense. It requires in the future, new protocols that are more secure.
The media, is so sad, yuppies that don?t know shit about computers are being programmed that ?hacking is evil.? Oh so knowing a computer is evil? Forcing a better standard of the internet is evil? Forcing people not to be so stupid is evil?
I guess the real war for those of us who are nerds, geeks or otherwise intelligent vs. the stupid people. That is the way I see the World. It?s people that learn and like to learn, people that contribute to the World in a greater sense and those who don?t.
I see these idiots on Facebook bash scientists at NASA, and honestly I gave them a mind rape, humiliation bash. Anyone who doesn?t respect those of us, who read stuff that matters, non-fiction, science who support the yuppies that are too stupid to understand it, should have some fucking respect.
Fuck people who diss on science. The reason you can drink water are scientists. The reason you have a personal computer are scientists. The reason you are able to eat, science. The reason you can get around, besides walking, scientists.
Most people enjoy computer games, a cell phone, in fact businesses can?t operate without computers today. How the fuck can anyone really bash science or scientists? I say, if you don?t have respect for us, well I?m glad some people get screwed over, they deserve it.
Karma? It?s more then bad Karma to not respect those who support you, so you can live. Not having respect for science, which includes technology, is highly disrespectful. People that disrespect science, they are good targets to be hacked or get the shit kicked out of them.
I guess that is where ?hacking? comes from? Not really but I wish it did. I wish those military teams of hackers would hack people that talked shit about NASA and science as a greater whole.
The problem with the World, what 90% of people are just yuppies that want to have fun. I like having fun, but using your brain prevents brain disease and creates new pathways in the brain. For your own health, use your brain to the full capacity, do something in technology.
If you can?t use a computer, make a lot of money and invest in technology, science. Benefit the human race. At least hackers bring geeks and nerds some status. Also hacking addresses corruption globally.
People making judgement calls on hacking, I think you need to be a hacker and also understand people that don?t understand hacking, hackers that understand greater world idea?s, that I suppose most people don?t think of, sociology?
Math problem?.
World Population Increase Exponentially
Limited Water Supply
Limited Food Supply
Well I guess you need to take a class in oceanography to understand water and how it?s works in nature to understand some World issues. Or I guess you actually needed to learn something in college? Like blockbuster movies, the scripts have greater meaning, a message.
People don?t get it, they aren?t intelligent enough to decode the news, the messages that are being sent to us. I guess you need to be a hacker to figure that out. You need to desire to fully understand something, like a computer, which includes linux, windows, mac, networking, programming.
To address World issues, scientists are better. Someone who knows about hacking and technology should address the issue. Someone who knows about energy resources should address the issue. Someone who knows about water in nature should address these issues.
It?s funny, most people that are geeks or nerds, perhaps aren?t so vocal about what I?m discussing here. It?s a good thing that some nerds and geeks are getting status today, like on TED. Smart people not stupid people. Lots of stupid people.
I remember when I was younger, a buddy called me, ?idiot.? I think I wanted him to call me ?idiot.? It was useful in forcing me to learn more and more so I wouldn?t feel like an ?idiot.? Given those standards, those 99% folks, well maybe you feel like the 99% since some of us have standards to be in the 1% of intelligence globally.
Isn?t that what it?s really about? Intelligence? People complain about Congress in the USA, I even read a news article that was decently intelligent, about how stupid people are in the Congress.
Society forces intelligence, and then everyone who isn?t intelligent barks? Or people quest for more intelligence. It?s a new cycle of the competition in the human race, intelligence. You have to be smart to be a hacker, have to put in years of dedication.
To be a writer at that gets paid you have to write interesting materials, but appeal to the masses of numbskulls. Kinda like movies, the message is hidden often, so that yuppies still get the message, in the subconscious mind. Good work, tons of work needs to be done to get stupid people to be more intelligent.
Oh and I love it when someone says, ?You didn?t spell correctly or your grammer was incorrect.?
What about Albert Einstein? Smartest man of the last 100 years, he couldn?t spell very well.
Peace out.
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