Arrogance vs Ignorance

Clarify

My last post for the Linux Haters came after a heated post about how Linux users and why they love Linux. In this Linux user post, I did call Window users lazy bastards, but I was not intending it to be pointed at all windows users. My Grandparents use Windows to surf the internet and check email, and while I would love to get them on a faster Linux machine, I would never bash them for their choice. They have chosen to be ignorant of the way the computer works and what is best possible choice for them out of thousands. Its like me with cars, I know how they work, and I can do some maintenance but I'm not part of that culture.

The ones that I called lazy bastards are not the ignorant type, they are the arrogant type. They are the Linux bashers that sit on their Windows Vista machines, having never lift a finger to install any Linux distro. These people are the ones that claim to computer experts, that give advise blindly about Linux, and especially those that take what someone else has written on the internet and fling it against us can quite frankly shove their opinion up their ass where it belongs. The community loves feed back, but if your just here to feed us your brainwashed bull crap - SHUT THE FUCK UP! Linux users are trying to give Microsoft and corporations in general the middle finger. We are the rebels fighting for the freedom of the cyber world and the real world. We are the rage against the Matrix that is our current life system. It is the fucking point that we make our software free, its our point that unchecked corporations do the consumer any good (Microsoft), it is the point that we teach people to think rather than be lazy cash cows for the corporations to milk dry. IT IS THE FUCKING POINT. If you are going to bash us, then turn that cannon first to yourselves, then to use (if there is anything left of you). I know that every Linux user has used Microshit's products, but how many of you Windows users can say, "I've tried Linux first hand?" How many of you have actually played around with it? How many of you stood up to the challenge and got something working on Linux that wasn't working a moment ago?

In conclusion, ignorance is bliss - arrogance is a pain in the ass for everyone else.
--The Student

You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. -- The Mentor

Linux Haters = Good Publicity

Bring on the Linux Love HATE

While passing through the internet, in search of information, I came upon the Linux Hater's Blog and I laughed. The arguments were weak at best, the foul language strong, and the responses fun to read. I was amazed how it went on and on and on, with only breaks taken to catch breath. At first, I do admit to being fired up, he did a good job of setting my blood on fire, but I took a moment and realized that this shit was helping the open source community.

Most people hate change, challenge, and concern. The average person does not want to spend their time doing any of the three because they do all three all at once at work. Windows is suppose to provide the ability to use computers seamlessly without any of the three Cs remotely cropping up. XP has thus far been the best achievement by Microsoft in this endeavor. With over 70% of the market share of desktop users having at least one copy of XP in use, this achievement was only topped by Windows 95's 80% market share back in the day. XP SP1 was stable, lite weight (compared to Windows ME), and fairly secure. Yet, Microsoft failed this goal with Vista and soon with Windows 7. It was a back track that has sent users into the arms of the *nix (Unix, Linux, Mac) community in flocks.

Now, here in the Linux community, we do not hate the user; we hate the corporation. While some questions do send a prompt retort from the community ("What is the best distro for 'hacking'"), most of us tire day and night to give answers and fix problems - after a full day at work. Now if you choose to use Windows, that is your choice, but the question is - Did you choose Windows, or did it choose you. Do you see it that there is no other possible choice? That the applications that you must have are "only" available on Windows? Have you considered all your options? Microsoft would say yes for you in all three questions. They constantly attack, propagate against, and demoralize any possibility that there is anything but Microsoft. For this we hate them, but not you, the user.

The biggest difference between Linux and Microsoft is not the price, the look or the usage, but the philosophy that it was founded on. Linux was born from the academic world with one purpose in mind - community driven, computerized perfection. Windows was born from the minds of business mend with only the prostitute of profits. Originally, DOS stolen with out paying royalties, the Windows GUI (graphic user interface) was pirated from Xerox, and so many of Windows features were borrowed from the Unix/Linux community without due credit. Our community is here to make a difference, and we are always coming one step closer to our goals. We never back track and never stop. Every success is a step, every failure a leap.

But if you choose to use Windows, it is your choice - we just want to make it all better.

--The Student

You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. -- The Mentor

The Daily Report 2

The Daily Report

What's Been Happening

I know I said that I would be publishing a daily report, hence the obvious, direct, and retarded name, but I as I posted before, I was going through the Singles V-Day hell. As a Script-Kiddie level hacker, I spent my entire weekend fixing my main Linux box. I even got it to do some awesome looking GUI level graphics. Looking back, it was mostly childish stuff, but it kept me from alcohol, drugs, and even most porn. I could have done more for my education, but I feel that I did well for a Single.

Self Help Shit
One of the few good things to come from that commercialized disaster day was the fact that I realized I need to update myself. Part of this is due to fact that I would want to become a more desirable mate/companion, but I also realized that I was minimizing my perspective on life to only companionship and reproduction. Therefore I took up the quest to improve myself.

Yet the most apparent thought is - WTF! This screams self-help bull shit all over it, but I'm not that kind of guy. Truly it would not be self help, if you read and took the advise of the rich, self-centered bastard that jotted down thoughts while he sat on the can and then sold it to you - the idiot sucker. No, self help is really simpler than that. "JUST FUCKING DO IT ASSHOLE!" is what you scream into your head every night before bed, and soon enough you'll be doing it. Yes you should develop a system. But it should be your system, not the red neck drunks, not the doped up hippies, or the over paid new age councilors, but YOUR system.

For me, I wrote down two lists. One list was short term - or my immediate update list - and the other was my long term - my personal projects. I listed things like getting off porn (I've masturbated up to 6 times a day for about 3 years now), getting back my motivation (its so god damn easy to be a fat ass in the fatest country in the world), and time management (being that a lot of time is sucked into porn, fixing the first problem will help with this one) as short term goals. In my projects, I want to build my own distro, a website (one like 4chan, but better), and of course hack a target.

For implementing these goals I need a dead line. The larger projects are my 5 things I want done in 5 years. My small projects are all happening now. The way I understand basic psychology is that the first 2 weeks are the bitch. After that, your mind had developed, built, and implemented a habit in place. From there, everything becomes routine, which is life as it should be - a good routine, a good algorithm. Though, from time to time, everyone, hackers and people alike, know that anomalies emerge that totally fuck with your system worse then spyware ever can, and then you have to go in and rewrite everything you just spent the last few years setting up - FUCK U LIFE!
--The Student

You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. -- The Mentor

V-Day Hell

Why does Qupid fucking bother?

Yeah I'm kinda of a dick on this day. Mostly I'm a dick to myself and the fact that for yet another fucking year I am single, but I can be dick to people that are fortunate enough to not want to die. I mean, it is proven that suicide rates explode the weeks before the dreaded V-day. For me, it makes me want to have "I'm single and fugly!" tattooed in bold, black letters on the top of my head. Then I asked my self - what is the fucking point?

Lets go back several years, to St. Valentine himself. Or should I say, themselves. Saint Valentine was actually a group of martyrs that died in Rome some time between 200AD - 270AD. Originally, the Catholic Church would celebrate several Valentine Days in reference to their sacrifice for the faith. How the fuck did we go from guys dyeing a horrible death to fucking our brains out over red roses? Commercialization!

Sometime, in the middle of the 19th century (1850s), a move was made by corporate background to create an excuse to sell lots of love based merchandise in one day. Before, when would you sell this kind of merchandise? Anniversaries, weddings, or engagements, but how many of these happened on the same day? Even in big cities it would be minimal at best, and back then they weren't as open about affection as we are today. So to sell lots of fresh red roses, chocolates, and other lovey dovy shit, these bastards took and rewrote history, and created a new "holiday."

Now why am I, and so many others pissed at this holiday? What about Christmas or Easter? Both them are a comercialized sacreleage to the church, True. Yet, everyone has a "family" or group of friends to spend Christmas with, and getting kids to forget about the Easter Eggs is the church's problem. But V-Day hits me below the belt. I have tried hard to find a mate, a companion, and friend to spend the rest of my days with, but it doesn't happen over night.

Now, while most people know that V-day is a fad to sell love stuff, most still follow it as an excuse to spend extra money and time with the one they love. But do you need an excuse? Fuck, will one awesome night make up for a shitty year? I think the best idea of love is the one that I have with my computer. I spend all day with other computers at work, but I come home and want to spend special time with my computer. Its MY computer. I guess that's what make me a hacker, I never get burned out around computers - no matter how much time I spend on them. Getting back to love, its a continual thing, no a closet surprise that happens every once and a while. Personally, I'll plan to love my spouse all the time, then set aside a special day in every month that we can have together. As for my V-Day, I'll probably celbrate the opposte day of the year. Just a nice little fuck you to the corperations that benefit from the sales. As for right now, I'll just say it - "FUCK U CORPERATIONS, FUCK U. I'M SINGLE AND LOVING IT!"
--The Student

You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. -- The Mentor

Why Tux FTW?

Why hackers bother with Linux

When you get into the hacker world, you learn that Windows is a consumer level piece of shit. Even the "all knowing" government has stopped using Windows directly on any of there systems (they will use it virtually, but with a Linux/Unix back bone). How Windows has survived with their poor software design for so long is a matter great hacker debate. Whether it is the fact that Microsoft controls the game market, or that they appraise the Aztec Gods by sacrificing one of their many virgin Employees.

Once you step into the realms of computer hacking, software coding, or any other technical field, the only time Windows is used is when it is necessary to work with Windows only customers. You'll find forum upon forum of gripes targeted at the back of Billy's head, whenever someone has to program a Windows app. Even the Elitist Steve Jobs and his Christ-like following have their systems based on freeBSD - aka Unix - and while there is compatition to create the best OS, Unix and Linux are built - origionally - by academics for academics. For my baby steps, my Mentor immediately pointed me to Ubuntu - the baby king pin of the Linux world.

Upon downloading, ripping, and inserting the DVD, I found a had just taken my first step into a new world. Even the live-cd environment worked like a charm. I most impressed that I was actually inside the OS even though I hadn't even installed it to my hard drive. I've always hated that long, sore wait while I installed Windows. Not only did it look bad while it intsalled (terrible resolution settings), it was slow. But Linux, HO-LY SHIIIT! Not only did it install in about one third the time, you can partician and repartician the hard drive, you have soooo many options to choose from it was almost mind bogglying (it still is for any one over the age of 55). Windows free living is so Epic!

It was done in a flash, and I was starting up Linux for the first time - sweeeet! Then, wtf? The sound didn't work, and the resolution was no longer smooth. What happened to the live-cd buttery goodness? Then I quickly came to realize that the reason why hackers use Linux is to get thier asses pwned. It took three weeks to get the video drivers working correctly - my Mentor installed a program that did it for me. It took me another six weeks to bitch slap the sound drivers into submission - it would have taken less if I had realized what kind of sound card I had (me == idiot). When I, I alone, conquered the sound driver a feeling over came me of pure joy. I pwned Linux, it was now mine to own - to control! That is why hackers use linux. Yes, there is the ease of not having viruses or malware. Yes, there security options that make it a fotress of steel (that's before work on it!). Yes, it makes you more of a kewl, 1337 nerd. But really it comes down to ownership. No, I didn't create the skin for desktop. No I didn't "hack" the driver source code. No, I didn't write the code for the kernel. But I did follow an online guide, and I got it to work when it "normally" wouldn't. It is now mine. That Linux on my hard drive is now MINE. What do the Windows user do? Put up a kewl background up? Change the start up screen with another program? Remap the keyboard short cuts? Give me a fucking break. When you spend hours searching for answer, trying out shit that might fuck up your computer, recompiling source code to get an app to work - then you can say you did something, then you can own your OS. And yes, we brandish our work as a mark of distinction. We learn something every time we use our OS, were not lazy bastards that play solitare and call it work.
--The Student


You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. -- The Mentor

The Daily Report 1

The Daily Report:

The Prelude
As I am trying to better myself, as a person and as a hacker, I deiced to write a daily chronicle of my short comings and successes. My mentor has me working to over come my script kiddie pride and my novice mental ignorance. The best example he gave to me to strive for was this: Last semester I had the unfortunate luck to have a class with a Computer Elitist. Although rare and usually Mac users, these individuals tend to have specific software, hardware, and OSs that they believe are only worthy of them (quite annoying, they can be, when they throw their new Iphone in you face). Eventually we got on the subject of hackers, and this arrogant prick went on for a good hour about how the "hacker" could not exist because it was a contradiction in terms, and that anyone calling themselves a hacker was really nothing more than an adolescent doing pranks from a thousand miles away (apparently they guy had never really read The Mentor's Manifesto - http://www.technozen.com/manifesto.htm). I brought what this prick had arrogantly said to my Mentor, and comment that I would pray daily for Mitnick or one founders to come destroy this elitist pos with their Kung-fu. With out skipping a beat, my Mentor told me this - "If Kevin or Linus, or any of the others came across an arrogant rant like that, they would smile. Yes the smile would quietly be saying, "If you only knew.", but nothing would happen - they are at that point where beneath them to honor such arrogance with a response." That moment has pushed me towards writing this section of my blog, simply to keep track of how far I am, and how far I need to go.

The Psyco X
Finals of last semester gave me a cursed blessing that I will remember for the rest of my life. I was in the throws of academic testing when suddenly a ran into a girl I knew. I had been going to lunches very occasionally with her group of friends (this happened after I had unsuccessfully tried to date one of her friends). After spending a whole day on campus with her, I took her back to my house and we watched a few Futurama episodes (its a good cool off for any nerd). Eventually I even took to my parents house for supper (we had actually grown up together at school, I just had never recognized her after she left for college and come back). Eventually she "broke down" in my arms (she later admitted to that being a ploy to get close to me), and we end up making out all night long (I made it to second base). The next day, she came right back over, and made me the happiest man alive - I lost my V card. However, 3 weeks later, I found out she really just wanted to have sex. To get me stop loving her, she said some hurtful things, cheated on me, and - worst of all - she still wanted to be friends. WTF! Zoom ahead to the present - 6 weeks after we broke up - she wont leave me. I have had to block her off of every IM client, every social networking, and even my cell phone. Double WTF!

How does this effect me presently? Besides needing to get a court order, I have had to keep myself in line. I mean there is the usual, I want to bitch slap her back to the whore house from which she came, but more importantly I need to control the impulse to use my skilz for revenge. On the one hand, she does deserve to have her Master Boot Record corrupted, her registry virus infested, and her windows files...well they can be left alone, they corrupt themselves. On the other hand, if I give her a piece of my mind and my kung-fu I would be no better than she is. The korny and inevitable quote, "With great power comes great response ability." But more importantly that is not a hacker. What I mean is, I would become a cracker, script kiddie 4 life, or any other hacker evil spin off - but I would no longer be, no could I ever become a hacker. God, the temptation is there, and at the script kiddie level hackers will say and think about it, but never do it. That is what separates us from the actual script kiddies. Though its not techniclly hacking if you just happen to change her back ground to lesbian slut porn, and you just happen to lock her out from changing those settings. That's a prank that hasn't harmed a single byte of data.

--The Student


You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. -- The Mentor

Late Start

I can't say when I became a hacker. No true hacker can look on a calendar and say, "That's the day when I decided to become a nerd that was more turned on by IP tables instead of women." Being a hacker, so I'm told, is about the mentality more than the actual act of hacking. Its like a true artist. They are just born that way. Also, there are lots of people that think that they are artists, but only a few that truly are. Now, in the art world, its not how popular that determines if you are an artist, but rather your acceptance by the community at large. The same if true for hackers. There are dozens of copy-cat hackers that claim to be "hackers", but are shunned by the community at large. Most of these are called Script-Kiddies, Crackers (not to be confused with a CRYPTANALYST, who breaks codes), and any number of genital insulting names that the community comes up with.

I didn't know that I was a hacker until another hacker came along and told me. I at most thought hackers were kewl, but I labeled myself as a computer enthusiast or a coder or nerd. Then I met a friend, now my Mentor, who I hadn't seen since Jr. High. He was networker for a company in town and a student of one of the colleges. We got to talking, and it didn't take long for us to realize that we had similar interests. With out asking, he took me under his wing and started teaching me about hackers. He didn't throw me programs or hacking how-tos, but rather ideas and encouraging discussions. Pretty soon I had taken my first step into the Hacker's Realm.

I will say, I might have started becoming a hacker soon, back in high school, if not for two reasons - my willpower, and my parents. Back in school I was an unmotivated individual when it came to anything except my three loves - gaming, reading and writing. I liked computers well enough and did lots of programing, but when you get limited in resources you tend to loose hope. My parents weren't the greatest encouragement. They saw my miss guided love of computers (through video games) as nothing more than a video game addiction. If they had just pushed me into computers more, then I might have moved faster. I did know that I was different when it came to computers - I broke every Internet filter my dad put on the computer, and I could fix most windows problems without a second try. I even setup our wireless without asking for help. But I could have gone farther.

Now that I'm out into the bigger pond of the world. I realize how far behind I really am. But thankfully I have my Mentor, and the community to help me catch up. Still, I look upon my early years as miss guided laziness - Time I'll never be able to claim again.
--The Student



You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. -- The Mentor