The hacker's point of view sheds new light on the PC, the Windows operating system, and the Internet. Tips on the efficient use of these elements, which are an integral part of the contemporary world and day-to-day life are provided along with descriptions of the internals of the Windows operating system and techniques for tweaking both the operating system and PC hardware. How to play tricks on friends using the PC and secrets of using the Internet for efficient web surfing are covered. Hacking methods are also shown for stealing data or monitoring a computer through peripheral devices.
Concentrating on PHP script programming, this book considers Web security and optimization from the hacker's point of view. The many utilities used by hackers and written with PHP, examples of secure applications and algorithms for scripts, new ways of writing real hacking programs for the Web and nonstandard PHP programming techniques and possibilities. Programmers will also learn what tricks to expect from a hacker and how to create the most effective protection system possible are all discussed in detail.
This guide to maximizing visual effects and optimizing graphics for game programming with C++ and DirectX is a practical introduction to the latest C++ technologies and techniques. The new concept of demo coding—a program whose purpose is to present the technical and artistic skills of programmers—is provided, as is help for programmers demonstrating their new skills in creating 2-D and 3-D games and demo scenes. An accompanying CD-ROM includes demo scenes, game-development projects, and examples from the book.
Covering new technologies used to search for vulnerabilities on websites from a hacker's point of view, this book on Web security and optimization provides illustrated, practical examples such as attacks on click counters, flooding, forged parameters passed to the server, password attacks, and DoS and DDoS attacks. Including an investigation of the most secure and reliable solutions to Web security and optimization, this book considers the many utilities used by hackers, explains how to write secure applications, and offers numerous interesting algorithms for developers. The CD included contains programs intended for testing sites for vulnerabilities as well as useful utilities for Web security.
Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software--and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project--reveal about the values of contemporary liberalism? Exploring the rise and political significance of the free and open source software (F/OSS) movement in the United States and Europe, Coding Freedom details the ethics behind hackers' devotion to F/OSS, the social codes that guide its production, and the political struggles through which hackers question the scope and direction of copyright and patent law. In telling the story of the F/OSS movement, the book unfolds a broader narrative involving computing, the politics of access, and intellectual property. E. Gabriella Coleman tracks the ways in which hackers collaborate and examines passionate manifestos, hacker humor, free software project governance, and festive hacker conferences. Looking at the ways that hackers sustain their productive freedom, Coleman shows that these activists, driven by a commitment to their work, reformulate key ideals including free speech, transparency, and meritocracy, and refuse restrictive intellectual protections. Coleman demonstrates how hacking, so often marginalized or misunderstood, sheds light on the continuing relevance of liberalism in online collaboration.
This document is a collection of slang terms used by various subcultures of computer hackers. Though some technical material is included for background and flavor, it is not a technical dictionary; what we describe here is the language hackers use among themselves for fun, social communication, and technical debate.
"A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." — New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind In The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.
The Presidentâe(tm)s life is in danger! Jimmy Sniffles, with the help of a new invention, shrinks down to miniature size to sniff out the source of the problem.
Drupal is the premier open source content management system available. It is used for high profile sites such as TheOnion.com and has been deployed by organizations such as NASA. Utilizing Drupal, you can create your own personal blog, a community driven site like Slashdot, or any other content oriented web site you can imagine. Pro Drupal Development is a book geared to professionals that need to deploy and customize Drupal. This book deeply delves into the internals of the Drupal system and teaches the reader everything they will need to know to deploy a highly customized and optimized Drupal installation.
