HIR Issue 6: Informative Resources

By: Axon & Asmodian X

Published in

· 3 years ago

Useful URL's:

FTPSearch (http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no) Ftpsearch is a great internet resource to use. It is extremely flexible, and makes no sacrifices when it comes to power. If you have ever used the "advanced mode" of most internet search engines (Like Yahoo or Excite), then this page will look fairly mundane. for others, it's kind of confusing at first, but it eventually makes sense. Axon showed this gem to Asmodian X one day, and he's used some of axon's ideas blended with quite a few of his own, and wrote an article that will appear later in this issue. It's a must-read.
HTML edition of The New Hackers Dictionary (http://www.earthspace.net/jargon/) If any of you have ever read "The New Hackers Dictionary", it is a book that is taken up mostly by entries of the "Hacker Jargon File", but also contained within its pages is a healthy amount of information that would help anyone better understand hackers (such as the "Portrait of J. Random Hacker", and some of the grammar usage notes). This is a site containing the ENTIRE book in HTML format, and you can jump to any part of it through the table of contents. (Also if you have a favorite word in the jargon section, each word has a tag, so you can link to a single word, not just the page of words starting with "H"). Very good!

Books worth reading:

The Windows 95 Registry: A Survival Guide
ISBN: 1-55828-494-X
Author: John Woram (Also a Senior Contributing Editor For Windows Magazine).
Published: Sept. '96.
Publisher: MIS Press
Official Book URL: http://www.mispress.com/Win95Registry.htm
Pages: 350
Price: Around 25 bucks.
Overview: This is THE book to read if you are at all interested in the mysterious Registry. The information inside can bring a novice up to speed in no time, and give the power-user (that's me) an- other fun toy to mess with. This book brings to light many helpful registry issues such as security, user preferences, and other handy stuff. This book was one of 5 books read in order to prepare Axon to write the windows 95 article (later in this issue). Not only was it the best of the 5, it was good enough for Axon to BUY (instead of hanging out in a bookstore for hours on end, reading it and putting it back, like some books). This book is not recommended reading for newbies, though. Some of the stunts they pull require some decent (intimate?) knowledge of how windows handles things...