techratic

BUSTED. best edition.

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:32:00 +0000

To you she is gone,
but to me she is still at heart.
To you I was a player
but to me it was just plain flirting- no pun intendend.
In your eyes I was discrete, cunning, foxy, dishonest
to me i was being frank, displaying evidence, but she never noticed.
To you she may have reacted like a bitch,
but I take it as ultimate shock
shock fed by false accusations, misconception
shock that resulted out of hallucinated imagery, foolhardy wisdom
but I will feed her with the absolute truth.

In your eyes I was a gold digger,
but I she was the one gold digging.
You think I never gave her attention,
but I gave her my profound time
she just never appreciated it, make out the best of it.
The rumours are that I never listened to her pleas
but I can't remember putting on earplugs while she talked.
So you think I was never supportive?
I pushed her, she never proved herself right.
You say I never gave her a piece of mind,
but she was xploring my mind, trying to set it to a rhythm
a rythm that beat with the beat of her heartbeat

In your eyes she is dead and gone to me
in me she is present, part of me, a piece of me.

You all lament in disgust that I wasted my time
she wasted her time, we wasted our time together
I say, we spent the time, enjoyed each other's company
exceeding to arguments- that`s why we argued for long.

you never know what u got till its gone,
I know what I got cause it`s not gone.

still, can't forget that moment sitted by the park
under the foliage of trees, down by the riverside
when Mary-Jane stumbled upon me

having kush and kush moments,

when she found out herself the truth
when she started believing the rumours, murmurs, hummings,buzz, the whispers.

my love is like WHOAAAAAAAAAA.

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:44:00 +0000

Had a lolng day like always,
home from work, notice flower vases are dry-for what? two weeks?!*
open me door. As i put down my knapsack,
ready for some kush and kush moments by the sofa overlooking the balcony,
I see Mary-Jane standing. No she is break dancing.
No! No! No! No!
She is touching her chest, her hand close to her heart,
bending over, pleading for mercy, cryin, whisperin,
"I.... I....I .. cant feel my heartbeat." she is panting,heaving, "please,....i can,t"
Am not shocked, traumatised.
am taken aback-she is dramatizing it.
"tks! what now? an 11 year old prank? nkt."
Am trynna go grab a bite, but my feet are firmly rooted.
i cant get my eyes of her,
she is not dramatizing it, she is living her act.
Am thinking of Shakespeare, Sydney Sheldon, Wahome Mutahi, John Kiriamiti, Smitta Smitten.
She is inching closer, pleading, pleasing, begging,
"please ....feel my heartbeat?!"
she really is pleading, requesting, thirsty, impatient, demanding, vulnerable, irresistible.

She reaches out for my hand, touches it, locks it,
interlocks her soft sensual fingers in mine
inches my palm close to her heart
am looking at her blossoms blowing, blooming, blossoming.
Am feeling her heartbeat,am feeling my heartbeat
she is feeling my heart.
am felling her heart beat to the rhythm of our music
our music of silence,excitement, excruciating intense, intimacy, exquisite aura
expendable passion in anticipation.

Am smooching her lips reminiscing the nursery hymn
"I n I and Mary-J standing by the floor, K.I.S.S.I.N.G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
she is kissing me , am kissing her back.
she is kissing me too, am ,kissing her three.
am exploding, erupting, vulcanizing.
am scaling heights,clouds, ozone layer, stratosphere.
am going round, swirling, whirling, tonadoing, hurricaning .
Am wanting more, clinging on her,
she is reciprocating, negotiating.
am demanding, crazy, going berserk with emotiolns, sensual seduction.
am almost wetting my jeans, then she pulls back.
She is happy, overjoyed, delirious,hypnotizing, hyperactively rejoicing.
am begging for more.
she gives me one more kiss, a peck, a brush-a breathe of passion.
then she giggles, pulling her head back
"it's working isn't it? my acting prowessssssssssss" she whispers, murmurs.
"yeah, u sure an actress."

Then she now pulls back again, sneers, giggles, laughing,
having a taste of her moment.
now she is bursting, singing and skipping
I think she is in Apollo Theatre
tapdancing to Mya's song- my love is like whoa!

Fuck! she is making mme beg for more.
Am begging for more time,
am begging for a ramatch.
am begging for some daggarin,
am begging for some erroneous obnoxious display of affecion
am begging...............................
Fuck! what the hell........................

Chocolates, Mary-Jane, maryjane and I n I

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:18:00 +0000

I light up my kush, and think of chocolates.
i light up my kush again, and think of Mary-Jane.
i light up my kush again...............................

me a get into ma bima, drive up to Mary-Jane's office
grab her by the wrist, give her this terminator smile,
"say nothing, follow me!"

Mary-Jane is perplexed, astonished and thinking,
"fuck! what's wrong I n I?"
We reach the parking, and I command Mary-Jane,
"hop in!"
she reaches out her hand to grab the car door.
"Bitch! what u doing?"
"opening the car door, duh!"
"nobody touches my car unless i authorize them to."
she is wondering "what?"
i reach out my hand, open the car door and wait for her to get in.
"remember to fasten the seat belt"
once in, i say nothing.
once i hit the highway, am driving fast- very fast.

"where we going?"
am quiet, i glance at her.
notice her inquisitive grin- i hate it.
her inquisitive grin is characterized by:
soul searching eyes, as if she is reading u,
her lips are partly apart-they draw me towards her.........
i pretend to be looking past the window
she sneers.
my focus is on the steering wheel
i zoom past automobiles, am counting trees
step on the accelerator,
then traffic reduces, civilization fades
am in one with nature.
All this time,
Mary-Jane is talkin, blabberin, jabberin, cursing and bitchin.

i pull up at kona baridi,
step outta the car and stroll, quickly away from the car
I like the effect of the chillin breeze in the sun
i like the softness of grass 'rumbling' under my feet
am enjoying the scenario that is earth, earth, earth,,,,,,,,,
"look here I n I, i don like ............."
I turn around and notice her inching closer
covering the couple of feet from the car- inching closer
the wind is blowing the helm of her dress
her hair is swaying in unison music with the wind
she is throwing tantrums, cursing that am acting weird, selfish, irrespective.........
Fuck! she is adorable when mad.
i pull out me box of chocolate
"shut up and munch, crunch, chomp and candy ya chocolate."
i silence her.
Irrespective of the sunshine, the damn wind is blowing harder
she tries closin her eyes, savoring the candid flavour that is her chocolate,
but her gaze is squarely rooted on me- I n I hate this.
that gaze gets me thinking outta my zone.

this time round, i touch her hand,take her by the hand,
prefer to have her sit on grass
i sit behind her, continue to feed her with chocolate.
"I n I , you should try this," flavoring her lips, "it's excruciating"
"shut up a..........."
she shoves this piece of chocolate in me mouth
so i shut up and munch, crunch, chomp and candy my chocolate.
i continue blending with nature, am loooking at landscape but not thinkin.
she turns back again,
surprises me with this kiss, this tantalizing sizzling kiss,
her hands already going octopus, she be curling herself against me............
i push her away gently. She clings on harder.
so i pull her against me, look her squarely in the eyes
"stop kissin like a bitch and get back to ya chocolate."
she is panting, heaving, sigh.
she gets down with her chocolate.

By now am feeling my muscles tense and relax,
i want to chokozaa Mary-Jane kidogoo.
so i pull out my kush, blaze a puff, inhale-exhale.
am about to blaze another puff
she grabs it off me, she throws it away.
i still can reach it, i try to run after it, she is already at it.
Fuck she has it again!

Now standing provocatively two steps from me,
dangling my ka-joint like it's hot, rolls her tongue and
"So, umm.....You get past me to get ya joint, or i STEP on it."
step on it!@#+^!!!!
i approach stealthily, try to grab the kush off her fingers,,\
she jingles the hand away.
she is stepping back, one step at a time.
i try harder,
try to grab it by the right hand, she tosses it to the left over her head.
try to reach it via left hand, she tosses it over her head
hands clutching together in fist, hiding me kush.
I notice she is in me arms, her blossoms blooming in the sun
her fragrance accelerates my adrenaline rush
her soft thighs got this elongating effect on my man
her lips are glossy, smacky, rubbing against mine
erupting my response to stimuli-TOUCH STIMULI.

Martin Luther king Jr. - "I HAVE A DREAM."

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:24:00 +0000

"-I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King Jr. August 28, 1963
I say to you today, my friends,
even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow,
I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident; thal all men are created equal".

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi,
a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression,
will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists,
with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low,
the rough places will be made plains,
and the crooked places will be made straight,
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all the flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation
into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together,
to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning,
"My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my father died, land of pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring".
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvacious slopes of California!
But not only that;
let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and mole hill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring, and when this happens,

When we let freedom ring,
when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet,
from every state and every city,
we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children,
black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics,
will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual,
"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last"!""""""""""""""""

Imagine cramming the American dream? well to tell u the truth, i had to cram it back in high school.
Our English teacher in form one back then Mr. Osoro(mapepa) sure that we(I) crammmed it for our own good. This were some of the few inspiring teachers i remember to this day.

   " a mediocre teacher TELLS
                           a good teacher EXPLAINS
                          a great teacher DEMONSTRATES
                         but a superior teacher INSPIRES."

Well there is much to learn from martin luther's dream but all am trying to pinpoint here is the art of incentives. Humans in nature need various kinds of incentives to perfom.
As much as what we are going to do has positive effects in our lifes, sometimes we never see the urge to get serious with things cuz u got freedom to do it or not- only difference is that we are abusing our freedom by not doing that which we feel we ought to do but we don't do it.
Enough with the hullaballoo, this teacher promised us a 100/= then if u could recite the whole dream without reference. You can imagine way back then in 2005 what a form one could do with a mere 100/=. mandazi, loaf and more mandazi.
So it worked out that i won the whole 100/= and an additional one cuz am the only student who tried voluntary to memorize the whole speech in front of the class without being asked to. the other students were wetting their trousers trying to memorise a simple speech like this-though i have fofgotten it a little bit.
Imagine if our systems were like this, if only people were motivated to do what they do best?

Then i came to understand that inspiration and perspiration are different.
INSPIRATION should be the pivot, the driver, the motivator, the enhancer
the force that makes you moonlight to dead of night
the force that deprives you off all sleep
the force that gets you thinking, dreaming, visionalizing
the cooling effect of the fun when u sweat,
the sweet sweat that comes out of perspiration
cuz man sinned at the garden of eden, he was cursed by God
and so to rip benefits of our work- we have to really perspire.

she let the party

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:08:00 +0000

did she leave the party cuz she was drunk
or was just never in mood to party?
did she leave the party when he hit on her
or did she have a bitch fight?
did she leave the bash cuz the DJ was unill
or its cuz she cant wiggle, and get down every time the beat drops?
did she fail to drop it like its hot
or cuz her love dance is like whoa-that got into her head?
did she leave cuz he spanked her
or did she leave cuz she tripped tryna break dance on her high heels?
did she leave tha party cuz she kissed a gyal and she liked it
or is it plain madness that got the better of her?
did she leave cuz i drank one two many
or i was just being point blank, fallin in love with froth- beer froth?
did she leave the club cuz it was getting too stuffy
or is it cuz it was getting late?
did she stumble upon her ex, a ghost
or is it's cuz she stumbled upon a 'sausage funga' that she left?

she says i flirted too much, she says i never cared.
she says i wasn't listening to her,
she says i slapped her-it demoralized her,depressed her, disgusted her.
she says she tried to harmer some sense into my conscious
but i never sensed the senses.
she says i mocked her, provoked her wits, invoked her adrenaline to unbearable levels.
she says i tore her dress,
she says i tried to force myself into her- she says it was a public disgrace.

am trynna remember, tryn to recall y she left the bash
y she left without me, y she cried all night
y she is cryn even now,
then it hits me.
The feeling is irreconcilable with the dictates of nature
the feeling is hollow, wallowing, hooting in my brain, body and soul
the feelin is thirsting my quench, twisting, twirling,irritating, hurricaning, gull bitter.

never should i have strolled away from her,
if i knew, i would have listened to her
wish i never gave in to Marry-anne
wish i had resisted my urges-primitive urges
wish i can erase the scene when Mary-Jane bumped on us
busy makin out in the car park
and she thought Mary-anne was her BEST FRIEND.

TULIA MWANANGU, KUWA MPOLE.

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:32:00 +0000

So i wonder, after sayin
"tulia mwanagu, kuwa mpole,"
dont ya feel like,"relax hommy, cool down"?
'prolong ya syllables.'

so am completely lost in kush and kush moments
today am with Hacker, so i tell him of ths hacker,
this hacker that hacke into haka kakomputer,
this hacker that is today a walker,
this hacker that turned out to be an alco-worker
this hacker who refuses to be hacked
this hacker who never cracks when cracked
this hacker who can hacker crack and hawk a cracker or cracker
this hacker that cracked the cracker crackin a hacker who was hackin a cracker
this hacker that .................
then hacker says it
"tulia mwanangu, kuwa mpole."

then i explore the metaphore
"tulia mwanangu, kuwa mpole,"
and am feeling like,
"relax hommy, cooool down."

then enters cracker,
cracks me with this joke
am crackin my ribs,laughing,
am loosin tears, cryin,
am trynna talk but am talkin laughing
am crackin crackle's vibe................
cracker pricks nose, looks at mucus for eternity
"techratic! am hungry!#^*"
am thinking: Fuck! so????????????
cracker is crackn like crazy,
cracker is crackles, about knuckles, shackles,pimples, riddles
cracker is crackin nuts bout feminity, masculinity,pussy, mathaphakin s#*!
cracker is animating the imagination of hallucinations in euphoria
cracker is crackin about hacker, bout THC....................

We notice hacker, hackerin around.
hacker notices us going THC from - to + infinity
then hacker is lamenting, chanting, humming, murmuring
"tulia mwanagu, kuwa mpole"
Techratic is wonderin, who is relaxin which hommy and who is cooling who down?

A LAZY NAIROBI.

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:59:00 +0000

I light up my kush and gaze at Nairobi.

A lazy Nairobi evening
under this mogumo tree do i stare at nairobi.
i gaze at the snaky traffic jam
the distinct sound of children playing
the occasional stork, crane, pigeons and doves alike
i wonder in awe\
i gaze at the majestic splendor that is bestowed within women
the jingle of an ice cream van
the yellow-melllow-orange shine of the evening sun;
reflected from Nairobi's scryscrappers
The wind blows,
the sun sets
and streets are flooded with lights.

A lazy Nairobi night
i light up me kush and gaze at Nairobi.
flickering stars, twinkling galaxies
ans a blurring site that's nairobi's concrete jungle.
family cars, matatus and buses wont fail to hoot
and the owl won't fail to hoot 2
A scream here
      and you know muggers are on the loose
A scream there
     fuck! lasses and lads making out under the tree. F.U.C.K.I.N.G.
A scream there also
     drunks are cursing and praising the world that is the quench of their thirst
And screams there
     CRASH! fatal accident.
dead silence, grave silence.
crickets cricketing, wind whistling
now the park is whistling thorns
the moon's radiance illuminates
a lazy nairobi dead night
but i glance at neon lights and wonder........

A lazy Nairobi dawning
I light up my kush and gaze at Nairobi
the dead nairobi homes are lazily lighting up
school kids hurry up to school
early birds on the rise
labourers en route eleven to 'hustle' for their wages
while the so paid have to wait for their salaries.
traders are piling up!
sun is already hot if not warm.

a lazy Nairobi noon
I light up my kush and stare at Nairobi.
the sun is directly overhead! am STONED.
i feel this hunger pains
when i see restaurants fool
when i see picnic snacks by the park
when i see soda and cake vendors
when i miss my mama's packed lunch.
the noise of a lazy but busy Nairobi
the air pollution from exhaust
the dust blowin in ya face= makes u sick!
with a lazy nairobi afternoon.

I light up my kush,
And gaze into a lazy nairobi afternoon.

KUSH MOMENTS WITH MARY-JANE.

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:27:00 +0000

As i puff, huff and laugh;
inhale-exhale,
I stare at di horizon,
heave sigh and relax.
feel the laxity,
look at my ka-half joint, blend in one with nature.......
fuck !#$% am highhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Again i puff, huff and smile,
kiss mary-jane again with pleasure,
feel her touch all over my body
feel the massaging effects of her touch on my brains and mind,
feel the blood purification effect when she rushes thru my blood
and am lost in euphoria, maybe planet galaxy.

Then do i puff, huff and smile,
feel the tender kisss of Mary -Jane,
am lost in wonder, pleasure, bliss..
I gaze at her eyes dozingly,
I see beauty, a love of symmetry
I see at her well curved nose,
I see mountains, plantations, acres and acres - kush plantations
I see her(mary-jane) and I smile back
wow! am STONED!

so I puff, huff and smile again
I see children playing in the park
I reminisce them days
I dig my subconscious to back 2 back
back in the day when i played, eat, played and wonder
wonder at the sweetening nature life can bring forth
just smile and wonder back in the day,
then i puff, huff and MEDITATE.

kush and kush moments with MARY-JANE.

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:57:00 +0000

Mary-Jane comes to me sitted under a tree
I notice her bitchy nature, sick attitude, mischief in her gaze
She looks at me with utter disgust;
Approaches closer,
Pegging her nose in ultimate horror
"Mmphphmmmh! Wadd'up I n I ? What s#*! u smokin on?"
"Kush, Mary-Jane. tks! what the hell u think am high on? "
So Mary-Jane is perplexed, horrified, full of adrenaline rush......
Then she puts on this cynical smile,
Sits next to me and tries to blend in.....
Am thinking: fuck! she could have gone,
why she sitting here? maybe she need a puff?
So I n I give mary-jane one last kiss, gaze at her, smile a little;
Then pass her over to Mary-Jane - left hand side.

Then she grabs her between her shaky two fingers cautiously,
Stares at her lusciously,
draws her closer to her lips
goosebumps all over her body,
and then shshhhhhhhhhhhhh
one puff: chchchhhhhhhhh
two puffs: inhale- exhale.
"Shit I n I, what u call this s#!*? "
i look at her, smile at her,
relax in her presence and whisper to her
"it's named after you."
"Mary-Jane? heh! mzeia u trippin."
"No it's not Mary-Jane. it's mary-jane"
she relaxes, completely at laxity, alert at her metamorphosis
And am thinking she be thinking:

"wow! s#!* !. cannabis named after me? "
she takes another puff, another huff, another inhale- exhale.
"this s#!* done euphoric pussy"
it hooks ya wit and hallucinations right to call
delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinnol, mary-jane after my name: Mary-Jane."
I smile at myself
happy with myself, be happy
Self actualizing with mary-jane,
Romanticizing with Mary-Jane.
Having kush and kush moments with Mary-Jane.

How To Become A Hacker-by Eric Steven Raymond

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:49:00 +0000

How To Become A Hacker

Eric Steven Raymond

Why This Document?

As editor of the Jargon File and author of a few other well-known documents of similar nature, I often get email requests from enthusiastic network newbies asking (in effect) "how can I learn to be a wizardly hacker?". Back in 1996 I noticed that there didn't seem to be any other FAQs or web documents that addressed this vital question, so I started this one. A lot of hackers now consider it definitive, and I suppose that means it is. Still, I don't claim to be the exclusive authority on this topic; if you don't like what you read here, write your own.
If you are reading a snapshot of this document offline, the current version lives at http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html.
Note: there is a list of Frequently Asked Questions at the end of this document. Please read theseâ€”twiceâ€”before mailing me any questions about this document.
Numerous translations of this document are available: Arabic Belorussian Chinese (Simplified), Danish, Dutch, Estonian, German, Greek Italian Hebrew, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian Spanish, Turkish, and Swedish. Note that since this document changes occasionally, they may be out of date to varying degrees.
The five-dots-in-nine-squares diagram that decorates this document is called a glider. It is a simple pattern with some surprising properties in a mathematical simulation called Life that has fascinated hackers for many years. I think it makes a good visual emblem for what hackers are like â€” abstract, at first a bit mysterious-seeming, but a gateway to a whole world with an intricate logic of its own. Read more about the glider emblem here.

What Is a Hacker?

The Jargon File contains a bunch of definitions of the term â€˜hackerâ€™, most having to do with technical adeptness and a delight in solving problems and overcoming limits. If you want to know how to become a hacker, though, only two are really relevant.
There is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking wizards that traces its history back through decades to the first time-sharing minicomputers and the earliest ARPAnet experiments. The members of this culture originated the term â€˜hackerâ€™. Hackers built the Internet. Hackers made the Unix operating system what it is today. Hackers run Usenet. Hackers make the World Wide Web work. If you are part of this culture, if you have contributed to it and other people in it know who you are and call you a hacker, you're a hacker.
The hacker mind-set is not confined to this software-hacker culture. There are people who apply the hacker attitude to other things, like electronics or music â€” actually, you can find it at the highest levels of any science or art. Software hackers recognize these kindred spirits elsewhere and may call them â€˜hackersâ€™ too â€” and some claim that the hacker nature is really independent of the particular medium the hacker works in. But in the rest of this document we will focus on the skills and attitudes of software hackers, and the traditions of the shared culture that originated the term â€˜hackerâ€™.
There is another group of people who loudly call themselves hackers, but aren't. These are people (mainly adolescent males) who get a kick out of breaking into computers and phreaking the phone system. Real hackers call these people â€˜crackersâ€™ and want nothing to do with them. Real hackers mostly think crackers are lazy, irresponsible, and not very bright, and object that being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker any more than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer. Unfortunately, many journalists and writers have been fooled into using the word â€˜hackerâ€™ to describe crackers; this irritates real hackers no end.
The basic difference is this: hackers build things, crackers break them.
If you want to be a hacker, keep reading. If you want to be a cracker, go read the alt.2600 newsgroup and get ready to do five to ten in the slammer after finding out you aren't as smart as you think you are. And that's all I'm going to say about crackers.

The Hacker Attitude

1. The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved.
2. No problem should ever have to be solved twice.
3. Boredom and drudgery are evil.
4. Freedom is good.
5. Attitude is no substitute for competence.

Hackers solve problems and build things, and they believe in freedom and voluntary mutual help. To be accepted as a hacker, you have to behave as though you have this kind of attitude yourself. And to behave as though you have the attitude, you have to really believe the attitude.
But if you think of cultivating hacker attitudes as just a way to gain acceptance in the culture, you'll miss the point. Becoming the kind of person who believes these things is important for you â€” for helping you learn and keeping you motivated. As with all creative arts, the most effective way to become a master is to imitate the mind-set of masters â€” not just intellectually but emotionally as well.
Or, as the following modern Zen poem has it:

                               Tofollow the path:
   look to the master,
           follow the master,
                           walk with the master,
                     see through the master,
                   become the master.

So, if you want to be a hacker, repeat the following things until you believe them:

1. The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved.

Being a hacker is lots of fun, but it's a kind of fun that takes lots of effort. The effort takes motivation. Successful athletes get their motivation from a kind of physical delight in making their bodies perform, in pushing themselves past their own physical limits. Similarly, to be a hacker you have to get a basic thrill from solving problems, sharpening your skills, and exercising your intelligence.
If you aren't the kind of person that feels this way naturally, you'll need to become one in order to make it as a hacker. Otherwise you'll find your hacking energy is sapped by distractions like sex, money, and social approval.
(You also have to develop a kind of faith in your own learning capacity â€” a belief that even though you may not know all of what you need to solve a problem, if you tackle just a piece of it and learn from that, you'll learn enough to solve the next piece â€” and so on, until you're done.)

2. No problem should ever have to be solved twice.

Creative brains are a valuable, limited resource. They shouldn't be wasted on re-inventing the wheel when there are so many fascinating new problems waiting out there.
To behave like a hacker, you have to believe that the thinking time of other hackers is precious â€” so much so that it's almost a moral duty for you to share information, solve problems and then give the solutions away just so other hackers can solve new problems instead of having to perpetually re-address old ones.
Note, however, that "No problem should ever have to be solved twice." does not imply that you have to consider all existing solutions sacred, or that there is only one right solution to any given problem. Often, we learn a lot about the problem that we didn't know before by studying the first cut at a solution. It's OK, and often necessary, to decide that we can do better. What's not OK is artificial technical, legal, or institutional barriers (like closed-source code) that prevent a good solution from being re-used and force people to re-invent wheels.
(You don't have to believe that you're obligated to give all your creative product away, though the hackers that do are the ones that get most respect from other hackers. It's consistent with hacker values to sell enough of it to keep you in food and rent and computers. It's fine to use your hacking skills to support a family or even get rich, as long as you don't forget your loyalty to your art and your fellow hackers while doing it.)

3. Boredom and drudgery are evil.

Hackers (and creative people in general) should never be bored or have to drudge at stupid repetitive work, because when this happens it means they aren't doing what only they can do â€” solve new problems. This wastefulness hurts everybody. Therefore boredom and drudgery are not just unpleasant but actually evil.
To behave like a hacker, you have to believe this enough to want to automate away the boring bits as much as possible, not just for yourself but for everybody else (especially other hackers).
(There is one apparent exception to this. Hackers will sometimes do things that may seem repetitive or boring to an observer as a mind-clearing exercise, or in order to acquire a skill or have some particular kind of experience you can't have otherwise. But this is by choice â€” nobody who can think should ever be forced into a situation that bores them.)

4. Freedom is good.

Hackers are naturally anti-authoritarian. Anyone who can give you orders can stop you from solving whatever problem you're being fascinated by â€” and, given the way authoritarian minds work, will generally find some appallingly stupid reason to do so. So the authoritarian attitude has to be fought wherever you find it, lest it smother you and other hackers.
(This isn't the same as fighting all authority. Children need to be guided and criminals restrained. A hacker may agree to accept some kinds of authority in order to get something he wants more than the time he spends following orders. But that's a limited, conscious bargain; the kind of personal surrender authoritarians want is not on offer.)
Authoritarians thrive on censorship and secrecy. And they distrust voluntary cooperation and information-sharing â€” they only like â€˜cooperationâ€™ that they control. So to behave like a hacker, you have to develop an instinctive hostility to censorship, secrecy, and the use of force or deception to compel responsible adults. And you have to be willing to act on that belief.

5. Attitude is no substitute for competence.

To be a hacker, you have to develop some of these attitudes. But copping an attitude alone won't make you a hacker, any more than it will make you a champion athlete or a rock star. Becoming a hacker will take intelligence, practice, dedication, and hard work.
Therefore, you have to learn to distrust attitude and respect competence of every kind. Hackers won't let posers waste their time, but they worship competence â€” especially competence at hacking, but competence at anything is valued. Competence at demanding skills that few can master is especially good, and competence at demanding skills that involve mental acuteness, craft, and concentration is best.
If you revere competence, you'll enjoy developing it in yourself â€” the hard work and dedication will become a kind of intense play rather than drudgery. That attitude is vital to becoming a hacker.

Basic Hacking Skills

1. Learn how to program.
2. Get one of the open-source Unixes and learn to use and run it.
3. Learn how to use the World Wide Web and write HTML.
4. If you don't have functional English, learn it.

The hacker attitude is vital, but skills are even more vital. Attitude is no substitute for competence, and there's a certain basic toolkit of skills which you have to have before any hacker will dream of calling you one.
This toolkit changes slowly over time as technology creates new skills and makes old ones obsolete. For example, it used to include programming in machine language, and didn't until recently involve HTML. But right now it pretty clearly includes the following:

1. Learn how to program.

This, of course, is the fundamental hacking skill. If you don't know any computer languages, I recommend starting with Python. It is cleanly designed, well documented, and relatively kind to beginners. Despite being a good first language, it is not just a toy; it is very powerful and flexible and well suited for large projects. I have written a more detailed evaluation of Python. Good tutorials are available at the Python web site.
I used to recommend Java as a good language to learn early, but this critique has changed my mind (search for â€œThe Pitfalls of Java as a First Programming Languageâ€ within it). A hacker cannot, as they devastatingly put it â€œapproach problem-solving like a plumber in a hardware storeâ€; you have to know what the components actually do. Now I think it is probably best to learn C and Lisp first, then Java.
There is perhaps a more general point here. If a language does too much for you, it may be simultaneously a good tool for production and a bad one for learning. It's not only languages that have this problem; web application frameworks like RubyOnRails, CakePHP, Django may make it too easy to reach a superficial sort of understanding that will leave you without resources when you have to tackle a hard problem, or even just debug the solution to an easy one.
If you get into serious programming, you will have to learn C, the core language of Unix. C++ is very closely related to C; if you know one, learning the other will not be difficult. Neither language is a good one to try learning as your first, however. And, actually, the more you can avoid programming in C the more productive you will be.
C is very efficient, and very sparing of your machine's resources. Unfortunately, C gets that efficiency by requiring you to do a lot of low-level management of resources (like memory) by hand. All that low-level code is complex and bug-prone, and will soak up huge amounts of your time on debugging. With today's machines as powerful as they are, this is usually a bad tradeoff â€” it's smarter to use a language that uses the machine's time less efficiently, but your time much more efficiently. Thus, Python.
Other languages of particular importance to hackers include Perl and LISP. Perl is worth learning for practical reasons; it's very widely used for active web pages and system administration, so that even if you never write Perl you should learn to read it. Many people use Perl in the way I suggest you should use Python, to avoid C programming on jobs that don't require C's machine efficiency. You will need to be able to understand their code.
LISP is worth learning for a different reason â€” the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it. That experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use LISP itself a lot. (You can get some beginning experience with LISP fairly easily by writing and modifying editing modes for the Emacs text editor, or Script-Fu plugins for the GIMP.)
It's best, actually, to learn all five of Python, C/C++, Java, Perl, and LISP. Besides being the most important hacking languages, they represent very different approaches to programming, and each will educate you in valuable ways.
But be aware that you won't reach the skill level of a hacker or even merely a programmer simply by accumulating languages â€” you need to learn how to think about programming problems in a general way, independent of any one language. To be a real hacker, you need to get to the point where you can learn a new language in days by relating what's in the manual to what you already know. This means you should learn several very different languages.
I can't give complete instructions on how to learn to program here â€” it's a complex skill. But I can tell you that books and courses won't do it â€” many, maybe most of the best hackers are self-taught. You can learn language features â€” bits of knowledge â€” from books, but the mind-set that makes that knowledge into living skill can be learned only by practice and apprenticeship. What will do it is (a) reading code and (b) writing code.
Peter Norvig, who is one of Google's top hackers and the co-author of the most widely used textbook on AI, has written an excellent essay called Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years. His "recipe for programming success" is worth careful attention.
Learning to program is like learning to write good natural language. The best way to do it is to read some stuff written by masters of the form, write some things yourself, read a lot more, write a little more, read a lot more, write some more ... and repeat until your writing begins to develop the kind of strength and economy you see in your models.
Finding good code to read used to be hard, because there were few large programs available in source for fledgeling hackers to read and tinker with. This has changed dramatically; open-source software, programming tools, and operating systems (all built by hackers) are now widely available. Which brings me neatly to our next topic...

2. Get one of the open-source Unixes and learn to use and run it.

I'll assume you have a personal computer or can get access to one. (Take a moment to appreciate how much that means. The hacker culture originally evolved back when computers were so expensive that individuals could not own them.) The single most important step any newbie can take toward acquiring hacker skills is to get a copy of Linux or one of the BSD-Unixes or OpenSolaris, install it on a personal machine, and run it.
Yes, there are other operating systems in the world besides Unix. But they're distributed in binary â€” you can't read the code, and you can't modify it. Trying to learn to hack on a Microsoft Windows machine or under any other closed-source system is like trying to learn to dance while wearing a body cast.
Under Mac OS X it's possible, but only part of the system is open source â€” you're likely to hit a lot of walls, and you have to be careful not to develop the bad habit of depending on Apple's proprietary code. If you concentrate on the Unix under the hood you can learn some useful things.
Unix is the operating system of the Internet. While you can learn to use the Internet without knowing Unix, you can't be an Internet hacker without understanding Unix. For this reason, the hacker culture today is pretty strongly Unix-centered. (This wasn't always true, and some old-time hackers still aren't happy about it, but the symbiosis between Unix and the Internet has become strong enough that even Microsoft's muscle doesn't seem able to seriously dent it.)
So, bring up a Unix â€” I like Linux myself but there are other ways (and yes, you can run both Linux and Microsoft Windows on the same machine). Learn it. Run it. Tinker with it. Talk to the Internet with it. Read the code. Modify the code. You'll get better programming tools (including C, LISP, Python, and Perl) than any Microsoft operating system can dream of hosting, you'll have fun, and you'll soak up more knowledge than you realize you're learning until you look back on it as a master hacker.
For more about learning Unix, see The Loginataka. You might also want to have a look at The Art Of Unix Programming.
To get your hands on a Linux, see the Linux Online! site; you can download from there or (better idea) find a local Linux user group to help you with installation.
During the first ten years of this HOWTO's life, I reported that from a new user's point of view, all Linux distributions are almost equivalent. But in 2006-2007, an actual best choice emerged: Ubuntu. While other distros have their own areas of strength, Ubuntu is far and away the most accessible to Linux newbies.
You can find BSD Unix help and resources at www.bsd.org.
A good way to dip your toes in the water is to boot up what Linux fans call a live CD, a distribution that runs entirely off a CD without having to modify your hard disk. This will be slow, because CDs are slow, but it's a way to get a look at the possibilities without having to do anything drastic.
I have written a primer on the basics of Unix and the Internet.
I used to recommend against installing either Linux or BSD as a solo project if you're a newbie. Nowadays the installers have gotten good enough that doing it entirely on your own is possible, even for a newbie. Nevertheless, I still recommend making contact with your local Linux user's group and asking for help. It can't hurt, and may smooth the process.

3. Learn how to use the World Wide Web and write HTML.

Most of the things the hacker culture has built do their work out of sight, helping run factories and offices and universities without any obvious impact on how non-hackers live. The Web is the one big exception, the huge shiny hacker toy that even politicians admit has changed the world. For this reason alone (and a lot of other good ones as well) you need to learn how to work the Web.
This doesn't just mean learning how to drive a browser (anyone can do that), but learning how to write HTML, the Web's markup language. If you don't know how to program, writing HTML will teach you some mental habits that will help you learn. So build a home page. Try to stick to XHTML, which is a cleaner language than classic HTML. (There are good beginner tutorials on the Web; here's one.)
But just having a home page isn't anywhere near good enough to make you a hacker. The Web is full of home pages. Most of them are pointless, zero-content sludge â€” very snazzy-looking sludge, mind you, but sludge all the same (for more on this see The HTML Hell Page).
To be worthwhile, your page must have content â€” it must be interesting and/or useful to other hackers. And that brings us to the next topic...

4. If you don't have functional English, learn it.

As an American and native English-speaker myself, I have previously been reluctant to suggest this, lest it be taken as a sort of cultural imperialism. But several native speakers of other languages have urged me to point out that English is the working language of the hacker culture and the Internet, and that you will need to know it to function in the hacker community.
Back around 1991 I learned that many hackers who have English as a second language use it in technical discussions even when they share a birth tongue; it was reported to me at the time that English has a richer technical vocabulary than any other language and is therefore simply a better tool for the job. For similar reasons, translations of technical books written in English are often unsatisfactory (when they get done at all).
Linus Torvalds, a Finn, comments his code in English (it apparently never occurred to him to do otherwise). His fluency in English has been an important factor in his ability to recruit a worldwide community of developers for Linux. It's an example worth following.
Being a native English-speaker does not guarantee that you have language skills good enough to function as a hacker. If your writing is semi-literate, ungrammatical, and riddled with misspellings, many hackers (including myself) will tend to ignore you. While sloppy writing does not invariably mean sloppy thinking, we've generally found the correlation to be strong â€” and we have no use for sloppy thinkers. If you can't yet write competently, learn to.

Status in the Hacker Culture

1. Write open-source software
2. Help test and debug open-source software
3. Publish useful information
4. Help keep the infrastructure working
5. Serve the hacker culture itself

Like most cultures without a money economy, hackerdom runs on reputation. You're trying to solve interesting problems, but how interesting they are, and whether your solutions are really good, is something that only your technical peers or superiors are normally equipped to judge.
Accordingly, when you play the hacker game, you learn to keep score primarily by what other hackers think of your skill (this is why you aren't really a hacker until other hackers consistently call you one). This fact is obscured by the image of hacking as solitary work; also by a hacker-cultural taboo (gradually decaying since the late 1990s but still potent) against admitting that ego or external validation are involved in one's motivation at all.
Specifically, hackerdom is what anthropologists call a gift culture. You gain status and reputation in it not by dominating other people, nor by being beautiful, nor by having things other people want, but rather by giving things away. Specifically, by giving away your time, your creativity, and the results of your skill.
There are basically five kinds of things you can do to be respected by hackers:

1. Write open-source software

The first (the most central and most traditional) is to write programs that other hackers think are fun or useful, and give the program sources away to the whole hacker culture to use.
(We used to call these works â€œfree softwareâ€, but this confused too many people who weren't sure exactly what â€œfreeâ€ was supposed to mean. Most of us now prefer the term â€œopen-sourceâ€ software).
Hackerdom's most revered demigods are people who have written large, capable programs that met a widespread need and given them away, so that now everyone uses them.
But there's a bit of a fine historical point here. While hackers have always looked up to the open-source developers among them as our community's hardest core, before the mid-1990s most hackers most of the time worked on closed source. This was still true when I wrote the first version of this HOWTO in 1996; it took the mainstreaming of open-source software after 1997 to change things. Today, "the hacker community" and "open-source developers" are two descriptions for what is essentially the same culture and population â€” but it is worth remembering that this was not always so. (For more on this, see the section called â€œHistorical Note: Hacking, Open Source, and Free Softwareâ€.)

2. Help test and debug open-source software

They also serve who stand and debug open-source software. In this imperfect world, we will inevitably spend most of our software development time in the debugging phase. That's why any open-source author who's thinking will tell you that good beta-testers (who know how to describe symptoms clearly, localize problems well, can tolerate bugs in a quickie release, and are willing to apply a few simple diagnostic routines) are worth their weight in rubies. Even one of these can make the difference between a debugging phase that's a protracted, exhausting nightmare and one that's merely a salutary nuisance.
If you're a newbie, try to find a program under development that you're interested in and be a good beta-tester. There's a natural progression from helping test programs to helping debug them to helping modify them. You'll learn a lot this way, and generate good karma with people who will help you later on.

3. Publish useful information

Another good thing is to collect and filter useful and interesting information into web pages or documents like Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) lists, and make those generally available.
Maintainers of major technical FAQs get almost as much respect as open-source authors.

4. Help keep the infrastructure working

The hacker culture (and the engineering development of the Internet, for that matter) is run by volunteers. There's a lot of necessary but unglamorous work that needs done to keep it going â€” administering mailing lists, moderating newsgroups, maintaining large software archive sites, developing RFCs and other technical standards.
People who do this sort of thing well get a lot of respect, because everybody knows these jobs are huge time sinks and not as much fun as playing with code. Doing them shows dedication.

5. Serve the hacker culture itself

Finally, you can serve and propagate the culture itself (by, for example, writing an accurate primer on how to become a hacker :-)). This is not something you'll be positioned to do until you've been around for while and become well-known for one of the first four things.
The hacker culture doesn't have leaders, exactly, but it does have culture heroes and tribal elders and historians and spokespeople. When you've been in the trenches long enough, you may grow into one of these. Beware: hackers distrust blatant ego in their tribal elders, so visibly reaching for this kind of fame is dangerous. Rather than striving for it, you have to sort of position yourself so it drops in your lap, and then be modest and gracious about your status.

The Hacker/Nerd Connection

Contrary to popular myth, you don't have to be a nerd to be a hacker. It does help, however, and many hackers are in fact nerds. Being something of a social outcast helps you stay concentrated on the really important things, like thinking and hacking.
For this reason, many hackers have adopted the label â€˜geekâ€™ as a badge of pride â€” it's a way of declaring their independence from normal social expectations (as well as a fondness for other things like science fiction and strategy games that often go with being a hacker). The term 'nerd' used to be used this way back in the 1990s, back when 'nerd' was a mild pejorative and 'geek' a rather harsher one; sometime after 2000 they switched places, at least in U.S. popular culture, and there is now even a significant geek-pride culture among people who aren't techies.
If you can manage to concentrate enough on hacking to be good at it and still have a life, that's fine. This is a lot easier today than it was when I was a newbie in the 1970s; mainstream culture is much friendlier to techno-nerds now. There are even growing numbers of people who realize that hackers are often high-quality lover and spouse material.
If you're attracted to hacking because you don't have a life, that's OK too â€” at least you won't have trouble concentrating. Maybe you'll get a life later on.

Points For Style

Again, to be a hacker, you have to enter the hacker mindset. There are some things you can do when you're not at a computer that seem to help. They're not substitutes for hacking (nothing is) but many hackers do them, and feel that they connect in some basic way with the essence of hacking.

Learn to write your native language well. Though it's a common stereotype that programmers can't write, a surprising number of hackers (including all the most accomplished ones I know of) are very able writers.
Read science fiction. Go to science fiction conventions (a good way to meet hackers and proto-hackers).
Train in a martial-arts form. The kind of mental discipline required for martial arts seems to be similar in important ways to what hackers do. The most popular forms among hackers are definitely Asian empty-hand arts such as Tae Kwon Do, various forms of Karate, Kung Fu, Aikido, or Ju Jitsu. Western fencing and Asian sword arts also have visible followings. In places where it's legal, pistol shooting has been rising in popularity since the late 1990s. The most hackerly martial arts are those which emphasize mental discipline, relaxed awareness, and control, rather than raw strength, athleticism, or physical toughness.
Study an actual meditation discipline. The perennial favorite among hackers is Zen (importantly, it is possible to benefit from Zen without acquiring a religion or discarding one you already have). Other styles may work as well, but be careful to choose one that doesn't require you to believe crazy things.
Develop an analytical ear for music. Learn to appreciate peculiar kinds of music. Learn to play some musical instrument well, or how to sing.
Develop your appreciation of puns and wordplay.

The more of these things you already do, the more likely it is that you are natural hacker material. Why these things in particular is not completely clear, but they're connected with a mix of left- and right-brain skills that seems to be important; hackers need to be able to both reason logically and step outside the apparent logic of a problem at a moment's notice.
Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work. For true hackers, the boundaries between "play", "work", "science" and "art" all tend to disappear, or to merge into a high-level creative playfulness. Also, don't be content with a narrow range of skills. Though most hackers self-describe as programmers, they are very likely to be more than competent in several related skills â€” system administration, web design, and PC hardware troubleshooting are common ones. A hacker who's a system administrator, on the other hand, is likely to be quite skilled at script programming and web design. Hackers don't do things by halves; if they invest in a skill at all, they tend to get very good at it.
Finally, a few things not to do.

Don't use a silly, grandiose user ID or screen name.
Don't get in flame wars on Usenet (or anywhere else).
Don't call yourself a â€˜cyberpunkâ€™, and don't waste your time on anybody who does.
Don't post or email writing that's full of spelling errors and bad grammar.

The only reputation you'll make doing any of these things is as a twit. Hackers have long memories â€” it could take you years to live your early blunders down enough to be accepted.
The problem with screen names or handles deserves some amplification. Concealing your identity behind a handle is a juvenile and silly behavior characteristic of crackers, warez d00dz, and other lower life forms. Hackers don't do this; they're proud of what they do and want it associated with their real names. So if you have a handle, drop it. In the hacker culture it will only mark you as a loser.

Historical Note: Hacking, Open Source, and Free Software

When I originally wrote this how-to in late 1996, some of the conditions around it were very different from the way they look today. A few words about these changes may help clarify matters for people who are confused about the relationship of open source, free software, and Linux to the hacker community. If you are not curious about this, you can skip straight to the FAQ and bibliography from here.
The hacker ethos and community as I have described it here long predates the emergence of Linux after 1990; I first became involved with it around 1976, and, its roots are readily traceable back to the early 1960s. But before Linux, most hacking was done on either proprietary operating systems or a handful of quasi-experimental homegrown systems like MIT's ITS that were never deployed outside of their original academic niches. While there had been some earlier (pre-Linux) attempts to change this situation, their impact was at best very marginal and confined to communities of dedicated true believers which were tiny minorities even within the hacker community, let alone with respect to the larger world of software in general.
What is now called "open source" goes back as far as the hacker community does, but until 1985 it was an unnamed folk practice rather than a conscious movement with theories and manifestos attached to it. This prehistory ended when, in 1985, arch-hacker Richard Stallman ("RMS") tried to give it a name â€” "free software". But his act of naming was also an act of claiming; he attached ideological baggage to the "free software" label which much of the existing hacker community never accepted. As a result, the "free software" label was loudly rejected by a substantial minority of the hacker community (especially among those associated with BSD Unix), and used with serious but silent reservations by a majority of the remainder (including myself).
Despite these reservations, RMS's claim to define and lead the hacker community under the "free software" banner broadly held until the mid-1990s. It was seriously challenged only by the rise of Linux. Linux gave open-source development a natural home. Many projects issued under terms we would now call open-source migrated from proprietary Unixes to Linux. The community around Linux grew explosively, becoming far larger and more heterogenous than the pre-Linux hacker culture. RMS determinedly attempted to co-opt all this activity into his "free software" movement, but was thwarted by both the exploding diversity of the Linux community and the public skepticism of its founder, Linus Torvalds. Torvalds continued to use the term "free software" for lack of any alternative, but publicly rejected RMS's ideological baggage. Many younger hackers followed suit.
In 1996, when I first published this Hacker HOWTO, the hacker community was rapidly reorganizing around Linux and a handful of other open-source operating systems (notably those descended from BSD Unix). Community memory of the fact that most of us had spent decades developing closed-source software on closed-source operating systems had not yet begun to fade, but that fact was already beginning to seem like part of a dead past; hackers were, increasingly, defining themselves as hackers by their attachments to open-source projects such as Linux or Apache.
The term "open source", however, had not yet emerged; it would not do so until early 1998. When it did, most of hacker community adopted it within the following six months; the exceptions were a minority ideologically attached to the term "free software". Since 1998, and especially after about 2003, the identification of 'hacking' with 'open-source (and free software) development' has become extremely close. Today there is little point in attempting to distinguish between these categories, and it seems unlikely that will change in the future.
It is worth remembering, however, that this was not always so.

Other Resources

Paul Graham has written an essay called Great Hackers, and another on Undergraduation, in which he speaks much wisdom.
There is a document called How To Be A Programmer that is an excellent complement to this one. It has valuable advice not just about coding and skillsets, but about how to function on a programming team.
I have also written A Brief History Of Hackerdom.
I have written a paper, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, which explains a lot about how the Linux and open-source cultures work. I have addressed this topic even more directly in its sequel Homesteading the Noosphere.
Rick Moen has written an excellent document on how to run a Linux user group.
Rick Moen and I have collaborated on another document on How To Ask Smart Questions. This will help you seek assistance in a way that makes it more likely that you will actually get it.
If you need instruction in the basics of how personal computers, Unix, and the Internet work, see The Unix and Internet Fundamentals HOWTO.
When you release software or write patches for software, try to follow the guidelines in the Software Release Practice HOWTO.
If you enjoyed the Zen poem, you might also like Rootless Root: The Unix Koans of Master Foo.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q:	How do I tell if I am already a hacker?
A:	Ask yourself the following three questions: Do you speak code, fluently? Do you identify with the goals and values of the hacker community? Has a well-established member of the hacker community ever called you a hacker? If you can answer yes to all three of these questions, you are already a hacker. No two alone are sufficient. The first test is about skills. You probably pass it if you have the minimum technical skills described earlier in this document. You blow right through it if you have had a substantial amount of code accepted by an open-source development project. The second test is about attitude. If the five principles of the hacker mindset seemed obvious to you, more like a description of the way you already live than anything novel, you are already halfway to passing it. That's the inward half; the other, outward half is the degree to which you identify with the hacker community's long-term projects. Here is an incomplete but indicative list of some of those projects: Does it matter to you that Linux improve and spread? Are you passionate about software freedom? Hostile to monopolies? Do you act on the belief that computers can be instruments of empowerment that make the world a richer and more humane place? But a note of caution is in order here. The hacker community has some specific, primarily defensive political interests â€” two of them are defending free-speech rights and fending off "intellectual-property" power grabs that would make open source illegal. Some of those long-term projects are civil-liberties organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the outward attitude properly includes support of them. But beyond that, most hackers view attempts to systematize the hacker attitude into an explicit political program with suspicion; we've learned, the hard way, that these attempts are divisive and distracting. If someone tries to recruit you to march on your capitol in the name of the hacker attitude, they've missed the point. The right response is probably â€œShut up and show them the code.â€ The third test has a tricky element of recursiveness about it. I observed in the section called â€œWhat Is a Hacker?â€ that being a hacker is partly a matter of belonging to a particular subculture or social network with a shared history, an inside and an outside. In the far past, hackers were a much less cohesive and self-aware group than they are today. But the importance of the social-network aspect has increased over the last thirty years as the Internet has made connections with the core of the hacker subculture easier to develop and maintain. One easy behavioral index of the change is that, in this century, we have our own T-shirts. Sociologists, who study networks like those of the hacker culture under the general rubric of "invisible colleges", have noted that one characteristic of such networks is that they have gatekeepers â€” core members with the social authority to endorse new members into the network. Because the "invisible college" that is hacker culture is a loose and informal one, the role of gatekeeper is informal too. But one thing that all hackers understand in their bones is that not every hacker is a gatekeeper. Gatekeepers have to have a certain degree of seniority and accomplishment before they can bestow the title. How much is hard to quantify, but every hacker knows it when they see it.
Q:	Will you teach me how to hack?
A:	Since first publishing this page, I've gotten several requests a week (often several a day) from people to "teach me all about hacking". Unfortunately, I don't have the time or energy to do this; my own hacking projects, and working as an open-source advocate, take up 110% of my time. Even if I did, hacking is an attitude and skill you basically have to teach yourself. You'll find that while real hackers want to help you, they won't respect you if you beg to be spoon-fed everything they know. Learn a few things first. Show that you're trying, that you're capable of learning on your own. Then go to the hackers you meet with specific questions. If you do email a hacker asking for advice, here are two things to know up front. First, we've found that people who are lazy or careless in their writing are usually too lazy and careless in their thinking to make good hackers â€” so take care to spell correctly, and use good grammar and punctuation, otherwise you'll probably be ignored. Secondly, don't dare ask for a reply to an ISP account that's different from the account you're sending from; we find people who do that are usually thieves using stolen accounts, and we have no interest in rewarding or assisting thievery.
Q:	How can I get started, then?
A:	The best way for you to get started would probably be to go to a LUG (Linux user group) meeting. You can find such groups on the LDP General Linux Information Page; there is probably one near you, possibly associated with a college or university. LUG members will probably give you a Linux if you ask, and will certainly help you install one and get started.
Q:	When do you have to start? Is it too late for me to learn?
A:	Any age at which you are motivated to start is a good age. Most people seem to get interested between ages 15 and 20, but I know of exceptions in both directions.
Q:	How long will it take me to learn to hack?
A:	That depends on how talented you are and how hard you work at it. Most people who try can acquire a respectable skill set in eighteen months to two years, if they concentrate. Don't think it ends there, though; in hacking (as in many other fields) it takes about ten years to achieve mastery. And if you are a real hacker, you will spend the rest of your life learning and perfecting your craft.
Q:	Is Visual Basic a good language to start with?
A:	If you're asking this question, it almost certainly means you're thinking about trying to hack under Microsoft Windows. This is a bad idea in itself. When I compared trying to learn to hack under Windows to trying to learn to dance while wearing a body cast, I wasn't kidding. Don't go there. It's ugly, and it never stops being ugly. There is a specific problem with Visual Basic; mainly that it's not portable. Though there is a prototype open-source implementations of Visual Basic, the applicable ECMA standards don't cover more than a small set of its programming interfaces. On Windows most of its library support is proprietary to a single vendor (Microsoft); if you aren't extremely careful about which features you use â€” more careful than any newbie is really capable of being â€” you'll end up locked into only those platforms Microsoft chooses to support. If you're starting on a Unix, much better languages with better libraries are available. Python, for example. Also, like other Basics, Visual Basic is a poorly-designed language that will teach you bad programming habits. No, don't ask me to describe them in detail; that explanation would fill a book. Learn a well-designed language instead. One of those bad habits is becoming dependent on a single vendor's libraries, widgets, and development tools. In general, any language that isn't fully supported under at least Linux or one of the BSDs, and/or at least three different vendors' operating systems, is a poor one to learn to hack in.
Q:	Would you help me to crack a system, or teach me how to crack?
A:	No. Anyone who can still ask such a question after reading this FAQ is too stupid to be educable even if I had the time for tutoring. Any emailed requests of this kind that I get will be ignored or answered with extreme rudeness.
Q:	How can I get the password for someone else's account?
A:	This is cracking. Go away, idiot.
Q:	How can I break into/read/monitor someone else's email?
A:	This is cracking. Get lost, moron.
Q:	How can I steal channel op privileges on IRC?
A:	This is cracking. Begone, cretin.
Q:	I've been cracked. Will you help me fend off further attacks?
A:	No. Every time I've been asked this question so far, it's been from some poor sap running Microsoft Windows. It is not possible to effectively secure Windows systems against crack attacks; the code and architecture simply have too many flaws, which makes securing Windows like trying to bail out a boat with a sieve. The only reliable prevention starts with switching to Linux or some other operating system that is designed to at least be capable of security.
Q:	I'm having problems with my Windows software. Will you help me?
A:	Yes. Go to a DOS prompt and type "format c:". Any problems you are experiencing will cease within a few minutes.
Q:	Where can I find some real hackers to talk with?
A:	The best way is to find a Unix or Linux user's group local to you and go to their meetings (you can find links to several lists of user groups on the LDP site at ibiblio). (I used to say here that you wouldn't find any real hackers on IRC, but I'm given to understand this is changing. Apparently some real hacker communities, attached to things like GIMP and Perl, have IRC channels now.)
Q:	Can you recommend useful books about hacking-related subjects?
A:	I maintain a Linux Reading List HOWTO that you may find helpful. The Loginataka may also be interesting. For an introduction to Python, see the tutorial on the Python site.
Q:	Do I need to be good at math to become a hacker?
A:	No. Hacking uses very little formal mathematics or arithmetic. In particular, you won't usually need trigonometry, calculus or analysis (there are exceptions to this in a handful of specific application areas like 3-D computer graphics). Knowing some formal logic and Boolean algebra is good. Some grounding in finite mathematics (including finite-set theory, combinatorics, and graph theory) can be helpful. Much more importantly: you need to be able to think logically and follow chains of exact reasoning, the way mathematicians do. While the content of most mathematics won't help you, you will need the discipline and intelligence to handle mathematics. If you lack the intelligence, there is little hope for you as a hacker; if you lack the discipline, you'd better grow it. I think a good way to find out if you have what it takes is to pick up a copy of Raymond Smullyan's book What Is The Name Of This Book?. Smullyan's playful logical conundrums are very much in the hacker spirit. Being able to solve them is a good sign; enjoying solving them is an even better one.
Q:	What language should I learn first?
A:	XHTML (the latest dialect of HTML) if you don't already know it. There are a lot of glossy, hype-intensive bad HTML books out there, and distressingly few good ones. The one I like best is HTML: The Definitive Guide. But HTML is not a full programming language. When you're ready to start programming, I would recommend starting with Python. You will hear a lot of people recommending Perl, but it's harder to learn and (in my opinion) less well designed. C is really important, but it's also much more difficult than either Python or Perl. Don't try to learn it first. Windows users, do not settle for Visual Basic. It will teach you bad habits, and it's not portable off Windows. Avoid.
Q:	What kind of hardware do I need?
A:	It used to be that personal computers were rather underpowered and memory-poor, enough so that they placed artificial limits on a hacker's learning process. This stopped being true in the mid-1990s; any machine from an Intel 486DX50 up is more than powerful enough for development work, X, and Internet communications, and the smallest disks you can buy today are plenty big enough. The important thing in choosing a machine on which to learn is whether its hardware is Linux-compatible (or BSD-compatible, should you choose to go that route). Again, this will be true for almost all modern machines. The only really sticky areas are modems and wireless cards; some machines have Windows-specific hardware that won't work with Linux. There's a FAQ on hardware compatibility; the latest version is here.
Q:	I want to contribute. Can you help me pick a problem to work on?
A:	No, because I don't know your talents or interests. You have to be self-motivated or you won't stick, which is why having other people choose your direction almost never works. Try this. Watch the project announcements scroll by on Freshmeat for a few days. When you see one that makes you think "Cool! I'd like to work on that!", join it.
Q:	Do I need to hate and bash Microsoft?
A:	No, you don't. Not that Microsoft isn't loathsome, but there was a hacker culture long before Microsoft and there will still be one long after Microsoft is history. Any energy you spend hating Microsoft would be better spent on loving your craft. Write good code â€” that will bash Microsoft quite sufficiently without polluting your karma.
Q:	But won't open-source software leave programmers unable to make a living?
A:	This seems unlikely â€” so far, the open-source software industry seems to be creating jobs rather than taking them away. If having a program written is a net economic gain over not having it written, a programmer will get paid whether or not the program is going to be open-source after it's done. And, no matter how much "free" software gets written, there always seems to be more demand for new and customized applications. I've written more about this at the Open Source pages.
Q:	Where can I get a free Unix?
A:	If you don't have a Unix installed on your machine yet, elsewhere on this page I include pointers to where to get the most commonly used free Unix. To be a hacker you need motivation and initiative and the ability to educate yourself. Start now...

di Genius and hackers.

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:17:00 +0000

so you want to be a hacker? this is plain dreaming. how does one become a hacker? first of all ya gotta understand that hackers are geniuses as Thomas Edison put it- "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99% perspiration. the likes of alicia keys on the keyboard, hip hop violinist miribenari, musicians and etc, put more than 10000 hours of practice into waht them do best. Thats how long it takes for the brain to master something thoroughly. "
em flow with the same 'ol sh!* that says:
To follow the path:
                 look to the master,
                 follow the master,
                 walk with the master,
   see through the master,
                 become the master.
Enough with the prologue, here is a list of me fav. hackers of all times.

1. Eric Corley

December 16, 1959 born Eric Corley is frequently referred to by his pen name of Emmanuel Goldstein. He is a renowned figure in the hacker community. In the year 1999 he went to court for sharing DeCSS codes and a method to download it, a program that was able to decrypt content on an encrypted DVD. Eric owns a non-profit organization 2600 Enterprises, Inc. and publishes a magazine called 2600: The Hacker Quarterly.
Corley lives in N.Y.C. and hosts a radio show called Off the Hook on WBAI as well as Brain Damage on Stony Brook University’s WUSB. His magazine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly provides information about phreaking and basic hacking.

2. Robert Tappan Morris

Robert Tappan Morris born on November 8, 1965, is an American professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is best known for creating the Morris Worm that is considered to be the first computer worm on the Internet. He also co-founded the online store known by the name Viaweb, one of the first web-based applications, with Paul Graham.
The worm he created is named after himself. According to Morris, the main purpose of his worm was to see how many computers were connected to the Internet. However, due to a configuration in the worm, it did a lot more damage than expected. It was estimated that the cost of “potential loss in productivity” caused by the worm at each system ranged from $20,000 to more than $530,000.

3. Mark Abene

Mark Abene, well known by his pseudonym Phiber Optik, is a computer security hacker from New York City. Phiber Optik. He was a member of the hacker groups Legion of Doom and Masters of Deception. Phiber Optik was a high-profile hacker in the early 1990s. His appearance in The New York Times, Harper’s, Esquire in debates and on television made him known by people around the world.

4. Kevin Mitnick

Kevin David Mitnick (born on August 6, 1963) is a computer security consultant, author, and former computer hacker. The most-wanted computer criminal in the United States was arrested in 1995 for countless acts of computer fraud. He hacked into Digital Equipment Corporation systems, Nokia, Motorola, Fujitsu Siemens and many others.

5. Gary McKinnon

Scottish-born, London-based hacker McKinnon was born on 10 February 1966. He is the Scottish systems administrator and hacker who has been accused of what one US prosecutor claims is the biggest military computer hack of all time. To defend himself, McKinnon stated that he was merely looking for evidence of free energy suppression and a cover-up of UFO activity and other technologies potentially useful to the public.
McKinnon is accused of hacking into 97 United States military and NASA computers over a 13-month period between February 2001 and March 2002, using the name ‘Solo’. He is accused of hacking networks owned by NASA, the US Army, US Navy, Department of Defense and the US Air Force.

6. Raphael Gray

He was just 19 when he hacked computer systems around the world over six weeks between January and February 1999 as part of a multi-million pound credit card mission, thereafter publishing credit card details of over 6,500 cards as an example of weak security in the growing number of consumer websites.
Gray broke into the secure systems using an £800 computer he bought in his home town Clynderwen, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Gray was dubbed the Bill Gates hacker when he sent Viagra tablets to Gates’ address and then published what he said was the billionaire’s own number. He was arrested by FBI agents and officers from the local Dyfed Powys Police at his home in March 1999.

7. Kevin Poulsen

Kevin Poulsen, born 1965 in Pasadena, California, U.S. is a a former black hat hacker best known for his takeover of the KIIS-FM phone lines, a Los Angeles based radio station. Before segueing into journalism, he had a controversial career in the 1980s as a hacker whose handle was Dark Dante. He is currently a senior editor at Wired News.

8. Jonathan James

Jonathan Joseph James born on December 12, 1983 was well known by the name c0mrade. He was an American hacker who was the first juvenile incarcerated for cybercrime in the United States. He was mere 15 when he hacked committed a series of intrusions into various systems including those of BellSouth and the Miami-Dade school system.
His intrusion into the computers of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, a division of the United States Department of Defense came into light and he admitted that he had installed an unauthorized backdoor in a computer server in Dulles, Virginia, which he used to install a sniffer that allowed him to intercept over three thousand messages passing to and from DTRA employees, along with numerous usernames and passwords of other DTRA employees, including at least 10 on official military computers. The intrusion caused NASA to shut down its computers for three weeks that July, costing $41,000 to check and fix its systems. James died on May 18, 2008 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

9. The Deceptive Duo

The Deceptive Duo-20-year-old Benjamin Stark and 18-year-old Robert Lyttle in the year 2002 created a series of high-profile break-ins to government networks, including the U.S. Navy, NASA, FAA and Department of Defense. When their hacking issue came into light, the duo claimed they were merely trying to expose security failures and protect Americans in a post-911 world.
Stark was sentenced to two years probation, Lyttle served four months in prison with three years’ probation, and both were ordered to pay tens of thousands of dollars in restitution for the damage they caused.

10. Adrian Lamo

Known as a grey hat hacker, Adrian Lamo is the hacker that found himself in trouble after the F.B.I was able to probe his illegal actions. Lamo is well known for exploiting companies such as Microsoft, the New York Times, Lexis-Nexis, and Yahoo! After the New York Times filed complaints Lamo was investigated by the F.B.I and after realizing that he was being tracked, he surrendered to the U.S. Marshals on September 9, 2003. He was ordered to pay $65,000 and was sentenced to home detention and probation.

The numbering in the list above is not based on the ascending/descending order in which these renowned hackers have left people amazed with their hacking; each one of them has made a distinctive mark. No matter how punishable act these well-known hackers have done but the fact remains they have great talent. Hats off to their daring shots!

Richard Stallman

He was the founder of GNU Projects. Stallman, who prefers to be called rms, got his start hacking at MIT. He worked as a "staff hacker" on the Emacs project and others. He was a critic of restricted computer access in the lab. When a password system was installed, Stallman broke it down, resetting passwords to null strings, then sent users messages informing them of the removal of the password system.

Stephen Wozniak

"Woz" is famous for being the "other Steve" of Apple. Wozniak, along with current Apple CEO Steve Jobs, co-founded Apple Computer. Woz got his start in hacking making blue boxes, devices that bypass telephone-switching mechanisms to make free long-distance calls. After reading an article about phone phreaking in Esquire, Wozniak called up his buddy Jobs. The pair did research on frequencies, then built and sold blue boxes to their classmates in college. Wozniak even used a blue box to call the Pope while pretending to be Henry Kissinger.

how comes history makes them few and decades apart?

the best driver updates software.

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:36:00 +0000

If u have been sick like me of searching for softwares that updates your drivers only for them to require that u get to be registered, then u found the best solution- here.
With my anonymous blogging, i stumbled upon a free driver upodate software for windows known as Device Doctor.
at device doctor, u get to download the executable software that is just 2.9MB.
After intallation, u scan for the drivers that need updates and then click download drivers. well, i find some flaws with it-( maybe me comp is di problem). check it out

how to download blocked torrents in universities.

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:05:00 +0000

i was bloggin as always and came across this post and i thought, what the hell- you guys should share this too from this link

How to download Blocked torrents in Universities?

Most of youngsters that are having any graduation Course in any Institutions or Universities are just not able to download any torrent file over the LAN or wireless LAN in the university. That is because it has been Blocked By the Network Administrator there.

Now HackingHome is going to tell you how to get your torrent file Downloaded easily over there..
Although it is working as far as I tested, it is suitable for downloading small files like books, mp3s but not for movies and large
softwares as it would take too long, depending upon your internet bandwidth, as we are using a proxy to download ( Unless you
have a paid account for your-freedom for faster connection )
This trick is done by using a sock proxy server. To do so , we need to download a software, called your-freedom. If you are familiar
with proxy servers and don’t want to install any software, you can find some open free (sock4/sock5) proxies on the net. Skipped my
instructions with your-freedom and go to the configuration in torrent client. And change the IP to 127.0.0.1 and port 8080.

· First, make sure they really blocked it.
· Download your-freedom software from http://www.your-freedom.net/.
· Then, install it.
· Then starts it.
· Now, you need to configure it. When you run it for the first time, the configuration box will appears automatically. If not,

Main Window >> Status >> Configure

No need to change anything until now.
When a list of servers appears, choose the server nearest to your location.

Enter your username and password ( You need to register for it at http://www.your-freedom.net/)

Then in the main window, click “Start Connection”.

Then, make sure the door ( icon ) is opened.
Also check socket is enabled and the port is 1080, which are done by default
Now, it is time to configure your torrent clients to work with your-freedom …UtorrentAs you see, it is not working … We need to make it work …
Options >> Preferences >> Then follow the snapshots…
For the listening ports, choose common ones like 8080, 80, 443 which your university won’t probably block..

Vuzue
It is not working , we need to configure settings. Tools >> Options

[CLICK TO ENLARGE SNAPSHOTS]

After the restart, It should be working ….
This is a great stuff you all guys must try to implement…

Alcatel OT 306

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:01:00 +0000

AT least i got a phone i can finally keep. meet the Alcatel OT 306. AS cheap as it comes, there is no phone in the market that u will get for a mere 2000/= that has all the features that this phone has. What's more, safaricom
is the main distributor of the phone in the country.
this is a cry answered to manufacture low cost mobile phones that can get one into the internet with one touch besides listening to favorite music at a go for the common mwananchi.
it also has music time upto 8hrs.and supports alcatel wi-fi.
waht more can a son of a peasant farmer ask for?
pia ni kamulika mwizi with torch enabled.

One Touch 306

Display

Type: TFT 65k
Size (diagonal): 1.45"
Resolution: 128 x 128 px

Weight: 80 g

	Bearer GPRS class 10Wap2.0
Camera VGA	FM Radio Follow your favorite radio stations with the RDS function
MMS Send and receive multimedia messages with MMS 1,2	SMS Input eZiTEXT is a text input solution that learns the user's vocabulary allowing a faster individuation of the most used words
Browser Surf the Internet with Obigo web/wap browser	Music Player MP3
Micro SD Card up to 2GB	Handsfree Make and receive calls having your hands completely free	i

highs and lows by KID KUDI

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:24:00 +0000

"Highs N Lows"

I be high when I split a dutch and fill it up
I be high when I get my money doubled up
I be high when a model wanna let me cut
I be high when I'm signing cus my diamonds blush

I be low when a nigga cant get away
I be low when I cant seem to make a way
I be low when I can't even feed myself
I be low when I realize I'm by myself

But I be high when I'm shopping for expensive clothes
I be high when I get what I couldn't before
I be high in the club while I'm poppin bub
I be high when I'm cruising sitting on them dubs

But I be low after shows in my dressing room
I be low when i see that I'm a different dude
I be low on the plane looking at the sky
I be low but my highs keep a nigga tied

[Chorus:]
I be high then I be low
I be low then I be high
It's like a battle knife to a gun fight
But I be cool this the story of my life
I be high then I be low
I be low then I be high
It's like a battle knife to a gun fight
No need to worry this the story of my life

I be low when I gotta get ready for work
I be low cus after bills my pockets be hurt
I be low when I can't take a girl out
I be low cus they can't even figure me out

But I be high when the phony chicks show me love
Cus in my mind I read them but I dont give a fuck
I be high when a nigga get attention
I be high when your girl catch feelings

Then I be low when I go into that empty space
I be low when I'm looking at a stressed face
I be low cus my brother's facing hard times
And I be low cus my nigga ryan close behind

Then I'm high when I know the places we can go
I be high when I think what the future holds
I be high when she asks for my room number
I be high but my lows keep a nigga humble

[Chorus]

I was high when the label said that I was dope
I was high in my eyes cus I had hope
I was high when I first had the taste of love
I was high when I left the city I was from

And I was low when I had a recent heartbreak
I was low cus I truly thought I had a mate
I was low when I lost her over sillyness
I was low cus she twisted what my words meant

But I was high when I finally had the chance to see
Everything thats pretty aint always good for me
I was high when she first said I liked you
Man I must be too high to even write dude
And these things show you growth
Some niggas show a little but I show you the most
Highs n' lows and succeed fo sho
The only thing left to do is say a toast
Cus

[Chorus]

Now won't you please say scotty lord,
Help me please, yeah, help me please
Now won't you please say scotty lord,
Won't you please, god, help me please

How toDIRECTLY downlOAD videos in Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Opera

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:56:00 +0000

Download any Youtube movies, clips or videos Directly from your Chromium Browser. It will instantly get the link from the webpage even if it's not yet finished loading. No Website or software is needed.

Just Copy and Paste the code to your address bar.

how? in your browser, make sure the bookmarksa tool bar is shown by activating it via tools.

after which you right click on the bookmarks tool bar,

Make sure your Google Chrome browser always shows the Bookmarks bar. You can click menuTools -> Always show bookmarks bar, the hotkey is Ctrl +shift+ B.
Right click on the bookmarks bar, and then select Add Page.

In the Name field, enter "Download YouTube Video" or something you will remember, then for theURL field paste:

javascript:isIE=/*@cc_on!@*/false;isIE ? swfHTML=document.getElementById('movie_player').getElementsByTagName('param')[1].value:swfHTML=document.getElementById("movie_player").getAttribute("flashvars");w=swfHTML.split("&");for(i=0;i<=w.length-1;i++)if(w[i].split("=")[0] == "fmt_url_map"){links=unescape(w[i].split("=")[1]);break;}abc = links.split(",");for(i=0;i<=abc.length-1;i++){fmt=abc[i].split("|")[0];if(fmt==5){url = abc[i].split("|")[1] + '&title=' + (((document.title.replace('#',' ')).replace('@',' ')).replace('*',' ')).replace('|',' ');window.location.href = url;}}

Click OK button.

after which you are ready to go. when you are about to stream a video from youtube, click on the bookmarked toolbar and you are good to go.

courtsey of::

http://unlockforus.blogspot.com/2008/09/directly-download-youtube-videos-in.html

http://www.chromefans.org/chrome-plugins/download-youtube-videos-movies-in-google-chrome

jailer by Asa.

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:10:00 +0000

yap. like the feel of the guitar in this song. Actually know a friend who plays the whole tune from his guitarrrrrrrrrr!
you can download the song from this link here

the lyrics are:::

Jailer lyrics

Am in chains you’re in chains too
I wear uniforms, you wear uniforms too
Am a prisoner, you’re a prisoner too Mr Jailer

I have fears you have fear too
I will die, you sef go die too
Life is beautiful don’t you think so too Mr Jailer

Am talking to you jailer
Stop calling me a prisoner
Let he who is without sin- Be the first to cast the stone Mr Jailer

You suppress all my strategy
You oppress every part of me What you don’t know, you’re a victim too Mr Jailer

You don’t care about my point of view
If I die another will work for you
So you threat me like a modern slave Mr Jailer

You don’t care about my point of view
If I die another will work for you
So you threat me like a modern slave Mr Jailer

If you walking in a market place
Don’t throw stones
Even if you do you just might hit
One of your own
Life is not about your policies
All the time
So you better rearrange your Philosophies and be good to your fellow man jailer

I hear my baby say
I wan be president
I wan chop money
From my government
What he don’t know
Be say Mr Jailer

"Motives andThoughts" - lyrically spoken byLaurin Hill

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:58:00 +0000

YA'LL gotta check ya motives and thoughts.

MOTIVES AND THOUGHTS- LYRICALLY SPOKEN BY LAURIN HILL

Rotating bodies, confusion of sound
Negative imagery, holding us down
Social delusion, clearly constructed
Human condition, morals corrupted
Trapped in reaction, lawlessness war
Dissatisfaction from bowels to core
Devil’s technology, strategy for
Human mythologies, urban folklore
Sick of psychology, counterfeit cure
Wicked theology, robbing the poor
Scheme demonology mislead the pure
Strictly strategically studying war
Light shown in darkness, image exposed
Few can see through the new emperor’s clothes
Lustful this hustle turn humans to hoes
When the blind lead the blind
Just more trouble and woes
It’s the mind that they chose
Its designed to stay closed
Standard of jokers, court just a logic
Sick looking cosmics, from schoolyards to college

Primitive man with civilize knowledge
System collapse and he still won’t acknowledge

God is the saviour, studies behavior
Trying to fix the mix mind that he gave ya
Stiff-necked scholars on prescription meds
Wishing their problems were all in their heads
Morale dilemma, pride is the root
Misguided from youth, heart divided from truth
Egyptians and Grecians, spiritually dead
Imperially led, by the gods in their heads

Motives and thoughts

Industrial wealth
Global economy, in it for self
Heart full of madness, covered with kind
Pleasure designed to take over your mind
Furnished in godliness, painted in good
This tainted priesthood got real saints misunderstood
While classes in government, set up the veil
And cultivate minds for more mythical tales
Typical Hollywood follies good girl
While vice and corruption take over the world

Motives and thoughts
Check your motives and thoughts

Blind with the wickedness, deep in your heart
Modern day wickedness is all you’ve been taught
Lied to your neighbors, so you get ahead
Modern day trickery is all you’ve been fed

Motives and thoughts
Check your motives and thoughts

downloading video clips from youtube without havin to installl youtube downloader.

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:29:00 +0000

one thing i like about mozilla firefox
is the unlimited provision of add-ons provided by the world wide Mozilla community. you can visit the addons from your browser by typing CLTRL+SHIFT+A..
Well we have the you tube download helper add amonst others that enable you to download video clips of ya fav. songs without having to install the youtube downloader.
this applys mostly in campuses like ours where you can install programs only with administrative rights.
enjoy your masomo while downloading all ya fav. klips, funny videos, comedies etc

online fun in kenya

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:19:00 +0000

YAP. the Official sponsers of fun in kenya!@##$$%%^^&&*_ -{tend to think of it as online fun. for adults i.e no kid stuff. if u a kid, better run to abc place or have fun with ya mates playin kalongo etc}


the images change from time to time depending on what the nerds behind funkenya.com volcanize within em minds. Anyone with all em images since fun started to send me em pictures @ ndelama09@gmail.com

welcome to the new fun makin website in kenya for those tired of facebook, myspace and the rest of the socilal networkin sites you know of. a closer look at tthe website home page gives u a thrill of what to expect one u create an accout. a closer look at.http://www.funkenya.com/ gives u the impression that u are really diggin kenya. waht of an image that welcomes you to kenya while u know u are already in?
figure out chatting randomly online with strangers on topic generated random as much as there's someone to chat with?
one can also view out blogs of others, comment on their posts plus blogs without having to subscribe like is the issue with facebook. {great!}.

Now welcome to the new Fk Mobile. where ya get to chat, blog, and befriend scallywags thru ya mobile handset. strategic turn of events as this was also the case with all the social networkin sites b4 care 'bout their users. remember how 2go is now in ya pc? we got facebook mobile, mixit in ya pc.......the list is endless. what is say here is that em capturin audiences in both sides of technology , i.e pc and mobile phones. Now that almost everyone got em phones with GPRS,EDGE,3G or Wimax connection to the internet.

al;l this and more once u enter, create ya own account and xplore the depths within http://www.funkenya.co
u can view my profile athttp://www.funkenya.com/members/home

Advice to Kenyan Campus Students

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:45:00 +0000

Advice to Kenyan Campus Students

i don know if this advise works for ya but am a try it out for the rest of my next two years in campo.
hope u get to enjoy the recipe..............................

The A to Z of surviving in Kenyan campuses: A College Manual

Avoid the last minute rush. The I-work-best-under pressure is a myth. When it comes to studying, if you leave all studying to the night before the exam, you’re likely to fail. Okay, you may not get an E (which means you have to re-do the paper), but a C or D are likely grades.

mara io io. soma when u feel like. exams si za kukufanya usome. onekana mjinga but soma when u feel like cuz this is the time when ya mind absorbs shit in books like whoaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!

Be yourself. Be true to your friends, because the friends you make in campus are the ones you will keep for life. If you can’t reveal your true self to your fellow comrades who do not judge, accept who for who you are and will hold a harambee to bail you out if you get into any sort of trouble, then I don’t know who else you can trust.

Cops. Cops and university students are not friends. Always maintain a 50m (or more) radius around a cop. Ask any student who has been in a strike. Or anyone coming back to campus at night and they encounter cops who ask for ID, and that is the one time you didn’t carry it. You could be arrested for loitering, drunk and disorderly etc.

hey u in a blue uniform, samehea me n i`ll reform........... don wait to sing this song by sauti sol take precaustions by walikin with ya ID photocopy.

Drinking.
Iibuchi: hey, Obeez where u been?
Obeez: ya wanna know? eh!<hic!> I've been studyin mututhology, am full of m-u-tu-tho-issm......
and i feeeel like mu-tu-tho-i-sss-tic.
YEAH. the full effects of tutho. If u cant drink and behave. then walk at a radious of 10 miles from the bottle.
if u value ya speech, then drink responsibly. who knows- by the time unamada kampo u'll be full of madenti(bumps) landscaping ya body with every mark a bitter story to tell. think u 'll be ugly? see yaself in the mirror and stare at the beast that a-a-a- aaaa -a alcohol has made u be.;

Exams.wachanga risto za mwakenya cuz them will take ya nowhere indeed. picture this- a dude finishes campo, cant get a job leave alone getting self employed, y? all because he could not rely on his brain to do all right that is required. when u use mwakenya's, u`ll pass but ya mind has already switched. no creativity is ringing in mind- so sad for u

Friends. They are the best thing that could ever happen to anyone on campus. If you find true ones, keep them. The ones you can buy drinks from when you’re loaded, and still borrow from when you’re broke. If you can’t borrow money from your friends, then they are not true friends.
God. Acknowledge His existence in your life. Don’t be too over-religious though and end up missing on the life.
Hustle. I’m not saying go into the streets and start walking around looking all desperate. If you want to, start a business. Write on the side. Do your poetry. Sing your heart out. Draw portraits. Make cards for sale. Register your own company and start making websites/projects. It’s a way of establishing yourself and making that extra cash. It will lift your self-esteem. If an opportunity comes along, take it.

make sure msikosane na pero{parent}. make sure beside ya hustlin, u kipin up with em books

Independence. Be your own person. Whatever you do, ask yourself why. And the answer should not be ‘because my friends are doing it.’
stop following the pack and lead ya own pack. don fall to the ideological thinikin of style and swagger if u can't kip up with the pace. identify ya own identity that reflests ya interested and defines who u be.

Joke. Take time to smile at your blunders/failures. Life can be brutally short.

Knowledge. For what’s it’s worth, be good in at least one area of your field of study. Theoretically and practically, so even if your grades are not so good, you have something to show for your time in campus.
knowledge is power. y do u countries like india, china, brazil and the rest are emerging world economies? cause em know very well how knowledge is power. a populous nation with majority of citizens illiterate is a time bomb in the offing. look at the education system in the named countries and u'll find more p'll educated and jobless but em not complaining. y? cause. their knowledge is what gon open ways fr em. true be that.

Luxuries.figure a student who has all electronics possible but he didn’t even have bed sheets.? All am saying is, know your priorities.
Money. Spend wisely, do not lend to those who can’t pay back, do not borrow unless it’s absolutely necessary and you know you can pay back. Friendships have begun and ended because of money.
Neighbours. Be good to them, you’ll live next to them for a while and they are the ones who’ll raise an alarm if your crib is on fire/being robbed.
Over. When campus is over, it’s over. Do not linger around. As much as I miss campus already, I would not go back just to hand around. I know some people I used to see around campus who had already graduated, and they walked around doing nothing. They were not doing further studying or teaching or anything.
Play. Go out and get involved in campus games and sports. Go out in the evening and have fun. Dance the night away. At the beginning of the semester when you have all the free time, watch movies, series, play computer games. Go out all week if you can. There is always time to study in the middle of the semester and towards the end. ALL WORK WITH NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY.
uniQue. Be unique in at least one thing, style, fashion, neatness,uchizi, etc
Relationships. If you’re (un)lucky enough to get a stable girl/boyfriend who lasts more than two years, I’ll be happy to attend your wedding 2 or 3 years after graduation. If you’re single, have as much fun as possible. That’s my advice: if you’re in a relationship, stay in it. Do not cheat. If you’re not, be free to mingle. The possibilities are endless.IF U REALIZE U ARE GAY- kill YASELF DUDE. if u realise u r a lesbian-SCREAM FOR THE WORLD TO HEAR.see tatu's case
Sex. Be safe. Get tested as often as possible. If you have not started having sex, then don’t be in a hurry to start. Because once you start, there is no stopping the crave aint gon stop . Use condoms all the time, because pills will not protect you from STIs/HIV. Being faithful to one partner should not be relied on, this is campus. Multiple partners are the norm though of course you may think yours is exclusive. If it is, good for you. Either way, just pass by the pharmacist and pick some CDs.
psss. sex as much as possible to avoid the risk of getting prostrate cancer.
Tobacco. Smoking of tobacco is harmful to your health. Okay, sometimes smokers look cool, but once you get hooked, it’s hard to quit. It’s easier to quit drinking than to quit smoking, so if you haven’t started smoking yet, do not start. If you’re already smoking, and you wanna quit, devise some sort of plan that will see you reduce your smoking by the time you’re done with campus. That will be the icing on the cake of your graduation.
Utter selflessness. That’s the only way to feel alive. Share with the less fortunate. Donate your time (and money) to charity. Join Rotaract Club, Red Cross, Environmental club or any other society where you can give back to society.
Vegetation. And the environment in general. Thou shall care for your environment, do not litter unnecessarily and if you’re passionate enough, join the environmental club and plant some trees.LEAVE THE TREES AND LET THEM BEEEE.... DON U SEE U DESTROYIN THE ENVIRONMENT OH NO!
Weed. So you’ve arrived in campus and want to experiment with some marijuana. Be my guest. But please, do not become a regular user. Once in a while, like end-of-semester bashes, you may smoke some. Do not let it become a daily thing. Weed kills brain cells, which do not regenerate. Plus it’s illegal.

<pss. if u doin a science oriented course, then some weed will be good for ya brain cells just to cool down the nerves after all the nerd thinkin u got>

X for X-rated stuff (porn). I’d advice you not to watch it, lest you get addicted and it gets in the way of your social life.remember the story of kirk flanklin?
You. You’re your own master. You’re in charge of your ambition, desires, goals, limitations. Of course, with guidance from your creator.
Zeal. The Bible says in Ecc 9:10, “Whatsover your hands find to do, do it with all your might. For there is no knowledge, no wisdom, no action, no thought, in the world of the dead where you are headed.”

special thanks to : savvykenya

of theories and practicals

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Mon, 30 May 2011 12:26:00 +0000

Usually, university work is 90% theoretical. Assignments (if and when marked) carry only 10%. The continuous assessment tests (which you write on pen and paper) are about 20% of your final and the final written exam is 70%.
Should this system change? Should students learn more practical stuff so that they can be ready for the industry out there? Are there people who score highly in exams yet cannot do anything practical? What about modern technologies, should they be incorporated into the curriculum?

Should students learn more practical stuff? Yes. I would suggest the practical assignments be made to contribute at least 40% of the final score. Do away with CATs instead and let students do projects. Let them do their own research and develop a new method/application/anything useful.
Are there people who score highly in exams yet cannot do anything practical? Is the reverse possible?
Yes on both accounts. There are people who get first class honours degrees but cannot code and do not know how a crossover and straight through ethernet cable looks like except on paper. There are people that can code in languages like prolog but cannot hold pen and paper straight during exams.
My Advice?
Technology is a field of passion. If you do not have the passion for it, you’re in the wrong field! Unless you want to get stuck giving ‘user support’ to Ms Word users in government offices, I suggest you choose a different career path. If however, you are satisfied with working the phones at an ISP then go and do your Diploma in IT in peace
Does it have to be coding?
No. There are many computer-related jobs out there that do not require your coding. They however, need your brilliance, creativity and analytical skills. Database administrators, network specialists, software engineers (believe it or not, these guys are important), system analysts…. The choice is yours. Just because coding is not your first choice does not mean you suck at computer science!
Is Computer Science and IT the same thing?
It’s like saying Landscape Architecture and plain old Architecture are the same thing. Ask an Arch student in JKUAT and they’ll explain the difference to you. It’s like saying a Mercedes Benz and a Toyota are the same, iPhone 3Gs and IDEOS U8150 are the same thing. I could give you more examples but by now you get the difference. If you don’t you’re an IT graduate. IT graduates help users understand systems that computer science graduates develop. IT graduates install the OS, comp science graduates build the OS.
That’s not how it works in real life though! In the IT field, it’s a level playing ground. As I said, passion will get you anywhere.

all this courtesy of http://www.savvykenya.com/2011/05/technology-and-i/

cant agree any furthure

the search for malwarebytes antimalware software

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Mon, 30 May 2011 11:57:00 +0000

problem with working with windows!!!!!!!!!!!!
u never get tired of thinkin, nuh, worrying yaself to death cause of malwares, viruses, spyware etc, etc.
see, i got to download malwarebytes anti-malware for my pc. then when u need updates in offline mode- sick,
i got to search for the updates but guess what i found?em got no updates for download in their official site- sick
visit
http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_pro
so after search terribly for the update guess what i came up with?

updates for avira, panda and macfee at kioskea.net
its really helpful if ya tried this.

son of woman

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Fri, 27 May 2011 13:17:00 +0000

a blood thirsty louse, this blinking master ongerry

i couldn't scream, i couldn't shout,and i couldn't duck
he carried me away he did, to his cabin full of muck
and stripped me, damn him, off all my evening clothing
a curse upon him, for his shameless snooping
he stared he did, at my nude small opening
his thin trembling fingers, caressed my cold solid hips
and with a final tilt, pressed me to his dry fevered lips
i couldn't possibly resist, i gave him all the goods
he worked on me he did, lousy master ongerry-ouch!
i couldn't stop him or stop myself till the very last drop
he let me go off my bottom and pushed me away to flop
exhausted and drained that's why i lie here

a discarded empty bottle that was once full of beer.....

SEMA NAMI

noreply@blogger.com (ongerim) — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:58:00 +0000

naam, mtoto mzuri mwenye sura la hurlaini
kanyooka ka laini

first time Johny amebamba Mcutest!!!!!!!!!!!

umbo na akili kumakinika kwa makini
yamkini nimechoka kuwa single
smile kiasi nicheki hizo dimples
vile zinakufanya tu visimple
mapenzi pure kama manure tamu bila pimples
ni mimi na we, duo hadi tuwe na mawrinkles
nikikupenda saa hii, nitaendelea hadi the kingdom come
kwanza napenda ukicum,into my life ukibring satisfaction
nakupenda na whole fraction ya heart ya me
niamini mammi nikikuambia ni wewe tu na mi
sisi tu wawili, kimwili, akili na kimantiki
more than marafiki, kila siku juma na wiki hii
hata tukila nyamchom ama sukuma wiki
mapenzi matam ka tam tam na keki
sisi tu wawili twafanya wasoro wakreki