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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Hackers!!!!! Post 25185 by merlin on Thursday 25th of July 2002 07:42:19 PM

07-25-2002

merlin

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Why so worried? Just a home system? No real need to have it air tight really. Work system? Well different story then.

As RTM said do a search on google or another search engine. Go to the distro's website and read up there. Try www.linuxtoday.com they have some ok stuff.

Look you'll never make a system that is on the net or has access to the outside world 100% safe. If someone wants in on a system they will get in on a system if they want it bad enough and know what they are doing.

There are no books that hackers use and learn from on how to hack. Yeah sure books are used, but no one book that will teach you how to become a hacker. Books can help on teaching you how to become a hacker? Well here's a few types of books I would read if I were to learn;
C++
Programming of all sorts (Perl, CGI, C, C++ and so on) whateva I needed to know.
Security books
O/S book , like Solaris books if I wanted to hack Solaris,
Expliot text found on the net about O/S's
Hacking books like hacking exposed they can be ok to get a few idea's from

The list goes on and on. Man hacking isn't something youn learn over night. Takes years to become a pro. Ok you want to stop them, but to stop them you have to think like a hacker. Man it takes practise and lots of it. Playing around with systems, courses, teaching yourself and so on. There's alot that you put into to become a hacker.
And you want to stop hackers? Well you got to be at least one step ahead of a hacker at all times to stop them.

Look if it's just for a basic home system don't bother to much about it, unless you want to learn. Me personally, I run a simple firewall at home (Zone alarm) and don't bother. Ok systems on 24/7 but I got nothing much I don't mind loosing on there. It's only a home system.
As for work different story man. I can't access net from desk computer only certain computers. The network I work on has no access to the out side world the only way to stuff it is to be on that network.

merlin

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desktop_color_depth

desktop_color_depth(3alleg4)					  Allegro manual				      desktop_color_depth(3alleg4)

NAME

       desktop_color_depth - Finds out the desktop color depth. Allegro game programming library.

SYNOPSIS

       #include <allegro.h>

       int desktop_color_depth();

DESCRIPTION

       Finds  out  the	currently  selected desktop color depth. You can use this information to make your program use the same color depth as the
       desktop, which will likely make it run faster because the graphic driver won't be doing unnecessary color conversions behind your back.

       Under some OSes, switching to a full screen graphics mode may automatically change the desktop color depth. You have,  therefore,  to  call
       this function before setting any graphics mode in order to retrieve the real desktop color depth. Example:

	  allegro_init();
	  ...
	  if ((depth = desktop_color_depth()) != 0) {
	     set_color_depth(depth);
	  }

RETURN VALUE

       Returns the color depth or zero on platforms where this information is not available or does not apply.

SEE ALSO

       get_desktop_resolution(3alleg4), set_color_depth(3alleg4), set_gfx_mode(3alleg4)

Allegro 							   version 4.4.2				      desktop_color_depth(3alleg4)