Hacker’s Compendium’s

Date:Jan 26, 2019 Author:Mark Galassi

Contents:

• 1. Motivation and plan of the work
  • 1.1. What is a hacker?
• 2. Overall principles
  • 2.1. The constant mantra: automation
  • 2.2. When should you automate?
  • 2.3. Mixing user-level and programming
  • 2.4. Customizing your environment
  • 2.5. The hacker and the sysadmin
  • 2.6. A collection of tips from experienced hackers
• 3. Dos and don’ts
• 4. Favorite shell techniques
  • 4.1. Motivation
  • 4.2. What is the shell?
  • 4.3. A basic set of shell commands you should always know
  • 4.4. A cookbook
  • 4.5. A snapshot of a directory tree and where all the disk space gets used
  • 4.6. View images with a fast and flexible diretory-based image viewer
  • 4.7. Grab an entire directory of images from the web
  • 4.8. Grab an article that’s hiding
  • 4.9. Prepare jpeg files for printing
  • 4.10. Aliases
  • 4.11. Find out what happened to your disk space
  • 4.12. Splitting audio files
  • 4.13. “Just use sed and awk”
  • 4.14. A spattering of regular expressions
  • 4.15. Longer pipelines
  • 4.16. X window system techniques
• 5. Games and diversions
  • 5.1. Motivation
• 6. Your graphical environment
  • 6.1. Motivation and plan
  • 6.2. The pillars of X11
  • 6.3. Window focus
  • 6.4. Keyboard behavior
  • 6.5. Trying at least one other desktop environment
  • 6.6. Compositing and trying a couple of window managers
  • 6.7. Trying other desktop environments
• 7. Your own rabbit hole
• 8. Compiling and running basics
  • 8.1. Motivation and plan
  • 8.2. Python
  • 8.3. C
• 9. Probing memory on a running GNU/Linux system
  • 9.1. Motivation and plan
  • 9.2. Concepts
  • 9.3. Lesson: preparing the programs
  • 9.4. Lesson: real time monitoring of memory with top
  • 9.5. Long term monitoring of memory with vmstat
• 10. Pointers
  • 10.1. Motivation and plan
  • 10.2. What are pointers?
  • 10.3. Basic pointer code: strings and memory copy
  • 10.4. Linked lists
  • 10.5. A review of bitwise operators
  • 10.6. Simulating a hardware device
• 11. Fun and instructive programs
  • 11.1. Memory profiling with mbw

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page