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Hacker: A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. RFC1392, the Internet Users’ Glossary, usefully amplifies this as: A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular.

A Shell Programmers Toolkit Last Update: 20200513
BASH Script Samples
cleangen.sh remove nonexistent/duplicate users from genericstable
cleangroup.sh sort /etc/group by group id, sort users in group, remove users not in /etc/passwd
dirmon crawl filesystem and report back directories that exceed set file count
dfmon.sh monitor servers for full drive partitions
mountc.sh create/mount encrypted file system on loop device
nat.sh enable nat/ip forwarding from one interface to another
nologin evict user groups from system, keep folks from logging in
si system information – quick list of uptime, date, cpu info, and busy processes
snapback.sh create snapshotesque type backups
switch_update.sh originally created to help automate changes to network switches
umountc.sh detach file system mounted by mountc.sh
warning: perl does not bestow magical ubermencsh powers, it does not plus anything to a coders intelligence, it is also known to induce megalomaniacal delusional mental states in it’s users.  use with caution.

Other Tools & Reference
Speakeasy Speed Test
Hacker Laws
Hacker News
RPM Fusion (The Merger of Dribble, Freshrpms, and Livna)
Red Hat Network – Sign In
Oracle’s Public Yum Server
Fedora 31 Release Schedule
Lion Recovery Disk Assistant
Matias: The keyboards Apple refuses to make.
Apple Airport Utility/Firmware Download
IGHASHGPU: Program to recover/crack SHA1, MD5 & MD4 hashes.
How to setup Time Machine on a network share and limit the sparse bundle size
Reaver (Implements a brute force PIN attack against WPS)
The Shadowserver Foundation: DNS Scanning Project
mebious.co.uk
9031
Wync: Lync on Linux
VLC: Cross Platform Media Player (Windows, Linux, MAC)
libdvdcss (MACOSX, Linux, BSD, etc)
HandBrake
liveusb-creator
balenaEtcher – Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives
The Dungeons of Moria
PortableApps.com – Portable software for USB, portable and cloud drives
Bull AIX Freeware Site
OCaml (Programming language used by stock traders)
DynDNS
Panopticlick
Duck DNS (Free Dynamic DNS)
Phoenix Labs (PeerGuardian)
Signal (Encrypted Messaging)(whispersystems.org)
How secure is my password?
Have I been pwned?
Mosh: the mobile shell
NSA: Encrypting Files With WinZip
TrueCrypt
Hamachi (Mac OS X)
HTTPS Everywhere
The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto
Tor: Anonymity Online
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