Tips and tricks of mozilla firefox

Firefox keyboard shortcuts

Today in this post i am going to share with you guys some simple yet usefull and powerfull Mozilla Firefox keyboard shortcuts that can save your time and make it easy for you to work on firefox browser. Shortcuts you will learn include easily copying url, bookmarking websites, scrolling page and more. So lets get started.

FireFox Keyboard Shortcuts

    Press CTRL + L to directly go to the address bar.
    To copy URL of websites from address bar Simply single click on the URL, this will select the whole address, then use CTRL + C for copying and CTRL + V for pasting.
    Press Spacebar to scroll down the page.
    Press Shift + Spacebar for quickly scrolling up.
    Use CTRL + T to open a New Tab
    Use CTRL + W to close the Tab
    If you use certain website more frequently bookmark that site by simply pressing CTRL + D for easily accessing later.
    To find certain word or phrase in web page press CTRL + F and use ALT + N for finding Next.

enjoy !!!!!!

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Getting access to the command list

Hello every body now as we all know that hacking is not an easy task !!!!!! for becoming a hacker we should have a deep knowledge of commands so thats why i have posted a full list of run comands list.........


 Accessibility Options : access.cpl
    Add Hardware : hdwwiz.cpl
    Add / Remove Programs : appwiz.cpl
    Administrative Tools : control admintools
    Automatic Updates : wuaucpl.cpl
    Wizard file transfer Bluethooth : fsquirt
    Calculator : calc
    Certificate Manager : certmgr.msc
    Character : charmap
    Checking disk : chkdsk
    Manager of the album (clipboard) : clipbrd
    Command Prompt : cmd
    Service components (DCOM) : dcomcnfg
    Computer Management : compmgmt.msc
    DDE active sharing : ddeshare
    Device Manager : devmgmt.msc
    DirectX Control Panel (if installed) : directx.cpl
    DirectX Diagnostic Utility : dxdiag
    Disk Cleanup : cleanmgr
    System Information : dxdiag
    Disk Defragmenter : dfrg.msc
    Disk Management : diskmgmt.msc
    Partition manager : diskpart
    Display Properties : control desktop
    Properties of the display (2) : desk.cpl
    Properties display (tab "appearance") : control color
    Dr. Watson : drwtsn32
    Manager vérirficateur drivers : check
    Event Viewer : Eventvwr.msc
    Verification of signatures of files : sigverif
    Findfast (if present) : findfast.cpl
    Folder Options : control folders
    Fonts (fonts) : control fonts
    Fonts folder windows : fonts
    Free Cell : freecell
    Game Controllers : Joy.cpl
    Group Policy (XP Pro) : gpedit.msc
    Hearts (card game) : mshearts
    IExpress (file generator. Cab) : IExpress
    Indexing Service (if not disabled) : ciadv.msc
    Internet Properties : inetcpl.cpl
    IPConfig (display configuration) : ipconfig / all
    IPConfig (displays the contents of the DNS cache) : ipconfig / displaydns
    IPConfig (erases the contents of the DNS cache) : ipconfig / flushdns
    IPConfig (IP configuration cancels maps) : ipconfig / release
    IPConfig (renew IP configuration maps) : ipconfig / renew
    Java Control Panel (if present) : jpicpl32.cpl
    Java Control Panel (if present) : javaws
    Keyboard Properties : control keyboard
    Local Security Settings : secpol.msc
    Local Users and Groups : lusrmgr.msc
    Logout : logoff
    Microsoft Chat : winchat
    Minesweeper (game) : winmine
    Properties of the mouse : control mouse
    Properties of the mouse (2) : main.cpl
    Network Connections : control NetConnect
    Network Connections (2) : ncpa.cpl
    Network configuration wizard : netsetup.cpl
    Notepad : notepad
    NView Desktop Manager (if installed) : nvtuicpl.cpl
    Manager links : packager
    Data Source Administrator ODBC : odbccp32.cpl
    Screen Keyboard : OSK
    AC3 Filter (if installed) : ac3filter.cpl
    Password manager (if present) : Password.cpl
    Monitor performance : perfmon.msc
    Monitor performance (2) : perfmon
    Dialing Properties (phone) : telephon.cpl
    Power Options : powercfg.cpl
    Printers and Faxes : control printers
    Private Character Editor : eudcedit
    Quicktime (if installed) : QuickTime.cpl
    Regional and Language Options : intl.cpl
    Editor of the registry : regedit
    Remote desktop connection : mstsc
    Removable Storage : ntmsmgr.msc
    requests the operator to removable storage : ntmsoprq.msc
    RSoP (traduction. ..) (XP Pro) : rsop.msc
    Scanners and Cameras : sticpl.cpl
    Scheduled Tasks : control schedtasks
    Security Center : wscui.cpl
    Console management services : services.msc
    shared folders : fsmgmt.msc
    Turn off windows : shutdown
    Sounds and Audio Devices : mmsys.cpl
    Spider (card game) : spider
    Client Network Utility SQL server : cliconfg
    System Configuration Editor : sysedit
    System Configuration Utility : msconfig
    System File Checker (SFC =) (Scan Now) : sfc / scannow
    SFC (Scan next startup) : sfc / scanonce
    SFC (Scan each démarraget) : sfc / scanboot
    SFC (back to default settings) : sfc / revert
    SFC (purge cache files) : sfc / purgecache
    SFC (define size CAHC x) : sfc / cachesize = x
    System Properties : sysdm.cpl
    Task Manager : taskmgr
    Telnet client : telnet
    User Accounts : nusrmgr.cpl
    Utility Manager (Magnifier, etc) : utilman
    Windows firewall (XP SP2) : firewall.cpl
    Microsoft Magnifier : magnify
    Windows Management Infrastructure : wmimgmt.msc
    Protection of the accounts database : syskey
    Windows update : wupdmgr
    Introducing Windows XP (if not erased) : tourstart
    Wordpad : write
    Date and Time Properties : timedate.cpl

i hope this list will help` you to become a successful hacker..
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How to do website hacking !!!!

 Hello friends , today i will explain all the methods that are being used to hack a website or websites database. This is the first part of the hacking websites tutorial where i will explain in brief all methods for hacking or defacing websites. Today I will give you the overview and in later tutorials we will discuss them one by one with practical examples. So guys get ready for first part of Hacking websites class.... Don't worry i will also tell you how to protect your websites from these attacks and other methods like hardening of SQL and hardening of web servers and key knowledge about CHMOD rights that what thing should be give what rights...

Note : This post is only for Educational Purpose only.

ways to hack websites, hacking websites

What are basic things you should know before website hacking?
First of all everything is optional as i will start from very scratch. But you need atleast basic knowledge of following things..
1. Basics of HTML, SQL, PHP.
2. Basic knowledge of Javascript.
3. Basic knowledge of servers that how servers work.
4. And most important expertize in removing traces otherwise u have to suffer consequences.
Now First two things you can learn from a very famous website for basics of Website design with basics of HTML,SQL,PHP and javascript.  here !!!

As we know traces are very important. Please don't ignore them otherwise you can be in big trouble for simply doing nothing. so please take care of this step.

METHODS OF HACKING WEBSITE:
1. SQL INJECTION
2. CROSS SITE SCRIPTING
3. REMOTE FILE INCLUSION
4. LOCAL FILE INCLUSION
5. DDOS ATTACK
6. EXPLOITING VULNERABILITY.

1. SQL INJECTION
First of all what is SQL injection? SQL injection is a type of security exploit or loophole in which a attacker "injects" SQL code through a web form or manipulate the URL's based on SQL parameters. It exploits web applications that use client supplied SQL queries.
The primary form of SQL injection consists of direct insertion of code into user-input variables that are concatenated with SQL commands and executed. A less direct attack injects malicious code into strings that are destined for storage in a table or as metadata. When the stored strings are subsequently concatenated into a dynamic SQL command, the malicious code is executed.

2. CROSS SITE SCRIPTING
Cross site scripting (XSS) occurs when a user inputs malicious data into a website, which causes the application to do something it wasn’t intended to do. XSS attacks are very popular and some of the biggest websites have been affected by them including the FBI, CNN, Ebay, Apple, Microsft, and AOL.
Some website features commonly vulnerable to XSS attacks are:
• Search Engines
• Login Forms
• Comment Fields

Cross-site scripting holes are web application vulnerabilities that allow attackers to bypass client-side security mechanisms normally imposed on web content by modern browsers. By finding ways of injecting malicious scripts into web pages, an attacker can gain elevated access privileges to sensitive page content, session cookies, and a variety of other information maintained by the browser on behalf of the user. Cross-site scripting attacks are therefore a special case of code injection.

3. REMOTE FILE INCLUSION
Remote file inclusion is the most often found vulnerability on the website.
Remote File Inclusion (RFI) occurs when a remote file, usually a shell (a graphical interface for browsing remote files and running your own code on a server), is included into a website which allows the hacker to execute server side commands as the current logged on user, and have access to files on the server. With this power the hacker can continue on to use local
exploits to escalate his privileges and take over the whole system.
RFI can lead to following serious things on website :

    Code execution on the web server
    Code execution on the client-side such as Javascript which can lead to other attacks such as cross site scripting (XSS).
    Denial of Service (DoS)
    Data Theft/Manipulation



4. LOCAL FILE INCLUSION
Local File Inclusion (LFI) is when you have the ability to browse through the server by means of directory transversal. One of the most common uses of LFI is to discover the /etc/passwd file. This file contains the user information of a Linux system. Hackers find sites vulnerable to LFI the same way I discussed for RFI’s.
  www.target-site.com/index.php?p= ../../../../../../../etc/passwd

5. DDOS ATTACK
Simply called distributed denial of service attack. A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the concerted efforts of a person or people to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely. In DDOS attack we consumes the bandwidth and resources of any website and make it unavailable to its legitimate users.

6.EXPLOTING VULNERABILITY
Its not a new category it comprises of above five categories but i mentioned it separately because there are several exploits which cannot be covered in the above five categories. So i will explain them individually with examples. The basic idea behind this is that find the vulnerability in the website and exploit it to get the admin or moderator privileges so that you can manipulate the things easily.

I hope you all now have a overview of that what is Website Hacking. In consecutive future classes i will explain all of these techniques in details. So guys keep reading..

create undeletable un renameable folder

Do you wanna secure your information ????

i have already posted a cool trick on it and now i am posting second one....

In this tutorial you will learn cool and simple trick to Create an undeletable and unrenamable Folders In Windows operating system. Most of the Peoples are not aware that it is possible to create Undeletable, Unrenamable folder in windows without any software. To Test this concept just follow simple steps given below.

Try to make a new folder in windows & give it name con,aux, lpt1, lpt2, lpt3 up to lpt9. you won't be allowed to create folder with above mentioned names, Because they are reserved words in windows.

How To Create Undeletable And Unrenamable Folders ?

Go to Start and then Click on Run

Type cmd & hit enter (To open Command Prompt ).

Remember you cannot create Undeletable & unrenamable folder in your root directory (i.e. where the windows is installed) That means you can't make this kind of folder in C: drive if you installed windows on C:

Type D: or E: and hit enter

Type md con\ and hit enter (md - make directory)

You may use other words such as aux, lpt1, lpt2, lpt3 up to lpt9 instead of con in above step.

Open that directory, you will see the folder created of name con.

Try to delete that folder or rename that folder windows will show the error message.

How to delete that folder ?

It is not possible to delete that folder manually but you can delete this folder by another way mentioned below.

Open Command Prompt

Type D: ( if u created this type of folder in D: drive) & hit enter

Type rd con\ (rd - remove directory)

Open that directory and the folder will not appear because it is removed.

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Hide your content of hard disk

Now after telling you about hacking and necessary thinga to hack any thing I am here within an awesome window tweak.

Do you want to secure your data without using any type of protection  tool well if yes then I am here to tell you how to hide your data with an simple trick

so lets start -:

1: first of all locate that hard disk in which your data is located and you want to hide it

                

 2: Then go to my computer and right click on it

Click on an option named manage a new window will open

                                                                                                                                                                       

Now click on disk management

 In that section there will be a list of disk partitions right  click on that section you want to hide 

Go to option change drive letters and paths a new window will open as remove and add click on remove

And bang!!!!!!!

Your selected disc will be unnamed and it will go hidden from my computer

For accessing again that disc reverse these steps you wil get your data back……..

Do you like that tweak????

Looking forward for your feedback in the comments below!!!!!!

                                                                                                                                                             

HACKING the art of exploitation

Hello every one in the 21 century each and every person is using computers in any form and now a new type of community id emerging named as hackers.the things done by them is called hacking.if you also wanna be a hacker then you  are at  right place iam here to show you some skills of hacking and to tell you what really hacking is…….

You want to become Hacker! I will make you the one. Not actually the one, Expert one and its all free. Because teaching should be free as said in holy books. I can give you 100% assurance that if you are willing to become hacker, i will make you the best one. I will teach you whatever i know, whatever i don't know ( i will learn and then i will share with you). Because none can be perfect but experts always exist. Most people have aspirations to become a hacker but they don't know from where to start and what is good and what is bad. Being Hacker as per media is bad but when you go inside you will know the truth. I will help you to explore the same. We are born hackers and started hacking ever since birth but never able to realized the hackers inside ourselves. But you will now, because i will act as catalyst.
Note: Catalyst, everything is in you, i will just guide you.

Disclaimer : Its up to individual which path he chooses, my motto is to provide knowledge and ethics and i will not leave a single stone unturned.
Now lets understand first what a hacker really is ………
The Hacker Attitude
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 — 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 — not just intellectually but emotionally as well.
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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — they only like ‘cooperation’ 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 — 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 — the hard work and dedication will become a kind of intense play rather than drudgery. That attitude is vital to becoming a hacker.



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 used to recommend Java as a good language to learn early, but this critique has changed my mind (search for “The Pitfalls of Java as a First Programming Language” within it). A hacker cannot, as they devastatingly put it “approach problem-solving like a plumber in a hardware store”; 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — it's a complex skill. But I can tell you that books and courses won't do it — many, maybe most of the best hackers are self-taught. You can learn language features — bits of knowledge — 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.
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, 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 — 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 — 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 — 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.
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.
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 — very snazzy-looking sludge, mind you, but sludge all the same.
To be worthwhile, your page must have content — 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.
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.
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 — and we have no use for sloppy thinkers. If you can't yet write competently, learn to.

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 — 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 ‘cyberpunk’, 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 — 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............