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<b><u>How to Avoid these Side Effects:</u></b> 
<ol>
  <li>Attach another fan or a "Heat Sink" to your CPU. It shouldn't cost much 
    (a couple of bucks, maybe) and the outcomes would amaze you (For example: 
    using a device that cools your CPU to -20 Celsius degrees you can turn a Celeron 
    300A into a 633MHZ CPU)<br>
  <li>Place your computer where you won't block it's air ways.<br>
  <li>There are programs like CPUIdle (URL(7) to download: <a 
  href="http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Monitor/6990/cpuidle.zip">http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Monitor/6990/cpuidle.zip</a>) 
    that can shut down your CPU while it's not in use. These actions can decrease 
    the temperature of your CPU, and it can even increase your CPU's life span. 
    Note: CPUIdle only works on Windows, since it is "Built-In" on other OSs (see 
    CPUIdle's documentations). </li>
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<b><u>Statistically Speaking, How Safe is this?</u></b><br>
Very safe. Out of tens of thousands of overclockers in the world, only a very 
few got some of their hardware fried up (and who says it's because of the overclocking 
anyway?), and those guys didn't listen to the safety warnings (they overclocked 
their CPU too much, increased the CPU Voltage too much etc'). <br>
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<b><u>Is it Worth the Trouble?</u></b><br>
DUH!!! Of course it is! Do the math yourself. <br>
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<b><u>More Info on Speeding Up Your Computer</u></b><br>
Try the "Modem Speedup" section at <a 
href="http://blacksun.box.sk/speedup.html">blacksun.box.sk</a> <br>
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<b><u><a 
name=#3daccelerators>How do I Overclock My 3D Accelerator?</a></u></b><br>
Overclocking 3D accelerators is pretty much like overclocking CPUs, only you have 
to take one factor into consideration... your CPU speed.<br>
You see, the speed your 3D accelerator works depends on your CPU. The 3D accelerator 
cannot work faster than the CPU, since some vital 3D calculations are done by 
it, hence the accelerator cannot continue without these calculations.<br>
If your CPU's speed is lower than 400MHZ, I advise you not to overclock your 3D 
accelerator. Go overclock your CPU and then overclock your 3D card!! HAHAHA!! 
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<b><u><a name=#newbies>Newbies Corner</a></u></b> 
<ol>
  <li>CPU - Central Processing Unit. A little chip that does all of your calculations 
    (besides graphical calculations, which are mostly done by video cards or 3D 
    accelerators, but they all work according to a "blueprint" given to them by 
    the CPU).<br>
  <li>BUS - BUSsed aren't yellow and they don't have a sing saying "school BUS" 
    beside them.<br>
    BUSses are little electronic connections which send out electric pulses from 
    different pieces of hardware on your computer to other pieces of hardware.<br>
    Without the BUSses your CPU, sound/monitor/modem cards, RAM chip etc' won't 
    be able to communicate with each other.<br>
  <li>MHZ - Mega Hertz. To make a long story short, this is the speed of your 
    CPU.<br>
  <li>Jumpers - they're inside your computer, they look like tiny little plastic 
    squares and they usually have 2 or more little metal pieces which send electricity 
    from one side to the other (unless they're broken).<br>
    They are usually sitting there next to each other. Oh yeah, and they taste 
    bad, so don't try eating any of those.<br>
  <li>CMOS Chip - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. The little chip that 
    stores some of your computer's most basic configuration.<br>
  <li>Cache Chip - when your CPU feels like accessing a memory segment, it can 
    either read it from the RAM chip(8) or from the cache chip.<br>
    The cache chip is much faster than the RAM chip, which usually has the speed 
    of 66MHZ (at the time this tutorial was written).<br>
    <b><u>The cache chip works this way:</u></b><br>
    <b>A)</b> Your CPU wants to access some kind of data which is not stored on 
    your Hard Drive, on a CD, on a diskette etc' (read section 8 of the Newbies 
    Corner first). Common sense says it should head to the RAM chip, right?<br>
    <b>B)</b> No, sir! First the CPU looks up that data on the cache chip. The 
    cache chip is much faster than the RAM chip and it is located closer to the 
    CPU, and it contains the most recent pieces of data the CPU retrieved from 
    the RAM chip.<br>
    <b>C)</b> If the data was found on the cache chip, hurray! The CPU may now 
    proceed with it's actions. Final outcome: the CPU saved a lot of time.<br>
    <b>D)</b> If the data was not found on the cache chip, the CPU will head off 
    to the RAM chip. Final outcome: the CPU wasted very very little time.<br>
    <b>Note:</b> while your RAM can contain 32MB (MegaBytes), 64MB, 128MB (currently 
    not present on any home PC) or 256MB (see 128MB), but the cache size will 
    vary from 256K to 516K, when 1024K = 1MB (again, this info is relevant to 
    the time this tutorial was written).<br>
    <b>Note 2:</b> if you played around a little with your Internet browser and 
    found out that your browser has it's own cache memory, let me explain.<br>
    Your browser has what is called "Disk Cache" - it caches Internet files (HTML 
    files, pictures etc') on your hard drive so next time you will access those 
    files it will only have to check if there is a newer version of them, and 
    if not it will load them from the cache. If there is a newer version of these 
    files they will be redownloaded and the disk cache will be updated. It is 
    possible to disable the disk cache or limit it to a specific space (Example: 
    don't cache anymore than 30MB. Example2: don't cache at all).<br>
    <b>Note 3:</b> several Operating Systems have disk cache too, which is similar 
    to your browser's disk cache (but has nothing to do with the net. Well, most 
    of the time...).<br>
  <li>URL - Universal Resource Locator - an Internet address.<br>
  <li>RAM Chip - a chip that stores data which is not saved on your hard drive, 
    CDs, diskettes etc' (temporary data used by programs and/or games).<br>
  <li>Flames - the action of flaming someone (send him angry mail about things 
    he has done, opinions he has etc' which you do not agree with). </li>
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<b><u><a name=#tutorials>Other Tutorials</a></u></b><br>
<b><u><a 
name=#networking>Networking and it's security-related issues</a></u></b> 
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/ftp.html">FTP Tutorial</a> - Covers FTP 
    hacking, FTP commands, what the hell is FTP and tons of tips and tricks (not 
    all FTP-related) in the newbies corner.<br>
  <li><a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/rm.html">RM Networks Tutorial</a> - yes, 
    RM Networks. You know, those local networks, not Internet networks... RM Networks 
    are so stupid that they rely on the fact that the user is even dumber. Stumbled 
    across one in your school/University/college/working place? Want maximum priviledges 
    on it? Then try this tutorial.<br>
  <li><a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/adblock.html">Ad Blocking Tutorial</a> - 
    Are you tired of seeing stupid commercials and popups popping on your screen 
    and chewing up your bandwidth? Then read this!<br>
  <li><a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/sendmail.html">Sendmail Tutorial</a> - Find 
    out why Sendmail is called 'the buggiest daemon on earth', and find out what 
    a daemon is anyway. Tons of ways to crack into big computers as well as PCs 
    unleashed, including, of course, information on how to block these holes.<br>
  <li><a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/anonymity.html">Anonymity Tutorial</a> - 
    tired of people getting your IP over ICQ or IRC? Tired of website owners knowing 
    EVERYTHING about you? Tired of people tracing you by your Email address? Read 
    this one and learn how to anonymize yourself!<br>
  <li><a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/proxy.html">Proxy/WinGate/SOCKS Tutorial</a> 
    - don't know what a Proxy is? Don't know what a WinGate is? Don't know what 
    a SOCKS firewall is? Wanna learn how to increase your anonymity using them? 
    Then read this one.<br>
  <li><a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/infogathering.html">Info Gathering Tutorial</a> 
    - want to find private information about people and scare them like hell? 
    Then read this tutorial, you'll just love it!<br>
  <li><a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/icq.html">ICQ Security</a> - learn about 
    ICQ's security flaws, how to exploit them and how to protect yourself from 
    malicious users who use these flaws against you. Stealing passwords, reading 
    someone's entire hard drive, flooding, spoofing, DoSsing and what not.<br>
  <li><a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/exploitshotmail.html">Exploits Explained: 
    JavaCript hole in Hotmail</a> - this excellent tutorial by Little V is the 
    first tutorial in our Exploits Explained series. Each tutorial in this series 
    will explain about a certain hole. This one explains about the JavaCript hole 
    in Hotmail, which allows you to read messages from someone's inbox, send messages 
    from his Hotmail account, get his password etc'.<br>
  <li>Mailing Lists Security (coming soon) - how to improve your mailing list's 
    security, how to hack other mailing lists and what is a mailing list anyway 
    (plus different kinds of mailing lists, where to get them etc').<br>
  <li>The POP Protocol (coming soon) - wanna learn more on how Email works? Wanna 
    delete spam and mailbombs on the server, without even having to download them 
    and fill your entire inbox? Then read this one once it gets out.<br>
  <li>DoS Attacks Tutorial (coming soon) - learn how DoS attacks work and how 
    to protect yourself against them (and of course, what the hell are DoS attacks 
    anyway) </li>
</ul>
<b><u><a name=irc>IRC-related issues</a></u></b> 
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/ircwarfare.html">IRC Warfare Tutorial</a> 
    - ever wanted to know how those lamers keep taking over your channel and/or 
    kicking you off IRC? Learn to protect yourself here!<br>
  <li><a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/eggdropbots.html">Eggdrop Bots Tutorial</a> 
    - learn how to set up your own Eggdrop bots on IRC, and how to send them commands, 
    make them execute automated processes or commands on certain conditions or 
    time etc'.<br>
  </li>
</ul>
<b><u><a name?='local"'>Local Stuff</a></u></b> 
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/registry.html">Windows Registry Tutorial</a> 
    - learn more about the Windows registry. How does it work, what does it do 
    and what happened to the old .ini files?<br>
  <li><a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/standalone.html">Standalone Security</a> 
    (this tutorials wasn't written by a BSRF member. Read about what exactly happened 
    <a 
  href="http://blacksun.box.sk/byteme.html#Where the hell is the Local NT Security tutorial">here</a>).<br>
  <li><a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/comphardware.html">Interesting Things You 
    Didn't Know About Your Computer's Hardware</a> - read Njan's amazing tutorial 
    about all those things you always wanted to know about PC hardware but never 
    had the guts to ask.<br>
  </li>
</ul>
<b><u><a name=phreaking>Phreaking</a></u></b> 
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/phreaking.html">Phreaking Tutorial</a> - 
    this should get all those newbie phreakers out there started. An excellent 
    tutorial by Squiler, the only phreaker aboard BSRF.<br>
  <li><a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/advancedphreaking.html">Advanced Phreaking 
    Tutorial</a> - already finished Squiler's phreaking tutorial? Want more? Then 
    this one is for you! More phreaking information and techniques, with some 
    more advanced stuff than the previous one.<br>
  <li><a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/ultimatephreaking.html">The Ultimate Phreaking 
    Tutorial II</a> - liked Squiler's first phreaking tutorial? Want more? Then 
    read this one! </li>
</ul>
<b><u><a 
name=cracking>Cracking</a></u></b><br>
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/cracking1.html">Cracking, Part I</a> - learn 
    how to crack programs by yourself, and what the hell cracking means anyway.<br>
  <li>Cracking, Part II (coming soon)<br>
  <li>Cracking, Part III (coming soon) </li>
</ul>
<b><u><a 
name=programming>Programming</a></u></b><br>
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://blacksun.box.sk/html/index.html">HTML Tutorial</a> - learn 
    how to build your own HTML pages. Fonts, colors, links, pictures, backgrounds, 
    frames, image maps and what not. </li>
</ul>
<b><u><a 
name=encryption>Encryption</a></u></b><br>
<ul>
  <li>PGP Tutorial (coming soon) - learn how PGP works behind the scenes and how 
    to use it (and what the hell is PGP, what it stands for etc'). </li>
</ul>
<b><u><a name=upcoming>Upcoming Tutorials</a></u></b> 
<ul>
  <li>DoS Attacks Tutorial - learn how DoS attacks work and how to protect yourself 
    against them.<br>
  <li>PGP Tutorial - learn how PGP works behind the scenes and how to use it.<br>
  <li>The POP Protocol - wanna learn more on how Email works? Wanna delete spam 
    and mailbombs on the server, without even having to download them and fill 
    your entire inbox? Then read this one once it gets out.<br>
  <li>Cracking, Part II + III - the continuation of Techlord's first cracking 
    tutorial.<br>
  <li>Mailing Lists Security - how to improve your mailing list's security, how 
    to hack other mailing lists and what is a mailing list anyway (plus different 
    kinds of mailing lists, where to get them etc'). </li>
</ul>
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<b><u><a name=#bibliography>Bibliography</a></u></b><br>
<a 
href="http://www.hacker.co.il/">http://www.hacker.co.il/</a> (in Hebrew)<br>
PC Magazine - <a href="http://www.pcmagazine.com/">http://www.pcmagazine.com/</a> 
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