gogeta70 wrote:
VLC Media Player - Yep. The number 1 hacking tool. You are not a hacker, if you do not have music.
Now that is a million dollar point!
@s0ss
The basic idea behind being a hacker is knowing how stuff works,
if you dont know how stuff works, then how can you make it to work like you want, or how can you make a program work "your" way.
Programming languages are a good place to start learning how stuff works, it tells you how (computer)stuff is created.
There are no limits, the first rule of hacking would be, never stop learning.
Never think you know it all. If you know about programming languages, learn about programming paradigms, compiler design, or basically anything you want.
Most people start hacking just because they think it'd be cool to do this stuff, not knowing the hard work involved.
IF you really wanna "learn" to hack, then you should start taking subject computers, seriously.
Also yes, use linux, a hacker not using an open source OS is an irony itself. Moreover, linux is neat, powerful, equipped with most of the tools you need and yes, its l33t. But dont worry about the distro, whenever you will come to brag about your latest distro, you'll find a newer one is already there, and there will always be distros which you would have never heard of before.
We all start somewhere, so you may chose a path, i never usually suggest, learn this, learn that, but what i try to focus is, if you seriously want to be into hacking then be prepared for some hard work, sleepless nights,but dont worry, they would be all exciting,
and yes do take the subject seriously, otherwise, you'll be one of the rest, knowing somethings of everything and not everything of something.
Imagine what good would it do to you if you learn to hello world in 50 different programming languages?
no FLAME! 
