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Originally Posted by FHW
mdh, references were going to be my next question, I'll check to see if there are any copies of "Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++" available locally, if not is it worth ordering in?
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Yes. Amazon has a free shipping deal for over $25, ora.com (the publisher, O'Reilly's website) is another good choice to order their books directly online, and there are countless other online retailers.
It's probably the best C-related book I've ever seen, though it isn't really a "beginner" book, you'll learn a lot from it at any experience level just from considering the concepts that are discussed. Once you are somewhat proficient in C, you'll actually understand the implementations.
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Originally Posted by FHW
I haven't used usenet before, is that the same as mirc which I have only used briefly, or more like an email network group, and are they as good as forums such as these?
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Depends. You need access to it somehow, and the content can vary between NNTP servers based on what feeds they link to.
http://groups.google.com/ interfaces to usenet, and a lot of people use it. It's the only thing I can honestly suggest nowadays; ISPs used to provide NNTP servers which we could utilize via an NNTP client such as tin or seamonkey/thunderbird/netscape, but that practice is pretty much dead. There can be some good content on usenet, though, it isn't what it was in the early-mid 90's.
Also, mirc is a commercial windows program that connects to IRC, so its use in such a context isn't correct.
That said, IRC can still be a good source of information if you find the right channels, which can be challenging.