Mac Rumors just got hacked during the Macworld Keynote.
The live stream of events was going and then all of a sudden things began to go.. wrong.. like having Mac Rumors say they were being sponsored by 4chan or the kkk.
Mac Rumors Hacked
Use ubuntu the first time.. just becaue there is a massive amount of support.
Once you feel comfortable in ubunutu learn some bash
Then you may want to move onto another linux distro (debian, gentoo, whatever feels right to you)
Season 1 http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4109644/Hak5_Season_01
Season 2 http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4109650/Hak5_Season_02
Season 3 http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4326446/Hak5_Season_3
Ive watched talks from both.. and while there are more I feel that shmoocon talks are just a bit better.. although they are top tier cons. I guess its sort of pointless to compare which is better since they both are so great.
I have worked WAY too long on this blog post.. but I have compiled a list of all the torrent files available for the 25C3 confrence that ended on the 29th of december.. there was a good 6 hours of work on this (no joke)...
I am hosting a zip of all the torrents of videos out so far.. i will update it as new videos come online. If nobody here is interested ill stop posting about it.. but this honestly some of the best hacking material you will ever see.
grab the zip from my post http://hackerblog.net/papers/25c3-videos since zip link may update
If your going to be using dd-wrt (openwrt would be better) you wont need the computer. You could just set up SSH on your router and make it a loopback so you can tunnel through it.