And how do you gurantee that the hacker with root-access can't get at the secret key actually used for encrypting the logs? After all, unless you have a few spare Crays taking up space, you wont be able to actually use (secure) asymetric encryption for data, only for secret keys... AFAIK that is.
I say run important logs to a printer, and BURN them after a while. Then it'll be quite gone (unless something sits arund in your printspools or something).
All I'm saying is that if there is to be a point to crypto it has to be part of a carefully crafted system/strategy. After all - the only reason pgp makes sense for mail, is because we assume no (such;) agency has put a camera right over our keyboards and/or screens.
Considering the popularity of Napster, I'd say it should be easy to get something like this off the ground. Especially now that it's already been brought up on/. I say we do this!
A little "marketing/branding" by everyone involved, a set of dns-servers and a web-page hosted somewhere like Canada, or anywhere but the US or UK (judging from my superficial knowledge of legislation and practice in those countries)... and we should be all set. In order to avoid basing it on the existing dns-system let someone set up an equation that sums up the ip-address in an easy-to-remember fashion - and lets push that equation around.;-)
Now read this -- I had to scan my hard-copy because the archive apparently is dead. We really need some kind of free.org/opencontent.org
Definitely read the book! It's great, and IMHO much better than the movie (even director's cut).
What is really surprising is that the two sequels written by [checking book case] K. W. Jeeter are also really good! They're named "Blade Runner 2:The Edge of Humanity" and "Blade Runner 3:Replicant Night" (presumably in order to leverage the Movie title in marketing), but they really are "DADoES?" 2 and 3 (As opposed to a cheap ripoff-merchendaise scam following the "director's cut" re-release).
Jeeter has done an incredible job writing the books, and manages to build on the original in a way that strengthens both it and the sequels.
I really had my doubts about those two books, but I after reading them, I have no reservations recommending them to anyone that liked the original! Oh, and don't bother visiting my homepage, it's one of those places that never really gets started. At least for now.
There is little point in providing pdf-docs, unless your clients have good enough print/binding systems to be able to make their own printed docs.
I feel pdf is one of the worst formats for reading online. man/Html-docs are much better imho. That's not really a problem with pdf, but more a problem with the viewer... It's ok to provide pdf-docs, but then they should be intended for printing, while online help should be in a different format.
Also it depends on the type of software/user interface. If you have a small screen, it's often better to have tutorials/reference in a ring-bound compendium that you can leave open by you workstation. And, ofcourse, it's better to have a book if you're into reading manuals in bed...
Go look at www.debian.org - It's certainly no small site, and they use apache content-negotiation + links for selecting language.
Maybe you could convince one of those responsible for that page to help ?
As for separating design/content, I'd use CSS. It downloads quickly, doesn't require much server recources, and in my expirience it renders much faster than table-formating (./ is hopless here...) It also degrades gracefully.
Now with mozilla/Netscape 6 soon to be released, css will be pretty much uniformely supported, including layers++. It works with lynx(degrades gracefully), emacs, iexplorer and soon netscape (already works for simply formatting pages, but the fancy stuff is a nightmare in current netscape... and you thought microsoft didn't adhere to standards...)
I'd write a "try-out" page, for making the design, looking something like:
inclue your style-sheet(s) in the header <h1 class="banner">Welcome to bar-page</h1> <p class="normal"> One little paragraph right here... </p> (...)
And then use a "wysiwyg"-stylesheet editor for formatting it, and the go back, and replace the content through php, or something similar (I guess the choice of a true database vs. just text-files depends on size of the web-site, and who/how it will be updated). I have used dreamveawer(from macromedia - win/mac only) a bit - it is very good, and at least the previous version pretty much preserved whatever type of indenting/formating you used on you stylesheets/html-source, and that is something few wysiwyg tools do, in my not-so-far-reaching experience.
And just to repeat the important stuff: CSS rul3z! You really have to try the speed-thing to see it for yourself: Make one page with table-formatting and a ton of font-tags, and one that just embeds a style-sheet. Download-size drops, and rendering go relative (as in approaching speed-o-light:). And it's cutting-edge too! AND your page will be much easier to genereate/manipulate with scripts/php/whatever, once you do that. Better searching/easier to implement searching, easier to maintain, cooler, faster, improves your sex-life, saves disk-space,... oh I'm rambeling, sorry...
I have no problems at present, and I'm very happy with the service/support - so I'd really hate to move to another provider because of the UK-legal system forces providers to practice "guilty-until-proven-innocent"-policies.
I believe UK isps, shell providers and web-hosting services need to start lobbying - and soon. There is truly little reason for locating your web-pages in the UK - even for residents of the UK.
This is a bit off topic, but... All replies seem to fall into a common trap: not being able to review facts.
Communism consists of three things: An analyzation of production and value, a derived conclusion, and a proposed solution:
Value/produciton:Human work, and only human work, adds value.
Derived conclusion:The only real (non-monopoly) way a capitalist can make money is by in some way underpaying workers.
Solution:Remove the ability to profit on others work
The last bit is what most see as communism - but it is in many ways the least important part. A capitalists that reads and practice Marx will most likely make a lot of money.
Most replies argue for and against ownership of ideas... and compares to ownership of items. It is normal perception that we pay for an item -- not the work that went into making it. This has always broken down when it comes to art. And what is art but an expression of ideas, in some form ? Which leads us to software, copyright, patents. The capitalist way of distributing value is based on the right to own other ppls work - which is easy when we talk about products, but difficult when we talk about ideas - because if you buy an idea, you can do infinently more with it, than if you buy an item.
I think some of the controversy around open-source software comes from the fact that it amounts to bying an idea - much like buing a music-score. No matter what license you slap on source-code, it will be inifintively easier to steal than binary-only software. And it should be obious that value and price isn't linked: Is linux less useful the more ppl that use it ? mp3-codecs ? No.
Is it harder to make ppl pay for something they can get for free ? Yes. Is that the end of human civilization ? No. In fact, it might lead to a better world. But then again, humans seem to have an uncanny ability to hold each other down, and keep to small competitive groups - for good and ill.
Was I the only one that thought of Rydells mad crash into a house in William Gibsons "Virtual Light" ? See, he was with the police-force, and someone jammed his communications with the main comm-sat, and directed him to the scene where some mad person supposedly was abusing children... He never doubted orders because they came from a "hack-proof", trusted source. Not to mention every spy/thriller story where someone high-up in the military system takes matters into his/her own hands.
I mean, if the CIA awards medals to ppl they fired for lying to congress -- there IS a question of who's in charge, right?
"when news of the openssh-project was first leaked" -- in ohter words: Nobody was expected to know there WAS an openssh-project, the guy wanted to provide information about free ssh-implementations -FOR NON-PROFIT- and registers openssh.org. He did the RIGHT THING (tm)
Big deal. Now he links to plenty of (more or less) open ssh implementations, and anyone that visits www.openssh.org can easily find a link to www.openssh.com. Who says they are more official open than him?
Come on, why don't we get an interview with the ".org" man and the ".com" guys here on/. (or geeks in space ?) - Let them discuss it ?
On a side note, maybe the free-software community should offer to buy www.open.org and use it as a central link point to every major open/gnu/free/bsd project?
ok, slightly off topic, but I never liked dopus. DirWorks from Quasar was much faster, AND more configurable imho... tkDesk looks much like DW2, and has much the same configurability, but it's soo sl-o-o-www.
Anyone for re-implementing DW2, if the Quasar ppl wont port it ?
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And how do you gurantee that the hacker with root-access can't get at the secret key actually used for encrypting the logs? After all, unless you have a few spare Crays taking up space, you wont be able to actually use (secure) asymetric encryption for data, only for secret keys ... AFAIK that is.
I say run important logs to a printer, and BURN them after a while. Then it'll be quite gone (unless something sits arund in your printspools or something).
All I'm saying is that if there is to be a point to crypto it has to be part of a carefully crafted system/strategy. After all - the only reason pgp makes sense for mail, is because we assume no (such ;) agency has put a camera right over our keyboards and/or screens.
Be afraid. Be very afraid
A little "marketing/branding" by everyone involved, a set of dns-servers and a web-page hosted somewhere like Canada, or anywhere but the US or UK (judging from my superficial knowledge of legislation and practice in those countries) ... and we should be all set. In order to avoid basing it on the existing dns-system let someone set up an equation that sums up the ip-address in an easy-to-remember fashion - and lets push that equation around. ;-)
Now read this -- I had to scan my hard-copy because the archive apparently is dead. We really need some kind of free.org/opencontent.org
or:cypherpunks.free
;-)
What is really surprising is that the two sequels written by [checking book case] K. W. Jeeter are also really good! They're named "Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Humanity" and "Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night" (presumably in order to leverage the Movie title in marketing), but they really are "DADoES?" 2 and 3 (As opposed to a cheap ripoff-merchendaise scam following the "director's cut" re-release).
Jeeter has done an incredible job writing the books, and manages to build on the original in a way that strengthens both it and the sequels.
I really had my doubts about those two books, but I after reading them, I have no reservations recommending them to anyone that liked the original! Oh, and don't bother visiting my homepage, it's one of those places that never really gets started. At least for now.
I feel pdf is one of the worst formats for reading online. man/Html-docs are much better imho. That's not really a problem with pdf, but more a problem with the viewer... It's ok to provide pdf-docs, but then they should be intended for printing, while online help should be in a different format.
Also it depends on the type of software/user interface. If you have a small screen, it's often better to have tutorials/reference in a ring-bound compendium that you can leave open by you workstation. And, ofcourse, it's better to have a book if you're into reading manuals in bed...
Maybe you could convince one of those responsible for that page to help ?
As for separating design/content, I'd use CSS. It downloads quickly, doesn't require much server recources, and in my expirience it renders much faster than table-formating (./ is hopless here ...) It also degrades gracefully.
Now with mozilla/Netscape 6 soon to be released, css will be pretty much uniformely supported, including layers++. It works with lynx(degrades gracefully), emacs, iexplorer and soon netscape (already works for simply formatting pages, but the fancy stuff is a nightmare in current netscape... and you thought microsoft didn't adhere to standards...)
I'd write a "try-out" page, for making the design, looking something like:
inclue your style-sheet(s) in the header
<h1 class="banner">Welcome to bar-page</h1>
<p class="normal">
One little paragraph right here...
</p>
(...)
And then use a "wysiwyg"-stylesheet editor for formatting it, and the go back, and replace the content through php, or something similar (I guess the choice of a true database vs. just text-files depends on size of the web-site, and who/how it will be updated). I have used dreamveawer(from macromedia - win/mac only) a bit - it is very good, and at least the previous version pretty much preserved whatever type of indenting/formating you used on you stylesheets/html-source, and that is something few wysiwyg tools do, in my not-so-far-reaching experience.
And just to repeat the important stuff: CSS rul3z! :). And it's cutting-edge too! AND your page will be much easier to genereate/manipulate with scripts/php/whatever, once you do that. Better searching/easier to implement searching, easier to maintain, cooler, faster, improves your sex-life, saves disk-space, ... oh I'm rambeling, sorry...
You really have to try the speed-thing to see it for yourself: Make one page with table-formatting and a ton of font-tags, and one that just embeds a style-sheet. Download-size drops, and rendering go relative (as in approaching speed-o-light
I have no problems at present, and I'm very happy with the service/support - so I'd really hate to move to another provider because of the UK-legal system forces providers to practice "guilty-until-proven-innocent"-policies.
I believe UK isps, shell providers and web-hosting services need to start lobbying - and soon. There is truly little reason for locating your web-pages in the UK - even for residents of the UK.
Communism consists of three things: An analyzation of production and value, a derived conclusion, and a proposed solution:
Value/produciton:Human work, and only human work, adds value.
Derived conclusion:The only real (non-monopoly) way a capitalist can make money is by in some way underpaying workers.
Solution:Remove the ability to profit on others work
The last bit is what most see as communism - but it is in many ways the least important part. A capitalists that reads and practice Marx will most likely make a lot of money.
Most replies argue for and against ownership of ideas ... and compares to ownership of items. It is normal perception that we pay for an item -- not the work that went into making it. This has always broken down when it comes to art. And what is art but an expression of ideas, in some form ?
Which leads us to software, copyright, patents. The capitalist way of distributing value is based on the right to own other ppls work - which is easy when we talk about products, but difficult when we talk about ideas - because if you buy an idea, you can do infinently more with it, than if you buy an item.
I think some of the controversy around open-source software comes from the fact that it amounts to bying an idea - much like buing a music-score. No matter what license you slap on source-code, it will be inifintively easier to steal than binary-only software. And it should be obious that value and price isn't linked: Is linux less useful the more ppl that use it ? mp3-codecs ? No.
Is it harder to make ppl pay for something they can get for free ? Yes. Is that the end of human civilization ? No. In fact, it might lead to a better world. But then again, humans seem to have an uncanny ability to hold each other down, and keep to small competitive groups - for good and ill.
He never doubted orders because they came from a "hack-proof", trusted source.
Not to mention every spy/thriller story where someone high-up in the military system takes matters into his/her own hands.
I mean, if the CIA awards medals to ppl they fired for lying to congress -- there IS a question of who's in charge, right?
Big deal. Now he links to plenty of (more or less) open ssh implementations, and anyone that visits www.openssh.org can easily find a link to www.openssh.com. Who says they are more official open than him?
Come on, why don't we get an interview with the ".org" man and the ".com" guys here on /. (or geeks in space ?) - Let them discuss it ?
On a side note, maybe the free-software community should offer to buy www.open.org and use it as a central link point to every major open/gnu/free/bsd project?
tkDesk looks much like DW2, and has much the same configurability, but it's soo sl-o-o-www.
Anyone for re-implementing DW2, if the Quasar ppl wont port it ?