Securing NFS is like securing anything else in a hostle enviornment: Do what you can to lock down the protocol. Then make sure you have a nice intrusion detection system (like snort) that can shutdown the services if any funny business is detected.
I think you miss my point. I am not here to stand up for X. I agree that interface standards are nice and useful.
My point is that to make linux, or any OS for that matter, ready for the unwashed masses we need a great GFI. Getting to programs is easy for newbies, just click on the menu. Problem is, the application is not importent, the document/data is. The mac OS (focusing on documents not apps) is great in theroy, but it is still dependant on a file system tree. We need to come up with a fundamentally different way to store, organize, and retrive information. This will be the next killer app that makes the next big shift in OS usage.
The hierarchy thing *is* the groovy way to store, organise and retrieve files. Especially when you have nice things like symlinks...That's why I can usually find a file on my computer more quickly than I can find a document around my house.
That's fine. I agree that symlinks make things very flexabile and fast for us folks who understand computers. However, the average joe has great trouble with these concepts. They require training. The idea GFI should make sense to the human brain without much training.
In most places, they way that information is stored depends on the nature of that information. If the catch all file system tree was so great we wouldn't have apps dedicated to information organization, such as CompuPic. What we need is a GFI that adapts to the type of information it is displaying/organizing/retrieving on the fly.
I don't think a standard GUI is all that important, or even desirable. One of the things I love about linux is that I can make my desktop look and feel the way I like.
That said, it seems like this article speaks more toward a standard GFI (Graphical File Interface) or file browser, than a GUI. Sure, having all the programs have the same graphical theme is nice, but I don't think that makes the computer easier to use. Most newbies I know get tripped up when they have to deal with file management.
What linux, and all OS's, needs is a groovy way to store, organize, and retrive files. All this nested directory stuff is fine for us people who can "visualize" the tree, but to most people this makes no sense. I have never been inside an office that had file cabinets nested inside file cabinets ad naseum.
We need a way to organize or abstract files such that they are easy to find and make sense to human sensabilities.
It's a nice read. He states how angry he is that people are "stealing" his software. Remember that this was a time of people helping people learn and build their own home computers. Gates has been in it for the money from the very begining. He doesn't care about innovating anything, except ways to part you with your money!
Ditzel, a former engineer at Sun Microsystems, was integral in the development of the RISC processor, another competitor for Intel's x86 processor. RISC was faster than Intel's chips, but software designers never picked up on it, and it remained on the fringes.
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Securing NFS is like securing anything else in a hostle enviornment: Do what you can to lock down the protocol. Then make sure you have a nice intrusion detection system (like snort) that can shutdown the services if any funny business is detected.
Just my $0.02.
My point is that to make linux, or any OS for that matter, ready for the unwashed masses we need a great GFI. Getting to programs is easy for newbies, just click on the menu. Problem is, the application is not importent, the document/data is. The mac OS (focusing on documents not apps) is great in theroy, but it is still dependant on a file system tree. We need to come up with a fundamentally different way to store, organize, and retrive information. This will be the next killer app that makes the next big shift in OS usage.
That's fine. I agree that symlinks make things very flexabile and fast for us folks who understand computers. However, the average joe has great trouble with these concepts. They require training. The idea GFI should make sense to the human brain without much training.
In most places, they way that information is stored depends on the nature of that information. If the catch all file system tree was so great we wouldn't have apps dedicated to information organization, such as CompuPic. What we need is a GFI that adapts to the type of information it is displaying/organizing/retrieving on the fly.
That said, it seems like this article speaks more toward a standard GFI (Graphical File Interface) or file browser, than a GUI. Sure, having all the programs have the same graphical theme is nice, but I don't think that makes the computer easier to use. Most newbies I know get tripped up when they have to deal with file management.
What linux, and all OS's, needs is a groovy way to store, organize, and retrive files. All this nested directory stuff is fine for us people who can "visualize" the tree, but to most people this makes no sense. I have never been inside an office that had file cabinets nested inside file cabinets ad naseum.
We need a way to organize or abstract files such that they are easy to find and make sense to human sensabilities.
It's a nice read. He states how angry he is that people are "stealing" his software. Remember that this was a time of people helping people learn and build their own home computers. Gates has been in it for the money from the very begining. He doesn't care about innovating anything, except ways to part you with your money!
Ditzel, a former engineer at Sun Microsystems, was integral in the development of the RISC processor, another competitor for Intel's x86 processor. RISC was faster than Intel's chips, but software designers never picked up on it, and it remained on the fringes.
I sure hope the Crusoe does better than the RISC!