Linux has the potential to take over a small share of the enthusiast desktop marker
I would suggest that this, at least, is already happening.
However standardizaion needs to occur and one window manager needs development to the point of having all the niceties that microsoft but without the bugs and secutriy holes.
This is certainly a recurring argument. But we don't seem to have a solution so far. Since no one desktop seems to clearly be best-of-breed for
this particular market, perhaps the big distros ought to agree on one, say KDE (toss a coin !), and put their weight behind it.
Clearly one desktop environment isn't going to suit everyone, but there should at least be some sort of common standardised default choice for new users. More experienced users are free to change this as they wish.
Zeshan
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Future Of IDS
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An IDS allows one to observe "the big picture" - to see if concerted attacks are coming from one particular source, or whether one is facing attack from what appear to be unrelated sources (as with Code Red). It enables one to selectively block hosts/subnets/ports as appropriate, to spot "well known" attacks and thus identify new attacks.
And of course, and IDS logs can be valuable when it comes to forensic investigations.
Of course, you have to have worthwile content when you get to the other end of the link, which why people go back.
kuro5hin succeeds because, for whatever reason, it seems to attract a lot of intelligent discussion. Presumably once it gets popular enough, the s/n ratio will go downhill as can be readily witnessed on a certain other site;-)
That said, I usually read slashdot with a threshold of 4 (sometimes lower, it depends on the number of postings in the given thread), which makes it fairly tolerable.
I mean, come on foks, these belong to the Government!!! Who are YOU to say what the Government does!!!! If you wanted to burn your tax records, nobody's gonna stop you, why should it be any different for the Government!?!?!?!
It is the traditional media, such as newspapers and television which have a relatively monolithic, inbred viewpoint.
So by using the 'net we get dozens of monolithic, inbred viewpoints ?;-)
Take something like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Before the net, for the most part you'd have to rely on the relatively bland reporting from traditional newspapers and maybe a quick 2 minute clip on the news if something big happens.
Well...I don't really read the papers much, but find that certainly TV and Radio (BBC) tend to provide me with enough information to investigate further (on the net) if I'm sufficiently interested.
On the Internet it takes just a few minutes to get not only very detailed coverage, but coverage from any number of political points of view, from far right Israeli supporters to far left Palestinian supporters.
Ah, but the point is that I don't want detailed information about everything. I'd like a brief overview of what's going on in the world, and "traditional media" does this in a reasonable manner (as do Yahoo, ft.com etc). But the key thing about the net is that it allows me to specialize where I want.
Slashdot Mirror
I would suggest that this, at least, is already happening.
However standardizaion needs to occur and one window manager needs development to the point of having all the niceties that microsoft but without the bugs and secutriy holes.
This is certainly a recurring argument. But we don't seem to have a solution so far. Since no one desktop seems to clearly be best-of-breed for this particular market, perhaps the big distros ought to agree on one, say KDE (toss a coin !), and put their weight behind it.
Clearly one desktop environment isn't going to suit everyone, but there should at least be some sort of common standardised default choice for new users. More experienced users are free to change this as they wish.
Zeshan
An IDS allows one to observe "the big picture" - to see if concerted attacks are coming from one particular source, or whether one is facing attack from what appear to be unrelated sources (as with Code Red). It enables one to selectively block hosts/subnets/ports as appropriate, to spot "well known" attacks and thus identify new attacks.
And of course, and IDS logs can be valuable when it comes to forensic investigations.
Zeshan
Of course, you have to have worthwile content when you get to the other end of the link, which why people go back.
;-)
kuro5hin succeeds because, for whatever reason, it seems to attract a lot of intelligent discussion. Presumably once it gets popular enough, the s/n ratio will go downhill as can be readily witnessed on a certain other site
That said, I usually read slashdot with a threshold of 4 (sometimes lower, it depends on the number of postings in the given thread), which makes it fairly tolerable.
Zeshan
I mean, come on foks, these belong to the Government!!! Who are YOU to say what the Government does!!!! If you wanted to burn your tax records, nobody's gonna stop you, why should it be any different for the Government!?!?!?!
The government is not a private citizen.
Zeshan
Since these new ATA/133 cards are backwards compatible with 33MHz slots, I must assume they found a way to reduce RF interference.
80 wire IDE cables (as opposed to 40 wire) are used for the faster drives. These reduce the problems with noise.
Zeshan
Multiple drives on one channel.
Zeshan
So by using the 'net we get dozens of monolithic, inbred viewpoints ? ;-)
Take something like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Before the net, for the most part you'd have to rely on the relatively bland reporting from traditional newspapers and maybe a quick 2 minute clip on the news if something big happens.
Well...I don't really read the papers much, but find that certainly TV and Radio (BBC) tend to provide me with enough information to investigate further (on the net) if I'm sufficiently interested.
On the Internet it takes just a few minutes to get not only very detailed coverage, but coverage from any number of political points of view, from far right Israeli supporters to far left Palestinian supporters.
Ah, but the point is that I don't want detailed information about everything. I'd like a brief overview of what's going on in the world, and "traditional media" does this in a reasonable manner (as do Yahoo, ft.com etc). But the key thing about the net is that it allows me to specialize where I want.
Zeshan
It has posts from '81 to '82
Zeshan