Pardon my ignorance - is Bastille an app a distro?Hopefully a wizard-like thing?
I was thinking of switching to Mandrake anyway, as they seem to offer better support for KDE.
While informative, the paper was a little above the level of reading for those of us who are uhhh "budding" security experts. I've found this problem when trying to install an intrusion detection system on my RH6.2 486 box.
Anyone have suggestions for references an easy-to-install intrusion detection system? Maybe with a GUI?
Are there any distros with security tools installed by default?
Anyone know of an easy way to image a system setup I like, boot it off a CDROM then mount in disks for data?
Besides, if these boxen were compromised in hours, what's the point?
A free market is based on the idea that people make free, rational choices about what the decisions they make. This never happens, which is why free markets don't exist.
Why would anyone bother with subliminal branding and other marketing tricks if we were just going to spend money on the most "rational" thing anyway?
OK, this is a very poorly balanced article. The delightful quote that the Internet must be made to comply with basic economic laws demonstrates the extent to which these "laws" are in fact conventions based on how people think decisions ought to be made.
There is a real issue here, though:
Who pays for the transport, i.e., the backbone? In the early post-ARPA days, the National Science Foundation paid for the backbone, through a project called NFSNET. However, because NSF didn't feel it was appropriate for the government (yes, the same government so many/.ers love to hate)
to pay for the bandwidth for commercial intents, the backbone was transferred to private operation. I think this was a huge mistake. A global information network is fundamentally a public good, and ultimate control of it should reside with the public, not private enterprise. People looking to make money should pay to use a public medium to do so, but control of the medium should belong to the public, much like the FCC licensing bandwidth.
If we really are in a free market (which I doubt, because they don't exist), then as long as there's a substantive demand for free information, someone should want to sell it to us. But I do think it will be hard for anyone to match the kind of money that media giants or B2B powerhouses can throw at having routing done their way.
This brief history of the Internet is good reading. It includes a definition of the word Internet.
Perhaps there could be publicly controlled routers managed by wiki?
OK, as I understand this article - the technical problem is that the error correction codes which allow the d2a converter to interpolate for audio extraction are written to the digital output, so there's no way to know what's an error. A couple questions:
1) Is there way to read these error correction codes?
2) What about the "digital out" on some older standalone CD players (like mine). Does this suffer the same problem?
3) Why is it so bad or hard just to do after the fact interpolation, using good sound filters?
4) Are the same bits hosed on each disc? If they were different, you could just overlay and fix, no?
First of all, let's get something clear. Being woken up by a subwoofer in your neighborhood is an INCONVENIENCE, not suffering. Going without food, not being able to pay rent, facing violence in your home, these things are suffering.
As a society have focused so much on making our lives more convenient that we have forgotten the kind of civility and tolerance that go along with putting up with things you don't like or agree with. This is particularly true on the Internet, in the vanguard of making things convenient. So when people can't do exactly what they'd like (e.g. run the cheap HP scanner they bought on a lark) they forget to distinguish this a nuisance from a grave problem. Put that together with how easy it is to hammer out a nasty message on message board and post before you've even calmed down, and you have a total lack of civility. Two bad traits brought to fruition by the speed and convenience of the Net.
Unfortunately it's always been true that you can catch flies with both honey and shit, but shit really stinks up your surroundings.
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Pardon my ignorance - is Bastille an app a distro?Hopefully a wizard-like thing?
I was thinking of switching to Mandrake anyway, as they seem to offer better support for KDE.
While informative, the paper was a little above the level of reading for those of us who are uhhh "budding" security experts. I've found this problem when trying to install an intrusion detection system on my RH6.2 486 box.
Anyone have suggestions for references an easy-to-install intrusion detection system? Maybe with a GUI?
Are there any distros with security tools installed by default?
Anyone know of an easy way to image a system setup I like, boot it off a CDROM then mount in disks for data?
Besides, if these boxen were compromised in hours, what's the point?
A free market is based on the idea that people make free, rational choices about what the decisions they make. This never happens, which is why free markets don't exist.
Why would anyone bother with subliminal branding and other marketing tricks if we were just going to spend money on the most "rational" thing anyway?
There is a real issue here, though:
Who pays for the transport, i.e., the backbone? In the early post-ARPA days, the National Science Foundation paid for the backbone, through a project called NFSNET. However, because NSF didn't feel it was appropriate for the government (yes, the same government so many /.ers love to hate)
to pay for the bandwidth for commercial intents, the backbone was transferred to private operation. I think this was a huge mistake. A global information network is fundamentally a public good, and ultimate control of it should reside with the public, not private enterprise. People looking to make money should pay to use a public medium to do so, but control of the medium should belong to the public, much like the FCC licensing bandwidth.
If we really are in a free market (which I doubt, because they don't exist), then as long as there's a substantive demand for free information, someone should want to sell it to us. But I do think it will be hard for anyone to match the kind of money that media giants or B2B powerhouses can throw at having routing done their way.
This brief history of the Internet is good reading. It includes a definition of the word Internet. Perhaps there could be publicly controlled routers managed by wiki?
1) Is there way to read these error correction codes?
2) What about the "digital out" on some older standalone CD players (like mine). Does this suffer the same problem?
3) Why is it so bad or hard just to do after the fact interpolation, using good sound filters?
4) Are the same bits hosed on each disc? If they were different, you could just overlay and fix, no?
First of all, let's get something clear. Being woken up by a subwoofer in your neighborhood is an INCONVENIENCE, not suffering. Going without food, not being able to pay rent, facing violence in your home, these things are suffering.
As a society have focused so much on making our lives more convenient that we have forgotten the kind of civility and tolerance that go along with putting up with things you don't like or agree with. This is particularly true on the Internet, in the vanguard of making things convenient. So when people can't do exactly what they'd like (e.g. run the cheap HP scanner they bought on a lark) they forget to distinguish this a nuisance from a grave problem. Put that together with how easy it is to hammer out a nasty message on message board and post before you've even calmed down, and you have a total lack of civility. Two bad traits brought to fruition by the speed and convenience of the Net.
Unfortunately it's always been true that you can catch flies with both honey and shit, but shit really stinks up your surroundings.