Well, so far, I've read Northcut's "Network Intrusion Detection: An Analysts Handbook" and I found it good, but fairly focused on Intrusion Detection - hence the title.
I think that first its very important to have a good grasp of all network operations. This is for a number of reasons - basically, if you dont know what's normal, you dont know what's not. There are also a lot of vulnerabilities that arrise out of a combination of configurations, etc. These really require a good grip on the technologies to be able to forcast.
To be a really good security person requires a lot of experience as an administrator. To me, it's either management, or security after system administration.
with windows, instability seems to be less predictable than with linux. For me, linux apps will die in the same spot every time, where windows apps will crash almost totally unpredictably. This leads me to believe that some will be lucky, and some will just not have the same combo of hardware, buggy drivers, buggy software, etc. Leads me to believe that windows isnt designed such that it could segregate processes, etc, very well.
Just after I complained about a lack of line drawing tools, I noticed the startup tip. Thanks though:)
About more dynamic selection tools... a better selection representation would be good, especially with regards to feathered selections and stuff... Maybe a sort of 'convolve' tool to selectively feather particular edges of a selection would be good. Maybe something else to 'nudge' selection areas... as in push the border in and out but retain some level of connectivity - sort of moulding tool for selections. oh and I would like to see brushes displayed something like selections are, so that you can see your brush edges.
But its neat that there is already a bit of vector stuff in gimp... i'd love to see more.
I would love to see something in gimp that lets you create vector layers. Some layers can be totally pixmap and some can be vector or even mixed? Also, a non linear history like PS would be wonderful... it might allow you to actually apply filters to vector bits but still be able to treat the object as a vector chunk. Make sense? You could then do filters on text and stuff, but still go back and edit the text content. I'm still missing the line tools as seen in photoshop, and some really cool dynamic selector tools would be great - maybe some sort of connect the dots style selector?
there's also a company called tuxtops that had cute lookin laptops. However, I emailed them and they dont currently have plans to use transmeta or arm processors... i may invest in a transmeta thinkpad when they're available:) if the price is right anyway:)
Isnt the HURD somewhat innovative in that its a totally object oriented operating system? I'd say that there's a fair bit of innovation going on out there. Altho, when its not broken, why fix it? I'm fairly happy with the way that linux is going - it gets work done, and there is room for improvement, so there's something still to play with and so there'll still be interest. Im glad that linux puts research into the hands of users, and out of the hands of universities and big corps.
A friend of mine was hit with a DDoS attack by script kiddies. His ISP booted him off his account and called the cops! They claimed that he was the attacker! Any idiot reading a packet log could tell that he was the victim. The RCMP (like the FBI, but in Canada) took his computer as evidence for more than 6 months! It was absurd!
Law enforcement really needs to get some kind of a grip on computer crime and stop blowing it way out of proportion.
Of course, the ABIT guy goes and says that he thinks that giving your code away is great... then he goes and wont release the stuff that he's written. I mean, what is he doing!? Idiot. I wont buy anything from them, just because they've got bad polititians working for them. Im a fan of QDI myself:)
What's so different between a webpad and a laptop then? They have similar screens. Even if it were mostly the screen, lower power usage by the cpu would still help:)
Though declining to provide details of his paper because it is under review, Dr. Wang said: "Our light pulses can indeed be made to travel faster than c. This is a special property of light itself, which is different from a familiar object like a brick," since light is a wave with no mass. A brick could not travel so fast without creating truly big problems for physics, not to mention humanity as a whole.
yah, but not in the same way. You can turn energy into mass, and mass into energy, but as far as I knew, energy in the form of photons and the like display mass like properties, but not mass. Maybe I'm wrong and just screwed up. Oh well:)
I mean, rearange that to be m=c^2/E that's a big number divided by a HUGE number (to get something going that fast, it has a huge amount of energy) and you get something pretty damn close to 0 if not 0. I duno. Maybe not. Light just doesnt behave like matter.
I'm thinking more along the lines of super cheap super thin/light laptop type computers more than IAs - I dont want a web pad at all. I dont want to say goodbye to my keyboard - I can type faster than I can write. I think that the webpad things are more of a novelty than a really useful device. I mean, to do any productive work requires a lota typing usually - cant do it on a webpad. I mean, who wants to own a device just to surf the web? Sure they're cute but are they going to last? I see laptop devices winning in the end but not until they get cheap and sexy (thin and really light, like a cm thick at 1 lb or less.)
Remember that this is not matter that they have flying past the speed of light - its energy. Im not physicist but I have an idea that this matters somewhat:) Maybe because energy has no mass? sorta? heh
I want a nice transmeta based laptop. I'm not sure that I want to learn how to write on one of those touch screens with some sort of palm like language... (cant recall what its called). I mean, there's a big market for cheap laptops - thats what I want. Nothing fancy, just a cheap laptop with a long battery life and cheap sound and not too bad a display (800x600 or something). That's all I want. It's hard to get, so far.
I'm not sure I want a webpad, altho they are cute.
It's shocking to see how much effort these trolls put into their posts. I mean, who typed all of that out? Most people wont even read it. Geeze, copy paste I guess:)
I think that maybe they're afraid of people who are going for lower end coding jobs and who are older because older people just getting into the industry are less likely to do well in it. I'm sure they'd take highly experienced coders for higher positions? Just an idea.
As a person just entering the industry (im 18 and gettin outa high school) I'm wondering what kinda jobs I'm going to be able to get and how to STAY marketable. I duno, wish me luck:)
i just started playing with OOP in php (already knew procedural in php)... what's the better thing to learn, c++ or c? is it really hard to move from c to c++ or viceversa?
I think that they'd last longer infact. I mean, how often do you have to replace ram, vs how often you have to replace a hard drive - the hard drive goes much quicker because it has moving parts. RAM chips do not (well, transisors are more like, chemical/crystaline or something arent they?)
I'm 18 and been programming for a year maybe. In that time I've learned PHP and TCL, and now I'm thinking that I'd be into trying C/C++ but Im not sure where to start. I'm not sure that I want to buy a book on it, but maybe I'll have to. Any good online resources?:)
A big piece of learning curve for me, was figuring out hat config files did what. So an intro may be useful:) Another thing, is that dists dont seem to clean up old conf files very well, so you end up with useless old conf files clouding your view, so to speak.
I dont know how viable internet explorer is going to be on it's own. I think that it'd be better to put all of the internet related software/service into one company - frontpage, IIS, IE, etc etc. It sounds a lot better to me:)
Slashdot Mirror
Well, so far, I've read Northcut's "Network Intrusion Detection: An Analysts Handbook" and I found it good, but fairly focused on Intrusion Detection - hence the title.
I think that first its very important to have a good grasp of all network operations. This is for a number of reasons - basically, if you dont know what's normal, you dont know what's not. There are also a lot of vulnerabilities that arrise out of a combination of configurations, etc. These really require a good grip on the technologies to be able to forcast.
To be a really good security person requires a lot of experience as an administrator. To me, it's either management, or security after system administration.
with windows, instability seems to be less predictable than with linux. For me, linux apps will die in the same spot every time, where windows apps will crash almost totally unpredictably. This leads me to believe that some will be lucky, and some will just not have the same combo of hardware, buggy drivers, buggy software, etc. Leads me to believe that windows isnt designed such that it could segregate processes, etc, very well.
Wow, thanks for the responce :)
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Just after I complained about a lack of line drawing tools, I noticed the startup tip. Thanks though
About more dynamic selection tools... a better selection representation would be good, especially with regards to feathered selections and stuff... Maybe a sort of 'convolve' tool to selectively feather particular edges of a selection would be good. Maybe something else to 'nudge' selection areas... as in push the border in and out but retain some level of connectivity - sort of moulding tool for selections. oh and I would like to see brushes displayed something like selections are, so that you can see your brush edges.
But its neat that there is already a bit of vector stuff in gimp... i'd love to see more.
Thanks again
I would love to see something in gimp that lets you create vector layers. Some layers can be totally pixmap and some can be vector or even mixed? Also, a non linear history like PS would be wonderful... it might allow you to actually apply filters to vector bits but still be able to treat the object as a vector chunk. Make sense? You could then do filters on text and stuff, but still go back and edit the text content. I'm still missing the line tools as seen in photoshop, and some really cool dynamic selector tools would be great - maybe some sort of connect the dots style selector?
there's also a company called tuxtops that had cute lookin laptops. However, I emailed them and they dont currently have plans to use transmeta or arm processors... i may invest in a transmeta thinkpad when they're available :) if the price is right anyway :)
Isnt the HURD somewhat innovative in that its a totally object oriented operating system? I'd say that there's a fair bit of innovation going on out there. Altho, when its not broken, why fix it? I'm fairly happy with the way that linux is going - it gets work done, and there is room for improvement, so there's something still to play with and so there'll still be interest. Im glad that linux puts research into the hands of users, and out of the hands of universities and big corps.
I'm curious as to what that link will do. When I'm ready for bed and done with everything else, I'll click on it and see what happens ;) hehe.
A friend of mine was hit with a DDoS attack by script kiddies. His ISP booted him off his account and called the cops! They claimed that he was the attacker! Any idiot reading a packet log could tell that he was the victim. The RCMP (like the FBI, but in Canada) took his computer as evidence for more than 6 months! It was absurd!
Law enforcement really needs to get some kind of a grip on computer crime and stop blowing it way out of proportion.
not into canada! nooooo! stupid british columbia and it's big mouth. ergh.
:)
But yah, one of the reasons that they arent here already is that we tax things to hell. So maybe they wont move for that reason too
Of course, the ABIT guy goes and says that he thinks that giving your code away is great... then he goes and wont release the stuff that he's written. I mean, what is he doing!? Idiot. I wont buy anything from them, just because they've got bad polititians working for them. Im a fan of QDI myself :)
oops sorry :)
What's so different between a webpad and a laptop then? They have similar screens. Even if it were mostly the screen, lower power usage by the cpu would still help :)
That's from the article:
Though declining to provide details of his paper because it is under
review, Dr. Wang said: "Our light pulses can indeed be made to
travel faster than c. This is a special property of light itself, which is
different from a familiar object like a brick," since light is a wave with
no mass. A brick could not travel so fast without creating truly big
problems for physics, not to mention humanity as a whole.
yah, but not in the same way. You can turn energy into mass, and mass into energy, but as far as I knew, energy in the form of photons and the like display mass like properties, but not mass. Maybe I'm wrong and just screwed up. Oh well :)
I mean, rearange that to be m=c^2/E that's a big number divided by a HUGE number (to get something going that fast, it has a huge amount of energy) and you get something pretty damn close to 0 if not 0. I duno. Maybe not. Light just doesnt behave like matter.
I'm thinking more along the lines of super cheap super thin/light laptop type computers more than IAs - I dont want a web pad at all. I dont want to say goodbye to my keyboard - I can type faster than I can write. I think that the webpad things are more of a novelty than a really useful device. I mean, to do any productive work requires a lota typing usually - cant do it on a webpad. I mean, who wants to own a device just to surf the web? Sure they're cute but are they going to last? I see laptop devices winning in the end but not until they get cheap and sexy (thin and really light, like a cm thick at 1 lb or less.)
Remember that this is not matter that they have flying past the speed of light - its energy. Im not physicist but I have an idea that this matters somewhat :) Maybe because energy has no mass? sorta? heh
I want a nice transmeta based laptop. I'm not sure that I want to learn how to write on one of those touch screens with some sort of palm like language... (cant recall what its called). I mean, there's a big market for cheap laptops - thats what I want. Nothing fancy, just a cheap laptop with a long battery life and cheap sound and not too bad a display (800x600 or something). That's all I want. It's hard to get, so far.
I'm not sure I want a webpad, altho they are cute.
Amusingly, the minister said that they "cannot take chances in the age of mafiaboy"... "
:)
Does this mean that cyber terrorism works? That we can control megacorps and governments with ping floods? yay!
PS, I did check, and did not see any reference to mafiaboy in either the article or press release. Oh well
It's shocking to see how much effort these trolls put into their posts. I mean, who typed all of that out? Most people wont even read it. Geeze, copy paste I guess :)
I think that maybe they're afraid of people who are going for lower end coding jobs and who are older because older people just getting into the industry are less likely to do well in it. I'm sure they'd take highly experienced coders for higher positions? Just an idea.
:)
As a person just entering the industry (im 18 and gettin outa high school) I'm wondering what kinda jobs I'm going to be able to get and how to STAY marketable. I duno, wish me luck
i just started playing with OOP in php (already knew procedural in php)... what's the better thing to learn, c++ or c? is it really hard to move from c to c++ or viceversa?
I think that they'd last longer infact. I mean, how often do you have to replace ram, vs how often you have to replace a hard drive - the hard drive goes much quicker because it has moving parts. RAM chips do not (well, transisors are more like, chemical/crystaline or something arent they?)
Mat.
I'm 18 and been programming for a year maybe. In that time I've learned PHP and TCL, and now I'm thinking that I'd be into trying C/C++ but Im not sure where to start. I'm not sure that I want to buy a book on it, but maybe I'll have to. Any good online resources? :)
Mat.
A big piece of learning curve for me, was figuring out hat config files did what. So an intro may be useful :) Another thing, is that dists dont seem to clean up old conf files very well, so you end up with useless old conf files clouding your view, so to speak.
I dont know how viable internet explorer is going to be on it's own. I think that it'd be better to put all of the internet related software/service into one company - frontpage, IIS, IE, etc etc. It sounds a lot better to me :)