Hi, I'm not a member of the list so if you don't mind, please also respond to my email address. I have some ideas about a tool that would be useful to me but I don't know if anything like it is available. I want to keep track of stuff that I do and learn and build something like a big knowledge-base. In this knowledge-base I could put definitions. For instance:
Today I learned about Intrusion Detection Systems, IDS's: <name> Network Intrusion detection system <definition> An intrusion detection system is a program or programs that monitor network traffic for either known bad behavior or anomalous behavior and report it to some kind of console. </definition> <altername names> NIDS IDS </altername names> </name> I would really like it if later when I mentioned that I learned about snort which is an open source IDS implementation, it would automagically highlight IDS and provide a link back to the definition because it was a name or alternate name that I had defined. It would be doubly neat if it could do it without foolish looking xml type tags but I think that's a little too much to expect at this point. I am currently using zoph (an open source photo album organizer - http://www.nother.net/zoph/) to organize photos. It's nice but it doesn't allow you to tell a story and intersperse photos at the same time (I think the name for that kind of thing is a photolog). Wanting something like that and realizing that I had forgotten some important things that I should have remebered from last week made me consider something even more elaborate which might be called a "life-log" or something in which you could store all kinds of things (photos, video, text, definitions, impressions, instructions, etc.) I took a look at www.everything2.com and it's similar. I wonder if anyone knows of something like this that I can install on my machine for my personal use (I don't want a site, I would prefer to run it myself like zoph or geeklog.) or maybe geeklog already does it? Thanks. ===== Troy Rockwood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
