Re: [sleuthkit-developers] re:stop-gap crap

[Michael C. <mic...@ne...>]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 02:53 pm, t f wrote:
Hi dorkus,

> I noticed that, on your projects page, you specify a "non-HTML" GUI...Is
> Autopsy slow?  It seems that a well-designed web page (PHP) presenting data
> from a well-designed database would be the ideal solution.  Apache, MySQL,
> and PHP seem to run on just about everything these days...This approach
> would make logging and metrics much cleaner, too.

Sometimes its not a matter of having the gui too slow, some guis are more 
appropriate than others for certain tasks. For example pyflag uses 
mysql/python html gui which is fine for many things. However, we are 
currently thinking about implementing a gtk gui for it in order to experiment 
with some gui elements that are not possible to do in html (e.g. live 
progress bars etc). Also we currently have a command shell for pyflag called 
flash ( the flag shell)... this is used for scripting analysis - so we do a 
long nsrl comparison, and extract images/word document after loading the case 
in automatically in about 5 lines of flash script. 

This way all the time consuming tasks are done overnight, automatically, and 
we just examine the results. This is an example of a cli being better than 
html for this task.

Michael.