This concept came to Microsoft via their Aquantive aquisition. The idea was put forth on the web and in whitepapers prior to the acquisition -- it's just getting more press now because MSN is the #2 site for display ads.
Anyone who knows anything about IT knows that 90% of IT professionals don't want any kind of change. Ticket volume increases and system reliability decreases with any major IT modification.
Furthermore, the title for this post inflames the article's contents in order to get attention. Classis yellow journalism.
For something to noodle on consider aquantive's proposals are true conversion attribution. Google's entire business model takes advantage of incorrect attribution for consumer brand choice.
Google is a leader in paid search, which serves only a portion of the advertising on the internet. In fact most folks consider the long-tail paid search area to be played out in terms of revenue.
The longer-term money is in other areas of the "buying funnel" -- namely display advertising. This partnership plays to the strengths of Microsoft'd display space and is more of a competition with Yahoo than Google.
In fact Display Ads is where GOOG is the weakest. That's an area they are trying to improve via the Doubleclick acquisition.
They do pass around password information that L0phtcrack can work with, though, so if the passwords are weak, they'll be easily broken. It's essentially the equivalent of sending out/etc/shadow entries unencrypted on the network.
IIRC if you use NTLMv2 this is not the case.
Avoid supporting downlevel clients if possible (98, etc) and security will also be better.
...Microsoft is spending a lot of time and $$$ on their security issues, and information such as that within the web pages I have listed is being created as we speak.
I suggest that if you don't know about a topic in Ask Slashdot that you go do a little web searching rather than simply post statements like "I don't get it."
Try helping yourself. I was able to find tons of information by just doing a 5 second search.
I'm pretty sure that he's trying to expose data gathered from statistics on the machine and expose it via SNMP so that external clients can access it in a standard way.
Once the data is exposed via SNMP he can use standard SNMP tools (like MTRG) to get and analyze the data.
The problem that he's having is in exposing the data.
I took a quick peek at yahoo for info on how to write a MIB... go to http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=how+to+write+a +MIB&hc=0&hs=0
I think that your best bet is to search for examples on the net.
I suggest that you read The Simple Book (and check out this listing).
(The tools that I work on use MIBs for network discovery)
From http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query =mib&action=Search
Management Information Base
(MIB) A database of managed objects acessed by network management protocols. An SNMP MIB is a set of parameters which an SNMP management station can query or set in the SNMP agent of a network device (e.g. router).
SNMP has two standard MIBs. The first, MIB I, was established in RFC 1156, was defined to manage TCP/IP-based internets. MIB II, defined in RFC 1213, is basically an update to MIB I.
Standard minimal MIBs have been defined, and many hardware (and certain software, e.g. DBMS) providers have developed private MIBs in ASN.1 format allowing them to be compiled for use in a Nework Management System. In theory, any SNMP manager can talk to any SNMP agent with a properly defined MIB.
In Cryptonomicon the guys are so paranoid that they have the doorway to the server room setup as a magnetic "trap"... if someone leaves with the disks, they're erased with no effort.
Good book.
PGP comes with a disk wipe utility... will wipe the hard drive anywhere from 8 to 256 times.
The hardware requirements don't sound very reasonable on your end, unless you're willing to pay out the nose.
Freeshell's got good stuff going on, and is -- FREE. As in beer.
If you want to use FTP, etc, it's $36 for a lifetime membership.
I love it.
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This concept came to Microsoft via their Aquantive aquisition. The idea was put forth on the web and in whitepapers prior to the acquisition -- it's just getting more press now because MSN is the #2 site for display ads.
Anyone who knows anything about IT knows that 90% of IT professionals don't want any kind of change. Ticket volume increases and system reliability decreases with any major IT modification.
Furthermore, the title for this post inflames the article's contents in order to get attention. Classis yellow journalism.
To be clear I wasn't trying to speak with jargon, but to speak efficiently. Maybe I should present an intended audience with each post.
Overture is integrated with Yahoo, which therefore has the ability to ignore this issue entirely anyway.
For something to noodle on consider aquantive's proposals are true conversion attribution. Google's entire business model takes advantage of incorrect attribution for consumer brand choice.
Google is a leader in paid search, which serves only a portion of the advertising on the internet. In fact most folks consider the long-tail paid search area to be played out in terms of revenue.
The longer-term money is in other areas of the "buying funnel" -- namely display advertising. This partnership plays to the strengths of Microsoft'd display space and is more of a competition with Yahoo than Google.
In fact Display Ads is where GOOG is the weakest. That's an area they are trying to improve via the Doubleclick acquisition.
The stories were poorly-written drivel IMO.
They lacked detailed character development and depth. They make Harry Potter look like literary genius.
I'm interested in seeing the movies just to get an idea of how they've infused something interesting into the otherwise dull story.
IIRC if you use NTLMv2 this is not the case.
Avoid supporting downlevel clients if possible (98, etc) and security will also be better.
Check out:c .asp
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bestpra
http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.asp
Ack!
:)
To write that you're right or not to write that you're right.
Bottom line: you're right.
Cheers! Have a good weekend.
My point is that regardless of whether or not the poster trolled or is offtopic they didn't have a clue and shouldn't have posted in the first place.
Furthermore, regardless of how the comment was moderated it was a waste of electrons to post in the first place.
Lastly, IMO using your +2 to post a response to poor moderation is a waste as well, and draws attention away from the actual point of the post.
I suggest that if you don't know about a topic in Ask Slashdot that you go do a little web searching rather than simply post statements like "I don't get it."
Try helping yourself. I was able to find tons of information by just doing a 5 second search.
Once the data is exposed via SNMP he can use standard SNMP tools (like MTRG) to get and analyze the data.
The problem that he's having is in exposing the data.
I took a quick peek at yahoo for info on how to write a MIB... go to http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=how+to+write+a +MIB&hc=0&hs=0
I think that your best bet is to search for examples on the net.
I suggest that you read The Simple Book (and check out this listing).
(The tools that I work on use MIBs for network discovery)
From http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query =mib&action=Search
Management Information Base
(MIB) A database of managed objects acessed by network management protocols. An SNMP MIB is a set of parameters which an SNMP management station can query or set in the SNMP agent of a network device (e.g. router).
SNMP has two standard MIBs. The first, MIB I, was established in RFC 1156, was defined to manage TCP/IP-based internets. MIB II, defined in RFC 1213, is basically an update to MIB I.
Standard minimal MIBs have been defined, and many hardware (and certain software, e.g. DBMS) providers have developed private MIBs in ASN.1 format allowing them to be compiled for use in a Nework Management System. In theory, any SNMP manager can talk to any SNMP agent with a properly defined MIB.
See also client-server model.
(1994-11-14)
Per the article, I heartily recommend that you read:
http://www.openbsd.org/29.html
...and also http://www.openbsd.org/
2.9 incorporates filesystem improvements that net a 60x performance increase.
Additionally, the new version of ipf that it contains fixes serious security holes with fragmented packets.
HTH.
Actually, variable valve timing (VTEC, VVT-I, etc) is different than variable valve timing and lift (VVL, VVTL-I).
...just to be clear.
http://www.microsoft.com/catalog/display.asp?subid =22&site=10858&x=30&y=11
...it has version control and publishing for all kinds of documents.
It's MS-only, which sort of sucks, but it's great for those that only know how to use the "power point compiler".
Umm. You can do UML in Visio.
Regardless of whether or not it was wholly accurate, with a name like Acid Phreak, there's a certain humorous connotation, don't you think?
;0)
...just trying to justify the moderation.
Ack. Never mind. ...teach me to respond without reading article first.
Kiddies yes... skript no.
With names like Acid Phreak, it's good to see some historical evidence that skript kiddies have been around for a long time.
:sigh:
It's not actually a bug... that's the way the button interrups are wired. Only one interrupt at a time on the shared medium.
In Cryptonomicon the guys are so paranoid that they have the doorway to the server room setup as a magnetic "trap"... if someone leaves with the disks, they're erased with no effort.
Good book.
PGP comes with a disk wipe utility... will wipe the hard drive anywhere from 8 to 256 times.
Actually, it's still sdf.lonestar.org... they just got the additional domain for clarity and advertising.
They offer napster access too, btw.
Visio is designed for this kind of stuff. Use a SQL backend and a Visio front-end.
It would be _cake_ to write.
I believe there's even some canned stuff for this.
The hardware requirements don't sound very reasonable on your end, unless you're willing to pay out the nose.
Freeshell's got good stuff going on, and is -- FREE. As in beer.
If you want to use FTP, etc, it's $36 for a lifetime membership.
I love it.
...amazing that RL mirrors fiction.