All Things Gibbs

All Things Gibbs This newsletter is sponsored by NetPro Active Directory real-time monitoring, auditing and reporting on all critical changes Auditing Active Directory plays a crucial role in operational, troubleshooting and security issues. However, the tools in Windows Server can be limited and difficult to use in creating a cohesive change management and audit process. In this whitepaper, you'll learn how to manage and protect your Windows infrastructure with fast and easy methods to audit changes, troubleshoot, restore and report within Active Directory. Also, find out what areas of Active Directory you should be auditing to support security policies and regulatory compliance. Network World's All Things Gibbs Newsletter, 07/17/07 All Things Gibbs By Mark Gibbs Gearhead: CD fingerprints Following my discussion a few weeks ago about a suite of CD/DVD tools called Virtual CD reader, Tim Cary, who hails “from out in the beautiful western part of [Massachusetts] ... Easthampton,” wrote: “I was particularly intrigued by the fact that after ripping to the MP3 format in WinAmp, it would read the song info and fill in the headers.” Tim wondered how this worked so … there are two ways to figure out what is on a CD: fingerprinting and CD text. To read this week's Gearhead, click here. Network World Buyers Guides Find the right products for your enterprise - fast. With seven categories - security, storage, convergence and VoIP, network infrastructure, network applications, wireless and LAN/WAN management - you can quickly pinpoint the hardware or software you need. With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features and make the best purchase decisions for your enterprise. Click here to go to the Buyers Guides now. Backspin: Technology for the People by the Money When it comes to government technology policy making what does it mean to be “American”? You might, like an innocent child, assume it means the government supporting open competition and letting the marketplace identify and select the best solutions in the interest of the consumer. But you would, my friends, be wrong. To read this week's Backspin, click here. Gibbsblog: The past 7 days Remember Echelon? That was the super-secret NSA computer system that was sampling all of our email over a decade ago. You were to use a specific paragraph in all your email designed to flood Echelon with more data than it could handle. Each of us should use the same set of triggers, and that would force Echelon to try and correlate all email to each other -- an impossible task -- and get every one of us on a watch list. Seems so quaint now: Digital's vision for the Internet in 1994 You remember Digital, right? Ubuntu: Taking Over the Linux World From Matt Hartley, over at MadPenguin.org: This just in: it's an Ubuntu future. Think I'm nuts? Take a cold, hard look around. Even though I'm a fan of other delightful distros like Damn Small Linux and Puppy Linux, there are other honorable mentions, such as Fedora (a fine distro) and OpenSuSE. At the end of the day, however, Ubuntu has won the hearts of common users. And that is not my opinion, this is simply a matter of numbers. He makes the point that no matter whether Ubuntu is the "best", it's all about how easy it is for new users to get up and going. Ubuntu's motto: It Just Works. Trying a new anti-spam module for commenting Because of the problems listed here. Let me know if it causes any new issues, as in: You run into problems posting.

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Contact the author: Mark Gibbs is a consultant, author, journalist, and columnist and now blogger: Check out Gibbsblog. Gibbs not only pens (well, keyboards) this newsletter he also writes the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns in Network World. We’ll spare you the rest of the bio but if you want to know more, go here This newsletter is sponsored by NetPro Active Directory real-time monitoring, auditing and reporting on all critical changes Auditing Active Directory plays a crucial role in operational, troubleshooting and security issues. However, the tools in Windows Server can be limited and difficult to use in creating a cohesive change management and audit process. In this whitepaper, you'll learn how to manage and protect your Windows infrastructure with fast and easy methods to audit changes, troubleshoot, restore and report within Active Directory. Also, find out what areas of Active Directory you should be auditing to support security policies and regulatory compliance. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007