Well that was an interesting day. The Dow bottomed out around 537 and rebounded up to being down 400 for the day. The one point I wanted to remind myself of was that the Dow futures were noticeably down in early morning trading, before the bell. Even before that, there were notes about early morning Chinese sell-offs happening. It is said that during yesterday's trading, "China's Shanghai Composite reversed early losses to end at a record in its first day after Lunar New Year celebrations". Continue reading "2007/02/27 Market Notes" »
Tuesday, February 27. 2007
NTLM Passthrough Authentication
Most, well, all of my client sites have Active Directory based networks. To facilitate authentication and authorization to various pages of a web-site, it makes it easier on admin staff to assign users to groups in Active Directory, and then use NTLM Pass-through Authentication from Internet Explorer based web browsers to gain access to selected pages. Continue reading "NTLM Passthrough Authentication" »
Monday, February 26. 2007
Event Logs: Some Stuff To Try At Home
Somewhere in my collection of Monitoring Server Configs, I have some information on getting Cisco syslog stuff into a separate file. Continue reading "Event Logs: Some Stuff To Try At Home" »
Note To Self: Network Performance Link
Unbelievable. The name slipped my mind. And a simple internet search for my favorite network performance tool, IPerf, becomes an exercise in frustration. Finally. With an indirect hop through Les Cottrell's Network Monitoring Tools List, I was able to track it down. Continue reading "Note To Self: Network Performance Link" »
Trading Site of the Day -- The Option Insider: High Level News And Commentary
The Options Insider is a relatively new site and founded by an options trader by the name of Mark S. Longo. Continue reading "Trading Site of the Day -- The Option Insider:..." »
Lighting Design for Sordid Lives
I've already accumulated a week of updates that havn't been performed yet for various and sundry things on this site. It looks like I'll have to fit things in when I can. I hadn't quite expected the time commitment. But I am having fun and learning something completely different. So if updates are slow for a while longer yet, hang tight, I'll get the stuff up sooner, or later. I'd really like to do it sooner myself, but we'll see how things go. Continue reading "Lighting Design for Sordid Lives" »
Saturday, February 24. 2007
Trading Site of the Day -- Trade The News: Live News for the Ears and Eyes
Trade The News is a 24 hour Audio News Squawk service for Equities, Credit and Forex. They also provide news through a streaming service. For both visual and aural news feeds, you'll need to install a downloadable software client. They have a free 7 day trial. The subscription prices seem reasonable. It sounds as though it gets you to the heart of the markets to provide the real time feeling for the ebb and flow.
Tuesday, February 20. 2007
Trading Site of the Day -- John Mauldin: Market Investments
Looking at the economy from the big picture perspective is John Mauldin's Weekly E-Letter. He is an investment advisor who appears to be well connected to well known economic thinkers and shakers. Continue reading "Trading Site of the Day -- John Mauldin:..." »
Sunday, February 18. 2007
2007/02/18 Market Notes
Upcoming on Wednesday are a couple of economic releases: the index of U.S. leading economic indicators, and the U.S. Consumer Price Index, the later of which will be released at 8:30 a.m. by the Bureau of Labour Statistics. Continue reading "2007/02/18 Market Notes" »
Saturday, February 17. 2007
Active Directory Authentication with Perl and LDAP
On the monitoring server, I'd like to authenticate users in the following situations:
- various types of tacacs access
- access to portions of the web pages
- authentication to Linux command prompt
- authentication to call detail record tools
I think someone has started a similar authentication capability for NetDisco. In any case, I wanted to see what I could come up with. Continue reading "Active Directory Authentication with Perl and LDAP" »
Trading Site of the Day -- StratFor: Global Intelligence Briefings
John Mauldin's regular Out Of The Box newsletter has recurring essays from George Friedman, the mind behind the informative site called StratFor, a site dedicated to 'Predictive, Insightful, Global Intelligence'. Continue reading "Trading Site of the Day -- StratFor: Global..." »
Friday, February 16. 2007
Rancid / CVSWeb
RANCID provides two types of functions. One of its foundations is that it provides a structure for logging into network devices for the purpose of obtaining configuration files. The second is that it stores versions of the configuration files in CVS.
CVSWeb is a web based tool for reviewing and comparing the files under CVS version control.
[2013/12/30: updated Rancid version references, updated instructions] Continue reading "Rancid / CVSWeb" »
Thursday, February 15. 2007
Trading Site of the Day -- Commodity Trader: understanding of the Global Commodity Markets
Trading Site of the Day -- One Option: Option Trading Blog
Pete Stolcers has a blog called OneOption in which he discussed the theory behind option trades as well as showing real trades. Continue reading "Trading Site of the Day -- One Option: Option..." »
Wednesday, February 14. 2007
Monitoring Server: DNS with BIND
When doing diagnostics with network devices and their interfaces, it is helpful to have forward and reverse lookups on a number of ip addresses. These lookups can be implemented within Active Directory or under a separate DNS server. Use the following instructions if you wish to use a separate dns server, based upon Bind. You'll need to choose a different domain or a delegated domain than what is used in Active Directory or your other primary DNS server.
Continue reading "Monitoring Server: DNS with BIND" »