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Microsoft Mediaroom crosses two million TV milestone | |
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| Time: 23:48 EST/04:48 GMT | News Source: Ars Technica | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Microsoft Mediaroom, announced in mid-June 2007, is intended for use on a set-top box or on the Xbox 360. After 18 months of availability, Microsoft Mediaroom reached one million subscriber homes in the first quarter of 2008. Five months later, the Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and multimedia platform has crossed the two million TVs mark. The new statistic isn't the only thing Microsoft has revealed though: the software giant has announced that Harris, Agilent, and IneoQuest have begun to play a part in the Mediaroom ecosystem. | ||
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| #1 By 2960 (70.177.180.170) at 6/19/2008 10:49:32 AM |
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What is with this place? Site is barely useable. I have to start the page load in a tab of it's own then go away to other stuff for a while while the pages loads.
TL |
| #2 By 11888 (198.103.167.20) at 6/19/2008 11:00:00 AM |
| Based on that and given there hasn't been a comment in 20 stories it might be time to chloroform activewin.com. Could the last person out remember to turn off the lights? thanks. |
| #3 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at 6/19/2008 12:33:17 PM |
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1,2, the site is attacked so regularly and so aggressivley [not the server, but its DB], that apps FW's have to sit in front of it. When it is attacked with a great deal of force, the apps FW's slow its performance.
We do continue to press ahead with the new site, but as volunteers, we have to balance that effort with a myriad of other interests competing for our time. My own failing health being among them. |
| #4 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 6/19/2008 1:08:50 PM |
| #3: As much as we spar almost daily, I certainly hope that your problems aren't too serious. |
| #5 By 7390 (24.191.94.122) at 6/19/2008 3:34:28 PM |
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I am sick and tired of having to log in every time that I want to post a comment
for the love of god, it is 2008 ever heard of something called "browser cookies"? |
| #6 By 7390 (24.191.94.122) at 6/19/2008 3:34:36 PM |
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I am sick and tired of having to log in every time that I want to post a comment
for the love of god, it is 2008 ever heard of something called "browser cookies"? |
| #7 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at 6/19/2008 9:35:14 PM |
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Lloyd.... I hope your health issue(s) aren't too serious, or subside soon.
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| #8 By 54556 (68.35.10.96) at 6/19/2008 10:30:13 PM |
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#3
Normally the outermost shield router should be allowing no incoming traffic except port 80 and established, so I'm curious as to the reference of "[not the server, but its DB]". With the exception, of course, of SQL injection attacks, which certainly don't take app-level firewalls to deal with. |
| #9 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at 6/19/2008 10:36:05 PM |
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#8, nonsense.
Traffic and over which ports are very carefully controlled and if you do not have the source, you can't modify vulnerable code. No platform product is the challenge, but the Db most definately is and aside from apps level FW's there is exactly duck we can do about it. |
| #10 By 54556 (68.35.10.96) at 6/19/2008 11:57:05 PM |
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Insults add no value to this discussion. Depending upon the application architecture there may still be options without needing to modify source code. For example, setting up a proxy database driver that normalizes all literals embedded in the incoming SQL and compares that result against a list of allowable statements (which, in lack of source code, can be obtained by auditing database access). A non-matching result would indicate that SQL injection had taken place, and in response the proxy driver can return whatever error best suits the application. This approach also has the advantage of producing 100% coverage, a result that is difficult to achieve when correcting coding for large applications or applications with deep or contorted coding schemes.
P.S. There are other techniques may be used to implement the functionality descibed above. For example, I once saw this algorithm implmented using database triggers. |
| #11 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at 6/20/2008 12:07:31 AM |
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#10, You may not know the history, but we have done much of that and used similar techniques to beat back a group of attackers last year. When those efforts proved less than 100% effective we added apps level firewalls against specific typeps of attacks we had identified.
We're dealing with a situation now where anon commenting was allowed for activexbox and activemac - thousands of automated comments flooding the commentspage We're adding yet more code "around" that problem now... after having moved the site again to a host with many times the resources it was on (from awin's own host I rebuilt - to a beast of a machine we built last month). Any case, I appreciate any suggestions, but do understand, we volunteer our time and my resources to support this community and we've taken every measure we understand to exist to keep it running. You don't know the history, or what has been involved, or just how badly a lot of very disturbed people want to hurt this site. MS lists it as #1 on its community sites, so it is one big target. We filter north of 600,000 spam/day at the edge that is directed at the guys that work to post articles here. They see none of that and enjoy messaging from our Exchanges. If you want to help out, offer to post for the team and or give hosting the site a shot. |
| #12 By 1896 (207.244.165.105) at 6/20/2008 5:41:02 AM |
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#3: Sorry to hear you have health issues Iketchum. I hope you will completely recover soon; sooner would be even better.
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| #13 By 1896 (207.244.165.105) at 6/20/2008 5:41:13 AM |
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This post was edited by Fritzly on Friday, June 20, 2008 at 05:41. |
| #14 By 1896 (207.244.165.105) at 6/20/2008 5:41:18 AM |
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Sorry: my post appeared three times.
This post was edited by Fritzly on Friday, June 20, 2008 at 05:42. |
| #15 By 82766 (122.107.48.75) at 6/22/2008 7:18:27 AM |
| Lloyd - thoughts and best wishes go to you during your time of need... I hope you get well very soon!! |
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