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There is a device called a phone patch that would integrate a phone line (POTS) to a ham radio for such duty. They also have those attached to some repeaters so you can key up and using subaudible tones have it call a number and have a conversation over the radio with someone on the phone. Downside is if the other party…

Wait....what ? Dang lindsey.serrano​ we hate to see you go !! But on the other hand, I am not one to hold one back from moving up in life. As rschroeder​ said, you can still remain a member of thwack as we are a family unto itself and generally better behaved than most.

Nuggets

my solution....infoblox. Get IP management out of the hands of the server folks and into the hands of the network folks.

You measure/test and plan based on usage and growth. Estimate amount of growth and scale accordingly and the go back and measure/test to see how you did and to monitor capacity for future planning. regarding monitoring tools you go through the same process.. Usually it is better to have a small toolset watching the…

Thank you !

mesverrum wrote: I like it when there's a bit of a train wreck like this turned out Yep...you see the trainwreck coming and you can't help but to watch. Be aware, some things once seen cannot be unseen.

okay I am in class this week...so I've only had the chance check out one of the articles. The AI vs. Pilot. This is one that was coming...and I can see in use sooner rather than later as aircraft technology is advancing and human physiology is not. We as human just can't take the forces modern fighter aircraft can dish…

Autonomous ships...I don't think that is far fetched....they have autonomous spacecraft. Autonomous cars are practically here. There is a lot of autonomous machinery in farming these days. Recent Texas legislation is paving the way for autonomous cars.... Beating Ms. Pacman, that was a nifty bit of coding to do the agent…

I am with @rschroeder on the TCO calculator...how close the factors that assign a dollar value to specific resources are to real life...what about things like depreciation, vendor discounts, volume discounts, cheaper resources over time, etc. I can see it working based on some arbitrary value, but does it apply the same…

pathogens

been there before...but heck doing 12 questions to catch up in one sitting is pushing the odds.

The thought of a companies business side setting up a cloud based SAAS for a POC without going through IT because it was not easy and potentially providing a vector for intrusion via a free public wi-fi hotspot boggles the mind...

Ahh, but if you have more than 20 APE's and give them all typewriters, they may be able to code you a Micro Polling Engine given enough time.

1) MS SQL, Oracle, Cognos, etc.. 2) yes...dedicated DBA's for Oracle and Cognos, infrastructure team for MS SQL. 3) simple scripted queries for Oracle, not much for Cognos, and a little bit of Appinsight for MSSQL. 4) hmmmm.....

Kudos to all the Thwack Admins and Super Admins !

the more you turn the microscope up on a database....the more of an impact to the database.

superyachts...wow...so much money and so little sense...all in the name of convenience.

What is funny about this is that "Automated Operations" was the new cool buzzword back in 1990. Lights out data centers were the holy grail of the time. AO was embraced by the mainframe community and somewhat more slowly of time in the unix and windows worlds. Some of the windows and unix sysadmins embrace it today and…

Congrats to eacooke​ !!!

Spending as a Service ?

maybe he was hoping for a side of Data.

Happy Monday wheres the caffeine bump !

That is where I started too, well kind of. My grandfather had that and I learned basic over one summer back before they 16k upgrades were available. 4k was all you would ever need and even 4k was not cheap in those days.. But I had actually mounted tapes and entered commands on an IBM 360 several years earlier at the ripe…

so was I !

Thought the Dark Theme option was a serious tease...maybe that means it may get some traction in the near future.

Wow, good stuff here. 

So todays last question is not a poll....just to forewarn folks. The answer is available via a quick search of the "title" of the pictures in question from the Thwack home page. From there you get to see a topic tours of home offices.... @"adatole" is the second one with the answer towards the end of the video. Now we have…

what about something along the line of "whose line is it" where we toss out a topic and 2 or more head geeks get randomly picked to act out a scene of IT mayhem.. Having a few of these in video format to watch would be great...