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What was old is new again. It all runs in cycles. Pretty much history repeating itself but named something else.

Congrats boblon​ !

what bites is when you do proofread and you get autocorrected after you hit send.

Excellent graphic rschroeder​ !

At the very least have some consistency in tools from one end of Government to the other..

I am still not sold on the cloud aspect of this and some other software packages (adobe) these days. Granted it is cheaper in the short term than a full blown local copy and available anywhere you have internet access. Maybe I am just thinking of office 365. Subscription based software just irks me especially if there is a…

As mentioned before...requirements and scalability. I tend to find "tool suites" to be a compromise in the functionality in order to gain better integration. Past experience has led me to determine a framework with which you are going to support (Solarwinds, OpenView, Tivoli, etc) then using a unified event messaging…

If a fire apparatus is delayed to a scene and property lost or death or injury occurs and it is attributed by people playing the game, the company who created the game can be sued...as well as the players. That may change things although it should never get to that point. While the game may be an annoyance, some of the…

I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of a linux (unix in general) person with social skills....

Ahh...starting off the new mission. pointless

Mid October Cooler weather in Texas rain madness bump...just not the pothole kind of bump.

Back in December we had a family we had gathered gifts, food, and numerous things for. One of the games that was included was one called "pop the pig" which we gave to one of the local police officers as a joke. It was a rather humorous picture...

Calling out vs. mentioning in a passing comment are 2 different things. I guess it is a perspective (point of view) of the person asking the question versus what the other party might interpret by not having the same perspective. s0c4 - protection exception....unable to address memory outside of your address space.…

In a past life I used perl to help the network management team roll out changes to the config for numerous devices...5000+. They would come up with the commands needed to make the changes and then I'd put a perl wrapper around them. For the general network infrastructure the device count wasn't too bad. But the 5000+ vpn…

It was fun to snake a 100' bus and tag cable set from the DASD farm to where the new CPU would go, then a week or 2 later hook everything up and find you had a bad cable....or a bent pin.

same thing goes for my kids...well at least they are getting better about it in some areas.

Splunk for log files. Especially log files that are not windows event logs or contain customer data so that we can mask it out. Orion does not does this well and powershell is not a viable solution. Nagios for unix based MQ queue monitoring....need that unix agent !! Perl and Powershell for scripting. We gave up on…

Interesting statistics... The question that comes to mind, were the jobs spread across the US in general, regional, statewide, or ?

so far just you...so far.

Well at least it isn't for E. coli or something similar. On that note, when I was in NC last summer I drove by a Smithfield plant...where bacon donors arrived by the truckload. May have to see if they have tours next summer...

4 shot's espresso before sunrise bump...

Congrats tinmann0715​ and martinstenner​ !

this is so true...so many of those "watcher" have authority to do pretty much anything. Hopefully there are audit controls in place to be sure they are following the rules.

biggest drawback is still the loss of data over time. Search for "data warehouse" here on thwack. The reason being, if you upgrade a device and it has a new IP...when you delete the old one, all your historical data is gone. How do you determine over time if your upgrade improved or not ?

adapt, improvise, and overcome

Did the registration, have the session blocked out on the calander, one more question to go for tomorrow.

It all depends, a six shooter could potentially shoot a mile. Now a phaser shooting a parsec ? Maybe in deep space as that is about 3.26 light years or 19 trillion miles give or take. Of course the fall off in intensity at that distance would be significant, it could potentially be detectable if you are spot on in aiming.

Science fiction coming to life.. I am looking forward to the self driving car to reduce my daughters insurance rates.... Autonomous tractors, hmmmm I think I am liking it. I know farmers have been using GPS a lot in their activities. With a solid set of RF signals to triangulate on, that would be more accurate than GPS.…

just hoping we never get any vampire zombies...

Actually I believe there is a place in the world for both. Some data lends itself well to telemetry based models...while other data is still well suited to an occasional poll based model. So in the case of telemetry, interface rates, and other critical traffic based info would be a good fit and gives you more of a near…