Radioteacher

Hire an e-waste vendor that environmentally and securely destroys your old hardware. Receive certificates of destruction and inspect the facilities at least once a year to verify the work going on there. RT

We once had an outage due to a bridge collapse. Fire ants love electrically charged components and have caused not only circuit outages and air conditioners but also they killed a branch server. The wooden building was on piers about three feet from the ground. The fire ants built up dirt three feet high to reach a hole in…

While looking at the Panini MIB, I was thinking of using a custom polling cycle since a typical cycle of ninety seconds is to wide. Ninety seconds is an eternity in Sandwich Pressing Time (SPT). In ninety seconds you can watch a sandwich go from slightly warm to charcoal. So a five to ten second polling cycle is in order.…

">theguinn Thank you for the announcement. You truly are a hoopy frood. Every vehicle I own has a towel in it. I even keep a small one with me when riding the bike. I cannot count the number of times they have been used over the years. RT

I have also found those that shock me in other ways. About 1996 I was meeting a friend after work at a pub on the San Antonio Riverwalk for a drink. He was a supervisor of a group of electronic technicians that maintain and install medical telemetry in hospitals. He got his Amateur Radio license at 15, after high school he…

I can just hear the Shangri-Las sing "That's when I fell for the leader of the Thwack!"

I was finally able to get a respectable flash unit for my Nikon D3200. Now I will not have to use the Red EYE making - shadow burning pop up flash!!! I bought an Nikon SB-700, and a few extras (like a cheap GPS, a wired and wireless remote, stereo microphone, vertical battery grip and a hdmi cable) that I have been waiting…

The 360 pictures and videos were great! It was a pleasure meeting you. Networking.....it's not just for computers. RT

@"superfly" and @"petergwilson" I was thinking about buying a larger monitor...maybe a 21x9 aspect ratio.

Do not forget to make a backup before upgrades or you will be Punished!

I find it comforting that those issues generally sort themselves out (of a job). RT

The team has been listening to infrastructure wishes lately. So in the last few weeks we have removed seven racks from one data center. Removing the racks is just a start. Last night we pulled about 20% of the floor and removed old dead cables and fiber. We even move the grills around to provide air where it is needed most…

Lately my two favorite are Security and Privacy. My way to think about it is: Security is how one controls access to information. Privacy is what someone does with the information after they possess it. RT

Now I guess I have to make a Solarwinds alter/shrine in my cubicle. I should use the box Alterpoint came in as a base. RT 

Shortcut...Slim Whitman.

W2K...oh yea...your not the only company running this.

So I read this and pick up my Gibson SG and play along! Thwack is Back!

adatole​, Sorry it took me so long to get in gear and participate in the writing challenge. If available, sign me up for December 17th or 18th next year....I'm in. RT

In our case we use temperature OID .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.719.1.15 since it is the parent for the Cisco UCS Panini P220 M4 Blade Press. Of course the unit is a double wide blade taking up two slots. We get one Panini Blade Press (PBP) free with every fourth chassis we buy. Make sure you ask your Cisco reps about the free PBP!…

If you worked on many different Novell 3.x systems every day, you had tips and tricks to update drivers. I used to make my own custom batch files that would backup the current drivers and NLM's and replace them with the patched versions. While working at a local VAR, I remember getting a call to go the local newspaper for…

Application whitelisting! Just suck it up and do it! RT

In other news, I heard that sqlrockstar​ was the best SQL DBA at CiscoLive!

Congratulations to all! Even though I did not win a prize I still feel like a winner. I get more points and a little incite on what is trending for help desks. Thanks Thwack for keeping me among "The Informed". RT

Happy Pi Day! See thread below. Happy Pi Day - 2017! RT

Welcome to the new Thwack MVP's. A big welcome to fellow Texas resident zennifer !

Of course products are being shipped today with these same passwords enabled. RT

I look forward to the future....if not I would still be one of the better Novell/Compaq people in the city. RT

Ok, here is really old network story. It was 1989 and I was part of a volunteer team building a 9600 baud long distance (60 plus miles) network over Amateur Radio. This was one hop in a network of nine nodes that stretched from Austin to the Harlingen. The equipment was using 445MHz at 15 watts on hacked data radios (made…

voted long ago....bumped today. RT

I constantly ponder the use of the security triangle in daily life while acting like a physical incantation of a Security Chaos Monkey. Chaos Monkey - Wikipedia