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The two can get conflated even in that analogy, though. Because while multiple engines on a plane provide fault tolerance for the plane, the plane itself would not be considered highly available if there wasn't another plane on standby waiting to take over. But if that plane with FT engines has a backup which can start…

Didn't think I did them both in a minute, but I did to them reasonably quickly and back-to-back. wabbott​, any fix for this that you know of?

Or that one of the tapes had a damaged catch and the drive just dropped it's leader. All those flashing LEDs ...

Perhaps I can suggest an alternate question to mrs.alterego and/or wabbott as a replacement for #28: "Blocking and Locking is: (a) Good (b) Bad"

Honestly, in the Help Desk workflow, I've seen no greater time saver than a dedicated manager handling ticket routing. While you can automate to your heart's delight, misrouted tickets burn just a crazy amount of time, especially multiple misroutes. So even if you can't afford to have an actual person handling all of the…

Video w/o registration nonsense: Rage Against the Virtual Machine: How-to Fight VM Sprawl & Reclaim Wasted Resources - YouTube

Mine are now showing correctly. Thanks again!

Reminds me of one of my favored security quotes -- "There are two types of companies in the US: those who have been hacked by the Chinese and those that don't know that they've been hacked by the Chinese." Amazon, Rackspace, and all the "big" cloud providers spend a great deal of time, money, and effort on security, it's…

I can't get away with quite that level of bluntness, but I have been able to get away with some similar phrases; "I'll try to look at that when I have a chance, but the ticket volume is pretty high, so that will get priority I'm afraid." -- After which I think a couple users genuinely felt cunning when they added their…

c.gura wrote: Everyone Chime in: Best part of Vacation? 1. The first day of your vacation. 2. Forgetting which day of your vacation today is.

Ugh, it already closed out? Dammit, I thought I had until Monday.

There seems to be some difficulty with today's tool. In order to see the relevant information, you need to change the date to be current, enable live updating, wait at least five minutes, and then hope that the graphic which is displayed matches what they were looking for.

Today's question has an issue, in that stp-esx-01.lab.tex is not a VM, but a host. That said, I took a chance in thinking that the question was referring to the VM(s) residing on that host, and that gave me an answer which was marked correct. For anyone having difficulty with today, I offer my personal mental adjustment to…

Sometime in the not too distant future, shortly after we give birth to AI. We only have bits and pieces of information after that. We don't know who struck first, us or them, but we know that it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power and it was believed that they would be unable to…

For anyone interested in the self-driving tractor, another cool form autonomous farming is taking is 3d printing/C&C style: https://farmbot.io/

With regard to question one -- did anyone figure out what the discrepancy was? Is SolarWinds defining R5 in their example as a router "outside of your own network" for some reason?

I liked the printer article. Really highlights the difference between a "bug" and a "design flaw".

LOL, found the issue! You're right, that's where they are ... once I pause adblock for the page (just installed it a few days ago on my work machine). So now I just need to set up an exception for SW. Thanks gombosi​ & corileigh77​!

First week I don't have to wonder if I remembered to answer all the questions. Thanks again, Thwack team!

So very true. Also a time when email chains are invaluable, since nine times out of ten the next thing you have to do is explain to higher ups why the reason the project is now delayed by n+2 weeks (it's always +2 weeks because when people pull this nonsense they never mention the problems they already know about), because…

Too many secrets, Marty.

I was thinking as I clicked that link, "gosh, wouldn't it be crazy sadistic if someone made such a video but cut off the last note of the song before looping it?" ...I'm strangely glad to know that mine is not the only mind which thinks such awful things.

Congrats pederses​!

I think for one of today's answers -- "They have the visibility of Deadshot" -- you meant "vision" or perhaps "precision" rather than "visibility", speaking to Deadshot's marksman abilities rather than how easily he can be seen. Would hate for this to cause someone to erroneously get today's question wrong. ;-D Also, good…

That graphic is different from the one which I saw. There may be an issue with the tool.

Wonderful article. The price of peace and calm for a sysadmin is proactivity and vigilance. That and an ounce of monitoring is always worth a pound of troubleshooting.

Ah, but those were curved out. This one is curved in​.

"Looks ARE everything! Ever heard Dave Beckham speak? It's like he mouth-***** a can of helium. You think Ryan Reynolds got this far on a superior acting method?" ...And amusingly enough, the word I had to censor in order to post this was not one of the myriad of f-bombs in the film, nor really a swear of any kind.