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That used to be the case, but they are now instantaneous. That changed a few months ago.

A lot of that comes down to team-building. Everyone has their own mannerisms and eccentricities when it comes to communication, so the more you have your teams engaging and interacting with one another, the easier larger-scale projects are going to be. And you're right, a lot of that is going to fall on management's…

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

"By a certain time" and "before a certain time" are generally considered to be synonymous. However, the mission rules state the cutoff time explicitly: MISSION RULESOnce a question has opened, it will remain open until January 1st @ 11:59pm CST.

Congrats, erichale!

November 29th

Yeah, I too had a moment of, "wow, I know all of those words! I wonder what they mean when arranged in that particular order ..."

Not every time, I trust. But neat to know, thanks!

One million users!

Sweet new format, it's wonderful. Just a bummer that all the store point costs doubled before this feature was implemented. Would have been able to get the backpack otherwise.

Better this than the five steps of data loss. * Denial -- "The data has to still be there somewhere" * Anger -- "Where is the f&^%#@ data?!" * Bargaining -- "If I can find the data, I swear I'll always run weekly test restores" * Depression -- "I should never be trusted with data ever again" * Acceptance -- "Well, the…

Three of my favorites courtesy of Schlock Mercenary: * "If it’s stupid and it works, it’s still stupid and you’re lucky." * "Do you have a backup?" means "I can't fix this" * A SysAdmin in motion outranks a Manager who doesn't know what's going on. (Paraphrased)

It appears to me as though there is an issue with the tool, as the furthest in time that I was able to move it initially was Dec 5th. I messed around with it for a few minutes, but couldn't get it to move to "current", even with "Live mode" on. I got pulled away to do actual work for a bit, and only when I came back (after…

I disagree that the IT folks being able to do that is a certainty, as that depends a lot on the size and scope of your organization. In a SMB shop with less than a hundred employees? Sure. In a global enterprise with thousands of employees? Perhaps not, unless your queues are configured in an very intuitive way. After all,…

Too true about the acquisition comment. Over the years I've worked with so many tools where the end of their story was, "and then Oracle bought it, so it sat on a shelf until it died."

AI isn't the problem, it's that "autonomous" bit. As T2: Judgment Day taught us, having a pet Terminator is *awesome*, it's just that the autonomous murderbots are so dreadfully inconvenient.

wabbott -- today's hint link appears to need updating as well, just a quick heads up. Pretty sure I've got the correct answer, but this week has me a little click-shy now.

A Bricklin would probably be less expensive, if she wouldn't mind its spiritual ancestor.

My favorite was from about a decade and a half ago when I was working support for some network gear. Guy kept complaining that the switch was dropping packets, dropping connections, etc. He pulls the logs and yeah, they look ugly. The guy said he'd put a cable tester on each end and it came back clean, so a tech sent him…

Congratulations, rwwhipple​!

Ludicrous Speed, Go!

If you wait, it will eventually update. Not sure how long you need to wait for that information to be accurate, though.

In my zeal to catch up on this contest (just found it today), I think I answered things a bit too quickly. I show all seven answers correct on the page, but only six of them show up in my profile as having given points. When you have a chance, wabbott​, could you please take a quick look and help me get squared away?…

So long as you audit and sanitize your existing automation first. I've seen someone take down a production SAN because they had automated snapshots, then created another automation layer that (inadvertently) triggered the other automation, quickly filled the SAN with snapshots, and thus brought most everything down save…

Legality may depend upon whether there are any overt cops.

Agreed, at least based upon what was shown in the video, anyway.

Happy 4x5 green grid this month. Congrats to all others and good luck in the monthly draw!

So just remember to chamber the first round before shooting your EoL devices?

That only works until you refresh the page. After that, it just shows you the question again, along with your answer.

Hey, just wanted to thank wabbott​ and lindsey.serrano​ for all the extra work they put in this week making sure everything got addressed promptly. Y'all rock!