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A few others: "I'd go with you, but... I don't want to." -- Knowing when not to do a thing can be invaluable. "House blowing up builds character." -- Nothing refines and improves DR plans quite like implementation. "Don't make the super-suit green. Or animated." -- Learn from past mistakes. This is critical.

Amusingly, one of the biggest groups hiring hackers for pay ... is the NSA. Well, for pay and in some cases deferred adjudication.

maria.bungau​, with regard to question 20, could you confirm that the there are correct number of blanks there? Because I count eight blanks in the question, but following the hint, the answer which I believe is correct is nine letters long.

The other thing to keep in mind is that High Availability and Fault Tolerance are not mutually exclusive, either. Clustering doesn't seem like an ideal example to me, though, since it can provide both HA and FT, depending upon the configuration. An active/active cluster essentially provides FT, since either node can fail…

And since they were ripping off doing an homage to Honest Trailers with that, Ryan Reynolds showed up as Deadpool to do the Deadpool Honest Trailer: Honest Trailers - Deadpool (Feat. Deadpool) - YouTube

Thanks for the help, but I can't seem to find it, and getting spammed about every post is annoying, so I just disabled all email from SW. Problem solved.

Working with an ISP that's trying to expand into IPTV, I can honestly say that the biggest clue is Occam' razor. How complex (and tested) is the application that's having trouble vs the complexity (and historical stability) of the network supporting the application? Oh, after merging in last week's code it's really slow?…

I've been troubleshooting for quite a long time and this is the first time I'd heard of the five whys notion. Thanks for linking the wiki page, it was quite a good read as well! Also -- really liked your fifth "why".

Any task worth doing is worth doing well. Any task worth doing twice is worth automating.

I would interject that monitoring to determine appropriate sizing should be the first step to ensuring proper quality of service. If a base is constantly saturating their pipe, implementing QoS prioritization with VTC on top may cause unacceptable degradation of other mission critical services. Setting up bandwidth…

Okay, for week one, I'm curious as to whether the prize is in some sort of weird copyright space or just the victim of discount translation somewhere. Big "Star Wars" logos on the products, but the names of the ships are: * Hero Vehicle (IE: Millennium Falcon) * Villian Flagship (IE: Star Destroyer) * Villian Star-Fighter…

Is there a way to confirm that you've answered all the questions? I believe that I have, but confirmation would be nice, it's quite a fun shirt.

Number three, definitely. No piece of your environment should be irreplaceable, human, kit, service provider, or otherwise. In addition to the inherent vulnerabilities that creates for you, it ensures that you will stagnate, since those parts can't change or evolve naturally as the rest of your environment does. And as we…

Snowden and Manning are also fresh in everyone's minds, so they are also having to deal with a lot more paranoia about the "threats from within".

Very much appreciated, thanks!

Tryptophan overload. Happens to the best of us.

Perhaps, but the question already includes a period after the blank. Including the period in your answer leads to a sentence that's ended with two..

Is it just me or is this week jacked up? Yesterday, the answer seemed to depend upon whether you went with the answers hidden in the video vs the answers in the docs. Today, I've listened to the video hint linked (same as yesterdays) a half dozen times and can't find the answer anywhere. I found it (correctly, today,…

It's the same video for day 3 & day 4. Rage Against the Virtual Machine: How-to Fight VM Sprawl & Reclaim Wasted Resources - YouTube

I've probably just worked with one too many cowboys. That, and the more layers of scripting/abstraction you put between yourself and the task, the easier it is for a minuscule flaw at a lower level to be exponentially magnified by automation.

I honestly don't mind the lack of flying cars. Until the ones we've got are self driving by an Asimovian positronic brain (or whatever Google is using), I don't want to watch people try to cope with height as well as width, breadth, and time. However, 2015 came and went without our getting better than a C- version of a…

A bit of oddness. I just completed today's and yesterday's questions, and while both show as correct in the grid (and when I click on same), only one is showing up on my reputation page. Tried logging out and in, clearing my cache, restarting my browser, and even opening the page in a new browser entirely -- no difference.…

And today, Monday the 6th, I cannot complete the last question, leaving me at 19/20. Which is quite frustrating, given what a nice prize the Thwack team was able to procure. It's noted in the description, I was just looking at the drawing times as cutoffs, and that was only valid for the first three weeks, unfortunately.

So ... if question 28 weighs the same as a duck ... Wrong again, BURN THE WITCH!

On the monkey note, another one of mine which several of the military folks I work around have also picked upon and enjoyed is: "Not my monkeys, not my circus." -- A way of absolving themselves of a situation that is outside their scope of responsibility, especially after having tried to offer help.

Well, fortunately that's just this last week that you have to look at it. Or they may re-open the question with a clarification as they have done before, so who knows. Being out of the running for that monitor does indeed have a bit of sting, though.

There was Dublin Dr Pepper, which Dr Pepper killed in 2012, which used Imperial Sugar. Since then, they've released a different sugar-based Dr Pepper: https://www.heb.com/product-detail/dr-pepper-soda-made-with-sugar-12-pk-cans/1379232

If you follow the response chain, you'll find that the OP, bharris​, missed Tuesday's, not today's (Friday).

Anyone here have experience with loot crate? Their claim of "over $60 of value in every drop" seems ... rather inflated, but it nonetheless looks neat, and this is the first I've heard about it.

Fiber should not be allowed near users. Any infrastructure that is both fragile and expensive should be behind at least one locked door. ...if it has shiny lights, a window may be installed so that users can watch them blink from time to time.