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I threw the cigarette lighter out the window at the dealership before it even left the lot.

We shred ours too. Many Used Hard Drives Sold on eBay Still Contain Leftover Data

One of my co-workers was gifted the superpower of Useless Knowledge... like what is the most popular Pez dispenser, India ink is actually from China etc...

Twenty years ago I though it would be nice to get Outdoor Life magazine delivered to a summer cottage in rural northern Michigan. I put up a mailbox, and placed my order. Over time the amount of mail began increasing and at first I thought great I have fire starter being delivered straight here! Then I showed up one…

Thanks for the write up! I don't use Facebook either. I use an old app called BBQ. Whenever I want to chat with friends and family I invite them over to the house and we eat, drink, play games and catch up. Used the app three times in the past week and it works great! I give it 5 stars. 

Thanks for the write up and ebook link Leon. There's some pretty decent open source software called OpenDCIM for mapping the physical layer in the data center environment. We have had some good success with it. It seems the go to tool for everything else is still Visio in my own experience.

I liked sparda963 comment, very true when working in IT and in Healthcare. Doctors and Nurses have their own language as well and we need to understand both.

HP Openview, Microsoft SCOM, Wildpackets(Savvius), Compuware(Dynatrace), Gomez, Wireshark, Ignite, Splunk,

It only makes business sense for them to go that path. It's way better for them to permanently 'lease' the service to business that to sell the product outright.

I am going to implement this in my environment but in a different way. I already have a script that unmanages nodes. I was just going to make a secondary alert action to run that script if the node remains down for 5 days. If it works I will post the details. I was going to run a second alert if a node remains unmanaged…

Our team has been doing (optional) quick virtual call ins at the beginning and end of the day as well as doing a fun chat time over lunch for those that want to participate. Lunchtime rules! - anything goes (well, most anything). I was already working from home part time so already had a work area set up. My company has…

This happens a lot. It can also be caused by tight schedules or lack of funds - same as the credit card.

At my previous employer my nickname was 'The Wanalyzer' I used a combination of NPN, NCM, Netflow and Sniffers to keep an eye on network traffic. It eventually evolved into bi-weekly reviews of network usage, application changes, QOS changes and scheduling events such as patch pushes, file transfers, etc. NPM alerts were…

Looking good! Thanks for all the hard work everyone has put into this.

Yea the "I work on computers" never gets you anywhere. Use I'm semi-retired and do some farming.

This is great news. The earlier it can be detected the better chance for treatment.

I would want mine to say "look away from the phone..." EU will force electric cars to emit a noise below 20 km/h on July 1

I always have taken my dog along whenever possible when I went anywhere in the car. When I was going into the office every day he was used to being left at home for awhile but now since I'm working from home he usually gets to go along whenever I go out. As a matter of fact he expects it now and on the occasions he can't…

Wish they would standardize on an inductive charger all small tech could take advantage of. Apple's dedication to 'a diversity of dongles' is polluting the planet

Might take a look at the $25 Wyze cams.... no monthly fee, they do save some video to the cloud and they have an SD slot so you can record long term.

While we never were %100 connected up with Remedy we were able to auto create tickets through Solarwinds into Remedy via email. It just required the use of an email template that had the CI, Group, and alert message text along with a few other items. Remedy ran a script once a minute that scraped an Exchange mailbox and…

I like the power strips complete with the on/off switches under the floor tiles. That's an accident waiting to happen.

One of the reason's I jumped into monitoring a few years back was because I got to work on everything! You get to be the jack of all trades and master of a few. I have found it very satisfying to go to work every day and you never know what the day will bring.

Head geeks playing wheel of fortune webinar would be another fun one. Thwacksters could submit (email) the phrases in privately.

Very nice article and very true. As far as dogs and invisible fences go, I have one dog that it works for and the other one walks right through it.

I don't see it happening in my environment. Too many change controls in place. You would need to execute every command in the Test environment, then Dev, then make change records to do it on Prod. It's getting to the point where if you could compare it to a century ago Henry Ford would have built three cars for every one…

We have some fantastic project managers where I'm working, and yes some pizza (or other food) goes a long way

Thanks for the write up. Interesting read about boreout .

I tested Syslog and Log Events and the behavior was the same.

Thanks for the write up.