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Nice. Fifth. I am really going to enjoy some of these subjects and will probably read everything.

I know a lot of people will find this harsh, but... "Mode 1 gives people who are less inclined to learn a place to hide, be comfortable, and not innovate in an area that needs it more than ever." People who don't want to learn new technologies, particularly with regards to security, need to either be persuaded to change or…

Today's question really should be multiple choice. I am running more than one!

Tuesday worked for me but I still have nothing for Monday. And I don't see any official responses looking into the situation.

I don't think this is what you meant, but it would be nice if IT was a bit more unified. When one person has to call three people on different teams to resolve an issue, and those people may or may not be available then may or may not treat the issue as a priority, it interferes with end user experience and comes across as…

Or maybe this is one of those obnoxious "choose the answer I subjectively think is most correct" questions.

I saw the post saying that our answers are being tracked and points will eventually be awarded, but I'm not the greatest with patience and trust.

Where did bandwidth go? Did Pam stream her favorite show? Let's look at Netflow...

Considering how often data breaches are internal, it is wise to not implicitly trust internal traffic. I am looking forward to the follow-up about defense in depth.

An important consideration for military and intelligence is moles. I wonder how they are monitoring users, who is watching the watchers, to make sure nothing malicious is exploited internally.

Instead of looking here, I searched for the release notes and found: https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/Success_Center/ARM/Content/Release_Notes/ARM_2020-2_release_notes.htm

The do’s and don’ts of video conferencing 1) Wear pants. You never know when you'll have to get up!

You just brought back some memories! One of my father's associates purched a PC-2 and eventually decided that he had no use for it. He offered it to my father, who brought it home for my brother and myself to use. There seemed to be no end to what we could do with tht little computer. Write programs that would let me cheat…

I wonder if the people who "generously" set pharmaceutical prices so low that a lot of people would die without insurance were drunk when they set the prices.

I look forward to effective AI usage in load balancing. I've done some experiments with distributed computing that had less than desirable results. Either too many processes had data on one node and the processes were all run there, or the process of moving a lot of small files across a network slowed down processing on…

I wonder how long it will take the DOD to approve installing the CVE-2020-0601 patches. Weeks or months? And I'm probably showing some ignorance here, but wouldn't effective use of 802.1x significantly reduce, if not eliminate, insecure BYOD usage?

Some issues are best solved through chemistry, such as copious amounts of the molecule CH3-CH2-OH.

I totally agree on hype; I see it all the time and recognize how nonsensical it is when people are making their claims. But tape backup... Does anyone use tape backup anymore? VM Snapshots stored to spindle drives, off-site data backups to what is inevitably a SAN somewhere, local machine backups to external hard drives,…

Me too. I was looking at all the graphs instead of reading text at the top of the screenshot.

This is a good review but it focuses on protecting from foreign devices being introduced to a network. A smart phone or a device of similar capability such as an iPod Touch, can be used to record conversations or photograph documents and screens. Who remembers the false missile warning in Hawaii last year? Months…

I will look forward to what you post in the next few weeks.

Based on comments from others, I concluded that C is part of the right answer. The description says time travel looks into the past but doesn't mention anything predictive, so I'm surprised ABCD was wrong.

Will another comment get me credit for the monthly mission?

I don't know about these days, but when I was in the Marine Corps we learned to use technology but minimized our use of tech during training exercises. This way we were ready to play and could do just as well without the tech.

This is an interesting question and I can only think of two ways to do what you want. The easier way is to create an alert with a trigger condition where the UnDP message contains "SYS_TEMP; +3" or "SYS_TEMP; +4" (without the quotes). This assumes the temperature will not jump from under 30 to over 50 in a single polling…

This is a very interesting question. I can only think of two ways to do this.

The responses I have seen so far seem to focus on commercial cloud providers. I anticipate that internal cloud computing will become a bigger thing so you have the benefits of the cloud without any of the privacy concerns that come with trusting a third party with your data.

Thanks for finding those instructions! I have used custom HTML to add a national weather radar map, but it wasn't overlayed on one of my worldwide maps. I'm going to try this in a little while.

This would probably be difficult and exceeds the scope of support, but custom API pollers would be very useful.

I just played around and came up with this SQL. Of course you'll want to stop services before running the query, and I did not test how it would impact currently active alerts. DECLARE @oldEmail nvarchar (max) SET @oldEmail = 'name@domain.com' DECLARE @newEmail nvarchar (max) SET @newEmail = 'name@domain.com' DECLARE…