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If I win the Death Star, I'll need Alderaan to go with it.

There's another key point that your article implies but doesn't come right out and say: Customers want and deserve honesty. Human error and unforeseen circumstances can and will happen. If we can demonstrate to the customer that the situation was analyzed and steps were taken to minimize the risk of a repeat occurrence,…

I'm not pi-shaped. I'm kind of roundish, while pi r squared.

Mine was Supercalc, ecklerwr1‌'s was Visicalc.

My exposure is on the network side, but I'm pretty insistent about labeling WAN interface ports with the vendor name and circuit ID. It took a while to get traction on that with the people who right the configs, but we got there.

How about a sidekicks bracket?

I think you meant to say either "so not necessary" or "so unnecessary." If so, I agree. I didn't need the clue to solve that one.

Retirement allows for a separate replacement device with the same name/IP.

I think he's referring to the situation where the documentation is stores somewhere that you can't find it (or maybe weren't even told it exists), and then you get called on the carpet for not following it.

Great stuff here, including some very useful tools, which one can never have enough of. Thanks for the great post!

Congratulations, that's awesome! I hope you enjoy it. :-)

I've always been an advocate of sending the alerts directly to those responsible to act upon them.

Medusa+Weeping Angel=Pretty much screwed no matter what you do...

I'm definitely looking forward to it. These are always great.

PayPal now supports 2FA using the Verisign VIP Access app as a virtual token. It works even without a data connection (I tested it in airplane mode).

I guess I just got excited. This is the greatest thing since sliced bread! Puns. They're what I do.

Yelling at the top of one's lungs doesn't work for technicians at remote sites either. You can call and then yell, but then they don't answer their phones... ;-)

Agreed. These are great power-tools.

Medusa: The original stoner.

Awesome write-up. I'm more than a bit jealous of you guys - not only for the job you have, but for the knowledge and skill you have in doing in, and in the approachable, human way in which you present yourselves.

This looks like fun! Looking forward to voting opening in a little over an hour and a half!

Why, wherever did you get the idea that anyone here likes bacon? Congratulations to the winners!

Absolutely there's a need for both. A lot more granular testing can be done internally but that's not a true test of external end-user experience.

These points are all important, but employers must also support employees in their efforts to gain the knowledge the company expects them to have.

Anecdotes aside, I'd be curious to see empirical data supporting your claims. Self-hosted FTP solutions would be equally subject to brute-force attacks, unpatched vulerabilities, zero-day attacks, targeted phishing, social engineering, and as whatever attacks may be able to be leveraged against the OS of the server that…

You should be able to just print this page: Bracket Battle 2015: Villains

I've worked with interesting mixes of state-of-the-art and legacy systems. Often, I've seen a "line-in-the-sand" approach, where what will get newly-deployed is cutting edge, but then once deployed, there's resistance to upgrade until the existing OS reaches end-of-support. As I exist primarily on the monitoring side of…

I agree. The custom HTML resource can be very handy when it's necessary to tie in views from other systems.

This is a very interesting analysis. Maybe it's because I worked in banking so long, but I'm surprised that industry-specific apps have such a small share of the hosted/cloud spend. Also, based on looking at the graph and the source link you posted, I believe you have an error in your cloud chart. It looks to me like…

While at first I thought this post was a bunch of bologna, I quickly realized what a turkey I was for thinking that. Boy, do I have egg on my face now. It's even better that you will lettuce have this software for free. I'm looking forward to the next SolarWinds Lab (or maybe a mayo clinic?) so we can ketchup on the latest…