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Well, just at the end of last month my boss decided to turn off the router we used to connect to an MPLS provider in the past. Of course the reason we disconnected the MPLS is we transitioned to using high-speed DIA links and used that very same router to home the 125+ IPSEC/GRE VPN tunnels to these sites. Of course when I…

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Hmm... To this day my Mom for the most part refuses to use a computer, and has difficulty with most things "techy". I didn't get my first computer until I was nearly in high school, and I was a pretty early adopter. She did take the time to tell me to "get off that thing" and do something though. But I'd have to say she is…

Oh, didn't even think of that. I do have something that will help find them at least. Plug this into a page of yours as a "Custom Query" resource and it should at least find the Ghost Interfaces for you. Unfortunately if you click on the device it takes you to the node details page. From there you can "list resources", but…

Hmm... I was curious and went to go look and something doesn't look right... Look at all of the "Foam Hat" descriptions (and Koozie) on the last line, and the points for the pictures items looks wrong too, if not I'm getting a bunch of stuff!!

You didn't read the "Mission Rules". Questions are a mixture of multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank. * Multiple choice - Only your first attempt counts. Double check your answers! * Fill-in-the-blank - If you answer correctly, the page will take you on to enter your thwack username. If you answer incorrectly, the page…

Man, I found Fortinets to be confusing and difficult to configure, glad I no longer work there! Didn't integrate well with any 3rd party tools, they want you to use the Fortimanager and such.

One thing they don't tell you right away is the "Senior" part is referring to your age! You're just getting too old... : Congrats!!!

So they monitored a party that happened in the future, which means they can monitor things in the future?! Not as cool as the time machine theory, so I'll stick with that. Not to mention it has nothing to do with the fact that their announcement has to be MORE COOL than either time travel or monitoring things in the…

Oh, don't I wish our programmers knew the concept of "latency". The company I'm with was founded on the East Coast, and everything is very centered around that. But I work 1700 miles away with a group of people from a company they acquired, which is one of a couple middle-US/western-US companies they acquired. There are…

Enjoying it so far! I was however expecting a music video done to the music of AC/DC's "Back in Black" that was instead "Thwack is Back". The only question would be who would be wearing the school uniform and hat jumping around stage with a guitar?

Then you guys started late in the game!! I remember adjusting the volume on cassette tape storage on Tandy computers, or when a starwars game on the Commodore pet would turn the tape drive on and off repeatedly to simulate sound for when you blew up the deathstar. Heck, I remember going over to a friends house who's father…

Hmm... Maybe out of the box, but making custom resources with SWQL can open up a world of integration for the different modules. Not saying it can do everything, but there is quite a bit that can be done with a little imagination...

Hmm... Is there a hint to a product name change? From NCM to NCCM? If so, good - the compliance portion is too hidden right now!!

My current job is a bit unusual in that its the first that I've been at where training is almost non-existent. One of my colleagues at the site I'm at is attending college and has not been offered any sort of tuition assistance. The only training I've seen people get is rather informal from SE's of products we've…

Although now I'm getting other oddities apparently? Missing borders around some of the items, and the "Foam Hat" name showing up again on the mug or whatever at the bottom of the last line I'm showing here. Seems to be intermittent, maybe some leftover from the problems yesterday? A refresh brought it back to what appears…

Yes, Cisco gave me a nice steak lunch to sit through a presentation on this, I liked it quite a bit, both the lunch and the presentation/technology! Unfortunately our company seems to be committed to moving towards Fortinet for this type of solution. Unless Cisco can get near the price and feature set that Fortinet is…

Man, how quickly you get out of habit! Totally forgot to check for these this month! Now to not miss anything...

Personally I think this blog has the right answers, have no idea how someone could get the answers it told me was right by knowing about VM's. Of the two answers it told me were correct, I can't find a reference to one of them on the Internet anywhere!! Virtually Jason: Orphaned VMDK Files

Hmm... I can get the fridge, but it only holds the short cans and not the 20oz bottles!! Bummer. Going for the THWACK table so I have a flat surface to store things on!! :-)

The quick answer, yes!

This is a good idea! I'm all for "Agent Management Rights" just like "Node Management Rights"!! Agent Management rights?

Huh, I answered the last question last week at the same time I did the Monthly contest, but today its showing that it wasn't answered and that its locked? Something screw up somewhere?

Yea, I've done some work, both at home and for a charity I do some work for, with IP based video cameras and they're all over the board on security and the ability to be updated. I think the worst is the DVR's, which I don't think they even consider you updating it. Fixing a security hole is rarely the reason for an update…

I believe this can be done with the "Anti-Hammering" rules that you can set up. If you block them for 0 minutes you permanently disable the access until someone re-enables it. I think it blocks the IP address rather than the account though, possibly more effective in a way. Protecting Against Brute Force Attacks

Yea, the question is worded a bit confusing. When you're in the demo, click on home. Then, in the "Instances with Highest Wait Time" choose one of the bars with the highest wait time, BUT look for the section of the bar that says "DB2", which is what this question is about. If you click on the SQL2K or SYBASE portion of…

I don't think Mr. Cleese has relinquished that title! Watch out, or you might find yourself visited by the spanish inquisition! Bet you didn't expect that, nobody does!!

At a previous job the power went out. Not a huge deal, the batteries and generator kicked in just fine, so everything is good, right? Well, it happens to be mid-summer and when the power was off for the extended time, we couldn't run both the cooling systems and the servers on the generator. The temperature quickly rose in…

I have to say, this feature is pretty bad right now, takes a ton of time to work with. First I should say that working with this on a "per-device" basis seems to be the totally wrong way to go. I would think it should work on a "per-model" basis. In your EOS Lookup page where you assign EOS dates, you have devices with "No…

Well, considering a good many people I know that become IT pro's started off in other professions, I honestly don't think it would matter if we all went away at once. A bit of chaos might reign until people got curious why something wasn't working and pretty soon you'd have a whole new batch. Now if people kept vanishing…