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Meh, those grapes were sour anyway.

Any known issues with submitting today's phrase? Seems straightforward, yet the system won't take what I'm submitting.

Seeing this on Cisco ASRs as well.

I guess for today's question you have to get scientific and flip a coin to choose between : a: 'part of the problem' b: 'also performing slow because'

I think the many different ways things can break (or ways to engineer a means to keep things from breaking) would be much more interesting for the type of guy who can't sit still for long. I feel that way when watching a video and there is no other way to consume the information. I need to find a way to barter IT skills…

Sometimes we get so busy thinking 'what can I do for the company' that we don't think enough about ourselves. If you turn in notice and your current company is giving counter offers, perhaps it was unanimous.

Hand-me-down netbook running IPFire Linux. WAP/ firewall/ proxy server/ feeder of logs to Splunk. Hawking USB WiFi NIC, StarTech USB Gig NIC.

techbender wrote: TLDR, treat this like you would treat any problem in IT. Well Google didn't know the answer!

Thought of you/ your Geek Speak when I read this: https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/09/08/053253/study-finds-58-of-tech-employees-feel-like-frauds https://www.cnet.com/news/tech-employees-likely-to-suffer-from-impostor-syndrome/

Having been burned once in a situation where a map didn't make it obvious enough for someone that a node was down, I kind of 'forgot' to migrate any maps when I stood up the system's replacement. With group functionality and a naming convention that already identified location, it saved me so much time. I can appreciate…

Not sure I would want my phone on my plate--and I've been known to live (and die?) by the three second rule. Just saying.

Warning...today's question requires renting your eyeballs for 18 minutes...and a registration...email and phone.

The concept of one's data being a commodity is interesting, given the sheer volume or stream of consciousness/ cat videos out there. As I typed this I realized the someone's cat's name could very well be their password, so I semi-retract this very comment. Idealistically, I'm on the Richard Stallman approach. Practically,…

mcam after a stint in a program management office, I wholeheartedly agree.

I wonder how often automation that is organically grown in house ends up creating something with more value than whatever the core business is.

I do like Atlas. But (this is a 'very big but'): In fluid environments I've seen too many maps with orphaned nodes (networks with 2000+ nodes). Add in the logically and physically separate system monitoring those same nodes (redundant SolarWinds systems), and my mapping headaches start to get exponential. So I've leveraged…

Perhaps we could try thisrschroeder

Someone at SolarWinds created the diagram specifically showing a 'root cause' identified' twice. Two issues were found. One obviously affects all users, and one obviously affects only branch office networks. The infographic asks is it network/ applications/ infrastructure/ combination? The two root cause icons and the fact…

I was a medical lab technician in previous life and we used Kodak Ektachrome slides in one of our analyzers. Slides came out of a cartridge and colorimetric reactions determined concentration of creatinine, blood urea nitrogen, etc.

If you can afford to log everything, you will better be able to convince yourself of what is not happening. If your logging is sporadic or overly narrowed, the clues you need may never have been captured and you may have lingering doubt about what has really been ruled out. If your retention is minimal, good luck…

This is my main concern going into standing up a 10.4 installation. I spend a great deal of time in CPE.

Despair.com: MOTIVATIONAL PRODUCTS DON'T WORK. BUT OUR DEMOTIVATOR PRODUCTS DON'T WORK EVEN BETTER.

The whole self driving car technology has me concerned. Even though the horrible drivers in Alabama don't have a clue what the turn signal is, or how far in advance it should be used to actually be beneficial, I feel I can predict when they are going to swerve or try to cut in front of me or tailgate me. (Maybe that's why…

Ironically I made more as an E-5 in 1999 than I did as a medical laboratory technician in the private sector with 4 years experience, associate degree in medical lab field, and a medical lab certification upon leaving the military. Reenlistment bonus that I did not take (only did one enlistment) would have tilted things…

At a more local level, my neighbor's husband died of a bee sting on my son's birthday. So now every year on my son's birthday, I can't help thinking of the neighbor and his widow and their kid. I suppose as one ages it's easier to notice the deaths that were already happening. Will try to stop being morbid today. To my…

Today's question should have started with "Which VMs" rather than "What VMs". There, I feel better.

Defense in depth certainly provides some breathing room.

rschroeder wrote: I'm so involved in business that I never think of the military as an employer, although of course it is! But . . . it's a little bit different than what I usually imagine as an employer. There's no military job of which I'm aware that is just working 8x5 with ten weeks of PTO. As soon as I think…

This topic hits close to home. As a medical laboratory technician for ten years, our greatest IT pain was downtime--scheduled or otherwise. Everything we did when systems were up, we had to do eventually after an outage. During the outage, there were many handwritten logs with sets of sequential stickers. Carbon copy forms…

A key factor is availability of enterprise quality federal support. Will all contact with the company always be through level one helpdesk personnel? Will the salesperson managing the relationship be engaged and stay engaged while we work issues? Additionally, customization is huge. We live and die by custom property…