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Will probably see users' social media traffic go down a little to be replaced by shopping traffic. In my case, that would mean less Thwack and more searching for Wacom Intuos tablet/ pen combo for the family artist. From what I've read, this works well under Linux.

Regarding relative quantity of deaths of famous people, a poem I heard as a kid comes to mind: The troubled world is sighing now and death is at the door. And many folks are dying now who've never died before. Funny thing about being important/ famous and your death. All it takes is a Kardashian or Anna Nicole Smith or a…

Peter Monaghan, CBCP, SCP, ITIL ver.3 wrote: Granted, we are a wine & spirits distributor Do you distribute microbrews? Hiring?

We use NCM to download configs. To the database and filesystem of each poller. A scheduled job runs daily to make a list of each config from the day (by traversing the filesystem). That list is then used as an argument for an SCP job to copy configs to another server (via scheduled job). The configs then live in the…

Was just reliving the SNL Celebrity Jeopardy skits yesterday. It's crazy what the Burt Reynolds/ Norm McDonald character thinks he's reading. Guess we see what we want to see. Or more aptly 'judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines'...as Axl Rose said.

For the hover vulnerability: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EPlOBTGlWm8J:https://lists.privoxy.org/pipermail/privoxy-users/2017-February/000170.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us One way to address long/ readable vs. short URLs. Configure Privoxy in your router: [Privoxy-users] How to redirect host?…

Looks like a very useful feature.

Regarding the Open Source Tools section...I thought CPU monitoring on ASRs was convoluted in SolarWinds. It is, but somehow in Cacti was even more painful, which I didn't think was possible.

Warning. NSFW before lunch time. Stomach growling loudly now.

Beyond the annoyance factor of being required to watch a video rather than read a website, I think there is a mis-perception that videos are a better tool for sharing information than browsing a website. I bet if we were given an option to go to one vs. the other, the non-video option wouldn't go unused. I suppose the…

ecklerwr1 wrote: Also we have a dropbox but it's our own not from someone else. Can't needs be met by a DCS presentation? Or AMRDEC SAFE (https://safe.amrdec.army.mil/SAFE/Help.aspx?Article=36) Each would allow for files to be uploaded and shared. With PKI authentication.

​Microsoft says 40 percent of all VMs in Azure now are running Linux Want to keep away the database administrators that should never be touching your servers? Run Linux. Without a GUI, they stay away. Problem solved. First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. If Linux is a 'cancer',…

Make sure when you demo the port scanner that you kick off a scan of the whole corporate network. Ideally the last thing you do on Friday afternoon. This will help the security side of the house appreciate the power of the tool, and they will certainly know who you are, if they did not already.

I don't know how they could get away from CLI functionality being required when one has to resort to logging in the console line. When you can't reach the device over the network to administer it due to whatever issue broke connectivity. GUI tools seem unhelpful there. How could NETCON and YANG be used in this scenario?…

Performance reviews can be funny things. At one job, I had negligible salary growth and reviews that I tried to take constructively but were pretty meh. The team lead left and reviews went more to my liking with the next. Then I was the de facto lead when he left. The contract changed and the new company immediately pulled…

I think the Internet of Things IOT trend will exacerbate the issue of unpatched devices (to include lots of Windows PCs...people running Vista or older). If someone ever finds a way to abuse fitness trackers or the software they sync with, I can see that being huge.

I don't think my suggestions promote SolarWinds, but I've seen conspicuous consumption Yeti coolers and cutting edge drinking technology cups given away, so perhaps there's hope.

Now I know how those thwackers in foreign countries feel when the contest rules forbid their country from participating.

I am very curious how a self driving car will handle situations like these, which happen to me constantly: I see the light in front of me about to change or has just changed. I am almost to the line where I need to be stopped. Idiot driver behind me has no plans to stop at the red light before turning right and is probably…

And today's video is only 42 minutes.

On a similar note, watching youtube videos to answer questions feels wrong. Perhaps I'm just old school. Or perhaps just old. You kids get off my lawn!

I for one love to haul around multiple token generators on my lanyard and then forget which goes for which access. But if it allows for a shorter password or one that doesn't change every 36 hours, then I will gladly wear a string of hardware tokens around my neck like a Hawaiian lei.

A Cisco CCDA started things in motion. I guess I had A+ before that, but as a guy who got into Linux due to hatred of Windows, I consciously avoided Windows admin jobs. I didn't realize at the time, but certification revenue can sometimes seem to drive the certification process. It seems to be money that can't be left at…

Important skills: Understand non-Windows operating systems. Understand OSI layers.

I haven't looked at coding in so long, I'm not sure many of these languages existed at the time. Man, I feel old.

If I don't win the precious chalice this week, I don't know how I will keep warm from the RTIC chill as I hike the Ozark Trail to get to my local MegaMart. Probably be out at least $12. Suppose it would be useful in the Amazon basin too. Yet I will manage somehow, I imagine.

Seems like so often an issue would be reported, and when I investigated couldn't reproduce. And then learned that I could reproduce, but only with IE or Windows. In one particular case, I chased an issue quite a while with that finding and ultimately learned that Internet Explorer was refusing a cookie due to an underscore…

You should get the flu shot—even if it won’t keep you from getting sick Interesting piece regarding herd immunity. For some reason, I’ve subscribed the to the idea of herd immunity for things like smallpox, but I’ve never thought of it with regards to the flu. Probably because it’s much harder to prevent the flu. Then…

I searched (but not the video) and found the answer I was looking for.

Letter from our customer to my management commending my 30 hour effort. Later a $500 bonus.