df112 · Director, Database & Systems Engineering

Interesting post. I honestly think of it more as big data than AI, since the intelligence bit seems to be really lacking as bobmarley​ noted - I get the most random stuff that is so far off what I'm interested in, unless they are fishing to see what I'll bite on. And the ads annoy me so much I've almost stopped using most…

As always, thanks for the interesting reads. I look forward to these every week. Amazon never losing a datacenter.... hmmmm.... whether that's true or not (probably not) who cares? If you're down you're down. I think you're right on the Marriott/Starwood thing - it's going to get worse, not better. When you saw that 2014…

Good post, thanks. Definitely one of those areas that will absolutely bite you if you don't stay up with it. Far too often I've seen patching start off with a great fanfare and good work for a period of time, but due to boredome/repetition/lack of interest/whatever it fizzles out. It's like backups, boring but necessary,…

Whoda thunk we'd have emojis on license plates? Wonder what the phonetic radiocodes will be for them?

I have a friend who has an Alexa and has turned it off after having a random conversation about a family member and COPD - guess what? COPD ads from other vendors started popping up in her browser within an hour and she started getting email the same day. Pretty scary stuff.

Education networks are indeed a challenge. One of the biggest bandwidth hogs we run into a lot is compromised devices. They are rife within the student community.

Going back and re-reading these after the latest post. Couldn't agree more. Great series.

As always (and I really do mean that even though I say it every time) thanks for a bunch of great links. I look forward to this post every week. The user interface thingy is a scream. The clock is now ticking and I can't stop it. Having lived in Japan when I was younger, I'm totally not surprised about renting cars just to…

Had to read this about 3 times before I clued in. I think I need some more coffee.

Lol. True.

Interesting post, thanks. Totally agree on the first three, really for anyone in IT as a profession, not just for HCI. I'm not sure I'd go for a vendor specific HCI cert simply because it's likely to become obsolete as the tech changes, the vendors next acquisition or your company changes to a different HCI platform.

We must have worked at the same place. My first job all we ever bought was IBM whether it made sense or not. It wasn't until the manager left that we started trying to find the best solution to the problem (always keeping it mind that it had to work well within the context of our environment).

Really hoping I can find some spare time to try this out. This would be a lot of fun.

Never saw that one. That's awesome.

Looking forward to it. Looks like a good session.

Thanks for a bunch of interesting links. Thankfully we only have a few scooters in our area, but I can really sympathize after what I've seen while travelling in major cities, esp. San Diego.

Thanks for the honesty adatole​. I'm sure it resonates on so many levels for a lot of folks, I know it does me. One of the things that I've always found somewhat humorous/ironic about our profession is we almost never have the answer to a problem ready made. So many of the folks I've helped over the years (end users I…

Dear past self: you won't know this yet, but you know how it seems like your career is going nowhere at times and other times goes in directions that don't make sense? With the benefit of 30 years of hindsight, the road is much straighter than it seemed while I was travelling down it. Don't miss out on learning things that…

Thanks wabbott​, this looks like it will be fun. Chops to whoever did the morphing logo. Awesome.

Thanks for another very thoughtful post adatole​. I think you nailed it.

Interesting article and links. Thanks. Wondering how an ocean sensor safely scuttles itself now (and how you aren't also giving your enemy potentially valuable intel if your sensors get turned on you).

Excellent write up. We've certainly been there in the past, especially when a external team came in to do an audit and just left reams of information that took a week or two to sort out so we could even begin to start to work on it. Thankfully that's changing. It's a lot easier to work together and view it as a team…

Yep yep yep. Unified team approach to the problem is what you want - unfortunately hard to achieve. Most people (and vendors) are looking to finger point instead of rolling up their sleeves and working together to fix the problem. Just own it and fix it folks.

Interesting post, thanks. We've been looking at SDS for a while, but like a lot of things, it ain't completely there yet (at least in a multi-vendor environment). It has a lot of promise though. It will be interesting to watch as it becomes more mature.

Interesting concept. A lot of research shows that gamification works really well in various areas (The Fun Theory 1 – Piano Staircase Initiative | Volkswagen - YouTube ). Interesting idea to try it with Cyber.

LOL - thought grenade. Love it.

Good post, thanks. I always think of IT like an old BASF commercial that stuck with me. We don't make the products you buy, we make the products you buy better. There is literally no area of a modern business that IT doesn't touch, and if we're doing IT right, the organization benefits in a myriad of ways. We're a force…

Thanks for all the work you all have put into the migration. Looking forward to the new environment.

GM’s data mining is just the beginning of the in-car advertising blitz... The ads at local gas stations make me batty enough already. This is going way too far. * Don't buy any GM products. * If you have one, call Crutchfields and rip out the factory radio. * If you want to have some fun, hack the uploaded data feed and…

congrats @el_kabong