ecklerwr1 · Sr. Network / Systems Architect · ✭✭✭✭✭

It's nice to get an email once in while from happy customers. I think I'm lucky most of the IT here where I work is/are team(s) based on teamwork together. If I get stuck on something there are a lot of others here I can rely on and ask for help. It hasn't been this way everywhere I've worked.

I still remember when slammer hit before... it was really pretty bad. The massive amount of traffic an infected host would send out to random IP addresses brought routers to their knees back then. I remember rebooting routers and trying to log in quickly enough before the traffic took over and shut down an interface…

Whew thanks... I'm glad I wasn't the only one!

Backups are the best weapon in this fight because users are going to click on things they shouldn't and even training won't prevent it.

The thought of this being applied to politics is really scary... it makes me think of what we already know is being done at google, FB, twitter, and some other places. Some of it runs in direct opposition to the US Constitution as well which is a big concern.

This is a great story. Really shows how good the new NetPath feature really is in practice!

One of the reasons we have tempest facilities. Also some of the newest systems are today being built to withstand gps contested environment and the new GPS constellation will soon be going up... Also we aren't only on the defensive side of this btw: Secret California tests to black out GPS for six hours a day | Daily Mail…

I'm doing terrible this month!

I subscribe to the print edition of C4ISRnet magazine. It's a great periodical. The DCGS-A aka Distributed Common Ground System will play a part in managing all these sensors. Distributed Common Ground System–Army (DCGS-A) – USAASC

I really like DPA but dang if you have a lot of servers and databases it can really add up the $$$. For some things I've seen moving DPA license around between databases and not having it installed for them all at the same time. It's an option. I love the licensing model though. Many of us wish SEM was licensed like DPA.

appstack and perfstack sound perfect for this!

some of these confuse me a little...

I may have answered my own question but...

Lol that made me think of these flappers:

I actually just switched from GFI EventsManager to LEM. GFI pulled windows event logs without an agent. It would download the logs from windows machine 1000 events at a time until all the events were pulled and then would clear the event log (if you want it to).

These would be very helpful... I have mostly SPARC. We've investigated using x86 Solaris to replace some SPARC's since they could be virtualized in VMware but they don't seem to function the same way as we expected. Also Solaris zones work pretty well under SPARC.

Helping out others in your community is always good. It's also kinda how people in Texas are to begin with. There are states I really love and others I couldn't even imagine living in... Texas and Arizona are two states I really like! I'll leave out the states I don't like and why.

Linux rocks!

Using things like netflow and WPM, and NetPath probes are ways to test the user experience from different areas on your network.

Dragon may take it all!

Same drawback for me being on air gapped network. Soon I hope our own models can run trained AI models locally without need for AWS or Azure!

Just strip the https://thwack.solarwinds.com/blog/” off the url and the trailing "

I agree with Eric.

Yup, he didn't use the exact wording but the info was all there for today's question. I did have to think it through a little... it wasn't a gimme today.

Some of these solutions sure sound great. I sometimes wonder how much they meet their goals? Who accessed which data when is great info to have but that's also a lot of metadata I would think. I suppose with cheaper storage and deduplication that somethings are possible now that wouldn't have been before.

I'm sure there were some made by Lucasfilm themselves... I would guess those could be in the tens of thousands of dollars for sure... maybe more... most likely 6 figures.

I'm currently still using these and they out right jam! They have two sets of posts and can be bi-amplified. Boston Acoustics VR 30 Floorstanding Speakers user reviews : 4.7 out of 5 - 14 reviews - audioreview.com Even after all these years since I bought them new for 700$ each they are so tight.

Yeah at least 3 of the answers on today's question are correct...