jgammon · Network Engineer

@"the_ben_keen" and @"kpina", great job to you and your team of "wild imaginations." This was a challenging puzzle for this year and I appreciate the time put into it, and the grief you take from this community in the name of "tenacity," hounding for a "reset" or a particular 'nit-pickiness

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The Friday tasks are what I am concerned about. The completed status is subjective, I understand. Do I not see that they are completed until after the Monthly Mission is completed or as each week ends? The Friday tasks are not displaying a completed status in my account at this time. I have logged out and back in to see if…

That was definitely an unexpected twist in this querists mind. An Appreciated twist none-the-less.

Done.

For added paranoia with a dash of security, we inherited an on prem network of infrastructure for storage and containers of db functionality. In the future, as security and protect modernizes, we will be shifting more to the cloud-based Operational Tech solutions.

The start is never the challenge. As the old phrase, or wives' tale goes, "the road to everywhere is paved with good intentions," which applies to tasks well begun. Without the diligence and commitment to complete the courses, the task remains or dwells forever in my mind in "limbo," incomplete. To which many are…

B A C O N ! ! ! In the SEC, pork is the flavor of choice. BBQ ribs, BBQ roast, BBQ tenderloin and all grilled to perfection. What a delicacy for our tastebuds. This entry has very little to do with THWACK, but creates the motivation to get up in the morning, break the nightly fast, got my creative juices flowing…

@"jcrhoten", congratulations on winning the Week #1 prize. A job well done. Enjoy the spoils of your journey.

LARGEST CHALLENGE TO DATE: Insight into complex data connections and data modeling for aging and disparaging vendor (COTS) stranglehold on our data housed in their failing data solutions. Integration across multivendor products is a security risk and performance risk unto itself. And inheriting such a mess is not a fun way…

Truly an unexpected mitigation. Thank you, THWACK Admins, and @"KMSigma.SWI".

What plagues productivity for me is the numerous tools which are not fully integrated nor implemented completely. This condition leads to the lack of scalability and siloed investigations. As for the "single source of truth?" "You can't visualize the truth" in multiple panes of glass. One begins to look like the scarecrow…

@"kpina", Does the inquiry for Day 6 not demand an submission of multiple answers? I am only seeing radial buttons and not check boxes as the script-text requests.

@"marlief22", this is a wonderful idea. I am going to run with it. Thank you so much!

Unraveled the wording with careful examination in Week 2 Day 1 question. The answer is in the eye of a master cartographer...

Hey, @"mattoz", congrats on the Week 3 prize. a perfect week of diligence is the greater reward. Enjoy that security system. Congrats, again.

Congrat, @"nbarnes"! I had several TI-84's in my day, but never fortunate enough to afford a color one. That is awesome! Congrats, again!

Day 19 is very misleading. It is unusual that the question and answer contradict each other in the Monthly Mission. Was there not enough egg nog to go around the table??

Actually, @"jpastore", the hint document is absolutely correct. You are looking for the differences between the two training types---live v. on-demand. The hint is spot on and yields the knowledge for which is it designed. But much reading in the page is required for a logical conclusion to the treasured answer to be…

@"KMSigma.SWI" is there a typo or transposed character set in this the underlying javascript code for Q20?

The less battery dependency gets the advantage, in my humble opinion. However, an argument may be made to be able to knock out an opponent without having to seek out projectile replenishment, revealing a tight debate. I vote---"No battery" dependency!

The question for Day 11 asks for "all" which qualify. Only one of the answers may be selected since it is a mutually exclusive radial selection. Should the answers not have a checkbox for multiple selection?

Thank you, @"the_ben_keen"!

Or even an annual Summer Camp Cruise for Tech Geeks! That would be awesome as well!

Nerf Blaster may have the target on the M8 ball! The M 8Ball?...<shake, shake, shake....>...I got nothing!

@dodo123, You need coffee...strong, rich, and bold. Drop in a peppermint stick and savor the flavor in your nostrils. This question is as straight forward as it gets.

With the Monthly Mission content available for written correspondence, why not a HG Newsletter? The videos are substantial to introduce much of the upcoming releases and efforts to deep dive into the sublayers of the SWQL world, but written content for emerging Observers and Security Operators is imperative. Besides, I…

Finished this late yesterday. I liked the path and structure of the menus and context of the items in the review. This is promising in delivering a fresh approach and organizational mindset for configuration items and ViewID creation and control.