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Is it also possible that the question asks about Alerts but means to ask about Recommendations that get resolved?

I am in that phase right now. I hope it ends.

I think you win, we need some sort of trivia trophy

Computer Worms? I would be fine if they stayed out of fashion. My first worm? Nimda, I had only been in IT a few months. Nimda - Wikipedia I remember having to go out to the company hanger to clean their systems, the Airport was shut down post 9/11 and I had to explain to serious men with automatic weapons why I was…

Anything that gets users used to paying attention to details that matter for security is a winner in my book

I think that changed

My son says that I am a fixer. He's 4, its good enough. My wife can repeat things that I have said, but I don't think she knows how I spend my days.

Changing to Chrome worked for me

I am waiting for parts or things the passenger has to fall out mid flight over people.

It interesting to me how in the US certain PHI related rules do or do not apply. The biggie, HIPAA applies to when I go to my doctor, but not when I have to provide data or test results to my insurance company for qualifying at a reduced rate because I don't smoke, or meet whatever goals. Doing that is optional and I have…

It's always been a struggle to get eyes on reports, what I have come to learn is that I need to treat it more like my alerts. My alerts mean that an action needs to be taken, my reports better answer a question. I only email reports when I know they want that answer, I let them pull the reports when they have questions.…

You might be right, maybe they should be able to, but I can't imagine why they wouldn't have had it been simple. Leon wrote a shell script that will help: osname.sh osname.sh And you can see it in action in the lab episode: LINUX LOVE

I have a favorite bot. At home I use Alexa, and it helps find lost cell phones. I shout "Alexa, Trigger Find Jake's phone" It sends the command to IFTTT.com which I have installed on all our phones. It knows which one is mine. It turns up the volume, and calls it. Why not just call the phone myself? I don't have a…

We have a new large computing workload coming into production in the next year. Its the kind of workload that goes from very big, up to stupid and insanely large. The only upside is its predictable. If we do X, we need Y. We priced out MS Azure, Google, Amazon and running it our data center for the first 3 years based on…

Absolutely, know what an audit will tell you before there is one.

This is a great find

There could be a discussion thread for each of these that would fill pages. Privacy? You increasingly need to withdraw form the modern world to protect privacy. I have lots of thoughts, I don't want to live in the cabin in the woods to prevent nations and corporations from knowing everything about me, but I think it gets…

I agree, water is scary. We had a data center flood, and its bad. Real bad.

I wish for no Zero-day exploits

I agree, but don't confuse "personality defects" with "they aren't like me" which is easy to do. I have found that the best teams come from many different backgrounds. People who I didn't have much in common with, I actually did and didn't know it.

Just starting the O365 move. So far, the road has bumps.

Sous vide plus handheld blowtorch = awesome meat.

I have worked with the UX team now for a few years, and I always feel my time is well spent!

Same here, put my info in the chat window at the end of the session, and there hasn't been a confirmation email sent

Yup, find the best tool for the job and use it.

Early in my career, I might have been really nervous about holding a ticket I couldn't fix. It was a lack of trust that I would get the help I need. As I have move up in my career and seen crazy things, I don't mind when the incident is in my hands. At this point holding the ticket means finding the right resources.…

Good tools make the workload lighter, but the hard part is getting the process and procedure to work smoothly in your company. Everybody does it differently, and you need to have access to do your work, and you need to revoke it or limit it to reduce risk, and then report on all of it for compliance. Anybody can open…

There is one correct answer for what Dynamic Field Explorer does.

I also like to point out that when you have beefy infrastructure in your data center you pay up front and buy capacity for a few years. When you make the jump to the cloud, suddenly that nagging task that take up more CPU/RAM/Network than it ought to costs you extra each time it runs. Moving to the cloud means optimizing…

Back when I was doing desk-side support (which I now realize is longer ago than a freshman in collage's birth, thanks adatole ) one of my first steps beyond tier 1 support was swapping tapes for servers in the data center. Grab empty tapes from here, run around popping them out of tape drives all over the place, put them…