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I and my wife got a dinner at a high end steak place after I helped out someone related to the owner of the restaurant on a weekend.

I like the article, scott.driver​ laid out a lot of of great points about support and cost of VDI. We do use VDI, we have a max of about 2500 concurrent sessions of a non-persistent desktop on a weekday, usually early to mid-morning. VDI's TCO ebb and flow from slightly cheaper to a bit more expensive depending on hardware…

I am inexperienced with PowerShell, so perhaps somebody here can explain to me why this might be desirable behavior because I'm just not getting it. I think they let you treat six as both a string or an integer because you might need to send it to a destination as one or the other. Obviously the integer value of 6 is used…

Licensing drives me nuts. I don't like when I talk to multiple people from a software vendor and get back different answers. I don't like it when they say, "it will probably be fine" but then never put it in writing. The terms and conditions for many products get worse each year. There is a line where they will lose our…

Welcome new MVPs! Congrats to all of you!

In the near future we are moving to a new data center, it will be my first without raised floors. All slab and overhead cable trays.

I remembered that they typically decrease production if the grid doesn't need it, and googled the quote below: Wind turbines have two kinds of "breaks": pitch and stall. Then, an option is decreasing electricity production from wind turbines or not producing anything, just stopping the turbines. What does happen to the…

Today self driving cars are not completely ready, but the advancement in building them is impressive. I think soon I will trust them.

Probably, but most criminals don't need IoT. Simpler, easier, and cheaper to pick a lock, break a window, or pry open a door.

Great week!

Right, in this case AI means Machine learning. We have an "AI" that watches our Extrahop information. You don't tell it what to alert on, you send it information. It tracks what is and isn't normal, and the more data it has the better. Announcing Addy Automated Investigation | ExtraHop When its not normal, it shouts. If it…

Good advice!

Part that drives me nuts is when I pay and I am still the product.

Same error for me, I did not choose the bacon.

I could almost smell the paella! Thanks for the summary

I love the cartoon version of the phrase

I don't think the future is clear for all organization, cloud does some things better and cheaper, and it can fit certain business and accounting mindsets better, but while I might agreed with you a few years ago, I am seeing more and more that the hybrid model is not going anywhere for a while.

This is the biggest change I have seen in IT. Its always changed, but now its harder than ever to find the time to keep your skills ready for the next thing.

We have added polling engines, we are about to add web servers, and my database gets re-allocated resources about every other month. (always more). Fail over is on the horizon, but not seen as urgent. Yet.

rschroeder wrote: * and if you move from Static/Reserved Addressing to Fixed or Leased DHCP settings, it's not going to require new FDA certification. My favorite is a "new" product we installed this year that not only wanted static IPs. but could only find it devices use the first six characters when the IP is stored as…

I think this is a great idea. I can see a set of actions where I update an action once and it then is used in all by the alerts that call it.

Thanks! I feel like I knew what you said, but seeing it in black and white made it sink in a bit. I needed to hear it.

It's happened. We have had a product from a 3rd party vendor require containers. Now is definitely the time to get an understanding of this and related tech.

I have a few lights using Phillips Hue that Alexa can control too. I typically don't want to talk to my lights, and the lights work with normal switches, and a dedicated app besides alexa. I do use the automation though. If our Nest thermostats say we are away for an hour, the Hue lights in a few rooms are programmed to…

This is how I felt at one point, but the walls between us are down, and we are speaking the same language now. All it took was them believing that I want the same things they want.

I think the loss of market forces is exactly what led to the FCC rules in the first place.

Its an interesting addition, and I will be excited to see where it goes.

I think its open to the US, Canada, Great Britain, and Germany.

rschroeder wrote: Other silo'd IT staff push back, relying on the freeware version of Nagios, despite my encouragement to use SW products. The never-ending story . . . I have been in that seat, and I won't pretend there is a magic fix, or that things are idyllic here. I can say that I made great progress, and the key was…

Now that is Bratwurst.