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Many moons ago we did have a user whose keyboard and trackball were always gross. She ate at her desk and apparently didn't bother using a napkin. DO NOT EAT AT YOUR DESK, PEOPLE!

Dunkin'! They're powered by coffee and sugar.

I need to add an SNMPTrap Trigger action to a number of alert types, to forward the alarms to a central monitoring console system, and having to repeatedly add it to each Alert is frustrating, especially since I also want to add a Reset Action to automatically clear the alert. Plus, to test each new alert I send it to a…

So where's Raquel Welch? 

The misuse of the word "categorically". The abuse of the word "like". American "football". IT teams that aren't interested in helping, only finding ways to reject requests without providing useful follow up. Java that doesn't come from brewed beans. The Hallmark Channels

Another year passing away. One last mission, though not one of mercy.

I had used the API at a previous position, when it was less powerful than it is today. I'm glad it's being improved and expanded.

Great, now I want an MLT.

Where is the Jersey Devil? You have dared cross this powerful, very long-lived being to your peril! http://weirdnj.com/stories/jersey-devil/

5 for 5 first week! Woo-hoo!

No backups? I back mine up to my desktop computer at least weekly, which is in turn backed up to a separate hard drive more than daily. When I have a day recording absolutely essential data I'll back it up that night. The bigger risk is accessing that data. The software you used to use to create the data store becomes…

And here I thought June's mission would be about bugs. JoeP

I was referring to the people at Solarwinds who came up with the trading card images. The products are not at all worrisome nor amusing, though I am, from time to time, confused.

How about printers? In my early IT days I was a tape wrangler and a printer "manager". The giant high-speed printers that used the holed green-and-white sheets, the band of metal letters that had to be carefully aligned after regularly cleaning the ink out of the O's and A's and other such characters. Then you'd go through…

Sleeping policeman, elsewhere in the world.

We're having nachos and rice and beans for USA Independence Day, with a variety of potables including French wine and American beer. Then to the local ice cream parlor, the diet can wait. And finally we watch things being blown up! Ka-boom! I also never berate, call out, or abuse the customer service person, because we all…

Password reuse is the mirror problem of password reset policies that require users to create long, complicated passwords on multiple unconnected systems with different password creation rules, and which have to be significantly changed every X weeks or months, and therefore inevitably end up on Post-it notes on the user's…

Me too, I'll have to come back to find out what I misunderstood in the question. Oh well, nobody is perfect!

At a regional phone company I was told (wasn't there that day) of a maintenance person working on our mainframe who found a loooooong wire connecting two points, hanging in a looped coil. He decided this was a silly waste of resources, cut it to length and plugged it back in. It turned out that someone had put the looooong…

Of course not; today is the Glorious First of June. Yes, this is a genuine commemorative event, amongst we naval historians.

We had a similar event back in the 1980s, at one of the early Internet services. Some "brilliant" person put the "Emergency Power Shutdown" and "Open Security Door" buttons too close to each other. Yes, one was red and one silver/pewter, yet an unaware security guard doing his/her rounds ended up hitting the wrong one as…

Sure - when's the last time those were even opened? Back in the day, a dosing with deionized water followed by a thorough drying would sometimes help a keyboard drowned in coffee or soda.

I am unable to access the quiz. I try to be honest, so I can't say Yes, but I want that prize! I am in two lemons!

And how much wine or beer accompanied said food? Any recommended brands?

I learned the answer to today's question (Week 3, Monday, question 11) at the Boston SWUG!

Not yet. One of these days...

Hey everybody! Have you heard of these newfangled thingies "pen and paper"? It's a method for storing data that doesn't require batteries, stores data in an easily readable format that will remain readable to your successors! (Depending on the care of your input.) And it's easily securable! I also still have a horseshoe in…

You have two eyes and two ears, so just run one into each set!

Felicitations and thanks for your work, Monsieur Adato. Have you ever considered running a pick-up game of D+D after a SWUG?