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Ah, Twitter and Facebook, which I believe were listed in the Bible as signs of the Apocalypse. I can imagine those legendary four horsemen riding aimlessly, gazing mindlessly at their mobile phones, so that the End Times never happen thanks to cat videos.

"Hey, we've bought this new software, but we don't have time to manage it, and it's kind of sorta like what you already support, so you do it." "The head office for our global firm has undertaken a comprehensive software platform review, and have determined the following software packages best meet our present and future…

Ahem. For today's question (Friday, 21 July) the line is better parsed as "I canna do it captain, I dinna have tha power!"

Somewhere in your company there will be, or should be, a small set of people with knowledge of a broad base of technologies and disciplines - networking, hardware, OSes, multiple scripting languages, databases, internal and third party application, automation. Each member should or will have a different, overlapping skill…

Of course there is also the opposite assumption, that nepotism was the sole reason for the hiring. It could be the boss' son has mad skills and deep institutional knowledge, giving him an essential role in the company and so his requests need prioritization.

Definitely going to run this against a couple of our databases where we've been having issues.

My dice were all different colors and fonts. I think I still have them, somewhere...

This one is the toughest.

New York, New York! Or hereabouts - New Jersey is cheaper and has great food.

Think of it as an opportunity to train them properly, the way you want them to learn.

The strange thing is that we are still having these conversations. There have been multiple news stories about companies that suffered because they didn't have backups, and major events - storms, earthquakes, human actions - that wrecked large areas. One would think that this was enough to get it through to the planners…

It is still occurring in 12.3 - we have Juniper devices where ports are not showing in alphabetical/ASCII order. JoePoutre

Wild Turkey is a also good option.

Sorry. I'll get my coat.

To defeat any AI all you need do is wait for the little circling icon to appear, just like any other computer, and unplug it. Other options are confusing it with an unsolvable quote like saying "I am lying", aka the Kirk Method, or sending enough redshirts against the killer AI that it runs out of ammunition, which is the…

So you haven't had to scan those into electronic format? We were starting to do that, about 30 years ago, at a former employer. Hopefully you'll have the chance at that fun!

I'll let you know once I'm at my new employer and can dive into their/our SolarWinds system.

I've been thinking back about this, remembering where it all started. Back in my university days in the mid-80's (1980s, not 1880s!) I had an ATT desktop, and bought myself a 9600 baud modem card. Most of my classmates were still on 900 or at best 2400 baud, so that was impressive then. I did homework and research from my…

Great, now I have to make certain my crock pot isn't part of a DDOS, or telling foreign spies what I'm having for dinner. Seriously, though, there is risk when users work from home, using a cable-company-provided wi-fi router, possibly an old model with outdated security or even security turned off because it's annoying to…

Knowledge sharing should be considered 100% critical to enhancing the employee experience! I'd wager a good lunch that 100% of us have had to help users who hadn't had necessary knowledge shared with them. (As well as users who hadn't taken advantage of such.) On that subject I find a significant priority is to present…

Let's see... My first ever office door name plate, plastic with magnets Miniature Etch-A-Sketch, no idea where it came from. Lego knight, again a mystery The Tick on a car as a wind-up toy K-9 on rolling wheels who has an electronic voice that says only "Affirmative, Master". A broken wind-up talking, sparking Godzilla A…

Or jokes about clams.

For Thursday, in my last employment, we were using MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, Mongo, Hadoop, and likely others I hadn't yet encountered; these are the ones for which I helped set up monitoring. Presently I am learning Azure, since my last employer had a custom private cloud.

If you tell your friend you could both learn Morse code. You could also give it to a family member but not explain how it works. Imagine the fun!

Can we all share the Netflix password for your new series? I promise only to use this power for the greater good!

And, by the end of the week you're 10 miles from the office!

Already you have Dropped haiku requirement Had made thwack more fun

Oh no, I blew it today! My own fault, fudgeroohoo. I guess I'll have to get fit on my own. Another useful mission this.