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Can you not just skid the car and take out the yobs and the yuppie. At least if you die it won't have been in vain.

Blockchain is just a solution looking for a problem to fix.

The worst thing about DevOps is that management don't know what it means but still force their idea of it onto us techies who are already doing the job properly. All that happens is that stuff gets done poorly because of new tighter deadlines, nothing gets documented or tested and the end result is the users think IT is…

Wot no MS Access.

No No No. That IS a single portion.

Yes. The World Tour was just a marketing exercise but a failure as you were marketing it to people who already have the product and know how to use it. SWUG in person was a chance for the best sales people you have (us Solarwinds techies) to meet your techies and get hints and tips. Also very useful for our networking and…

Self lacing shoes not working. Now that really is a first world problem. How ever did we get by before them. It is quite ironic that you don't even have to bend over to tie the laces on trainers that are supposed to be used by people during exercise.

I'd find this useful as we have over 400 apps running and some behave very differently to others. I'm going to have to set up about 50 different templates in order to report / alert correctly.

Like the NASA project management stuff. Lots of it rings true from my experience with "project managers" most of whom couldn't find their ar53 with both hands and a map.

Reminds me of a recent incident here where some servers became unavailable due to an obscure issue and the documentation on how to get around this issue was only on one of these servers (a virtual one and we couldn't access the console). Ended up restoring the files from backup to get the details of how to fix this issue.…

Shadow IT. We have just now had a request come in for a restore of a supposedly mission critical SQL database. We have never heard of it. After some digging we have discovered that one of the developers has 'lent' some storage space on one of the dev servers to someone he knows in another part of the business. That person…

The worrying thing is I could have made a purchasing decision based on this incorrect information. We have just spent a fortune on several Solarwinds products and this wasn't but could have been the deciding factor of whether we went with Solarwinds or another vendor. The response has been very underwhelming and is leaving…

That's bullying in the workplace. You should report them to HR

This really strikes a chord with me as I see myself as the 'force multiplier' (hopefully others do too). I don't close many tickets but do get involved with a great many where I am able to get the correct people to talk to each other and get ideas bouncing around. Sometimes it's just a nudge in the right direction,…

Last year was my first (OK not actually present, just watching on-line) but learned loads so have this one marked down as busy in my calendar.

We run several and I suspect most people do. I guess any answer would work.

Shame about your "Music Festival" Hopefully Download will be better attended. Only going on the Sunday though.

Facebook won't tell me anything. I'm not on it.

We are just turning on 2FA for e-mail and some web based apps. Users are really confused even though they have been given plenty of notice and documentation.

Get out and about. As a 20 year contractor I am always amazed when I join a new client and find their 3rd line support staff never see users. They have no appreciation of the issues users face and no idea of what the users want. They then make decisions about what technology to foist onto users and specify how it should be…

It's also about managing the management's expectations. If you do that then exceed their expectations you will do well.

Yeah, Top banana. Have a great weekend.

Yes. A good DR plan should be modified as part of the service commissioning / decommissioning process. Most people forget this (or don't even follow a com / decom process). Also a very good point to have an up to date copy of the plan off site. No point having all the information in the office you can't access.

So $9Bn isn't a big deal for Google but a few quid in tax is.

So the LHC scientists are using a really big hammer to crack a very very small nut. What could possibly go wrong.

Maybe if they just made phones with user replaceable batteries and responsible users (more likely than responsible Apple) disposed of them correctly.

E-mails for teams of people who need to know and Solarwinds integrated with Service Now to create tickets. Service Now set up to pick up on new P1 tickets out of hours, select the correct on-call engineer and then phone their mobile via Twillio to wake them up and let them know of the P1.

Not really helpful as three of them could be correct if it was just a little typo.

Quantum Computing. It's nowhere near ready yet. It probably will get there but maybe in 20 years or so.

Used to work for a Fire Brigade and they were still using XP for certain applications and they wouldn't run on Win7. It would have cost £5M to replace all the kit it talked to to get a Win10 version.