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Agree. Yet another ambiguous question. 

Good article. I'm in an environment where I have inherited a load of quick fix solutions that don't really hold together. It came about because of rapid growth, mergers and acquisitions. Talk about a huge 'Technical Debt'. Now I have to try to rationalise it into some sort of cohesive solution without impacting the…

But you would need this installed first. AgentSimilar to the Applet, the Agent enables remote access, but it is installed as a Windows Service or a Mac Daemon. This means the application enables unattended support to the computer on which it is deployed.

Pretty annoyed about these. We use solarwinds through a managed service provider and therefore don't have a customer portal account. The points would be nice as well as the training. Ho Hum.

Automated patch management and having a centralised patch management dashboard are two very different things. I'm happy to have a centralised dashboard so we can see what is patched and to what level. However, automated patching is a real no-no. We have many servers that cannot be patched to the latest level until the…

Manic Miner on the Spectrum used to drive me mad. Currently Defiance has been re-released on the PC. Love the sniper rifles. Anything Halo.

I don't mind coherent systems. It's incoherent managers I object to.

John Lennon Airport in Liverpool has been locked down and everyone quarantined. Imagine........All the people.

Surely most of the internet is fake. I spend a significant amount of my working day researching solutions to problems or new solutions for work. Most of what I see is utter garbage (or fake). Problem is that opinions are like ar5eholes, everyone's got one and most of them are wrong. Sometimes because the person just…

Have to agree. I wasn't aware of the product offering. Now I do, I can offer an alternative to what we currently use. 

And yet I've worked with management who don't understand the network and won't spend money on anything network related. After all, "It's just some wires isn't it".

Yes

Good luck getting developers and operators communicating. 

We use a managed service for Solar Winds and I have just been speaking to them about getting this in place. Looking at Synthetic Transaction Monitoring at the very least and hopefully a whole lot more. 

I think I've pretty much convinced them here that Solarwinds is the way forward. Hopefully I can get most if not all of the products. Must talk to someone about a really good deal.

Yep, went through the list and the only ones I watched were GoT and Westworld (mostly for the death, destruction and nudity ).

I kinda get what they are trying to do with Fishcoin but it isn't really a crypto currency so the name is misleading. They are trying to secure the supply chain and stop illegal fishing being profitable. It is a major problem with declining fish stocks and over fishing. 

Yep, Advertising is a waste of time. Oh, hang on a minute. I work for a global Ad agency. oops

Microsoft recommending better security practices is a bit much. Maybe if their products had even the most basic security we wouldn't be in the mess we are in. 

Don't allow scope creep. No one should be able to add to your change. If they want something else, either redefine the change and start again or create new changes to cater for what they want in addition to your change. You can bet that they won't be blamed for your change failure after they have modified it. 

Hackers will always be a step ahead. We have to try to cover all bases and react to new attacks. Hackers just have to think up new ways. We have to be lucky all the time. They just have to be lucky once.

Will the AI be made to sigh a non disclosure agreement and how will it be prosecuted for breaking the agreement. I'm sure you won't be allowed to turn it off as some do-gooder will try to class it as a life form and therefore have rights.

Ours has evolved to be a complete mess with very heavy over commitment in VMWare.. That's why we are replacing the lot with brand new Dell HCI running on VxRail. Should be interesting.

Clear as mud.

I watch human beings make terrible decisions every day. What's to say AIs won't just do the same given that their underlying programming was done by the same human beings. Don't forget that our underlying programming was done by our parents, relatives and first school teachers..

I started here a few months ago and found that no one talked to our service providers. We have a Managed service for Solarwinds and no one was talking to them to keep the system up to date. We now have a weekly teleconference set up to get the lines of communication open and I have a contact there who will make changes /…

Too right. My first inkling of a project was when the supplier turned up with the project manager and said they were there to install stuff. Apparently the project manager had brought in some mates to do a Cloud Readiness Awareness Project (yep he hadn't spotted the acronym). He had spent £250,000 and all they were going…

Bumps ? Mine has bloody great pot holes and some of the bridges we have to cross haven't even been built yet.

I completed the final mission correctly, took the survey and was then presented with a screen saying I got the question wrong. That means that I won't be entered for the prize draw. What is going on.

If anyone knows about security loopholes it's Microsoft.