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Yes, that's annoying. I don't need any information but have to select something just to complete. Seems a complete waste of someone's time and I'll probably get bombarded with sales calls. I recently asked for a small piece of information about a ManageEngine product and they started calling me every day. Eventually I told…

I wouldn't bother. It doesn't work in Firefox or Opera either.

Cory Doctorow - When Sysadmins ruled the earth. http://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked_-_When_Sysadmins_Ruled_the_Earth-A4.pdf

Yes, the Boston Dynamics folks are doing some really impressive stuff but I still have a soft spot for Honda's Azimo. ASIMO by Honda | The World's Most Advanced Humanoid Robot

As a SysAdmin I resemble that remark.

@"rschroeder" I feel your pain. I'm the SysAdmin here. We currently have free Nagios . However, after a year of badgering manglement I'm getting SAM, NPM, Patch Manager and IPAM . Just installed the two physical servers I will be running it on into the server racks and am waiting until we get the Business Continuity…

Yes, there must be a way for users to get software that isn't currently supplied by IT. We ask them to log ticket so that IT can check out the software first then package it and install via SCCM if the effort justifies the time or just install manually. Anyone caught installing software without IT consent is liable to…

AWS taking something and then charging for it. Sounds familiar. Maybe Microsoft have become a role model.

Nice to have but imagine you were out of town, received an alert and then spent several days worrying about it until you got back and either found burst pipes or no issue. If you hadn't had the alert you would have enjoyed your time away then came back to what you would have found anyway (unless you cut short your trip or…

Linear Regression. Bah. I wait until the orange light comes on and I know I have 30 miles of reserve to find a fuel station. Put it on a card and worry about paying for it later. I'm going to Vegas and, as you all know. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Hopefully I'll win enough to pay for the fuel.

Don't bother changing your Twitter password. Just delete yourself and use all the newly created time for beer and bacon.

@"rob.collins" Does my pet tapeworm count Not a great conversationalist and eats a lot but it is companionship.

When I got here I found a Win2k3 syslog server running Kiwi but no one was using it. It's now a Win2k8 server still running Kiwi and no one using it. Baby steps.

Home DNA testing data being leveraged. No surprise there. It was only a matter of time. I did think the police would have been there first though. What a great way to get a DNA database without having to do the testing or getting a law change to allow it. Get people to pay for and test themselves.

Yep. IBM buying Red Hat. Time to move to a new distro. I can't see this being anything other than bad. That said, we are still running some Red Hat 4 servers and can't upgrade due to the applications not working on newer versions. Something will have to be done however as we have just implemented a new backup solution…

I want to be Bacon certified.

I monitor as much as I can. It is the alerting that is key. I try to only alert when something needs to be fixed and I only alert those people who can either fix the problem or who are management who NEED to know about the issue. That way we have all the information gathered but there is no blizzard of useless information.

The best tool for the job irrespective of cost. That includes staff. The one extra is - get the best monitoring solution you can afford. It will save you lots in the long term.

Blockchain. Still a solution looking for a problem.

You needed to listen to the audio. It very clearly gave the answer. It nearly caught me out.

You can but you will have to travel back to yesterday to do so (and your companion will have to die).

Things have really changed. It used to be that senior technical people had long hair, beards, wore sandals and worked their magic behind closed doors with no user interaction at all. Now we all go to business meetings where we talk to users in their language, find out what they really need, propose solutions (and explain…

This would be great. I've done a bit with Universal Device Pollers (after extracting the MIB and getting the OIDs) and got some reports from Exagrid support which took a bit of work with Excel to generate something useful. Apart from that I've just got the Exagrid management portal which isn't great.

They also see it as a transfer of staff and don't retain anyone to monitor the systems or the outsource company. They seem to think the outsource company will care if the systems are up or down. Of course the users will yell at the management who will point fingers but no longer have any control of what happens. Systems…

It's about time Microsoft dropped the password expiry policy. I've been trying to get manglement here to do that but they won't because Microsoft say no. Now they say Yes it will be interesting to see what happens. 

Looks like Quantum Computers are still a solution looking for a problem. Might be useful some day but Quantum Entanglement could be a good way of moving data quickly.

It's always easier to get the money to secure yourself against attacks after an attack than before. There are too many areas asking for money and not enough to go around. Senior management just hope that nothing bad will happen whilst they use what little cash they have to fix something else. If only there was some sort of…

We used to have something similar here in the UK. No wait. They were trains and could carry much more for a lot less money.

Unfortunately you haven't taken into account an MVP specifically said the correct answers were on page 5 and NOT to look at page 3 ( felixforbes 03-Oct-2018 05:55 ) It is OK having your own opinion but others are allowed to have theirs too. IMHO these quizzes are used to advertise and promote product. It's great that we…

OR, the manufacturers built the systems to work with game controllers because that's all the kids know. They are unable to adapt to what may be a better control system.