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OK, makes sense but. In our IT department (and it is fairly common), the Infrastructure peeps (myself included) are insulated from users by the Application Support team. They are supposed to be involved with the user experience but every time there is a problem management come directly to us. I then explain that NO the…

My brain hurts. Q2 doesn't add up (or am I just reading it wrong).

I'm worried now. I've been in this game for 30 years and I don't have any of the above. I don't feel the need to check stuff over and over. If I've got it right I will get an e-mail alert in the event of a problem. I definitely don't want the latest and greatest (e.g. my phone is 6+ years old). Monitors. I have two. Only…

Already signed up. Can't wait.

Good stuff. AI isn't intelligent yet. What we currently have are systems with loads of pre-configured conditions and responses. Those come from people's real life experience and intelligence. Whatever you do, don't put them all in the one place in case they start interacting and actually become intelligent (oops. Azure,…

Certainly don't do it for the money. We have admin oxygen thieves earning more than 3rd line techies.

Good stuff but I do agree that I want to monitor my cloud stuff at least as much as my on prem (maybe even more) as I have less control of it. I want to know even further in advance that something is beginning to go wrong. Environmental monitoring is usually forgotten. Several years ago I had just started at a new client…

Oh good. Hacking DRM is OK now. I'll just cite the Feds when plod comes knocking, not that they will as they don't even bother to turn up if you catch someone nicking your bike (yep someone in the UK caught a scumbag trying to steal his motorcycle so he grabbed the scrote, pinned him down and called the police. Police said…

It's a bit more complicated than that as there may be more correct answers than the question setter thinks. I've found extra information. Now, do they just want only the answers that are in the hint or do they want ALL that apply ?

Password security has always been an issue. Make them too easy and they can be cracked with little effort. Make them to complex and users won't remember them so will write them down and store them somewhere insecure. It is a balance between the two that is the difficult bit. If someone really wants to crack a password,…

You could probably have an alert trigger a Web Performance Monitor session to order a taco from Just Eat to be delivered to the office.

And yet on previous questions we have HAD to go away from the hint page to find the correct answers. Where is the consistency. How are we supposed to know when to stay on one page for the answer and when to dig a lot deeper. Given how many times the questions have also been incorrectly set up so that we have single choice…

I don't understand this obsession of taking photos of yourself then forcing them on others. I take photos of things I've seen and look at them as a reminder. If someone else wants to look at them they can but that would only be friends and family. They last thing they want to do is look at pictures of me. If you want to do…

Would never have an Apple watch but it would be interesting to see one try to dial 911 here in the UK. I imagine the gun toting yokels from the US of A wouldn't turn up. They'd probably shoot first anyway.

I'm guessing it would be great but not sure about the after party and drinking.

Surely the waste nuclear materials stored on the dark side of the moon exploded in 1999 and sent the moon off on a wild journey through space (taking with it the moonbase and all it's crew). I'm sure I watched a series of documentaries on this in the 1970's. Space: 1999 - Wikipedia

To be fair though, if important information about a product is missing from the documentation or the documentation is misleading it could lead you to not even considering the product.

I think you may be correct. It doesn't look like a one answer question given the hint.

I've lost count of the number of times people in IT departments that I have worked in have argued against the use of data security as it negatively impacts them. I explain to them the consequences of data theft and the stock answer is "That's your problem not mine". WRONG. It's everyone's problem. I guess most would fail…

Blockchain not much use. At last. Common sense starts to prevail.

Agreed. Now I feel safe to answer (and got it right). Thanks.

If I had unlimited time and money I would get some IT training for IT managers. Most of the ones I have had to deal with can barely tie their own shoelaces and we don't give them sharp objects.

Now the latest question is borked. Yet another one that requires you to enter text but when you enter the correct text you get it wrong.

My IT journey (30 years so far) is a bit like being on a rollercoaster that is still being built. Sometimes I'm also the person building it so have some control. Sometimes it is being built by morons (think IT management) and that is where it gets worrying. I don't like rollercoasters.

VMWare buying up the world. I'm not sure this is even a problem. I don't know anyone who uses both technologies.

So DevOps is just the new name for doing IT the way it should have been done in the first place but rushing it and almost certainly getting it wrong.

I won't hold my breath. This is my 7th month on Thwack and I have 7 months of all green but still no prize.

Yep. That's the scope for confusion I was referring to. Look at the IP addresses of the '4' Hosts.

Stem Cells can turn into many different types of cells. If you can control what they turn into you would have a very good way of replacing dead, damaged or missing cells and be able to cure or manage many many illnesses and diseases. Pity one of the sources of stem cells are embryos and that attracts a lot of bad…

Not sure about making the job candidates interview themselves. Might work for an internal vacancy but I can't see it working for an external one. The external person wouldn't have any of the requisite information.