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Agreed, good stuff in there.

I got to stage 3, didn't like it so went back to two Seriously though, Millenials. Stage 2 forever.

Tech companies collecting vast amounts of data. Yes they are. Do they get tax breaks etc. for passing that data on to government. Probably. They don't do it for free.

Most fake reviews are fairly obvious. I read through most of the reviews and find the middle ground. I then look elsewhere for reviews of the product and make an informed decision. One 5* review doesn't make me think the product is great.

Even better for me. The points for Q20 took me over the 100,000 points mark.

It took me a while to find the answer because I didn't believe what I first found. Silly me.

LA Fitness. Why are you surprised that they make it so hard to leave. That's been he norm for years. Agree with too much stuff being added to other projects such as digital transformation. We have a GDPR project that has been delayed for over a year because they bolted a Windows 10 rollout onto it and they didn't get…

You should never stop learning and should always try to be the best you can be. Every day you should be better than you were yesterday (learn something new no matter how small) and therefore will always be the GOAT version of yourself. 

These issues usually arise from staff numbers being cut to the bone, pressure from management to deliver systems yesterday without full testing and staff having no training or time (or senior staff being made redundant, junior staff being asked to do senior roles and new cheaper staff being employed). The IT staff then get…

Alerts go to the relvent people / teams mailboxes. Up to them how they deal with them. We also have a large telly on the wall with rotating dashboards showing the current issues, key systems status, network map showing critical infrastructure status etc. Was going to integrate with ServiceNow but the client hasn't the…

I've got the same issue. Can't do live training because we run SAM as a managed service through a 3rd party. That means no customer portal access and no training (and no Thwack points). Daft really as I still configure and manage SAM and can make decisions as to whether we use other Solarwinds products or go to a different…

Tickets, passport and money. Anything else you can buy with the money.

Unusual use of the word JOY

Yep, thought it looked familiar and yes, there I am in the middle(ish). 

We patch servers every month unless there is a major vuln. where we patch as soon as it is tested. Workstations and laptops are patched daily. Anti virus and malware is patched daily for users and hourly for servers. We also monitor for unusual activity both internally and via an external NOC. We also run Nessus scans…

Blue light from LEDs. If only there was some sort of long term testing program available that could see if there was any truth to this. I imagine the fact that millions and millions of people use LED screes every day with no apparent issue might just prove something.

Yeah because burbon has been around for how long (best guess is 1783). Bushmills is the oldest licensed distillery in the world (1608) and still winning awards. 

Yes, I remember being able to borrow a sawn off shotgun for some clay pigeon shooting at the weekend (because the banks were closed). OK, I stole that from an episode of "Only fools and horses" but it was funny.

Many years ago I turned up at a client who had taken the two provider approach. I knew that they had made sure each pipe came in from a different direction so no shared infrastructure such as wires, poles etc. They were on ADSL and the internet connection was down. After several calls I discovered that the providers hadn't…

1979 - The Boomtown Rats - I don't like Mondays. The silicone chip inside her head gets switched to overload. Premonition of things to come ?

Good article. We used to have multiple Solarwinds products monitoring our systems. Then management outsourced the network support so we lost NPM and the outsourcing company used their own product. Now we are replacing our server infrastructure with an HCI solution. This hardware can't be monitored by Solarwinds and only a…

Will a damp cloth do ?

Lyft. I wouldn't want to see that in my rear view mirror. It looks too much like a police car.

Arrrrgggghhhhh. Just had my day ruined. I had booked this afternoon as a training session but management have decided I need to sit in a useless meeting where nothing will be achieved (yet again). Somebody get me out of here.

Cars that talk to each other are OK IF all the cars are doing this. The problem is when some don't. What happens if one car says look out I'm here and the other one is deaf (no tech.) There is also the problem of dumbing down drivers. Eventually you will get to the situation where the driver can't manually get out of a…

Answered the poll and left a comment but systems says it is waiting for me to take the poll. I must be a Thwackaholic as I'm now sweating and shivering with the absense of points. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas it's a really bad time to be going through Cold Turkey Update - Now got green check mark and points.…

Too true. I once did a 71 hour stint on a DR. I did make the buggers get me pizza to keep me going.

I see what you mean. Will have to think about this before pulling the trigger. I might be overthinking it though.

Could have really used this at my last place. The ID Management solution had about 50 feeds for user data in and out. It was really complex and no one really understood how it worked as everyone who did know had left. 

Yes. I've been pushing our SaaS SAM provider to get their system upgraded so I can monitor our 50,000+ Office365 accounts. Unfortunately they borked the system update and now I can't even add nodes.