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Yes. I'm always having to explain to idiot management why I don't appear to be doing much. I also show them how much I achieve compared to others who always seem busy and overworked. There's no point in rushing around like a headless chicken when you can sit down, think about the problem then fix it.

On the other hand they usually double what you tell them anyway. I was once asked how many units of alcohol I drank per week. I told the truth and the doc nearly fell of her chair. I didn't think it was that much but she had assumed I was lying and doubled it. If I really did drink that much I'd probably fall off MY chair.

I think it took at least 6 hours to run for me. I just left it to finish.

Surely a "Big Blue" hole.

If you run a hybrid solution with on premises, cloud and SaaS where would you place your monitoring solution ? I'm just interested in other peoples thoughts and reasoning. I may create a poll for this.

We are trying to use Solarwinds WPM to monitor websites but it can't cope with some pop up authentication windows. I've had a support ticket open for months about this. Pity as it could be really useful.

Oh boy. You really don't know my mum. Forgetting her birthday will condemn you to hell for all eternity. Mentioning her age is much worse.

There are many places running on old equipment. Sometimes it cannot be replaced because there isn't a suitable replacement. Sometimes the replacement is too expensive, sometimes it is just too complicated to replace. I've worked in places where I have had to support really old stuff for all of these reasons. I've given up…

I've been banging on about this for years but management just don't want to listen. You need people to look forward to the next lesson, be talking about the last one and not realise that they are learning. You can make it fun and competitive without having to supply prizes but that helps too. Look at what Solarwinds have…

I'm British. 1984 is compulsory reading. Given it was released in 1949 it was surprisingly prescient. 

IOT is mostly low end stuff where every penny counts for the manufacturer. Do you really think they would spend more than they needed to in order to make them secure. Of course not. I have none in my home. Two reasons. They are gimicks and I suspected they wouldn't be secure.

Tracking via mobile phone location data. Here in the UK we expect the government will do this but will then completely balls up the prosecution as they don't pay enough for the good lawyers to work on their side. Only the bad guys can afford the good lawyers.

Oh dear. Today (Wed) it may be a typo or a trick but one of the answers will cause some concern.

So Facebook is selling data to 3rd parties and they are then allowing free access to the data. Surely there must be something in the contract between Facebook and the 3rd parties to stop this. Maybe Facebook sues the 3rd parties then gives the money to the affected people. 

Office Space. Live it every day here.

Worked fine for me (if that helps diagnose the issue).

Surely it's worse if you have done everything and find one cable left over.

Yes but proper English mustard, not that weak American stuff.

I wouldn't say TOTALLY crazy but you do work in IT and are involved in Systems Monitoring. That's enough to drive you crazy.

As far as I can see, most companies will refuse to take data security seriously until forced. Hopefully GDPR will help. I'm not holding my breath though.

What !!!! Microsoft software with a security bug. You can't be serious

Quantum Computing. It wasn't that long ago we only had systems with 1 or 2 Qbits. It won't be long before we get a lot more than 20. Patience people.

Finding it is the challenge and you have failed Patients is a virtue but for Hospitals they are quite important.

Agreed. VM snapshots really don't work that way. They really should be deleted or merged within a few days at most. In the UK we are required to keep data generated for non-adult's for 99 years. The person will be long dead before we can delete the data we can't even access any more.

There are many different solutions but be careful. The place I'm now at installed and set up Nagios because it was free. It was then left to rot for several years until I turned up. I'm in the process of fixing it so that I can replace it with something else. Due to the issues it has caused and the cost in time it looks…

WHOIS proved very useful at a previous client. One of our suppliers contacted us because there was a small discrepancy in an order for 9 laptops. We hadn't ordered them so I asked them to send me the purchase order. It all looked correct except for the delivery address and the e-mail domain which was very slightly…

Great link at the bottom. I'm always looking up this stuff. Now I have it all in one place.

Fortunately I live in London. Public transport, although overcrowded and expensive, still gets you there faster that a car driven by someone who totally relies on sat-nav.

Ah yes, the Marks & Spencers 'Love Sausage'. Either someone was having a laugh or someone has no idea. Don't try googling it though.

Amazon poaching Microsoft staff. Nothing new there. Amazon need experienced staff. Not many staff available with the skills locally except for all those just down the road at Microsoft. Amazon have loads of money. Offer big salaries and naturally the staff will move. Give it a couple of years and they will start moving the…