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I'm currently in the process of evaluating what my new client needs in terms of monitoring. They have an open source solution in place which hasn't been maintained and seems to involve a huge amount of scripting knowledge to make work. It also requires an agent to be installed on every server. It might be cheap but you get…

Yes you can. Select Other and type in nothing. That's what I did.

Thanks to the current situation I’ve been furloughed so every day is a summer day, relaxing, drinking beer and letting the non furloughed peeps take the strain for a while. It is quite pleasing to see them struggle. Now they know what my life has been like.

Good luck teaching kids ethics these days. Most have been brought up with the mentality of wild animals. Here in London we are seeing 12 year olds stabbing people to death because they can.

That pic works for me every month.

You should try talking to our DBAs. I don't think they even understand the concepts of backup and restore.

It doesn't take a whole data centre to be down, just the bit that holds my stuff. Then I am down and that's all I really care about.

My brain hurts now.

I'm glad I moved away from the government / public sector as it is rapidly becoming a nightmare to manage. In the UK financial restraints and a fragmented approach have made an environment which is almost impossible to completely protect. Now I'm back in the private sector I have complete oversight of my company network…

I'd like my data to be mine but it will never happen. Too many powerful people and organisations are the ones who are abusing the data for their own personal gain. Same way we still have a petroleum based economy instead of clean energy. The greedy people are in charge.

I seem to remember it was more drinking than 10 pin bowling. As you said though, great to catch up with so many repeat offenders. Hope they put the wheelie bags in the THWACK Store.

Unfortunately IT is always evolving and we, as IT professionals, have to evolve too. I have tons of qualifications in subjects I no longer use and am constantly learning new stuff. The only thing that keeps me sane (ish) is that I understand the basic principles of fault diagnosis. The same though process apply no matter…

I see it a bit different. Previously I have put in an HCI solution for a client which was made over complicated because it was HCI (OK Dell didn't help). I'm in the middle of specing a standalone server room for a new site we are creating. 30+ users creating audio and video content but isolated from our main network. Two…

Machine Learning will be developed by the big data corporations and we all know about their ethics

@"rschroeder" Yep, the mug is great. Holds 4 espressos from the machine at work. Good start to the morning. Unfortunately I've been working from home all week as the office is on skeleton staff due to the Zombie Apocalypse and it is looking like the office will be closed after tomorrow with everyone working from home.…

But it also says you can access Default Alerts for one of the answers. Default implies it is allowed. Even if you say one of the answers isn't out of the box there are still two possibly correct answers. Yet another ambiguous question.

Absolutely intended. Very apt too.

Let me go back and fix that for you. 

Unfortunately the correct answer is NOT on page 5.

Went to a staff briefing on GDPR today given by our Data Protection Officer (I didn't know we had one). Apparently they will be publishing some guidelines in the next few weeks for us. He's only had two years to get ready. Ho Hum. 

Well, Glass half empty - I didn't win again. Glass half full - I've kept my 100% record of not winning anything.

As has been said elsewhere, most countries have a lower legal speed limit anyway so this is an attempt to win over the safety nutters who think speed is the issue. The real issue is the totally appalling driving standards. I have a close friend who is a driving examiner here in the UK. He carries out 7 driving examinations…

If only we always bought identical devices. I don't think we have two the same so having templates just isn't an option.

Security keys are not a new idea or the answer. Over 20 years ago I had a client who used swipe cards to access their systems. People were forever forgetting to bring them to work or losing them. Last year I was doing a contract at London Fire Brigade. Walking down the street I found someone's LFB ID pass lying on the…

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I've seen real UIs even worse than that. 

True. I also get a lot of "Why can't I have mode disk space. I have terabytes at home". I explain about backups, disaster recovery, speed, costs etc. and wait for them to glaze over and give up.

How are you ?

22 years ago I had progressed as far up the techie path that I could in the company I worked for. I would have to go into management to get any more pay rises (I was already two pay grades above my manager and had a better company car). I refused so was forced out. I went contracting for 20 years as a techie. Now, thanks…

If there's one thing Germans do well it's meat (certainly not football at present). I've had some great times there. I did once get flashed by a speed camera in Germany. I was in a hire Merc but had picked it up in East Germany and was flashed in West Germany. I think they just gave up.