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@"ecklerwr1" Nice one. We've only got 3000 worldwide but almost everyone is working from home via VPN with full access to everything and everyone has video conferencing from their laptop / mac. Even the IT team is working remotely. Video conferencing seems to be working very well with no glitches. I was on a call yesterday…

Just started a new job where I'm tasked with looking at the evolved systems and trying to sort out the mess. I'm being pulled in 20 different directions with no time to figure out the hows and whys of what was done in the past. All this whilst not having high level access as "I'm new". Might be interesting trying to pass…

Someone was killed by a self driving Uber car in Arizona recently. I guess that is software killing someone.

Unfortunately they think we are mind readers and can perform magic at the drop of a hat (a top hat with a rabbit in it ?).

I'm surprised they didn't go back in time and fix it yesterday then claim we were all mistaken. It's what I would have done

Moi aussi.

Yeah, my good deed for the week. Now I can go back to being a miserable sod.

What ? You're telling me data in the cloud might not be secure. I find that really hard to believe (not). I'm surprised it's only 20%.

Can't access the customer portal. Changed jobs 11 months ago and lost access (as I don't work there anymore). Have persuaded new employer to get Solarwinds but haven't actually bought it yet. Too many other projects have precedence. Hopefully specifying hardware today with a view to buying all the bits in the next few…

I'm afraid I have to disagree. The language in the question makes it ambiguous enough so that either answer could be correct. That makes it pot luck as to whether we get it right or not. That isn't a good way to learn about the product.

Unfortunately the date and time on your original incorrect posting have changed indicating that you HAVE edited your post. Adding the word "JUST" has completely changed the meaning. I actually said I thought you weren't being misleading. I didn't blame you for "my mistake". I stated I followed your advice and got the…

Until they are as good as KITT I won't be getting one.

It's not about Disaster Recovery any more. Business Continuity is much more important with the rise of Cyber Attacks. DR is just a small part of it.

The Hubble Telescope on it's last upgrade gained a 486 based CPU. OK it was a hardened version but still really old tech. I'm willing to bet the software was really old too and almost certainly controlled the gyroscopes. Interesting article about the gyroscopes. Gyroscopes | ESA/Hubble | ESA/Hubble

Maybe we should just ban the scooters. Technically in London they are illegal to use on the road and on the footpaths. You still see some but not like the plagues some places are seeing.

I stopped using IE for most things years ago. Unfortunately Microsoft ignored the IETF standards as did a lot of developers. There are quite a lot of websites that now only work on IE. 

Data theft is rapidly becoming non news. It happens so often that big organisations really don't care any more. It's often cheaper to pay any fines that it would be to secure their systems.

Mmmmmnnnn Pigeon. Don't see it that often but it is very nice. Last time I had it was in France. Hungry now. 

All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people Now that really was well worth reading. All very true too. I always encourage people to come up with ideas no matter how daft they think they are. Sometimes it is the thing that someone thinks is really stupid that actually helps us fix whatever the problem…

Yes. Not all of us are DBAs. I'm trying to learn about the product but this just seems to be designed to exclude non DBAs.

I worked in one company who thought disaster recovery was restore the data from the untested backup tapes piled on top of the servers. We ended up with data replication to disks on another site, that then backed up to tape for remote storage and a contract to lease servers and desktops at short notice should the need…

Myspace. If it was important why would you NOT have a backup or another copy somewhere. I'm sure Myspace didn't have unlimited storage space and probably thought it was about time it deleted a lot of the cr@p that was on there. Necer used it so have no idea of the T&Cs. 

There are also considerations as to whether you can store data in the public cloud. We have contracts with clients that expressly forbid this. 

Laptop (or phone) batteries. I still get people telling me I should fully discharge then fully charge batteries. Why they think I, an IT professional and ex hardware engineer, need this advice is beyond me. It also doesn't help that they are wrong. It was only early generation NiCad batteries that suffered from the memory…

Yes. Monitoring is seen as very low priority here until there is an issue. Then it is always "Why didn't your monitoring flag this up". Fortunately I look and sound very scary when angry so they usually just shut up and go away.

We would find this useful. I'd like to be able to schedule something which would stop alerting on a server, reboot it, detect when it is back up and re-enable alerting. Might also be nice to unmanage it so the RAG screen doesn't display any yellow but still retain the data showing the server was down (for evidence that the…

I've been lucky to have had occasion to travel, through business, all over the UK and Ireland, to several places in the USA, Germany, France and India. For pleasure I've travelled to France, Italy, Spain, Egypt, USA, Maldives, Japan, Continental Micronesia and the Netherlands. What got me through a lot of the travel was…

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The problem will always be the forgotten box in the corner that has become mission critical but no one knows about it. Good documentation and a monitoring solution that can perform thorough discovery will show up this box. Then you can harden it.

Signed up for this presentation. I'm from a SysAdmin background but frequently see network issues before the network people because I believe in monitoring and they don't.