pseudocyber · Manager of Network Operations

Another trick I do, to try to protect myself, and the systems I admin (which are my wife and kids) - is to install "Hostsman" - which maintains a list of 18,000 malware, adware, virus domains, and "redirects" their name resolution to my loopback address - by manipulating my hosts file. It's free, and is updated frequently,…

Congrats arthomas‌

Mission and survey completed!

An oldie, but a goodie.

A great write up. One exception to the part about plugging in a switch and wizards. An Unconfigured Switch is Better than the Wizard It was a long-standing truth that running the configuration wizard on a switch was the fastest way to break it, whereas just unboxing and plugging it in would work fine. Wizards are a…

Also throw in some simple paint functionality - draw boxes, circles, lines ...

My Lair, network central, at work:

congratulations wthomashefsky‌

I think it can be summed up: no one wants to be sold. everyone wants help and for their job to be easier. If someone can show me how to make my job easier and better, that's the product I want ... like SolarWinds.

The link has two (2) https:// in it. Take one out, pass it around, another beer on the wall ... How To Not Be A Bad Network Security Engineer

Enjoy. As an aside, I'm surprised with all the dev's I presume are @ SolarWinds, they don't write code to automatically assign the points when the question is successfully answered, and we get the "Congratulations" message.

Tricky today. Read this: SQL Server Memory Usage Optimization | SolarWinds

I've learned over the years, install the biggest cable management that budget and space will allow. Cables abhor a vacuum, and will grow to consume as much cable management space as they can, and more.

From a network engineer's perspective - I would agree with you about being able to fire up instances - as long as the dev and test environments mirror the production. What I've frequently found though , is that apps built in a dev/test environment frequently are using old/minimal network equipment and the configurations…

Getting points for question malfunctions is good... but what about being entered in the weekly drawing? we get entered, if all the other questions are answered?

LOL ... I just realized, I replied again, with the same thought I wrote a year ago .... DOH!!!

OH! - So, just create one service, and assign multiple probes? - Found it! Excellent! Thanks!

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In my experience, and my personal career - it seems that people start out as generalists and specialize over time as they acquire specific interest, training, aptitude, and career growth. "Generally" speaking ... generalists are paid less than specialists because of their less developed expert knowledge. I would love to…

Nice - fellow network guy surrounded by "lab equipment".

Great post - thanks! An awesome book about "Cyber" (ugh, hate that term) security is: "Future Crimes" Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It - http://amzn.com/0385539002 Two tips I use - one is for really sensitive things - like your online email account you use for all your other…

Argh.... answered too quickly.

We are DevOps. You will be automated into the collective. Resistance is futile. You will be automated. We are DevOps.

I wouldn't think so. They just assimilate, new tech, to grow.

(thwack backpack) You need 211 more Points F5 (refresh) You need 211 more Points F5 (refresh) You need 211 more Points ....

Kind of a long story. My hospital added a "mobile unit" (which everyone else calls a trailer) in the back, and it needed network connectivity. My boss and I dug a trench and ran three cat-5 cables out to it, and back into the data-center. Before you get freaked out, we terminated both ends on lightning protection gas…

Good, Cheap, or Fast ... you can only pick 2. No matter which two you pick, you're usually going to have to sacrifice the third. In the case of good, cheap tools, I find that the sacrifice is usually Fast. Sure, I can run snort, splunk, rsyslog, nmap, nagios, mrtg, etc. These are all great tools. However, I find that…

Ah damn it ... out of the running for the grand prize ... @#$@#@ trick question ....

I guess I need to check the errata before I try to answer the question. Yeah, the link to the video had nothing to do with the question, so I tried to answer it and got it wrong.

I had to clear cookies, then it worked. Thanks.