rharland2012

I certainly never expected to see them annotated! I'm glad to see that I'm not the only ne'er-do-well to choose those terms to make a SWEET BREEV!* *sweet abbreviation - courtesy of the strangely compelling series Delocated

And you thought they were in charge of their keyboard....go figure

Vanilla desk. Small jade Buddha sits behind my laptop and periodically tells me to chill out. Seems to work!

What were you seeking? Info about a particular product, problem, or error?

Beautiful, adatole​. All salient points that resonate with this old engineer.

Over the past two years since this feature request was open for voting, Flash has proved to be vulnerable again and again - I'm not even sure if the latest vuln revealed in the past couple of weeks has even been patched yet. To our friends @ Solarwinds - someday you're going to have to do this for this product to survive,…

One of the departments we supported at an old job was the university police. My colleague gets a call from the police chief, letting us know that there was 'something wrong' with the ethernet connection on his recently-issued laptop and he can't get on the network. We take a quick ride over to have a look at the laptop in…

Next stop - the event horizon!

Some years ago, I worked as 'IT Director'/syadmin/hack of all trades for a small K-12 school. One day, a guidance counselor came to me asking for help in getting an email to a relative stationed at an Army base overseas. She couldn't figure out why the email was consistently bouncing. Went over to her office, and asked her…

We used ATM for many years during late 90s-mid 2000s, and it was quite effective. You'd be surprised (or maybe you wouldn't) how many carriers still leverage it to deliver customer connections. And yes, I can prove it if required. Obsolescence is a subjective term.

Yes, we can. And should. For everything. All the time. Forever.

It's a mixed bag - in our shop, we concentrate most HA/five9 efforts on our server and application platforms, since data access to our vital apps is paramount. MPLS between our sites at least gives us a good SLA for uptime on those connections, and fallback to IPSec VPNs as a failover solution is an acceptable path from…

I know this isn't impossible - if we had backend access, we could change the switch ourselves. http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/fractional-zoom.html Take a moment and vote for increase ease of use and flexibility inside the openstreet maps in SW, folks.

That hasn't been our experience. Sorry it has been a negative for your org. Of course, we migrated from Lotus Notes, so our standards of satisfaction were already low. As far as if it's a 'mistake' - yep, your org definitely made mistakes in lack of planning. There was no impact investigation done for your firewalls'…

We're also seeing this symptom with rebranded 2920 HPE/Aruba switches as well. Some of the hardware OIDs report, but fan and power supply sensor information is missing. edmaendel​, did you ever hear further information?

There's a difference between mimicing production everywhere, and applying the same security posture everywhere. I think our viewpoints differ.

That's really impressive! This scenario (I think) sort of supports my earlier comment - that a company/network/infrastructure such as yours is not the target customer for the majority of SD-WAN technologies as they stand today. You have your own routers, pipes, and sufficient internal expertise to guarantee the results you…

LOL! I guess we've all had a PC *$@#down a time or two....

I'll be on vacation in the UK - perhaps next year!

I understand what you're saying, but this is a big reason that IT personnel are often marginalized. You see it as 'interfering', they may well see it as 'doing their job'.

I don't know....for some reason, this vaguely-worded question has made me fundamentally question why in the world I bother with missions. It's not even fun anymore!

There was an outage on the part of the Internet that supplies radio buttons.

You know, it's funny - as I read your post, I thought 'surely any thwack reader whose deliverables include FW admin is already following these best practices'. What a dangerous assumption I made - not specifically about thwack members (much love, everyone!) but FW administration in general. How many of us have thought 'it…

jkuvlesk​ - that is some of the best news I've heard here on thwack in a long, long time. Thank you for sharing it.

I've tried to explain at a high level to my wife, family, and friends what I do a few times, but it never seems to stick. So when queried on what I do for a living, my wife tells people I 'work on technology'. Hey, it's not inaccurate!

That's progress! +1s are hard to accomplish sometimes....IT headcount is not always the easiest sell.

Thank you, maria.bungau​ - much appreciated.

The way I think of it is this - a generalist knows how to turn wrenches of various shapes and sizes to resolve various break-fix situations. A versatilist knows to some degree *why* those wrenches are turned, and why wrench-turn for problem A can impact the next wrench-turn for application B, and why one needs to check…

Does personal disaster recovery count? I do have a (hopefully) amusing tale or two, but none of them actually fit into these categories.

Yes - they're called application developers employed by Solarwinds.