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In that future world, lots of fun and even unimagined things will be there for us to look at. For me, hopefully I'll be away from all IoT, disconnected, fishing in my boat and enjoying the challenge and optimism that comes with that task. I suspect the degree of sophistication of hacks and attacks and phishing will be so…

All one has to do is look at Career Builder's IT Jobs list of salaries and locations to see what's in demand. I'd love for my employer to just take the raw salary figures and apply them across the organization's job descriptions--without factoring in local cost of living. ;^)

I was in a band with a guy who played a Chapman Stick. It was a pretty cool tool. Modern sounds, percussive fingerings, Eastern look like a Sitar. I find a large number of STEM people have musical training in their backgrounds, and a good proportion of them kept up with practicing or performing--especially if they'd…

This is a great point. So far I'd heard from no one working at a carrier or ISP or MSP, and your thoughts are insightful. Please feel free to expand on them! From a practical point of view, what difficulties do you see coming? What about this could cause your company to close its doors? How can you avoid going out of…

Haunted Data Center? Maybe . . . In the early 2000's our primary data center began having random and unexpected server drive failures. IBM was perplexed, and was replacing more and more drives and entire servers, without being able to find a cause. Everyone was confused. There was no understanding the failures. Something…

What, Jfrazier? A classic "Boss Button"?! Egads! O, the integrity! O, the hood-winking! O, the Monty Python "Machine that goes 'BING'!"

Sigh. Looks like heaven. How to afford it, and break it through into the DBA's silo remain the tasks at hand.

It's just math & greed. If your billion devices are sold once in a hundred years, you've only had churn once in a century. It's a great idea from a consumer's point of view! I remember complaining how American cars rusted out or broke down with serious issues before they reached 100,000 miles. Worse, new imports from Japan…

Points are awarded after this mission is completed, not during the mission.

Regarding Kegan's Theory of Adult Development, there's an impressive story on The Moth about parents who had an extremely challenging time trying to raise a child who would never reach an adult's mental status and ability to empathize. They were saints, and continued to work with him to show their love. A parallel story in…

The game table was "supposed to be" removed from the Thwack Store this winter--Thwack was surprised when I ordered one. They told me the actual removal had fallen through the cracks, even though they'd decided to retire it. I think supply & shipping reliability were possible negative factors about it, and I've been told it…

Bring the trends, and bring the food pictures, and bring all the good stuff back to us here on Thwack, living our IT Traveling Lives vicariously through your adventures. Be safe and come home with fun memories and excellent stories!

Some recent examples of IoT vulnerabilities being exploited at home-owners' expense: Smart refrigerator hack exposes Gmail account credentials Smart Refrigerators Privacy - Consumer Reports I like the conclusion: if you don't need Internet connectivity to your refrigerator, don't hook the thing up to the Internet. NSA…

I'll be brave and cast the lone "nay" vote, per understanding NetPath's intent, via the great explanation from cobrien​ (see above). If I want to use ping, I can ping manually or with one of the tools in the Engineer's Toolset. The same for traceroute. I love the fact that NetPath, as released currently, does an accurate…

This ties in perfectly with some previous advice Solarwinds offered, which I analyzed and interpreted for my own organization's use. I leveraged that information to turn denials for budget to expand my Solarwinds environment to approvals and new modules and expanded monitoring capacity. The methods & philosophy haven't…

It's key to not jump on bandwagons, not adopt new solutions simply because they're new, and to understand the risks and best ways to secure new solutions--well before placing reliance on unknown risks.

Naw--no more unbreakable than WEP was twenty years ago. All it'll take is the right people putting the right resources at it, and someone brainiac will figure out a loophole for it. Nothing is permanently secure. Or, once we all have chips in our bodies that connect us wirelessly to the Internet, someone will find a way to…

Pym's experience is representative of how individuals and departments can improve a company's performance through using those components of DevOps and Agility talked about on Thwack in the last few years. My company has the IT Team regularly go out among our 17,000 employees (monthly!) and pick a random person and…

Much win here!

I'd be interested in seeing a version that works on McAfee Firewall Enterprise appliances. So would a zillion banks, military customers, schools, and businesses . . .

I use QoE to display NPM information in new ways that show relationships between resources that create experiences for users. For example, it's easy to monitor NPM servers and their SQL resources with QoE, and then see how their resources rank and change as activity on them changes. When NPM seems slow, QoE shows the items…

Maybe the logical question is: Who got fiber to the desktop--and who still uses it? Anyone?

I'm all for this. My System Analysts do this with the free version of Nagios; I'm looking for ways to accomplish their tasks with Solarwinds products, but they keep pushing back on the price differences, and I can't defeat that argument when they don't believe the single-pane-of-glass is achievable or reliable. I'd love to…

Somehow I envision a Thwack baseball cap here. Black, with orange flare on the forehead, maybe some witty network saying/comment/observation?

No, we're good with it as it is. Don't go to any extra work (requiring tricky and devious research to select between miniscule variations & spellings of tiny deviations and permutations for an answer we'll all rue to choose incorrectly). We're cool. Take it easy, kick your feet up, danielle.campbell We've got this one.

TANSTAAFL! A great word from The Moon Is A Hard Mistress. No matter how fast any computer waits in comparison to another computer, tit's nice that SW tools show how some systems may present slower user experiences due to problems with database or spinning disc or interface errors or CPU/RAM or poorly written code. Even…

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