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"I lost touch with tech this week" . . . That must've been heaven!

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I love these little videos. Short, to-the-point, efficient, intuitive, and oh-so-helpful! Thank you for sharing!

Your comment "What's the worst that could happen?" is spot on, regarding using a nuclear energy plant's network for mining bit currency.

I very-much liked the story about the pen-testers getting caught. Thank you for sharing that!

The IDN story was complete news to me, and I'm dismayed at my ignorance and also at bad guys and web browser designers who even made this "a thing". Thank you for sharing this.

I don't like to be a "Chicken Little" running about screaming "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" But we're foolish to ignore the impact the next major solar coronal ejection will have if it is facing our Earth. Scientists say they think there's a 12% chance of this happening in the next decade. People bet on the…

Data theft and Coca Cola. Why is it employees act inappropriately? Can we correct our training or educational systems to do a better job of education children to make "decent" people, or to train people to be good? Can we be employers for whom employees LOVE to work, creating an environment where people wouldn't want to…

Things I loved about 2020? Well, most of them were impacted in one way or another by COVID-19. * Working full-time from home. It proved WAY more effective than my management team expected. And it saved me sleep and gas money, wear & tear on the vehicle, and clothing costs. * Discovering more and better teleconferencing…

It isn't every day you hear someone advise you to eat more fat with your sugar. A Healthy Halloween Haul seems a bit of an impossibility--or least it's highly unlikely or an unattractive reward for one's efforts.

How about the time I discovered our WAN provider had accidentally fat fingered a VLAN port range on their WAN service switch, and a city's internal government structure, and their state's remote connectivity, suddenly was reachable without authentication from my organization's internal network? And they had no passwords on…

The NetPath Service setup was concise and perfect in its brevity. To improve it, mention firewall ports that must be open between the src and dst, or perhaps to provide a direct link to that info. NetPath can reveal previously-hidden and hard-to-document network path changes or congestion between intermediary providers…

Not deploying the latest patches/fixes/updates/upgrades is a philosophy many people have adopted, due to having been burned by patches that have caused new problems while trying to correct old problems. I can certainly sympathize with that that philosophy, and I use it myself in certain cases. However, when it comes to…

It sounds like something LEM might target, but I don't have LEM, so I can't verify that. Are snmp traps a parallel notification solution that could substitute for e-mail alerts? If so, NPM handles them nicely.

Chalk up a win for @sean.Martinez! I checked this out and learned he was right on. The command is not compatible for Cisco NX-OS, ASA, or WLC hardware/software, but it works on my switches & routers, from 1600's to 7600, and I appreciate the helpful, accurate, and fast response. Thanks, Sean!

The Lone Rangers weren't alone in their musical depth. They can play many styles, and play them well! Steel Dragon was truly draggin'. A real one-trick pony. You might even say they didn't have The Range.

I'm reminded of numerous adventures untrained users attempting to deal with "new-technology" CD's, when the users were only familiar with floppies. Our Help Desk took hundreds of calls from people who had problems using the CD's because they were putting them into the 5.25" floppy drives, or sliding the CD's into the…

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Can you host a SWUG at your company or in your city? There are MANY Thwack points to be earned that way . . .

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Cisco has their Tetration product, which (reportedly) is designed to provide complete application mapping, complete flow tracking, complete reporting of all src-dst sessions and tcp/udp ports & protocols used. Which supposedly can be leveraged to automatically create port-based ACL's in ACI data centers to secure East-West…

Thanks, I did hear this rumor from another client, and have queried my Cisco SE. Who hasn't replied to my query. Yet. Fingers crossed, but we use a 6-year hardware replacement plan. Putting those 6807's in now (at the recommendation of our VAR) won't hurt us even if the End-of-Sale is next year since End-of-Support won't…

Thank you. Now my brain can parse it.

Maintaining control, and addressing every red light as a to-do, keeps Orion useful. We had a person add 300 servers into NPM via WMI so we could show the SysAdmins the benefits of Orion, didn't tell my team, and he ended his employment the next day. When those servers began being rebooted for maintenance, or retired, my…

The story about the Tesla factory opening is thought-provoking; thank you for sharing it. I'm all for isolation. I worked for a health care system, and they really do care about slowing the growth of the pandemic in the effort to not overwhelm our hospitals, resulting in unnecessary deaths. I'm also for people being able…

Thanks--I did see this. It would be nice to force this to be default, or even better--select All as default, rather than having to reselect that option each time. Thank you for the response, Tyler!

Last year's sessions were interested and varied. Sometimes different directions were taken than the ones I assumed, and that made reading them and participating all the more enjoyable.

As I think about it, that "Bacon of the Month Club" gift would make a savory prize for a monthly mission--or for Thwack Camp!

I'd be even further impressed if she has IT skills that would make her a Thwack Forum candidate/member!