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I remember a time when it was actually easy (and possible) to advance to the next point "Level" in just a week or two. Now I need 40,000 points just to change one level. I guess it's an OK problem to have. ;^)

Happily I was able to use the options contained within the page to show only the correct answer, as it was defined in the question.

I'm happy the Hall of Shame list isn't longer, and definitely "Shame on you" comments toward those who don't patch / secure / train / enforce / test / etc. their environments, both human and electronic.

Leaving Facebook is one thing. Leaving the rest of the risks on the Internet that we've determined are worth risking simply for convenience is more challenging. One might as well stay in Facebook if one also continues to: * Use any credit card system * Use any "smart" system (Alexa, Siri, IoT-anything) * Use a cell phone…

Toss in The Flying Sub from Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea? I think once you allow KITT from Knight Rider into the running, you've crossed into Science Fiction. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiH2dS2wofMAhUkkYMKHebJDoAQFgg7… But I agree, it might be a fun match up,…

Get training before building a test environment. Test everything before making a production environment. Budget for training. Budget for test and prod (and Dev/other) environments. Get excellent advice from accredited and certified experts. Verify/validate their references before contracting them. Saving money going into…

It's fun playing Leader Board Leap Frog with one of the best!

I'm slightly confused after reading question 2 and watching the video hint. The question asks "What ultimately determined the Wheel of Scripting?" As English & grammar go, the question makes no sense. As the video hint between 5:00 and 8:00 goes, I've got nothing. What's the question supposed to say? "What ultimately…

MVP status is awarded by Thwack & Solarwinds staff through earning their attention and interest (and respect)--not be completing a certain set of missions or achieving some point level. A person could have a very small point total and still become a Thwack MVP. Conversely, a person could have hundreds of thousands of…

The admissions scandal was very disappointing to hear. I suspected this was always the case, but now that there's proof . . . People will only better hide their attempts to cheat.

I'll welcome the aliens. They'll beam me up simply because they need a Solarwinds Administrator. And then mayhbe I'll get to go fishing on new planets!

Proceed, but please be wary of jumping on a bandwagon for no good reason, or for reasons that are not solid, not fully fleshed-out. The fear of missing out on what everyone else is doing is NOT sufficient cause to move to the cloud. And it might get your data in trouble. Verify the items below before trusting the cloud. My…

I helped with some of the SW IPAM <--> Infoblox testing via the beta. SolarWinds has it working now. IPAM properly discovers/imports from Infoblox quite nicely and intuitively now.

Cloud Banking? Would YOU go to the Cloud simply for convenience and cost savings at the cost of reliability, access, and security? If you read the headlines about hundreds of millions of credit cards and users' credentials being stolen online annually, if you read Forbes' Magazine's article about Cybercrime being the…

I needed this two years ago. Here's hoping it's robust and useful and intuitive for a non-programmer.

I have an unproven expectation that SWQL or SQL queries can be built and substituted for the process I provided, and that these queries could leverage OR instead of AND. But I haven't seen it done. Someone like sqlrockstar​ might have the skinny on how this kind of filtering can be done for you, lordnykkon​

yumdarling​, if your vacation options ever extend to Minnesota, and particularly Lake Superior's wonders, reach out to me (in the summer months) if you'd like a boat tour of Duluth's Harbor and the St. Louis River. It's a real working waterfront on the world's largest bit of fresh water surface area. Other options include…

I found that same bug in the Beta and was disappointed it was not resolved in the Prod version, or dealt with in any of the patches/hot fixes. Maybe the new version of NCM will address this fault . . .

A webcam pointing at the Weather Stone is all anyone would need, right? It reminds me quite of bit of the Pet Rock's that came out a couple of generations ago. People bought them for the ridiculous novelty card that came with them.…

Funding schools that produce awesome STEM grads? Minnesota's main campus University STEM program has 100% employment of grads, and 92% are in their ideal choice of fields. As we search for new team members to do Networking for our IT group (switching, routing, firewalling, DHCP, Monitoring, DNS, logging, and security)…

Bacon or "bacoun" was a Middle English term used to refer to all pork in general. The term bacon comes from various Germanic and French dialects. It derives from the French bako, Old High German bakko, and Old Teutonic backe, all of which refer to the back. And now you know. Swift Rashers, my friends! Rick Schroeder In the…

These sorts of developments help remove old silo walls, and I'm grateful for it. However, do they also build new kinds of silo walls between other groups? I suspect so. But perhaps they are also inclusive to the teams that were previously walled-off from each other. Leading me to suspect that the future will have fewer…

SD-WAN isn't a challenge for the organization. But designing it, getting the right hardware, software, and configurations, working with multiple WAN vendors to ensure they understand our needs and goals--those are the challenges. For the organization it's transparent and seems to "just work". For the Network Admins, it's a…

Perhaps a "Bad Fibonacci Lip Reading" would do the trick . . .?

I refoamed the woofers in my Yamaha NS690-II speakers after discovering (to my shock and dismay) that they'd dried out and disintegrated into fuzzy dust, rendering audio performance useless. The price of the foam kit was surprisingly low, and the speakers that cost me $700 in 1979, which were suddenly worth nothing in 2010…

Thwack Missions are always fun, always interesting, always educational!

"No, you can't attach your personal device to my corporate network."

Oh, sure . . . Now I'm salivating at work.

Replacing people is a lot more expensive than treating them correctly. The former involves bad feelings on all sides, bad reputations being built, huge learning curves and mistakes. The latter builds teams and is significantly less expensive. The problems may lie in folks with good product/service ideas, but not good Human…