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I was delighted when I discovered he hadn't quit writing after The Ringworld Engineers. Load of good times spent curled up with his paperbacks! http://news.larryniven.net/biblio/main.asp

I like this idea, and have voted it UP. Until your idea actually becomes an deployed new feature, I wonder if you don't have another option for seeing the source and destination information using NetFlow. It looks to me as if you're capturing your NetFlow data at an external-facing interface, perhaps on the firewall,…

When it comes to knowing, and experiencing, disasters and their recoveries, I put my life in the hands of our fire fighters. I've yet to find one who wasn't serious about saving a life. And there's no better way of saving someone's life than being prepared, and ensuring others are prepared and can avoid bad situations, or…

The testimonial here https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Roubini%20Testimony%2010-11-18.pdf is quite the technical read. I take away two things from it: * Block Chain technology is not a trustworthy investment. * It's disturbing that the URL for .gov ties senate.gov (a group of people that are SUPPOSED to be…

If you haven't heard Jim Gaffigan's bit on bacon, well . . . https://youtu.be/RqFi0cZ4p1E?t=1

I couldn't say for certain, but I suspect it was just missed, something to clean up in a future version. They might have wanted the CLI polling functionality more quickly than they could build the rest of the product out to leverage it on an Enterprise / bulk-node-adjustment basis.

Clearly, relying on market pressure and consumers avoiding problem products is not working here. Consumers are ignorant of the risks, apparently unwilling to educate themselves about the issues, and relying on the good-will of the manufacturers to secure systems while keeping them extremely affordable (a.k.a.: "cheap").…

I don't know. CNN and Russia seem to think otherwise. This Russian robot shoots guns - Video - Tech

That's not the only show that's had someone remove someone else's eyeball to use for security purposes. I think, technically, it's not feasible. One's retinal patterns are actually blood vessels. If the eye was removed, they'd collapse, and I don't think that eye could be used. However, there are ALSO shows that deal with…

Science Fiction is S/F. Some folks also cross the line and say S/F is Science Fiction and Fantasy (but I prefer to say F&S/F for that). There are tons of free works to read, many of them introductions--but still full books--by authors hoping you'll read and love their style and their characters; maybe even enough to pay…

Home (and business) Security companies have a contract that states how many false alarms you're allowed the first week/month, etc. Once you exceed that threshold, the company charges you a penalty, which can grow dramatically and quickly if false alarms continue to come in from your area. Vendors should be eliminating…

I wish I'd a matching dollar for every buck spent on security, here or elsewhere. MFA, ISE, ACL's on every switch port, PCI environments air-gapped from secure internal firewalled / DMZ'd resources, SourceFire everywhere, data protection protocols on every device, flow monitoring . . . It seems I do little else than work…

Let's say I'm a fan of providing highly available resources to our customers and employees. The cloud has proven to be unreliable on occasion. We've had three occasions where contracted cloud providers have been unable to give us access to our resources in the cloud. Once the outage lasted nearly eight hours during…

My previous data centers all had overhead plumbing--directly over the server racks and network switches, core routers, firewalls, etc. Like your organization, we had large galvanized drip trays (2" deep or less) installed beneath all obvious points of plumbing, with drain outlets plumbed into the building. Of course that…

Unfortunately you reminded me of Roomba stories that didn't work out so well for home owners. One (of many on Youtube): Funny Dog Video - Roomba Runs Over Dog Poop - YouTube

But wait--that's the whole core of DevOps, its very definition!

I love the title of this "old" Geek Speak topic. Its content remains valid today, and in light of advanced knowledge and more powerful hardware and more intrusive tools and spying and WikiLeaks and government intrusion (purely for security reasons), etc. folks really must stop ignoring that the convenience of using…

Who says there are no Princess Leia Socks? Google 'em--you'll find 'em! You can also find the matching Skywalker Twins socks:

Let's not give away answers . . . please?

Congratulations on making it to State! AND on fitting into your old Lettermen's jacket!

I can see the benefits. I'd think there'd have to be a place where a proxy is defined/required for each different NetPath solution. Or force a specific route that includes the Proxy for some NetPaths, and avoid that route for others. I'll be interested to see how this turns out.

Much appreciated.

OK, for 3000 points, I can dig. We experience approximately four unscheduled WAN outages per month. Our affected sites range from five employees to three hundred. Using Orion NPM, I can reduce the amount of down time by fifteen to sixty minutes per site, per incident, through getting notifications from NPM and getting the…

I don't know why SW doesn't offer a free or reduced price minimum license for dev. But I know they offer 30-day trial licenses, and once you have the process down correctly, you should be able to install one of those every thirty days, or at need, strictly for dev purposes. Yes, I know this doesn't serve your purpose for…

I've gone through this multiple times. With any luck, some folks might read some or most of my diatribe and carry away the important parts that will help their organizations avoid the pitfalls and traps inherent in non-Network people making decisions based on bad information and assumptions about a network's capabilities.

Leveraging native Windows tools to create new local hacks--because why not? Who would think to protect against Windows native solutions? Almost everyone, that's who. It's the ones who fall between the cracks, the ones who don't keep their systems protected / vaccinated, that help keep this sort of problem alive.

So many malware vectors. It's smart for them to target administrators and advanced users. It's unfortunate people are not ethical, kind, or forgiving. That causes malware.

I'm sad because I already have SW products and I can no longer look forward to the wonderful discoveries and satisfaction I'll have when I start using SW for the first time! Also would love to be able to attend these events, and I'm so glad Leon's reporting (and soliciting) ideas and experiences! "Chef?" "Jenkins?" Say…

Having worked in a health care environment for going on twenty years, PHI is a huge watchword for us. It's hard to imagine these individuals had no exposure to HIPAA. https://evisit.com/resources/what-is-hipaa/