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When "the good old days" were really "the bad old days." Not being a smoker, I was always annoyed and irritated when my parents smoked. Later, playing sax and electric bass in nightclubs, being exposed to that constant smoke was health-impacting. Even living with a smoker for a few years definitely was bad for my health.…
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When I moved from Minneapolis to Duluth in 1992, I donated almost all of my Heinlein books to the local library. I kept perhaps half of dozen of my favorites, and they've become quite dog-eared. Each time I desire to read one I donated, I find it online and buy it / download it. But there's nothing like the feel and smell…
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I've seen little to indicate that the "good old boys / business as usual" folks in the highest levels of big companies have changed operating styles, cigars, or suits over the last century. Some companies (like mine) may be great, and other organizations may be better or worse, but I think the top level remains…
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I wouldn't be popular in that environment. I patiently explain why doing it right trumps doing it conveniently, why doing it wrong costs more than doing it right. And I remind folks that there's ALWAYS time to do things the right way. Then I outline the plan to remediate the problems and begin correcting them. Hand-in-hand…
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Since St. Patrick's Day is coming up, I'll offer this in honor of SolarWinds and St. Paddy himself: There ain't many net's that 're lucky enough t' have an admin like me. Though I'm rarely compensated like I wish I could be Many's th' time that I was afraid they'd worked me to th' brink But then upon closer scrutiny, m'…
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That scenario WOULD be nice!
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When looking at the yellow highlighted areas I provided, there is a latency statistic for each of them, making it a matter of interpreting the intent of the question before being able to guess at which answer might be most appropriate. Certainly there's info about latency when hovering. But there is different latency in…
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Some of the most useful words I've seen about data base troubleshooting and indications, condensed into one spot. Thank you!
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Apple certainly knows how to make money. I had to support their computers in public school settings throughout the 90's and 2000's, and it was never as pretty or glorious or simple or cost-efficient as they asked us to believe. Similarly, their cell phone technology is no cost-winner: Since the 90's I've paid $25/month for…
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One business poaching great employees from another just isn't news. It's depressing. Building a better mousetrap isn't always about catching mice differently. It can be changing the factory and office environment and pay scale. You could work for Big Blue in the 1960's and wear your corporate blue blazer & tie, and enjoy…
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Thank you for a great 2017, wabbott!
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I tuned into the Netflow "Clue" twice today, and I could swear I heard two different versions of Leon discussing the potential culprit--one in which a specific series was named, the other in which a generic provider was named. My mind must be slipping. At least it was the same user both times.
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I've been doing Network Management for twenty-six years, and have been with my current employer for just about sixteen years. I'm on the downhill slide, looking at retirement and wishing it were here last year instead of in the future. But having seen others leave various organizations that have employed, their legacy has…
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"UNIX Time". Many folks react as though you've put them into a hypnotic trance anytime a conversation between a non-I.T. person and an I.T. person includes the word "UNIX". It's as if that word is magic, a shortcut to all the nerd and geek and beanie-propeller-capped awkward-but-intelligent social misfits you can…
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Equifax Exposes Private Credentials Of Millions: Being Tricked Into Forfeiting Legal Actions Against Equifax: Equifax Executives Sell Millions in Stock Before Notifying the Public About Their Breach: Lining Up To Sue Equifax: Microsoft In Charge Of Your Security? The Vulnerable U.S. Power Grid--this happened in Vermont:…
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I confess, the automated delivery robot phrase made me think of juvenile delinquents and practical jokers leveraging it to set (real or virtual) flaming bags of poo (or their equivalent) on the porches of friends, neighbors, or folks with whom the disagree. And it's only a quick step to the idea of governments doing the…
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It's a catchy title. But "agility" has become trite, and simply another word indicating a team is competent. That term shouldn't even be necessary anymore. Stability should always come before agility, shouldn't it? We're basing our support levels and processes on predictability, which requires a stable environment.…
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The future DOES have positive potential, and we must remember to look for it ONLY while being careful and secure. There's no more "trust, but verify". It's become "Verify before trusting." IoT is a classic example of folks blindly trusting new tech, putting it on their network, and becoming compromised in seconds. Our…
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Part of the solution can be to ensure the workstations are reporting logs to a powerful tool that can report suspicious activity and correlate logs to problems, and recommend solutions that will correct the problem and close the vulnerabilities. A big part of the problem seems to be Management assuming all of this is easy…
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Thanks, yet again, for revealing more I didn't know about poor I.T. security. I'd no clue about digital printers and their hard drives. I've forwarded that story and concerns to our I.T. Security and Printer teams.
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Throw in more resource monitoring, to be forwarded to city, county, state, and federal agencies. Things like: * Law enforcement resource status* Police department offices available vs. unavailable due to flooding, fire, power outage, etc. * Police staffing levels, overtime hours, exhaustion of officers and administrators *…
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I support this idea. I'm surprised there isn't already a solution easily adaptable to this need, though. Even as SW has a pie chart for devices backed up by NCM, and a similar chart for devices with hardware in good, critical or unknown status, one would think it would be easy to show the status of every group of nodes,…
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Your question is merely a flesh wound . . .
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Hackers stole credit cards by the millions from Jason's Deli? I guess that makes Jason's Deli as popular as Yahoo!
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Albert had it right. When I was little kid, hearing my parents say "don't touch the stove--it's hot!" didn't provide knowledge. Touching it DID! That first-hand experience makes the information real instead of theoretical. I've sat through enough RCA's & PIR's to appreciate honest scrutiny and the value of a work…
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Some photos of damage to buried copper and fiber you may have missed: Rodents chewed these communication cables up: I'll let you use your imagination--was this woodpecker damage to a suspended overhead telephone cable, or was this damaged by a dog or other mammal because it was easy to reach from the ground? I've had a…
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HIPAA is my industry's compliance master, but we follow SOX and other guidelines that are not strictly "compliance" solutions as well (e.g.: IEEE, BICSI, NEC, etc.).
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I enjoy it when Trek applies to real life. I also enjoy when IT Professionals understand the limitations of the OSI model at Layers 8-10 (Budget, Politics, Religion--a.k.a.: Apple vs. Windows vs. Linux etc.). It's too true that we're continually tasked to prove negatives; thank goodness for Solarwinds so we can back up our…
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I recall a Netflix show about a tow truck company located in B.C. Those steep and icy and twisting roads were a nightmare for truckers. It seems a self-driving vehicle wouldn't be feasible in those conditions and in that environment.
