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Everything else is mandated by Security to record versions, creators, changers, and their dates of creation of change . . . why would Orion modules be any different?

The prez of Twitter lost control of his account? There's a solution for that: Don't use Twitter. I wish that solution would occur to more folks. It seems Tweets are the avenue of more angst and poor behavior than anything. Particularly for those without good sense or great manners. Imagine what would happen if good and…

One might easily imagine such a situation. But may I gently suggest, in the most respectful, humble, polite, and considerate manner, that Captain Morgan, based on his past history, would have ordered his 1000+ men, all blooded in battle, all experienced sailors and soldiers, to storm and take the harbor master's building,…

How will this ability to view ASA configurations and performance stay relevant as ASA's are migrated into Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) solutions living on VM's? I have FTD already in-house and it's taking over our ASA's, and replacing them. Will NPM/NCM still be able to provide these good insights into Cisco's new…

That sandwich demonstrates the miracle of pigs (according to Jim Gaffigan): Feed them an apple, they make bacon! (And sausage, and pulled-pork, etc.).

Oh, no; can we go with Steve Martin's version instead? Be courteous, kind and forgiving, Be gentle and peaceful each day, Be warm and human and grateful, And have a good thing to say. Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike, Be witty and happy and wise, Be honest and love all your neighbors, Be obsequious, purple, and…

​Docker & Unix:​ Oh, that trip down memory lane to a place where I was happy to be allowed to sit at a teletype and manually dial in (using a rotary phone) to a time-shared server running this kind of OS. And saving my "programs" to rolls of punched tape. And blowing the thousands of tiny round chads at friends in the math…

Where is Management going wrong, that "Accidental Cloud DBA's" are created? What steps should universities, technical training companies, and corporations take to prevent creating ANY kind of accidental administrator? Or, if that position is created by poor communications/planning, what are the steps to take that bring…

If I remember my history correctly (and I may not!), RCA was working with Motorola, and had two different design and engineering teams that often worked independently of each other in the late 1950's and early 1960's. One of the RCA engineers was George H. Heilmeier, who invented the first liquid crystal display. RCA was…

I'd be interested in learning any more, if you have something approaching a concise summary, ecklerwr1​. I realize it's not your responsibility, and that you're correct about there being much not getting publicized. So don't feel singled out if you haven't more to share. It's one of those combinations of politics,…

Especially when hackers learn how to take over a car's computer, brakes, steering--via Blue Tooth or other wireless technologies. If you didn't read about that: Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It | WIRED When BlueTooth is enabled on pacemakers, what are people thinking? Yah, it's convenient for…

Deep Throat said "Follow the money." Tracking websites' use of cookies is a step, but not the final goal. Learning who takes that information and sells it, who pays for it, what's done with the money--that's something that would really be interesting. Of course, maybe we don't WANT to know . . .

I've never tried it. By the time I'd completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Photographic Engineer Technology in the early 1980's I was far gone into cameras, lenses, home dark room, commercial dark rooms, etc. I worked in that industry for a dozen years and left it when digital replaced chemical processes, and since…

As unreasonable as it may sound, it might be best to use proper grammar and punctuation in all written correspondence. You can't go wrong with it, and in some cases it makes a very big difference.

Of COURSE Microsoft doesn't want to force users to change their passwords regularly. Why would they, when the users' problems are the users' problems, not Microsoft's. Disgusted with MS. Again.

I'd LOVE a reliable automated discovery and mapping tool--one that tied directly to Visio. But the practical truth is that, while I've really enjoyed some of the mapping tools I've used, many are limited, many provide too much information, and nothing I've tried has met my needs so completely as manually discovering and…

They call you Lady LEM And there can be no doubt You're always tracking "THEM" And never running out You've got my back tonight The hackers try to push Before they get inside the door You help give them the SMOOSH! When guests forget their manners And hack to get inside We know that you won't let the door be wide. LEM…

A year or two ago I saw a beautiful PBS documentary about architecture that included the Sagrada Familia. I'm not surprised the project is taking 150 years, based on the funding and craftsmanship and method of construction. New York City has a cathedral that's been under construction since 1892, and it's not done yet. It's…

It's designed to prevent a vendor from influencing a purchasing decision. For example, several years ago our hospital had a house cleaning of everything that had some product name on it. Columbia sweaters, Pharma prescription pads, mugs, pens, everything. And it was right. Constantly being exposed to one vendor's products…

I saw two big takeaways: * The hours I wasted building Excel graphs translate into minutes of building a PerfStack workspace. * PerfStack allows very rapid discovery of issue causes. I admit to being a bit intimidated about the migration to 12.1 to get PerfStack. If it's so complex, so tough, that it deserves its own web…

Installer beware:

That sounds like the right way to do it. Except they need to hire more help for your team, so you have time to do things the way you think best.

Nicely done. Thank you.

I don't see it as a commodity. Except, perhaps, for the largest networks. For Google, their equivalent of a Hypervisor may well be a commodity. Order a spare thousand or two and distribute them across your infrastructure so someone can virtually or physically swap them or add more at need. Or maybe they have a great many…

Forgive me if I'm skeptical about the news that California wants to strengthen their law(s) about data breach notifications. Companies will behave unethically if they feel the return on investment is worth the risk of getting caught (we've seen this behavior too many times to count). I'm jaded enough to suspect that this…

I hear you there. In-person CLI management, whether remote via SSH, or local via USB console cable, takes others out of the Management equation. I seriously don't feel comfortable with invisible third parties approving & connecting my remote users.

Beautiful griling picture--and just before lunchtime here, too. Perfect!

Once they moved out of the house, I stopped requiring them to provide info so I could access their social media sites. Trust but verify. Now they're on their own (somewhat--both in college) they have more leeway. However, they know who's still paying the bills, who's legally responsible for their actions. I never threaten…

Sounds like a new poll is in order: "What National WAN providers do you use?" Then list 'em out.