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Apparently there's infinite room for infinite turtles (or rocks) in the universe, and they don't have to move to eat or reproduce. You CAN improve ignorance, but there may be no fixing stubborn.

2020's todays were filled with trying new things. This year I tried: * Telecommuting. It worked well! * New pickup truck & 5th wheel camper (well, new to US, but used equipment to reduce depreciation costs). Both worked well! * Losing my job due to COVID-19's financial impacts to my employer. Totally was successful at…

Another variation of this request might be to ask for an option to enable or disable auto-scaling of graph size. Perhaps allowing someone to select WHICH graphs should not be auto-scaled is called for. Like you, I have team mates and bosses who assume the top of the graph is always 100%, and when two graphs don't show that…

Similarly, when I started working here in 2003, I tracked those undesired Help Desk calls that woke me in the middle of the night. If they turned out to be something the Help Desk could better triage before calling me--perhaps even fix themselves, or assign to a different team--I created a Knowledge Base article that…

I agree with you. Occasionally it's OK to have common sense answers, in a two-option format, in which one answer is obviously incorrect. It's not as intense a learning situation, but I don't need intense at the moment. ;^)

Nicely done! The envelopes remind me of a tiny little (fictional) book called "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying." It's actually a broadway musical that was turned into a hit movie back in the early 1960's, and that little book is full of wry advice that the protagonist in the play/movie follows…

In your box, you have "https://" entered once, then "https (server name): That can't be correct, can it? Even worse, the second "https//(name):" is missing a colon after the https. I suggest you remove the first "https://", then insert the missing colon between "https" and "//" and see if it works.

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Halloween is all about bacon, right?

I remember U.S. auto manufacturers' arrogance (?) and their condescending attitude when requested by Asian (specifically Japanese) car manufacturers to provide their administrators and engineers tours of U.S. auto plants. The goal on the U.S. side seemed to be showing our Japanese competitors, who made poor-quality autos…

Certain systems generate prodigious quantities of logs (e.g.: Cisco WLC 5508's and Cisco ASA's). Relying on them for troubleshooting can be daunting unless you have a SIEM--AND the training and familiarity to be efficient and competent in its use! Other systems have local logs that can be helpful if they're correctly sized…

When I said " . . . 100 GB links on the backside of all servers . . .", I was referring to a backend SAN fibre channel solution, not backplane capability.

The Popular Science article about the 1918 Pandemic was excellent--thank you for sharing it. I wish that story were mandatory reading in the public schools every year. Studying history helps us prevent repeating its worst aspects.

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That's a great example to Management of why budgeting for ongoing training remains critical to I.T. services.

When Tang came up with a different way to predict what movies Netflix users would like, or what products Amazon users might want to buy, did Netflix or Amazon use his information? It seems not. I still recommendations for things in which I have no interest. Maybe that's a good thing!

Coolness. I am unworthy to even click on it. But it's already in my production view for all nodes. Thanks!

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Agreed--I'm interested in see the videos or blog / content associated with this.

I can only imagine good things if Build 2020 is first addressed by MVP's. It sounds like a great precedent. 

Could you imagine Han Solo and Rocket Raccoon in the same space ship? What a disaster that would be! But I'd pay to see Groot and Chewbacca together as a team on an adventure. 

This subject is still on our minds. If SW comes up with a great solution for data warehousing, which would enable us to have long-term (ten years) trending and analysis, and longer high-density data for graphing performance and utilization for the last five years, I'd be all over it.

Get a good understanding of what you need and/or want, and then bring it back to this group and ask for advice. I'd hate for you to buy something and discover it doesn't do what you expected, or is incomplete as far as licenses go. Having to ask the boss for more money to do what you thought would be covered with your…

Wow! This is my first time experiencing text rendering issues. I wonder why the disparity . . . ?

Isn't this an old technology, an old idea? We've all managed by groups--groups of people in Active Directory, groups of switches that are dependent on a router in NPM, etc. A group is just a container of something, and it's easier to manage these containers than the individual devices within them. Just wrap a bunch of…

I'm for more of these to be started up again. I love the online forum for this; could a live / video session be anything but even better?

Perhaps the question should start with "Fine-tuning" instead of "Finding tuning"?

Informed Consent remains a fiction, one that's convenient for companies and the users they sell. I read the fine print when I signed up for FB many years ago, and pointed it out to friends and family who were vaguely disturbed about what I was saying, but who simply trusted Mark and his peers to be honest and above-board,…

patrick.hubbard​, Thank you for your cheery and entertaining offerings to us in the Thwack community. It would be a poorer environment without your smile and wit.

A senior citizen relative of mine accepted Microsoft's "demand" that they upgrade their old OS to W10, and they were confused about the logon / account options and requirements. Now they can't reboot their computer without having to give their credentials to Microsoft, and I continually have to go through the password…