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DVR's have a bad history. If you didn't read this story in one of the earlier polls, I think you'll find it interesting. If you HAVE already ready, my apologies for wasting your time. Rick I've a coworker who not only does IT support for his family, he runs an international VoIP network out of his home to enable him to…

Increasingly, I feel resigned to a future that may resemble George Orwell's 1984. But particularly so after reading the story of "UK's facial recognition technology 'Breaches Privacy Rights'". Gathering the facial images of anyone attending a protest feels like a tool of oppression, enabling a bad group or government to…

I'll IM you.

When the SLA is reported at 99.9x%, does it exempt down time for planned maintenance, or is this an "absolute" up time and availability stat? I keep shooting for five 9's, and can achieve it only if I'm allowed to exempt planned outages for preventive maintenance, equipment refresh, and code or component upgrades. For the…

An in-house PCI audit revealed multiple cafeterias had installed credit card readers and PRI's and modems. No encryption. They had been told they couldn't use credit cards on our network because it wasn't PCI compliant, so they went around us and put in a parallel non-PCI-compliant solution. (heavy sigh of exasperation)…

Management's concern about Geeks doing Dev/Ops to save time (trust me, I don't believe these cartoons):

Happily this isn't yet another sports analogy!

Yes, Valentine's day is less than six months away, but it's never too early to start planning how you'll say "I love you!" to that someone special.

I find myself trying to do a better job of limiting data in PerfStack when I want to simply display data throughput for multiple interfaces on one or more devices. For example, I have a pair of Cisco Nexus 7009 core routers, and I'd like to show only throughput in bits per second (or Mb/s or Kb/s) for every active…

I was going to offer that NPM provides an RDP shortcut to any node--it's last icon on the right, in the group of remote access icons on the top right of a node's NPM page: But then I remembered Solarwinds only supports IE for this feature: And as everyone but Microsoft (and certain IT departments that are forced to keep IE…

Disable B.R.A.D.'s USB ports asap.

Let's ALL talk with our senators and representatives and request the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency get its act together on electronic passports.

Send us pictures of your Bobble-head dolls (so I can weep in envy--DanielleH​ at not receiving on. Or at least until mine finally shows up. Poor bobble-head MVP doll--lost in some UPS immense UPS warehouse shelf, alone, frightened . . .).

These questions are becoming increasingly valuable--and some are harder to get right the first time. I find I'm taking particular care to ensure I get them right . . .

Yes, having the biggest provider(s) achieving majority control of any resource seems a way to cause big problems resulting from greed and being power-hungry. But does it matter if it's Microsoft or Amazon, Facebook or Netflix--or Standard Oil or ATT or big railroads, or the Big 3 automakers? Remain aware of absolute power…

Here in Minnesota's Norvegian Riviera (Duluth), when we hear "No PTO during the summer due to company project schedules . . ." Well, them's fighin' words! I've been employed here long enough so I accrue 8+ weeks of PTO to be used for vacation or sick time. Like you, I'm rarely sick, and I'm fortunate enough to have been…

Sounds like a wise fellow. Take what works well, modify it for your company's unique needs, test, repeat.

I'd wear those if they were in the Thwack Store, or were prizes for missions. I'd wear 'em to work if they only had the solar flare logo instead of having words (company policy forbids swag that advertises to be worn to work).

It worked for me when upgrading to NPM 12. And going through all the Release Notes for numerous products revealed a wealth of useful information, not only for upgrades but also for doing daily tasks in new and better ways. It took time to go through all the pages & links & comments, but it was worth it. It proved…

I salute you, Jeremy!

Now if only everyone would read and adopt all these steps prior to making any decisions . . . Doing so is a mark of professionalism, experience, competence, and maturity.

The article about Meltdown and Spectre with regards to SQL contained some potentially useful links to other resources for better understanding the issues, perhaps even for remediating them. I still don't see a solution that prevents vulnerabilities from being inadvertently (or intentionally) deployed, nor a way to prevent…

The whole issue of people stealing the work of others, through easy methods like copy and paste, drag & drop, etc. is sad. I've spoken with Millenials who do not believe this is theft--because it's simple and easy to do, and because there's no immediate arrest and fine or penalty for doing it, and because it's so…

Interesting. Will the beta fully address the need for more Meraki compatibility?

This! And so much more! More is required to filter out the chaff. More is required to build Solarwinds products to automatically correct or prevent problems. Notification of changes in conditions is no longer enough. It's no longer sufficient to receive data and have to interpret it and then decide how to respond and act…

What an ugly picture you've painted. I love the example!

Self driving cars can't recognize people as hazards if those folks' skin color isn't caucasian? OMG! That's as bad as (or worse than) M.Z. building a feature into FB that allows one to troll one's female Friends, but that denies the same access to one's male friends. Yah, it actually IS worse.

You wrote "What are our hang-ups with a cloud consumption model?" I've come up with some to consider: * Reliability. Imagine that your internal Solarwinds NetPath shows Microsoft or AWS services down much more frequently than you expected. Not just one load-balanced destination down while all others are up, but multiple…

I'd support this. Although, over the last few years since NetPath became available I've only had occasion to build 25 monitors, meaning I'm not doing a lot of customization here. But maybe if I had easy options I'd use it for more advanced purposes.

In the short term for my industry (Health Care), my "futurist gene" is gazing into the crystal ball and seeing: * More and more Telehealth replacing traditional visits to the Clinic and Hospital and Emergency Room. Some companies are already investing in it for their employees, figuring it's a no-brainer to keep the…