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Kudos to you for your humor and wit and creativity and patience and perseverance, maria.bungau​. We'll all miss your cheery insight and responses, and your suggestions and valuable ideas and so-helpful input. May your every new endeavor be even more successful and satisfying than your dreams can imagine! Rick Schroeder

It kind of boils down to "it's the people, and their lack of training. Let's get them into some classes, encourage them to become certified. That way we have in-house resources that can give us the right advice and support to keep heading in the best direction."

That's unfortunate, bsciencefiction.tv‌. Although funding's not the battle it might be for my Team, working with SolarWinds' Sales has become quite the challenge in recent years. Our budget/funding cycle doesn't accommodate SW incentive programs to help their company or sales people meet monthly, quarterly, or annual…

I like the proactive flavor here. I just took a Power Squadron Safe Boating Class and its manual contains at least three similar project-management-towards-success philosophies, each of which shows smart people analyzed a LOT of problems and tried to come up with a great preventative guideline--a "pre-mortem"-- as you have…

Excellent. Also configure it to place online orders. Soon the opposition will have so much credit card debt that they won't be able to pay their people.

" . . . where the points are awarded next week . . .!"

The "smart lock" story is so depressing. Snake Oil sales at their worst.

The medical industry has developed descriptions for pain associated with cell phones: "Text Neck" and "Cellphone Elbow." They're not hard to imagine, and they're exacerbated by watching small screen devices while in bed. Digital disabilities — text neck, cellphone elbow — are painful and growing - The Washington Post Neck…

This end and cable also remind me of old AS400 connectors. Maybe?

First off, the topic. APM is a great tool that should be used by more IT people to accomplish worthy goals. Being Agile is one way of defining and working towards those good goals. Traditional methods may not need to be scrapped just to adopt agility. There are good things from the past, and we don't throw away someone…

(Grin) Sigh.

That's one slippery letter!

We can't be friends because of silos and distrust and budget restrictions and costs. So we're casual friends in the hallway, but at PRI's and RCA's, not so much. Reducing MTTI is the best we can do to prove a negative, which can end up shunting the spotlight of unwanted attention to other teams, and that's not a great way…

It's definitely "a thing" in some regions. https://www.google.com/search?q=using+tannerite+on+computers&oq=using+tannerite+on+computers&aqs=chrome..69i57.9343j0j7&… However, who does the clean up of the fine bits & pieces?

That makes sense to me. I'd still like all audits & auditors, no matter the system instigating the audit, to be consistent, and stringent, and thorough.

My sole wish is that SolarWinds had the budget to purchase all the new Cisco hardware, deploy it as most customers would, and then build the monitors for it and release them to us.

Sadly, it's apparent that: * Manufacturers can't be trusted to build secure devices that are automatically secure, or that are intuitive to configure to be secure. * Users won't/can't understand the risks and make intelligent choices to avoid them or remediate them. * The I.T. industry has created a majority of consumers…

Maria, the trend I'm seeing here isn't the happy-go-luck St. Patrick's Day theme that I think you imagined. I see a lot of down-trodden Network Admins, not upbeat folks like I want us all to be. Maybe instead of a SW T-Shirt that says "No, the Network is NOT DOWN!", we should having something more positive. It doesn't seem…

@"rbeachy" I feel your pain. I was fooled, as were many by that line you pointed out that said to "note which products are excluded." That was confusing in that it simply asked us to "note" these particular products. It didn't say to select them, simply note them. It would have been helpful if it had said "note which…

I learn so much of the tech world from your writings, Leon. Thank you!

I've discovered rogue AP's on clients' internal networks when staff wanted wireless and couldn't get it due to budgeting or corporate policy. But plugging an AP into an internal corporate network for personal convenience does more than open a hole into a company's security (which is bad enough, and grounds for dismissal,…

This may be useful for monitoring Firepower: Cisco FXOS MIB Reference Guide - About Cisco FXOS MIB Files [Cisco Firepower 9000 Series] - Cisco

Hi Thomas! Yep, I read your whole article. I was only thinking of cases where someone paid for a subscription and then shared their credentials to friends or family.

There was much to enjoy about this challenge. Thank you for creating it, Leon.

We're all still waiting for that Star Trek ubiquitous "computer" that understands when it's being spoken to, and when it's not. It can take context and homophones into account and do what a person asks and expects--without running into problems with spoken and written English. And it's secure and guarantees privacy. While…

I have a few Cloud-based observations: * After moving to Azure, our Microsoft-based apps (especially Outlook/Exchange) are MUCH slower than when we had our own on-premise equipment. Some users report an hour delay on receiving e-mails or synchronizations of their e-mail accounts. Most users report hanging outbound e-mail…

That's so true. And tax payers continue voting for people who claim they'll cut taxes, blindly ignorant to the fact that less taxes mean less services. And in a city, that translates directly to less money for schools. Who then get declining Moody's credit rating scores, which translates to higher interest rates for loans.…

Coordination of local services on an increasing larger scale seems really hard. Locals may not want to have "higher ups" interfering or requiring all locals get identical equipment, radios, procedures, etc. so that they can be coordinated by higher-ups in broader disasters. Worse, local emergency services folks might know…

Nice work! And lots of thought went into it all. Thanks!