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Would there be an issue with size / scaling / massive impact to database size, or to APE performance, as a result of enabling this for all PerfMon counters? It seems like a good idea to me, as long as it doesn't unexpectedly overwhelm the resources due to suddenly starting to poll/record thousands (or millions?) of…

I suspect the Series A funding obtained by Minds is hopeful at best, and naive and misleading at worst. I think it's naive to believe anyone can come up with an effective way to avoid government (or organized crime, or business) monitoring and/or control of information. There's simply too much money to be made from…

True that!

Yes. I'd even be up for a very limited number of volumes/interfaces/nodes to be included in a Data Warehouse, just to keep it small and affordable over the years.

If points are points, doing both is good. But in this case, more is better.

Monitors are so 21st century. Wait until we have it all displayed internally on our wetware!

I'm struck by the oxymoron of "zero touch" device configuration still requiring a resource that will configure the node, whether automatically or manually. The technology that can make that labor-saving event occur is impressive. But there's still a "touch" out there. It doesn't happen without at least a touch. Maybe the…

There are days when one is tempted to crawl into a hole and pull it in behind them.

Cars that talk to each other? That share speed/direction or other information that can help avoid a crash or injury? I'm all on board with that. However, what accidents will result of someone, who's accustomed to their car knowing conditions on adjacent streets and upcoming intersections, drives in an area that doesn't yet…

Moral: Take Gartner's report with a grain of salt. If you've ever participated in their product reviews, you may begin to think they might simply be selling other peoples' reviews, and not necessarily testing the products themselves, and not verifying the reviews' veracity.

Bump; nearly five years later. I could use this.

It's a bit daunting, having to wear so many hats while being expected to excel in all areas of IT--especially security. Even the places one expects should be safest, like the FBI, have been hacked--and they specialize in security. Yes, they have a very large target on their backs. But that hack shows how a weak link can be…

Bring it!

Bump.

I'm happy MS says IE is to be avoided. I'm interested that everytime I open certain web sites with IE they ask me to use a better/more-secure browser: Chrome. Is that strictly advertising? Why don't we hear "Use Edge instead of IE"?

You've hit me squarely where I live. I have little trust for the public cloud--how can I know it's secure when I can't visit the facilities and audit their security? Yet I'm surrounded by those who want to jump on that bandwagon for the saving they hope it will bring. Savings in having our own data centers, hardware,…

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I can't remember having problems with that. It's not something I've specifically tested.

Happily, the Help Desk and EUPS (End User Platform Support) staff have a nice product in LAN Desk, which does a great job managing patches, providing remote access / shadow sessions, etc. Many of our systems are TC's instead of PC's--something like 21,000, last time I looked (850 Citrix Servers, each supporting up to 25…

I might've done better using a graphic from Eureka or Warehouse 13. The Marvel Avengers are pretty muscle-oriented, and although SW Orion has muscle, I think a lot of its power comes from its brainy ability to correlate facts and report them and act on them. That's a different kind of super team. They're all super heroes…

I'm on board with the original request: provide the ability to use If / then statements to help NPM react differently, depending on characteristics discovered. Custom properties can be useful, but can also be time-consuming and complex to implement; enter the philosophy "This is what computers are good at doing--let's…

I can't get to this link from work to verify it's valid (Game sites are blocked), but this might be the answer to your wish: http://www.playr.org/play/spy_vs._spy/1532

It's always a push to get OS upgrades done with any kind of alacrity, due to the sheer number of boxes we have, and the matching number of special Health Care Industry applications that are only FDA approved on older OS versions. Fortunately, perhaps 25,000 or 30,000 of our systems are TC's running Citrix. But any OS…

(By the way, nice art! Did you craft it yourself, or find it online?)

Perhaps only tangentially related, our corporation blocks access to www.slideshare.net because it's categorized as a Personal Network Storage and Backup site, which is verboten to protect corporate data from being stored offsite. Any chance the link could be updated to something else?

One of my favorite ST:TNG episodes--"Who Watches The Watchers?" This concept has been a concern at least since the 300's AD, as the original Latin phrase below. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Wikipedia

Your was the perfect comment: "Do as I say, not as a I do", regarding Google & Amazon becoming enablers of the petroleum industry. On the flip side of the coin, I DO appreciated them doing more with less, and reducing their own personal dependence on fossil fuels.

No one picked up on this plan should have been under construction since Day One of any new business? I submit that the time to start creating a DR plan is before a business incorporates, before it hires any employees. I'm probably too literal. Sorry.