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In the case where SW doesn't already have a canned process to use for upgrades, first I check the online shared templates within Thwack to see what others may have figured out and shared. You should be able to see that within one of the pages/tabs inside NCM. If you dont' find what you want, try various searches to guess…

Nothing but good information and ideas and enthusiasm, the entire time. Thanks, Leon, and all of SW and Thwack members, for your contributions and great attitudes!

Batman had many positive items, not least of which are honor, faithfulness, trust, intelligence, a couple of good partners (Robin and Alfred), technology and gadgets. I like how Guardians expanded on that and moved more towards a team comprised of members with varying strengths. Batman's team was too small, and too often…

Good memories of special people and their hobbies are precious doorways into the past.

* Carrie Underwood and Watson's predictions: Using a computer to predict outcomes and major future events will occasionally be right, or occasionally be wrong. The public may or may not accept computer predictions. The predictions may or may not influence peoples' actions. This one underwhelmed me. * Speech recognition: If…

Survey completed. Thank you for the opportunity to provide my opinions. Rick

Deduplication & dynamic traffic maps are my numbers 2 & 3.

Oops! I didn't see the link to today's Actuator, and just posted a mournful query for where it was . . . Sorry!

A reaction might be "We should be monitoring everything!" Which consumes a lot of resources, fills logs, causes alert fatigue, etc. But when we don't monitor "everything", we may miss important clues about attacks or trends that may indicate imminent failures or crashes or reboots. So one solution may be monitoring…

I continue to be aware of that chart, and it inspires me to be the Geek that makes my world function more efficiently, even though it costs me a bit more initial output.

@"jm_sysadmin" I make an effort to attend the Laskiainen in Palo, MN every winter, in part to enjoy the giant ice slide they build for toboggans, but mostly to spend time in a Finnish baking and crafts environment. The families bake their traditional goods and sell them there, and it's a real trip back in time for me to…

Recently I attended a Cisco Dog & Pony show that leads one to believe Cisco thinks the cloud is inevitable for every business--and also for most users. Their SD-WAN solution is predicated on the idea that a distributed business can't afford to waste bandwidth with an MPLS cloud getting remote sites to the corporate…

It was the most challenging mission of 2016 (for me). Meaning I learned more than usual!

Google is your friend. Search for North Dakota Missile Silos, or Minute Man Missile, or something like that. You'll find a lot of information. If bigger images was all you wanted, you could search Google Images and choose the "Large" size option, as I did here:…

"Trust but verify." You can't get any better advice than this. Apply it many places.

Problem: https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/google-apple-reveal-more-c… Where they say "The APIs developed by Google and Apple will not use location tracking data, according to the developer guidelines released Monday. " I call B.S. The vendors have already proven their claims of not tracking, not listening in on your…

The story with images of very-old computers--nicely done! The photographs are beautiful, the equipment looks clean & new--mint condition. On the other hand, having had to support Apple I-MACs back in the late 1990's, I can't accept the author saying they were part of the early days of home computing. Equipment from…

I, too, would be interested in learning more about your experiences. I have an air-gapped environment that needs better monitoring, while remaining PCI compliant.

Yes, block chain MUST be the answer. It can ALWAYS be trusted!

(That event was SOOO surprising. And disappointing.)

https://9to5mac.com/2015/03/19/apple-app-store-antivirus/ You're right--it looks like a big opportunity.

Those are excellent points. And your closing comments highlight exactly why Congress, responding to the demands of the folks who pay for their election campaigns (and boondoggles and private flights, and who hire them after they're no longer legislators), is moving forward with eliminating Net Neutrality. The example of…

We saw part of our DR plan implemented last night when power problems in our city caused transformers on utility poles to have problems. One transformer near one of my 7x24 facilities exploded and had 15' high flames running up the pole, which melted the WAN fiber. Although it took about seventeen hours to get power and…

Oh, dear, the question on 7/23 was a puzzler for me! I'd build the display page in NPM or SAM differently, to allow someone to more easily recognize and differentiate resources in various cloud solutions. In this case, I don't own SAM and am not VM-fluent, and I suspect what may be obvious to others is not so much to me.…

Skype: * Microsoft's IM/chat/telephony/video solution has been a royal pain, expensive and ridiculously complex to set up at the Internet/firewall level, and worse internally. * Has had problems sharing between different types/scales/licensed customers across the Internet * Works OK within the same internal corporation…

Some years ago I learned the Center For Disease Control had no wireless network. I don't know if that's still true today, but the explanation from one of their former Network Engineers was that wireless would never be secure, that it would always remain a moving target. Security will always be some steps behind the…

Born in '59, and my strong childhood memories of inexpensive candy bars (5 pennies then, 150 of them today--or more!) and ten penny telephone calls from public phone booths everywhere (which have vanished today), makes life more tedious for my children as I lapse into old-timers' bad habits ("You kids have it easy today!…

There's no flaw in your logic.

Agreed--it sometimes seems training is under-appreciated by Management, perhaps due to their impression that its worst aspects can include: * Worrying about training someone and they leave shortly afterward. This is easily managed by:* Creating a policy that requires employees to continue working for the company for a…