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I can imagine environments where your preferred solution would be a good one. Given the fact that there's no Solarwinds data warehouse solution, keeping the configuration and stats and information for accessing a retired device for more than a few weeks or months isn't practical in my environment. However, replacing it…

This! So much THIS! The above article should be required reading, retroactive via time machine, for anyone considering the cloud as a solution. I don't see the logical follow-up to the possible discovery that one or more KPI areas do not meet expectations. That area needs expansion, with definitions of: * Discovery and…

"Sea rations?" I was never in the military, but I thought those were "C-rations", which have been renamed again to MRE's since Desert Shield (or earlier?). I kind of LIKE "Sea rations." It brings out the sailor/pirate movie image for me. And I'm talking about movies well before Pirates of the Caribbean. A simpler time.…

Guilty, as charged. ;^) I think Fry's meme hits it pretty well. My apologies for the quantity--I hope you find some quality mixed in with the freely flowing thoughts.

Deciding whether to go to SaaS, to me, seems to hinge mightily upon control. If you're the kind of person (maybe a control freak like me) who wants to do the driving and be done with the payments, you might just buy the right vehicle for your needs and pay it off quickly. Now you're in control. You get to drive, decide…

Perhaps even worse than 15,000 web cams without security on them is the video control security console a friend recently purchased from Ali Baba to manage/monitor/control the many video cameras inside and outside his home. They monitor doors, bedrooms, valuables, garages, property lines and points of access. He thought it…

Educating Management about where to go first for repairs may fall on deaf ears until you have SAM and DPA running, and until you've gotten some excellent QoE pages built. Certainly Management shouldn't be going to your department for problem solving at all. Management shouldn't be going anywhere. This should be bubbling up…

I expected someone to translate my Klingonese in the first picture & comment on it. I guess I'm too geeky.

Dilbert showed it all, but when will folks stop installing vulnerabilities and using poor practices? And when will others stop being predatory? There are no folks being caught, no consequences being handed out. Why would anyone stop trying to make money by hacking if there's no chance of them getting caught? Why would…

Yep--I put it in the Geek Guides area, which turns out to have restricted access. I can't find an area in which to move a Blog that's not restricted. I'll work with Thwack Admins to find what I should have done initially, and put it there. Thanks for letting me know.

Oh dear . . . I can see the comments already. "O Irony, much do you protest! And yet, let each word, each step, bring us closer to that golden award!"

Agreed on all points. Not one of those ten can be overemphasized.

I was an olidies fan when they were new, even though I was a little kid in the early '60's. Perhaps worse (?) is I've always been a fan of Karen Carpenter's voice, and when she and her brother released a modern version in 1981, I was all over it. Good, clean, simple Americana with a fun nostalgia vibe. Many of today's…

If you're preaching to the choir, surely there's a parallel where Leon is the Choir Director.

"Leave the automation to machines"? That sounds like a recipe for assumptions and career-limiting-activities. I understand the point, but blanket statements are easily misconstrued and applied incorrectly.

Bump.

That requirement should have excellent positive results! Thank you, DanielleH​.

It sounds good. It'd make life easier for us end users, assuming we could get the right MIB's, and they'd be compatible with Orion and all its modules. But I wonder how major it is for Orion to absorb these potentially frequent major or minor changes behind the scenes? On the other hand, what a powerful security hole this…

Now I'm jaded enough to come up with the idea that British Airways is claiming to have been hacked just so they can get screen time in the press, to let people think B.A. is on top of security. They didn't want to be left out, so they joined the "Hacked? Me Too!" group.

I treat shopping, either online or in-person, as the replacement for my hunter/gatherer role. I love electronic gadgets, but have been able to control my urges to buy them. Thank goodness for Amazon shopping Lists! Anytime I get a hankering for some item--especially something over $50, I just drop it in that bucket and…

Hacking the Olympics web site? What should we do to correct this behavior, to modify people and children so this kind of activity is no longer even imaginable? Certainly the anonymity of the Internet doesn't enable swift and accurate identification of the source. And as a result, the sources behind the even don't…

As a Tech you may think you are able To work with your feet on the table. But mess up my net And there's one thing you'll get: A noose made of CAT6A cable.

You wrote some of the least forward-thinking words a person could hope to never read: ". . . when your employer doesn’t sponsor or encourage your education.' Educating on your own gives you an edge over other folks competing for your job, or for a new job. It also encourages folks to look elsewhere for an employer who…

More people are getting caught trying to sneak more guns onboard airplanes? I tend to think it's not caused by more people carrying more guns, but rather that the TSA has more time to do a better job. I could be wrong. If I'm wrong, that's not so good--more people thinking they need guns on airplanes, or wherever they're…

"It's a plot". We've heard leaders claim that very recently. It might even be true. But the plot appears to be "make more money, at any cost, as long as you can deflect blame and get away with it." Let's teach folks what Altruism is, and why it's better than profit-seeking. And then see our tomorrows improve.

Crazy China. Absolute power, and all that. The top folks live in luxury and the others barely live. Or so we're told. Larry Niven dealt with that kind of society in his Known Universe. Folks had the right to reproduce one time per person and that was it. And that "right" could be removed if your genes were judged defective…

BACON MASKS! AWESOME! Totally useless for defeating COVID-19, but one would feel so delightful sniffing bacon all day . . . And when your nose got tired of it, or your ears became sore, you just eat the evidence!

I work in the Health Industry, and two items come to mind: 1. Tracking user actions & browsing & equipment location happens. Period. What companies or people do with the information makes a world of difference. You may recall a story where a young girl changed her purchasing actions, Target's algorithms determined her…