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I really appreciate you sharing the back story behind "The Jann Effect". It's encouraging to see young minds consuming difficult challenges, both new AND old, and conquering them. This kind of story give me hope for the future, that the world continues to generate and nourish and support mental achievement, instead of…

Agreed--VM is NOT the panacea some folks may wish for. Depending on hardware budget and application design/compatibility, I've seen application performance take a big nose dive when moved to VM. And some suites of applications, depending on how busy and demanding they may be, have VM specs that require dedicating an entire…

I'd love to have time to download & compare/test this against LANDesk Service Desk. "LSD" has zillions of hooks and capabilities, including inventorying and pushing out patches & reporting all kinds of stats about users' names and activity. I'd like to see if DameWare did all this and more. Our LSD also integrates with…

Call me skeptical and jaded, but after thirty years in the I.T. sector I have begun to wonder about certain motives for specific changes. Sometimes change comes to reduce cost / enhance profit. Sometimes it's the logical result of reactions to security risks or events. But sometimes, especially when change apparently…

Regarding the Azure outage, it's another example of impact to customers who relied on the cloud for resilient and reliable access. In hindsight, those problem areas could (mostly) have been corrected pre-problem. And the cloud will improve with time. As will the ability of others to compromise it. Fool me once . . .

I used to say "Poor China." Then I said "Poor citizens of China." In more recent years I say "As you sow, so shall you reap." When a culture realizes there are severe population problems and arbitrarily creates rules to limit one child per family, or one per adult, without addressing the perceived values and benefits of…

Sigh. Another CTRL+F question. It's a GREAT thing I'M not in charge of the questions/answers! ;^) There'd be so much negative mail coming my way for creating hard questions, tricky questions, for being ridiculously nit-picking, for providing answer options that are spelled NEARLY identically, for finding hidden, odd,…

Speaking from the viewpoint of a non-profit supporting millions of customer interactions (in person and online) each year, I can only ask for the impossible: 100% enterprise licensing without restrictions, at an impossibly low price point, across all platforms. It'd be great if you got right on that . . . you know, with…

Upon deeper thought, one might say the Star Ship Enterprise was sidekick to Kirk, Picard, Janeway, etc. Or, was the Enterprise the main character, and all her captains were merely sidekicks?

We've started investigating Azure Express Routing to see if it can reduce the very poor performance for our Cloud-based MS apps. Pricing - ExpressRoute | Microsoft Azure Have any of you gone with Azure Express Routing, or chosen not to use it?

My company uses Infoblox for DHCP/IPAM, but I also have IPAM as part of Solarwinds NAM. Infoblox exports, and SW IPAM imports, the information I need and expect. I'd like to think your info on your spreadsheet can be imported if you only had the right format, and could reference the right resources. I'd suggest opening a…

You've got an administration which feels backed into a financial corner. Your Management has used finances to set your patients and providers up to fail when power events occur. And your team may be expected to carry the brunt of the responsibility when an outage occurs and someone's hurt. There are a few options I can…

I have about 4,000 Citrix terminals on the network, and they're a popular local interface to the network, Internet, apps, etc. The other 43,000 addresses are PC's, printers, servers, IP cameras, badge readers, electronic grease boards, wireless devices (about 9,000 of them at any given time), and a large number of PC's.…

Given all parts are required to complete the puzzle, it's unfortunate if: * Some of the parts are insecure, and wish to retain their border integrity and pretend they are their own fief . . . * Other parts are worried that allowing views into their section of the puzzle may reveal they aren't following best practices, or…

It seems to make perfect sense--especially in a shop where a limited / small number of people where a great many hats. As things scale larger to enterprise size we run into additional challenges of silo'd experts with their own best of breed tools. Plus, challenges with obtaining training funds for everyone who may be…

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Training, training, training. And budgeting for training. Off site, instructor-led. Followed by testing and certification. Repeat.

British Airways has reaped what they sewed. Fines must be significant to be appropriate and to cause change. But the root problem remains--greed and lack of quick identification of problems and problem people, and immediate consequences. Remember that old saw about "an ounce of prevention?" What are we doing to prevent…

Blockchain is EASY to explain: * It's bad because it enables Ransomware and organized crime. * Don't use it. * It can't be relied on. * Don't use it. * Spend your time being with people--in person, not online. Enjoy a walk outside, a swim, a bike ride. Work for your mental health instead of trying to find an easy way to…

Hopefully things become similarly tough at Cisco with their Tetration product.

I understand what you mean, and you're correct--to "receive" the prize (after you've correctly answered the right questions) you have to live where the prize can be shipped. However, let's play "fun with semantics"! To "win" the prize, you must get the week's five questions right for a chance at the weekly prize. You must…

I suspect a consensus might be formed if one were to adopt the concept: "We can solve all our problems if we get to work. That means we budget for the right plan, the right hardware, the right people, and the right training." Jumping at every new fad is just a way to lose weight. Whether it was ITIL, "Anything-OPS", or…

The graphic reminds me of something I recently read: "All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand."

Nice! It's good to see life hacks making positive changes!

I liked the way Richard Dawson said "Survey . . . SAYS!"

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I'm much in favor of the solar improvements! I look forward to using this in the future as we rely more on solar cells for camping.

It seems this would be possibly useful if your organization supports only a small point of AP's, which could be configured to allow SSH access into them for configuration control & management. But can NPM truly "Manage" AP's like a Cisco 5000 or 8000 series Wireless Controller can--set AP groups, set SSID's, define access,…

In one job interview, I had to pass a color test to prove I wasn't color blind. If I had not passed it, I would have been eligible for other positions, but not the one to which I was applying. Where color recognition is required, folks shouldn't have to fight it when they're color blind, and they shouldn't be made to feel…

See if this document I created helps: How to trim, remove, or truncate domain names discovered and displayed in NPM 11.5.2 and NCM 7.4 Swift Packets! Rick Schroeder