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When Amazon AND Google can both follow the motto of "Don't Be Evil", and can agree with the rest of us what is and what is not "evil", then we can talk. Google and Amazon, I'm talking to you.
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mrs.alterego, is there anything that can be done for @Ripped Up? I feel badly for that situation.
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E-mail server at home = headaches and hardware/software/security expenses and time I won't accept. E-mail through others = snooping, supervision, advertising, expense. Choose how you're going to pay for it. Microsoft won't fix a broken product in a timely manner? That couldn't POSSIBLY be true, could it? Parenthood--that…
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I'll respectfully disagree with Greg Ferro's thoughts that firewalls' maintenance costs are greater than the cost of losing data due to a breach. I work for a Health Care System, and discovering someone's ransomed our patients' data or our Electronic Medical Health Care records would be much more expensive than our…
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Our friends Down Under are impressive--their ancestors came there with amazing skills, and we benefit from those powerful brains and troubleshooting abilities still today. Visiting Australia remains a life goal that I hope to achieve one day.
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CMD is NOT dead: The paragraph that states that “[PowerShell] replaces Command Prompt (aka, “cmd.exe”) in the WIN + X menu, in File Explorer’s File menu", does not say “[PowerShell] replaces Command Prompt“. Folks are just inferring there's an association and intent--and they are incorrect. D-Link's irresponsible actions…
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Steve, your question is answered here: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/solarwinds-community/announcements/blog/2017/10/06/you-dont-know-thwack--the-onb… I can verify that the process is followed, as I've submitted a fair number of Feature Requests, had some of them voted enough to be implemented, some of them not…
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My identity Is who I am, what I do Only me, not you I have access now It means I can do my job My permissions rock Stay out, imposter Please leave my network alone Forbid ransomware If you know the code Then you may learn the message Ignorance is bliss When FUD rules your life Sorrow is your lot, until Confidence returns…
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With my kids out of town for college or summer jobs or traveling, what's a father to do on Father's Day? Go fishing! Ontario: where the people are practical and the fish can be big!
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Captain Montgomery Scott speaking to Lieutenant Commander Geordi LaForge about how to look like a miracle worker in Star Trek: TNG episode "Relics" : Listen to Scotty - YouTube "Oh, ya didn't tell 'im how long it'll REALLY take, did ya?!!!" Scotty might be paraphrased: "Network users are like children: they want everything…
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I was interested in the first link provided, to the Skype for Business Network Assessment Tool. I downloaded it, installed it, but now it's well hidden--can't find it anywhere to run & look at it. Sigh. Worse, the instructions and links further within are either non-existent/changed/missing. Good old MS. Happily the links…
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You should be able to access the survey from your favorite coffee shop, or from home, or McDonalds--that way you can get the points.
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"Never go on vacation and come back to a new Mission" (or so I must continue telling myself). I set a personal goal of 100% correct answers on all Mission questions this year, and had a perfect score through June. Went on vacation the first week of July and came back from a 7-day fishing trip all relaxed--and I realized I…
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I like where you're coming from, and have wished for the same solution. I don't think it's feasible, perhaps not even possible, in large environments. There just won't be enough resources on a single hardware or VM solution to handle the resources required and consumed by multiple Orion modules. I monitor 50,000+ active…
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Lack of planning is the root of so much that is wrong with so many things. Suppose you say to your C-Level: "Give me a picture or description of what you want the network to look like in five years, and I'll build a road map to get it there. You'll have the quotes, can allocate the budget, and I'll make it happen." And you…
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Leon, your words put MANY images in my mind. Here are a few that happen to have Youtube videos to reference against: * "I remember a teacher talking about one of her best techniques for helping students get "un-stuck." When a student would say "I don't know," she would respond, "Imagine you did know. What would you say if…
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What can be done to distribute these basic concepts to the rest of the world? And especially to decision makers in business and in I.T. Management? If they could understand these concepts we wouldn't have to deal with their questions and inappropriate choices and wasted time.
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It makes me wonder where the funds come from for the prizes. Are our contributions that worthwhile? Hopefully there's nothing like FB's goings-on, selling the data on the back side. But I don't see any advertisements or increase in spam, so that can't be it. Am I just looking a gift horse in the mouth? It's all so fun and…
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This is a cool idea, but automatically divides us into groups with advantages over others. I mostly stopped watching cartoons in the early 1970's, therefore would be at a disadvantage for cartoons watched in the 1990's and early 2000's. And I might be at a big advantage for cartoons that were on when I was a kid, but that…
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I like the story about AI and automation. As long as there are new jobs and new training created for people who are negatively impacted by the automation, we advance the race. If there are not new and equally-paying opportunities for those who lose employment and payment when automation obsoletes their work, we do poorly.…
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There ought to be Thwack Packs making their way through that door into the conference room . . .
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It's 2016, and this old thread still bears reviewing. Auto negotiation of port speed and duplex has been a standard for twenty years, and has been reliable as long as vendors write NIC drivers that comply with the standards. Yet I continually see present-day equipment coming with requirements for hard coded switch port…
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I'm all for improving this. Even if Microsoft takes the lead. One of my critical environments is managed by our InfoSec Group, and they require both MFA and 30-day password expiration. It's ridiculously inconvenient, but it's not about my convenience (obviously). However, this also results in some players finding methods…
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NPM, NCM, and NTA are our solutions, combined with specific need-based NetPath deployments, and the occasional site visit with the Engineers' Toolset on a laptop, combined with Ekahau specialty tools on that same laptop. If NetPath were ubiquitous, and if it stayed non-chatty and secure and no-extra-charge for it in NPM,…
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It'll never happen, since everyone else is apparently doing it, but BYOD could simply go away. It's a shame when truckers have to buy/provide their own rigs, but they look at it as if they're private contractors, private businesses. It's a shame when carpenters have to provide their own tools, but again, it's the way that…
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You've exceeded my ability to answer trivia without Googling it. I humbly defer to your memories of this technology.
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My vaporware experiences are from 1981. I was shocked and disappointed salespeople would promise that which had not even been coded. And the products certainly were NOT on the shelf, ready to be customized to buyers' needs. That was just plain prevarication.
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I've always been technically oriented, and from my first adventures taking apart the family's failed washing machine and dryer, through being tired of taken advantage of by automobile repair places, to being sent around the country by my employers to be trained to better serve their network needs, I've been satisfied with…
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I'd LOVE to say yes or no to your question, but my expertise in the RegEx world is incomplete, and I apologize for not being able to provide a definitive answer for you, noobes. The info at the link is useful for understanding RegEx, but I must refer you to a Solarwinds expert if you need information indicating that…
