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I'm very interested in the 7/19/2018 question's Demo view that shows "Netpath to Office 365" Widget Resource. How is this built? I'd like to add it to my views. Or is SAM required to accomplish this? I don't have SAM . . .

We may well automate ourselves out of spending so much (or any!) time doing manual routing changes, port monitoring, alert reactions, etc. This is a GOOD thing, freeing us up to do other fun and new and interesting things. Automation is growth and change, and can result in positive or negative affects on an environment or…

There's no getting around that--sometimes the patch breaks things that worked previously. Before patches are rolled out to the general population we use many test environments to discover patching processes, to learn the scope of the devices involved, and to learn what processes may break as a result of the patch. With…

I vote for more articles like this one. I'd love to see others' dashboards and learn how to improve my own based on ideas that other SW customers have developed.

And we could name it "Sky-Net" or "Ultron!" Yes! Or . . . maybe A.I.'s ​aren't​​ such a good idea . . .

Jimmy Ray's quite the salesman: Cisco engineer Jimmy Ray Purser sells $450 million in Cisco gear

It's fun to see the parts that Leon thinks stand out.

Sometimes corporate / government filters block your access, and doing work from home or public WiFi / Hotspots may be your most reliable (if least secure) option to stay up to date and to contribute regularly to Thwack.

Each time a new Network person takes charge in my organization, one of their early directives is to re-IP the entire organization to match their ideas of what's appropriate. Well . . . OK, but that's 40,000+ active devices, with a significant number using Fixed, Reserved, or Static addresses. Throw in the fact that an…

When public entities operate on funds provided by people who gain office by promising to cut taxes, you'll end up with: * Obsolete hardware and software * Frustrated customers * Fraud * Malfeasance * Favoritism * Nepotism * Waste * A culture of never being able to trust elected officials and their decisions It's…

Fact: Equifax security was breached, resulting in the lost of personal information (e.g.: SSI, birth date, birth location, name, street address, telephone number, etc.) for a reported 143 Million people. Fact: Equifax executives sold millions of dollars of their personal stock in Equifax after the breach was discovered,…

When you wrote “Where can you go on 40 miles of range?” you reminded me of an old tune called "40 Miles of Bad Road" that I play with a band called Gramps With Amps. Duane Eddy "Forty Miles of Bad Road" - YouTube I'd never seen this video of it, with intro by a very-young *** Clark. Thanks for bringing it to mind!

These are some of the great challenges and hopes for our I.T. futures. Yet it continues to look like a house of cards to me, in Networking. I know what hardware and protocols and IOS versions things are based on. I do my best to design for 99.999 uptime. I get the budget to do it right. I try to get training, and try to…

Thank you for sharing the story about shopping online safely. Many topics stood out as golden, and one of them was "shop as if they’re all compromised." I was surprised the most basic advice about how to avoid online scams and risks was completely missed: "Do your shopping in person at a local store instead of online."…

OMG--YES! We had 300 bps. I remember when we jumped to 2400 in just one day--the teletype couldn't keep up, and would keep going long after you thought you were done. Remember "recording" your work on punched paper tape?

I like some of the ideas present here, but I'd go further and add a few more to the list: * Limit unnecessary exposure to security risks. If your data and systems work well internally, don't move them to the cloud. Jumping on that bandwagon may be appropriate for some organization, but not for others. Remember that the…

Uffda! It's "challenging" to try to interpret how others believe inventory is best laid out when floor / shelf space is limited. I have the same problems when going to big-box hardware stores. "Will they have put product X next to product Y, since they seem intuitively sold together, or is X across the store from Y, due to…

Apparently it's either REALLY difficult, or totally impossible, to write code that takes dates and time into effect if it's expected to work everywhere around the world predictably and reliably under all circumstances. Wait . . . isn't that the same problem for ALL applications, whether they work with date/time stamps or…

Yours is an excellent question. I Googled it and came up with numerous responses, and one that's interesting is here: https://dschool-old.stanford.edu/wp-content/themes/dschool/method-cards/interview-for-empathy.pdf

I like to imagine that evolution of applications (and their management tools) results ultimately in fewer products and fewer vendors, each one doing more things well. The evolution process eliminates antiquated, obsolete, poorly-performing solutions. This "survival of the fittest" view should be universally supported by…

During the worst of the cold NPM fired off a couple of temperature related alerts to me. We have a few "industrial environment rated" switches in unheated outdoor environments, and one of them experienced colder temperatures than its rating allowed. It seems to have shut off one of its temperature sensors during the two…

" . . . you would have been issued one in your sea bag . . . " Made me laugh out loud. Thanks for a smile at work!

Yeah, I'd name living people, dead people, groups of people present and past . . . no good would come from it. Someone would be offended, and perhaps rightly so. My view is only my own; I've not walked in the moccasins of many other people, and don't have their perspective. Maybe the people I'd focus on would have valid…

Nice deck--thanks for sharing it! Wish I'd been there.

I'd telecommute to Austin under the right circumstances . . .

Bitcoin wastes that much energy? I always thought it was untrustworthy, but wasting that much electricity trying to get rich quick is just plain bad.

Chrome not protecting us from poorly-secure plug-ins/apps is not surprising, but it's disappointing. Chrome is my go-to browser because it's so much faster than IE and Firefox, while Edge remains on my untrusted list simply because it's a MS product and MS built the unreliable IE. Edge is suspect/guilty through association…

When "Lean" can meet "Secure" and "Agile" on equal footing (with regards to budget for services, training, hardware, and staffing), that's the time to buy stock in that company. The results of "Lean" being prioritized over staff levels and training may be disastrous. The Challenge: When C-level folks reduce budget to…

Umm . . . you could spend your Thwackless time composing Network Flowetry in honor of Thwack. Or rewriting a song, focusing on Thwack's wonderfulness. I hope that we will soon get back A new and quite delightful Thwack. A Thwack whose useful features fill Our needs with things that fit the bill. A Thwack that helps our…

Check today's question (Monday, July 25) for a minor typo, where "oin" should be replaced with "ion".