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Telecommuting to work & school from a rural location, with limited bandwidth, just doesn't work in some situations. I'm grateful my kids moved out and graduated from college in the last year. Keeping bandwidth free for work, and for personal surfing after hours, while hosting two teenagers (who believe 7x24 audio AND video…

Naw, that would be Truth In Advertising; we can't have that!

I'm wondering if you're enough of a S/F geek, and tolerant enough of S/F violence in movies, to find lessons learned in Alita: Battle Angle. I enjoyed that one last weekend, and I can see some serious parallels to your observations here. There's new meaning to the phrase "I'll give you my heart--don't break it." Thanks, as…

I hope your column starts a list of Health Care Industry buzzwords & acronyms that we all can moan about or learn about. I'll start it off, if someone will keep adding on: * HIPAA * ITIL * FDA (How many times have I run into vendors that try to play the FDA Card when explaining why their equipment isn't compatible with my…

A good set of external sensors, of which the Enterprise had many, would have identified the incoming missile was using the same shield frequency modulation as the Enterprise, representing a serious threat. The sensor would have alerted the appropriate subroutine (Solarwinds), which would have triggered audio and visual…

The idea has merit--but I'd want gross and fine control about access. There's no benefit in folks being able to see your data if they don't work for you, or don't need that information as your customers or suppliers. Put in that limitation so no one unauthorized can view your information, and you might have something.…

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I'll kindly point out how using social capital is NOT working well for China. They reportedly restrict / prevent travel to anyone whose politics varies from the party line. "Oh, you want to take the train or plane somewhere? Sorry, we don't like what you posted online yesterday. You're not allowed to use public…

I think about that white paper's contents in terms of a few ultra-marathon runners I've become aware of. These are people who routinely run races (or practice runs) of 50 to 100 miles (or more!) at a time. Ultramarathon - Wikipedia The 10 Most Ridiculously Impressive Ultra-Marathoners of All Time | Complex The…

I like the idea of use blood tests to improve health. I'm also aware that sometimes what is thought of as a great idea today turns out to be a bad one tomorrow. And then in 50 years might turn around to have surprising positive benefits in a completely different area of health care. If you studied Thalidomide, or even were…

Again, you're correct. And this is one of those things that great parenting, good funding support of public schools, and hiring great qualified teachers could have prevented back when those adults who lack good social skills could have had their deficiencies remediated. Chicken and the egg syndrome. Some people are…

Oh dear . . . just when I was being weaned away from spending so much time on Thwack . . .

Because what could be better than bacon-tasting-ANYTHING! Seriously, once we're 3D printing things that taste like bacon, is there a limit, an end? "Hand me that bacon-flavored-TV-remote, please?" "Right--just as soon as I get up off this bacon-flavored-recliner to use the rest room . . ." "Hey! Who used up all the…

Continuing happiness--thank you.

The Actuator remains my weekly thought-provoking and horizon-expanding resource at work. Thank you for keeping this going! * DDOS against DNS providers affecting many sites . . . This isn’t new, but the scope of the recent attack was impressive. It’ll only get worse with IoT devices and folks building/infecting/programming…

Keep workin' the Dream Job (so the rest of us can imagine living our lives through yours).

I feel the battle on the right side's bracket is going to be between Captain Davy Jones and Captain Jack Sparrow. Jones is clearly more intimidating and a far bolder and more evil pirate. But he was bested by Sparrow, which is the mark of the better man. Not to mention that Johnny Depp is probably as fun and silly and…

Auxiliary and redundant, augmented and tri-tonal, baritone saxophone BUMP!

Sounds good to me. Done.

It's unfortunate they couldn't accept the BTU information off the hardware, and ask your HVAC team about what would be required for handling & cooling that air appropriately. Part of the challenge is that sometimes Management thinks vendors and customers often use the maximum BTU ratings as a lazy shortcut to get more…

Finding that needle in the haystack is a challenge for us. I'm our SolarWinds SME and am stuck between that rock and that hard place where I'm promoting the single pane of glass as an efficient way to see everything with one front end that aggregates info from multiple (SolarWinds) tools, while simultaneously experiencing…

Although SNMP is not compatible with most Disc I/O monitoring needs or solutions, can you use WMI information to see the same thing?

I poll the Hardware Details on a thousand Cisco nodes, but don't see a Service Tag option displayed. What am I missing? I suspected that if one had a Service Tag field, it wouldn't be populated automatically--it would be something one would have to manually populate. Am I mistaken?

I like the overall initial story, and I'd like folks to start a new thread dedicated just to the idea of providing agreed-on troubleshooting methods for the stranger coming in to troubleshoot an inadequately documented network. Start with the high side--what would you do first, then what are the intermediate and ending…

It's not inappropriate to approach this with a skeptical view. But if tests and implementations show promise, moving forward can be beneficial. Just keep watch on re-inventing what has already been built (and what is working satisfactorily), and watch the time required to create something new that works properly. Compare…

The series preceding Callahan's was even better, if that could be imagined.

I don't remember the shortcuts, sadly--three keys, something like Ctrl-Shift-H, Ctrl-Shift-J, Ctrl-Shift-U, or some such nonsense. There were three different hidden key commands to produce new functionality in the demo. I formatted my test server after the demo expired, so I can't test the keyboard shortcuts to find/enable…

I got it, installed it, no problems that weren't easy to correct. The graphics' color have changed to light pastels--I'd be OK with being offered a choice of themes or skins to choose from, but the presentation is completely acceptable as is. NetPath is fun to discover! For example, here's a path discovered from a poller…

Japan developing software and methods to predict crime? Has anyone ever heard of George Orwell's Thought Police? If not, PLEASE read "1984"!