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There's something about the government wanting more location data about each of us, gathered from our cell phones, that automatically gets my hackles up. I like to think living in "The Land of The Free" means we're free from that kind of Big Brother spying and information gathering. On the other hand, I don't immediately…

Your comment is reminiscent of a 1995 Dr. Seuss parody for networking: "If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report! If your cursor finds a menu item…

. . . A question that the Help Desk should have properly triaged and sent to someone else . . .

I remain torn on the pro's & con's of Hybrid environments. Best of Breed solutions were what I was weaned on, all-inclusive proprietary solutions are what I'm forced to use. Best of Breed fills in the gaps of proprietary solutions, but Best of Breed doesn't have the full suite of inter-compatibilities that full proprietary…

Anatova. What a sad world we allowed to be built when we let everyone go do anything they wanted without oversight or review or consequences. If my father had caught me vandalizing a wall or a car or a house he'd have administered corporal punishment on the spot and I would not have repeated the offense. Note that I didn't…

Agreed--JAVA = Bad. A friend and college mate worked for IBM for years, traveling the world for them to extoll the vulnerabilities of JAVA to their programmers. He expounded on the topic to me, and I felt like I got the drift quickly and efficiently. The same might be said for FLASH and ShockWave and so many other things…

Seems like "just plain cooking" items probably wouldn't make the Bacon Edition. Wouldn't you think they ought to have more "tech" to them to be here? I mean, sure, bacon's great--but Solarwinds could be doing so much more with bacon! Monitoring pork cooking at the very least.

That's a real risk an employer takes, both with a contract for services to a customer, and with an employee. It's a complex dance we must somehow all perform together, in which it is all too easy to step on toes or misstep and fall. I've been in shoes similar to yours; it's never fun when the training budget is…

Nice! Just what a full-service company would do!

Radioteacher​--thank you for posting about Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. As The Boy Wonder might have exclaimed: "Holy ENIAC, Batman!" Those were the days! When "A bug in the Computer" literally meant an insect had crawled into the computer, attracted by the light of the tubes, and died. Its burned remains left a carbon path…

The solution is (apparently) using a very-well-thought-out-and-designed SIEM that can recognize all traps & syslogs, winnow through the chaff, deduplicate the data, analyze the information, and make an appropriate alert decision that contains recommendations about what should be done with the event(s) that caused the…

Real-time Change Notification happens in real time. Someone changes a switch's interface name, you get an alert immediately. Config Change Reports happen once per day (or as frequently as you program the job to run--usually once a day in my case, but you could do it every two days, every seven days, every hour, etc.).

Imagine a "slightly more perfect world" that addresses the root cause (as I perceive it): over population. If we had fewer people, there'd be less demand for overfishing. Less demand for all resources in the world. I realize it's been tried unsuccessfully in places like China, where "one child per couple" was attempted and…

Without being Luddite, imagine using less IT services to live your life or operate a business. Could it happen? Could we live satisfactory and fulfilling lives without needing to compete with overseas entities? 

I'd love to read more about the positive and negative thoughts. IM me--I'm a student of the topic, and am too ignorant. Coming to a better understanding the thoughts about leaving the E.U. would be enjoyable, if you have the desire and time to share.

Along with Opus's "wish for wings that worked", I'd wish that NCM could simply be SCM, too. Without having to buy something new, pay for more support for it, install it on more hardware and support it across more APE's. It's only a wish . . .

It's a security issue and a trust issue. I'm enough of a control freak that I don't want to risk RW credentials being exposed and used without permission. If there are no RW permissions on any equipment, then I don't worry about someone being able to do something inappropriate via those credentials. We've have some great…

What would I do if servers and networks could fix themselves? Hmm. For a while I might stress out and worry. Will I be out of a job? If I AM out of a job, will I still be able to have income to support myself and my family and our wants and needs? If I lose my job and income, up goes the blood pressure and out comes the…

I'm all for this. Yet legacy vendors, who require protected data transfers, occasionally won't upgrade their protocols to ones we standardized on (e.g.: using SFTP or SCP instead of FTPS). We can't say "no", and can't pass audits when FTPS is disallowed. Caught between the fire and the fry pan, again.

"Not me VON!"

If you're worried about investing in employees and them leaving, you've got problems you've been ignoring: * The competition is offering better compensation (salary, benefits, perks, etc.) than your company. * Compensation IS a major factor. * Twice I've seen coworkers leave and receive $30K salary upgrades--for doing…

If I can equate APM to SAM, the benefits of APM are huge and simple and obvious. The include: * Knowing an app's flows from A to Z * Having the information to baseline and understand any deviation from "normal" performance * Being able to alert on latency issues in any part of an App's required components * Alerting on…

I'm not aware of any other site that offers as much as Thwack does--for free! Use it, grow, shine. Show off your best there, and learn from others.

Hmmm. AWS not playing politely with Open Source? I suppose this will remain a conflict as long as there are folks who prefer Apple of Microsoft, or Linux over anything. The trick is accommodating all players, securing their traffic, and getting paid appropriately for the services.

At the November 2015 Cisco Tech Day in Minneapolis, Cisco announced they have full Netflow either in place or on the way, with particular emphasis on their Wireless Controller environment. Their explanation for why sampled is not longer cutting it matches up with your assessment: Netflow is going to be the way Security…

Thank you.

The more things stay the same . . .

I've done the beta, seen the darkness. It's not "cool" darkness yet, but perhaps one day . . .

Yes, I'm familiar with this story. It's unfortunate more people are not reading it--AND thinking!

You can't argue with Apple's financial success. But I start to wonder where it'll all end. There's only so much money & power a person or company can (or should) have. When corporations/businesses received U.S. recognition of them as "persons", with the same rights guaranteed by the Constitution, I saw the beginning of the…