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Congratulations on getting to attend the new convention! I most certainly appreciate your eye on the state of affairs, and your comments and shared stories. Please continue the great work you do, there, and at home, and always with The Actuator! Which made me wonder if other "actuators" were out there. . . and there ARE!
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I'm naïve enough to not have known what about that "h-word" could possibly be inappropriate, but between avoiding Rule 34 and the Urban Dictionary, I had somehow kept my innocence. The bird watchers I hang out with refer to hummingbirds frequently with that "h-word". Granted, they're mostly over thirty, but I think they'd…
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Count me in that group of "a few skeptics". When I can point at a location and say "My data is here. I see and control its physical and logical access. Its backups / resilience are over THERE, and I control physical and logical access there, too.", then I can trust my data is safe and secure as I can make it. Placing it in…
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I'm not so certain I agree with many of the ideas presented in How Being Busy All the Time is Hurting You - plus 3 ways to stopPick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement . I don't feel the need to be "productive" all the time by the author's definition and assumptions. My definition of "busy" includes reading a fun…
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Microsoft providing an Open SSH client? What could possibly wrong with that?!
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A little Googling came up with some ideas, but not a lot that is definite. The one response I liked best: "I have never heard the term "shidoshi" ("he/she/who guides/instructs")used as a proper noun or as a form of address referring to a teacher or instructor. In e-budo B.C. (Before Crash) there was a thread about this,…
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Fifteen years ago I was surprised to see an option in my Sidewinder firewalls that prevented "long URL's" from being accessed. When I called up Secure Computing to learn about this (since I had many complaints from users who relied on sites that used extremely long URLs for booking plane fares, rental cars, and hotels),…
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I can tell the work load's getting harder here when I can't even view The Actuator until late Thursday. Sigh. Anyone want to move to Minnesota and play with a pretty-cool Hospital Network, along with NPM/NCM/NTA/UDT/IPAM/VNQM? IM me. Seymour Cray To The Rescue: I had one of Seymour's coworkers as an electronics engineering…
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@"Jfrazier" that meat appears to be an 11 on the Yum Meter.
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I LOVE the idea of creating precise e-mails! In the 1970's and 1980's I took college classes for Business Writing and Technical Writing. They were EXCELLENT! I wish I could persuade everyone who thinks and reads and keyboards and writes to take a couple of these classes.
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The Weeping Angels were creepy enough on Dr. Who. But what if the CIA is connected to your Alexa? http://www.wimp.com/alexa-are-you-connected-to-the-cia/
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It seems at least some of the processes recommended are those which should be handled readily by an application, and then displayed in easily-understood graphics. I'm thinking of the references: * correlating traffic spikes and valleys over time * checking TCP flags to find out more intricate details of the flows * soft…
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From the Godfather movie back in the 1970's: Badabing !!! James Caan Perfect Performance - The Godfather - YouTube
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Well, that IS a way to do things, but as you say, deleting and re-adding is not a preferred process for me. I only use that when replacing hardware and using the same IP address to manage that hardware. For example, replacing an older model switch with a newer one. Both have the same configuration parameters, but their…
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Yes, that's me on keys. I play four different saxophones, flute, clarinet, keyboards, and electric bass. I had a gig just last night, and really had a great time! Music's been a big part of my life for the last 53 years (somehow I'm reminded of that phrase "Older than Moses' toeses, and twice as corny).
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NPM's built-in syslog reporting suited my needs in 2004. In 2014 it didn't come close, and nothing SW sells today can handle the diag level files & traps our Security team requires from our WLC's and Firewalls. We had to go to Splunk and spend $750K to get an environment that would ingest the very large numbers of messages…
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I completely trust my wife because she's proven herself to be worthy. She's all that anyone could hope for in a life partner: honest, thoughtful, hard-working, considerate, ambitious, motivated, interesting, funny, dedicated, concerned, and engaged with life and me and work and the world and her hobbies. She gives me…
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I've been able to leverage NetPath to find very similar problems with ISP's that were causing outages for site-to-site VPN's. The graphics that NetPath provided me, along with the historical data that showed changes and latencies between hops, enabled me to get the intermediate providers at the same table, where my ISP…
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You made me smile. Again. And welcome, brett.holzhauer!
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It might be smarter to take your chances insulting a favored government official or a highly visible and litigious organization or popular religion than to mess with the folks who appreciate and support Black Hat.
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I'm all for Microsoft doing good things for all! I'm suspicious, but optimistic. They've burned users before, but the "new Microsoft" could be wonderful. However, that old "fool me once . . . " saying may apply. Let's hope it doesn't.
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I don't know you'll find any takers for the philosophy of Compliance Starts With Software, unless you dig deep in and talk about writing code that complies with best practices. I'll take the stand that the software's already out there; it's a tool ready to be used in a safe (a.k.a. "compliant") way, or in a reckless or…
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Kudo's to Elon Musk for his (apparent) charisma, imagination, drive, and team of people that can somehow overcome obstacles and make innovation occur. Thanks for sharing this article--it did a better job of explaining what exactly occurred--both positive and negative--than other articles I've read on this event. Is there…
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Thanks for the birthday trivia and easy points!
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Sadness! Somehow we managed to inadvertently skip those models, and Net Insight for ASA's is working on all our models: * 5555-X * 5545-X * 5525-X * 5520 * 5506-X * 5505 I have a 5512-X on the shelf that got pulled back in from a site that was retired; I doubt I'll deploy it anywhere else, given the price point and the…
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No, thank you. There's no need. I understand both points of view, and prefer harder questions to easy ones. We can accept there are differing points of view and philosophies, while remaining friends.
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Bump. I still have a need for this. The Map page I've built manually gets the job done, but does't give the CIO what he wants (it only shows site is green / up, not condition degraded. Or, site is yellow / partially down. Or down / red.) It was not a graceful and efficient process, given I'm trying to track a hundred WAN…
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Agreed--assuming VoIP phones have throughput equivalent to modern PC's is a mistake. Like you, after upgrading 100 Mb ports to Gig ports, and hearing no happy words of thanks from the users, I ran a "show int status" command and found they were all still connecting at 100 Mb/s due to limitations on the phones. Of course…
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When asking who is responsible for a Cloud incident, one might quickly get to the heart of the problem by saying "Anyone who uses the cloud is responsible for problems associated with it by choosing it over other options." Yes, it's harsh. Sure, we offer loads of EULA's and boiler plate and disclaimers to customers and…
