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Missing from this topic: Training Scaling is built on the right practices, and our house of cards is made stronger by great training of those who will design and deploy it. You might have the best Network people in the world, but if you don't get them the necessary training, you definitely won't have the network necessary…

I really like these pictures. People are what it's all about for, not solely the technology. Life is better when you're sharing the load & discoveries with good people, making friends, and solving problems.

If you like the Olympics, AND you like bacon, you might like this podcast: Beards, Booze, and Bacon: The Winter Olympics Episode Beards, Booze, and Bacon by The Manual on Apple Podcasts

OK, time for a contest. What suggestions can you provide for the official slogan of IT Professionals' Day? * I.T.: Fixing problems you don't even you know have * I.T.: Creating products you'll never need to live a healthy life * I.T.: Where the answers to your problems can't be understood without a Technical degree *

Door-Dash and pizza Arbitrage was a fascinatingly frustrating bit of news. I'd no idea people were so stupid. But thank you for sharing the story--this is one my financier friends will enjoy.

Send it out anyway. We'll all learn from it, and we enjoy your insights and personal history and stories.

Whose Line Is It Anyway: Super Heroes - YouTube

Wow--this guy should, in the words of Shatner, "Get a life!" But he IS very good, isn't he! He's really thought it out, analyzed it, etc. But, it's so easy to apply hindsight. In retrospect, someone would probably critique his versions harshly, too. Sigh. I'm just happy we get ANY new Star Wars, and The Last Jedi really…

You must accept a headache is your new reality as you interpret policies. You are falling into a deep OSPF loop, where each new path and stub reveals a higher cost than the previous one. Your electrons are slowing, cooling down. Soon they will stop, and you will exhale steadily until the headache is gone, the policy…

I offer the idea that your comment "Agencies must get into the habit of testing every time a new technology is added to the network, or each time a new patch is implemented." might be improved by saying: "Agencies must get into the habit of testing every new device or technology BEFORE it is added to the network."…

I feel biometrics are always a bad solution for security, simply because your retina pattern, your fingerprint patterns, your DNA--once it's digitized, it's in electronic format. And anything in electronic format is at risk of being copied or stolen or modified without your permission or knowledge. I only get two retina…

Having never received receiving training for this, I'd much rather be fishing. It's WAY less complex (after having done it for fifty years), and it can be pretty good for the mental health, too. I suppose one could say we learn computer programming languages to facilitate our ability to fish when/how/where we'd like.…

Sadly, the NSA views all traffic here, too. But at least we knew about that!

Peter Billingsley is quite the handsome man today.

Nope. I suspect no one thinks the humorous example represents a best practice. It's funny for how ridiculous it looks. But the example does show a real-world practice, as distasteful as it seems, and that's so sad! I've watched this exact kind of CYA work and nepotism happening in more than one shop, and it's a sign of a…

One might extrapolate out from your graphic that in some relatively near future date, all that storage will fit into a single tiny component that can be installed within our bodies. That, along with rumored future wireless wetware technologies that supposedly will be inserted inside our brains, makes for an interesting…

I'm ready for the next round with prize like this one's!

Sometimes I feel like I should hold the title of "Captain Paranoid" when it comes to network downtime, and Murphy sits on my shoulder whispering into my ear all the tricks he might play on my company. This time he asked me "What will you do when the next disaster takes away your ability to quickly access your logging…

When communicating technical information to Managers and higher, or to Help Desk staff, or other non-Network technical or non-technical staff, couch your explanation in terms that reflect the impact to end users, and you'll be a more effective communicator. Example: Instead of saying "The BGP Neighbor flapped on their…

"Give me NIC's at 10 Gig FULL, or I'll run ya through, ya scurvy dog!" "Blast! Me database is corrupt, and the SATA SAN be froze again. The next slimy cuttlefish that slips in SATA when I call fer SSD 'll meet a musket ball betwixt and between 'is eyes! Someone get t' the data center & give the SAN a hearty whack! Then…

That "fuzzy edges" article dipped and tipped over completely into the realm of geekdom. I confess to an eye-roll and a sigh, with a grin and a head-shake.

Thank you for sharing all the good news and positive vibes--and especially the group photograph of such great looking, optimistic and enthusiastic SW staff!

Nessus: * A great tool for bringing down the network at the core and distribution blocks! * The right application for discovering print servers by crashing them without planning to do so. * Too much power with too little instruction. Seriously, InfoSec types rely on Nessus to discover vulnerabilities in a network, but they…

One might infer that insurance companies want to reduce costs, and charge more for people who are involved in higher risks for health costs. Therefore, if they had records of someone regularly using massive amounts of screen time to binge shows, they may think this implies the person is not exercising, but instead is…

Storing and archiving information in glass? Very cool! Of course this comes after several years of growing demand exceeding the world's available / affordable /convenient supply of sand. Now we may have yet another demand on it. Global sand shortage could cause damaging effects to our urban world - Business Insider

Let 2019 be done with all forms of communication spam. * Being CC'd in e-mail threads for which I have no interest, input, or action items * Robo-dials to my desk phone, home land-line, or cell phone * Charities and politicians calling or e-mailing me * All cold calls from sales people

I'm with you on our common language being deployed inconsistently! Kittywampus dictionary definition | kittywampus defined https://wikidiff.com/kittywampus/cattywampus In my part of the world it's "kittywampus" (Kit-tee-WHOMP-us). There are a seemingly inexhaustible number of words with wildly varying pronunciations and…

12 O'Clock High was a favorite show when I was younger. My friends and I would form up in line formation on the playground with our arms out, and then "fly" the playground, pretending to strafe the other kids while we made machine gun noises with our mouths, and "dropping bombs" while making descending whistles. Vic…

Yes, once you've been here ten years, the policy is no applied to your training. Leading me to think of how unfair this policy might be. I'm no more likely to leave after training within two years than I am after ten years. I've heard it said folks don't leave jobs, they leave a manager. I confess, a great manager goes a…

I like the ideas, but the implementation forced upon us by an insecure world and by clients who insist on being the tail that wags the dog (by purchasing things not vetted by I.T. and that are incompatible with our network), make portions of this remarkably hard to accomplish. Once all parties in the world begin adopting…