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"Demanding Better From Tech" won't make a difference as long as there's more profit to be made by Tech not providing better. For me, it's disabling and/or isolating all IOT devices in my life--avoiding their purchase, disabling that connectivity when I can't avoid it coming with a piece of tech I purchase. Would it be…

Does it always need to be customer set up? Or is there a service SW could offer? Imagine SW sending an expert, or team of experts, to meet with clients and recommend/install/set up solutions, customizing them with the advance experience and training SW folks have. Wouldn't it be fun to be that SW person, or on that team?…

K8's may be a great solution for some environments, but it feels like those environments would need to be unusually large and heavily coordinated. The larger and more complex the project or team, the more players participating in the final product, the more services they each write into the solution . . . the more likely…

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Thank you for sharing your extended humorous analysis of systems that do machine analysis. It was the wurst.

I like the devil's advocate stance. I frequently find myself taking up some point of view that I may not actually endorse, for the purposes of good conversation and friendly debate. Emphasis on "friendly". ;^) I think about other deregulations that had good or bad results, and I don't know what to predict about this one. I…

I don't mind my job being done by robots. As long as the robots keep sending me my salary, I'm good with them.

NetFlix losing viewers / market share . . . The end of the world! Not. People losing time interacting in-person with their spouse, children, relatives, friends--all to watch a virtual world of drama and acting? This is a much more valid harbinger of coming disaster.

I'd enjoy seeing corollaries to your favorite mantras, including: * Vectors of which users are woefully unaware, which can infect their gear or compromise their data without any user action (e.g.: Blueborn, and others) * Sacrificing security, reliability, and speed for convenience (a.k.a.: "wireless". Particularly annoying…

It's interesting to me that the article about Marriott breach notes they may have lost their decryption private keys. Oops! Worse is that unfortunate and poorly-thought-out things like the Patriot Act permitted (required?) businesses like Marriot to collect (and retain!) information that ends up being PII--without having…

That's a real-world analogy that I've seen happen many times. I'm old enough to remember gasoline wars in the 1960's, where Standard Oil or Amoco would come into a small down and under-sell the local little gas stations. The big corporate firm would support the lower prices until they'd driven the competition out of town.…

I'm almost afraid to comment--George Crump's experience and credentials are exemplary. And an Ironman besides? Scary . . . But the concept of tape backups caught my eye, and brought back some great memories of the little HP DAT tape juke boxes I used to back up on. And the big CDC magnetic platter drives that weighed 50…

My company moved some services to the cloud this year, and they're not as fast or as reliable as when we hosted them internally. Exchange, for example. Similarly, I noticed Cisco TAC recently moved services into the cloud, and my experience with their performance and reliability shows significantly diminished reliability…

I'm highly in favor of this, and am working towards it in my organization. There are tech-oriented teams that are glad to learn there's something another team has bought, which others can leverage. And there are technophobes who are pleasantly amazed that something intuitive and user-friendly is available to them, that…

I get that information several ways: * Cisco switchports keep a local log of up/down/last in-out. It's easy to check a single port via SSH, but you want a bunch of ports, right? * UDT (if you own it) has this kind of information in a report, sorted by node, called "UDT Unused Ports". I don't like it as well as I might, but…

As you do that, consider what you're discovering about them, and what you're asking them to learn. * Document these two items * Use this information to create pertinent test questions * Submit incoming staff to the questions as part of written and practical examinations Not only will you end up knowing their strengths and…

" . . . and brag about the size of my bacon." You made me laugh out loud again--thank you!

Still unsupported. NCM and Two Factor Authentication for logging into a device - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

I'll play the earworm game, or name-that-tune, with anyone. I get 'em wrong, and I've got no useful knowledge of pop music after about 1990, but sign me up for things from the 1940's to 1990. A large east coast commercial processing facility was having drainage problems in the early 1960's (I don't know if it was a Kodak…

Gluttony. I saw it in Las Vegas. Even photographed its menu. Heart Attack Grill - Wikipedia Show us an analog in IT, please!

I'll admit many organizations, including mine, have gone at least partly to the cloud. Just for the benefits you referenced. However, as a user and a network support person, I only see drawbacks--probably because I don't have the big picture from the corporate licensing point of view. And I don't ever see the bill for our…

Nice story, and a good product. Thanks, RT.

15% is a lot--especially on a trip that could easily cost several thousand dollars (if you were bringing a spouse & a couple of kids).

I only see good coming from this. Thank you for the work!

Of all the options available to measure your value, don't make the mistake of comparing your hours & income to anyone else. If I work 60 hours a week and gross $50K or $100K, and I look at an administrator who works the same hours and brings home $600K - $2M, I'll have just thought my way into a dark room with few passages…

What degree of social interaction is required for happiness, success, and good mental health? The article "Are my friends really my friends?" might bemoan the changing ways of communications and socialization, but I'm open to the idea that new ways aren't necessarily bad ones--they're just different from what was done in…

It's impressive how a simple acronym can camouflage daunting tasks. That first simple "S" covers a lot. 

Bump. This cannot happen soon enough for me. Even with a time machine.

zennifer​ , you'll never be obsoleted or unemployable as long as your mind can function and learn, and as long as you're interested in doing the tasks for which someone is willing to pay. I've been doing more volunteering as I age, and while it's not "employment" in that I don't get paid money for my efforts, I DO reap…

Uffda! I answered the question correctly this morning (Wednesday, 10/5/2016) and did not see the secret letter pop up. I never even saw it go by. Shoot.