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I go a step further and disable the device from having access to the Internet. Honestly, I used TV's for 40 years before they could connect to the Internet, and got by amazingly well. And I truly don't believe it's necessary for me to be able to remotely access my home's thermostat, TV, refrigerator, windows, electric…

It can be a daunting task, managing logs for 50,000 Windows workstations. They generate a lot of information. When you send those logs go to a SIEM, make sure your SIEM is sized correctly for the load. 

I've never experienced an earthquake large enough to impact a data center, but some folks have. These pictures reportedly are from an IBM Data Center in Japan that experienced an earthquake. Recovering from that would be quite an experience. However, rebuilding it in Japan--that's a "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me…

Thank you, df112​. I wasn't aware there was a "most liked feed" view to check. Something for me to look into. Thanks for setting me off on another wonderful Thwack tangent!

Excellent content! How is this different from treating the symptom instead of the cause? Writing better code and using a more efficient standard would beat expensive bookend WAN boxes to compress inefficient code

Agent Tesla. OK, if you haven't figure out by now that BitCoin and its peers are used by organized crime, wake up & smell the roses. Talk about a red flag--"your monitoring software asks for payment in Bitcoin . . ." Sheesh!

Know what causes slowness, monitor it, alert on it, remediate it. Ensure silo's don't stand in the way of monitoring all components of a fast solution. While you're at it, ensure QoE is configured to monitor/alert on that app.

I've read multiple stories over the last few years of facial recognition failing and causing major suffering for innocent people, and major embarrassment and financial penalties for organizations try to rely upon it. We're not as unique on the outside as we like to thing.

I also love the Spanning Tree poem written by Spanning Tree’s creator Radia Perlman. She’s not only a networking genius from LONG ago, but she’s also ridiculously intelligent in this poetic and graceful description of her discovery and implementation of the Spanning Tree Protocol: Algorhyme I think that I shall never see A…

I'd love this, since I'm not familiar enough with RegEx or SQL or SWQL to make the simplest meaningful query. For example, I'd love to understand the options and most simple syntax to build an NPM node filter that would not display nodes with "EFW" in their caption. I've tried it multiple ways and nothing works--I only get…

I find myself trying to do a better job of limiting data in PerfStack when I want to simply display data throughput for multiple interfaces on one or more devices. For example, I have a pair of Cisco Nexus 7009 core routers, and I'd like to show only throughput in bits per second (or Mb/s or Kb/s) for every active…

There's a reason using ear buds or head phones while driving is illegal.

Say what you will about a Prius, mine gets 70 mpg when the weather's not cold. 51 mpg in cool weather, high 40's when the weather's below freezing. And I drive up a 700' lake side hill on the way home every day. I know it should average out with coming down that same hill daily, but I get even better mileage driving on the…

Having gone down the Nortel path 100% twenty years ago, only to have it closed through illegal actions by administrators and the resulting law suits and bankruptcy, I moved my networks to Cisco despite knowing it was the more expensive option. It was the one network company I could bet on being present for the long run.…

For successful cooking or database experiences: * Plan, get advice, Google the topic, get trained/certified, etc. When fire is potential a potential result, your research should include videos for successful and failed implementations. In the case of cooking, be forewarned that many cooks start out with too much oil--maybe…

People have a first impression that "hack" is unauthorized and/or a negative action. I prefer to think of it as "discover" if it's authorized / positive, and "hack" if it's actually negative/unauthorized.

Anyone who has played with fire and been burned, or done the equivalent in the I.T. industry, has reason to avoid upgrades. But are the risks they wish to avoid (unexpected down time, extended unplanned down time, recoveries, scrutiny and complaints, etc.) greater than the risk of NOT upgrading? It may depend on the…

One would think the company wouldn't be covered or satisfied until the person in charge of security was fully trained and certified. A CISSP or equivalent in every technology that touches the network--at a minimum. It's true, some businesses will run that conflicting dialog: "What if we train them and they leave?" "What if…

Absolutely. And the makers of the blockchain verification solution would continually place new "fake" magnets on the road, necessitating new blockchains to be purchased and used, and so on, and so on. See "Radar Speed Detection and Radar Detectors: Made by the same companies!" Sell the first gen to the police, sell their…

Ah, such kind thoughts. Thank you for them! The poetry and prose flow to print without much effort on my part--merely a simple idea and I'm off to the dreams it inspires. Occasionally I have a goal and am often surprised when the characters of whom I write take the story in directions I'd not planned. They make it…

It will be a good day any day a city achieves carbon neutrality. As we close more energy plants that emitted carbon and pollution into our atmosphere we should see slowing of humanity's influence on global warming. Here's hoping all nations accept this science and strive to reduce excessive carbon emissions everywhere.

Cloudflare and 1.1.1.1? NOT a good solution for Cisco WLC users, since Cisco configured that range as their default address range for managing wireless controllers. Folks with WLC's are presented with a few options: * Do without this newest / fastest DNS solution since it caused loss of access to wireless controller…

Never trust your IoT "smart" refrigerator if it's network connected. Actually, never trust ANY IoT device if it has (or might get) network connectivity. Smart refrigerator hack exposes Gmail account credentials | Network World Cyber Security: Your smart TV, fridge could be hacked a lot more easily than you may think…

There are some interesting options to investigate here: Suspend data collection or alerts for nodes in Maintenance Mode Polling Settings Configure Database Settings Open each link and search for "unmanage" on the resulting page. You might get some ideas . . . Swift packets! Rick Schroeder

I remember the headlines about injuries and deaths in Action Park. It sure seems strange it wasn't razed to the ground years ago. The Rise and Fall of Action Park, New Jersey’s Most Dangerous Water Park - HISTORY

Your best bets are to: * Create this as a new Feature Request (I know, it's already out there as one. But it gets people's attention, generates more votes) * Contact your SE and request it. * Open a Support Ticket with SW and ask for it. When they say it's not possible yet, ask when it will be. When they can't tell you…

Edge computing may solve some problems, but cannot solve all. The trick is identifying if it can solve ANY problems, or determining if it is simply another new buzz phrase, a band wagon on which the early adopters will jump and the Luddites deride.

Thank you, cal.smith​. Survey completed.

Diffy seems like a need-filler. I'm impressed how Netflix has aggressively been trying to ensure their services always meet their customers' needs. This looks like a perfect tool for their toolbox, and one that any cloud user might enjoy using.

Occasionally "simpler is better". If you don't have budget to monitor every access port, try this simple CLI command to discover which ports have been down long enough to warrant unpatching: sho int link | i year If you have any ports showing up there, they've been down at least a year. How long does your organization…