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Your comments were taken in good humor, exactly as you'd hoped. I think the outcomes of the various brackets, particularly when involving strong and moral characters (e.g.: Picard), were hard to see supporting men of lesser moral fiber. Thankfully it's all for fun, and it means nothing outside of an entertaining diversion…

That NASA / JPL list for Project Managers is excellent! Thanks for sharing it. My better half has been a project manager, in various forms under a wide range of titles, for all her professional life. No matter if someone's title is Project Manager, Senior (Anything), Manager (of Anything), Director (of Anything), they are…

Ha! I'm only old enough to have grown up with a rotary phone system and a 5-digit telephone number for local calls. Getting a 25' curly phone cord extension was AWESOME technology, and contributed mightily to pacing and twirling and twisting that long cord into knots that only the telephone repair man seemed to understand…

Sometimes getting the right answer becomes less about knowing the product, and more about learning how to be a better test-taker. Several confusing hints and subtle incorrect answer options can defeat seemingly common sense approaches. The month isn't over yet, but SolarWinds, I have (so far) gotten your number!

I apologize for being one to offer an alternate view. I'm not certain how single sign-on can fix the problem of a malicious or careless NCM administrator, but perhaps others will help me understand the rationale. Please don't take this as criticism. Rather, a gentle and friendly suggestion and guide that offers a different…

Yes, Facebook is evil. If you signed up without reading all of the fine print, you're the problem. If you click "Like", "Share", "Comment", etc. you're part of the problem. The FB article was a good one. Thank you for sharing it.

My wife discovered Pass The PIg about 2003, and it became an instant hit with my family while waiting for food at restaurants. Our two kids enjoyed it as a way to pass the time, and the innovative point names (My personal favorite is "the Snouter") claimed their interest. The Pigs became an insight into our children's…

Cisco charges more and more for licenses that enable functionality. Why not MS?

As a Network Analyst and former Engineer, my focus has been on up time and reliability. Convergence entered my life back in the '90's when network hardware designers and their companies started working toward the converged network theme: "Why build three parallel networks (Data, Voice, and Video) when you can save money by…

I'd like this request to ALSO include information about down or inactive ports, and show how long they've been inactive. That will enable us to unpatch ports that have not been used in months or years, and repurpose them.

I can use that figure to imagine a building (our hospital) that's one block wide, and long enough to go around the Earth slightly more than three times.

There's a very entertaining and VERY long series (many chapters, MANY books) available via Kindle called "The Kurtherian Gambit". It's a pretty fun mash-up of AI, space opera, vampires & werewolves, and the folk of Earth taking to the skies and eventually running the galaxy as the S/F equivalent of Marshalls or Texas…

When Norstroms threw that contracted employee under the bus for compromising internal employees' personal data, it seems they've obfuscated the impact. Saying there's no evidence of that information being abused (YET) is quite different than saying the data is secure and cannot be abused. I like that the incident was…

@"kerrin" To vote, all you have to do is click the thumbs-up icon and give it a kudo.

The formal learning can build the framework for how we learn, and for selecting what we learn. I remain a fan of a 4-year degree to ensure a person has covered the basics in their desired field, while becoming exposed to other subjects to ensure the student can both be competent to work with many different kinds of people,…

With the right clothes on? It's cozy! I've slept out on frozen lakes & rivers in weather like this up in Canada on dog sledding trips. The weather seems to make one's appetite really appreciate hot & buttery food, so I chopped a hole in the ice and in thirty minutes we were eating butter-fried Lake Trout cooked over a…

Yes, Cisco only gets along with Cisco, which requires more Cisco. Sort of like Agri-Chemical environments where problem pests or diseases or competing plants are targeted with special chemicals, which requires genetically modified seeds to grow products in the harsher environment of the new chemicals. And then, after a few…

There are so many excellent thoughts brought forth here--this should be required reading for anyone considering an IT deployment. And they should be required to be fluent in the topics at least a year before starting any purchases. But while I won't hold my breath for THAT to happen, I would like to emphasis even more…

B1 Bombers Safer Than Employee Portals: Maybe one day we'll admit that ultimate easy access to all things online isn't worth the risk. Perhaps the solution in this case is to simply avoid the hacking exposure entirely, and require employees only access their company tax records from an internal computer, instead of via the…

Thank you most kindly, @"mesverrum"!

Your personal endangerment probably won't make the cut. If humans as a specie were endangered, we'd probably get fed--IF someone else were concerned about losing us. Hmmm . . .

Bump! We use Infoblox, and just got IPAM and UDT--but there's no compatibility between them and Infoblox (yet?). Please make this happen--and soon!

It just goes to show I can't trust the Internet, jreves . Someone on Youtube credited that same recording to Donna Summer: Donna Summer . I will survive.mp4 - YouTube - YouTube

NASA used this idea for the Apollo Flight Controller big screens: Of course, they could've also applied it to the small ones, too. I wonder why they didn't expand on a good idea?

Apparently much is subject to interpretation and personal integrity and aggressiveness of any given auditor. I was surprised when I heard from several professionals that the poorly-kept-secret about passing a PCI audit is finding an auditor who is willing to: * Be flexible about interpretations of phrases in a corporate…

Although hackers are a more practical and immediate fear, lest we forget more possible negative events, have I mentioned The Carrington Event recently (Solar storm of 1859 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ), and how today's IT infrastructure will be affected by it when it occurs again? If you want to find something that…

As recently as 2007 I was really enjoying managing a Nortel Network that used their Enterprise Switch Manager (ESM) discovery and management tool. I've been hoping SW (or Cisco) would come out with the equivalent, but it's not been happening. ESM not only discovered all L2 and L3 Nortel devices, it could be set to discover…

I'm curious if the points are available this much later after the original offering. I added FB & LI some time ago--would I have automatically received points for that? Or can I get them now? It's OK if I'm too late to join this party--I'm cool with that, too.

One thing to consider is whether adding the numbers of nodes in groups also results in those groups providing access to the nodes below them. If so, it may slow down the loading of your main page. I see all the counts of node members when I go to Manage Nodes and use the drop down to Group By Machine Type. This works well…