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Impressive. I didn't know Burning Chrome was out there to be streamed. One of the better Science Fiction books on CD I've listened to in recent years is Heinlein's Red Planet. It made an interesting travel diversion for my kids when I checked it out from the library prior to taking a long road trip. I particularly enjoy…

Feel free to copy & paste it anywhere you want. I avoid Twitter and its peers; too many people think I'd be interested in learning what they had for lunch, what their kid said, how they were stuck behind a slow driver, or cut off by a fast one, etc.

This looks like a job for a custom Universal Device Poller (UnDP).

I'd love a role in Project Management, if the following criteria were met: * The company pays to ensure I'm properly trained to fill the position well. * I'm given only the amount of projects that I can manage well. * Where more demand for a PM's time is required, additional PM's are hired to ensure that quality and…

My '74 Dodge Dart (318 V8) was a plain family four-door sedan, very few amenities, but I was proud to drive it as "my own" even though it was my father's second car, separate from Mom's car. It was dangerously overpowered for a 15-year-old to drive. But I was lucky and made good choices while learning to drive it safely. I…

I somewhat distrust some of my company's silos because I can't see within them, can't determine whether they're all always doing the right thing. If I could get them all on board with Solarwinds products in that single-pane-of-glass mode, with everyone trained to understand the ramifications of changing some part of our…

This was one of my favorites. Keep up the creativity!

We do part of that backwards compared to what you wrote. We send Orion syslog output to Splunk, not the reverse. We have too many messages per second; NPM's syslog server can't handle the output of our wireless controllers and firewalls, so we send that information directly to Splunk. All other switches & routers send…

"Too big to fail" Until a less expensive, more fully-functioned competitor's product comes along.

I was there. I did that. Lessons definitely were learned, and no one was hurt (fortunately). And my father never found out, thankfully, until I confessed to him years later. He shook his head and told me about how he similarly operated a motorcycle when he was that same age. He escaped with a leg broken in seven places and…

Chrome doesn't like today's hint link. https://files.mtstatic.com/site_11644/46189/1?Expires=1552272496&Signature=irBkF4KS~zwodBVcIg4nYY6inFXuJWtBPnMbcpn~uCQV4… Perhaps even more interesting is that Mozilla/Firefox says the page is insecure: IE rounds it out with useless information:

This truly qualifies in the "Geek Speak" realm. The language you know best is the one to use--except if there's something else you could learn that will do the job better.

Uber: When the company is set up to protect its highest people from being fired by public opinion & corporate demand, they must choose & train people wisely. I won't use their services until things improve. Period. Google Fact-Checking Option: Much about this aspect of the Internet is depressing. When any individual or…

There are some pretty creative folks out there in digital land . . . Best buddies getting together for the game on Sunday afternoon:

I use it in the Toolset's Switch Port mapper on a single device, but it takes much longer than using the custom report I built in NCM. I'm considering doing a trial of UDT--if this functionality is present there, it could be a labor saver for my team. If it could integrate with our ICMB, it would also be of interest.

I thought I remembered an Actuator that talked about BitCoin. With a link to Reuters.com. Where Reuters revealed that if you'd put $1000 into Bitcoin three years ago, its value would become $20,000,000 today. Well, Bitcoins can tumble as well as appreciate: Bitcoin tumbles after dramatic gains ahead of futures launch |…

That's an EXCELLENT point, and I completely missed mentioning it. You're right on with that--even in my team, we'll continue using something whose performance behavior is degraded, instead of fixing it or reporting it for service. It goes from a slowly leaking plumbing fixture to a flood, eventually. That idea applies to…

Last weekend I was surprised with an after-hours outage call from one of my 7x24 Service Centers. I say "surprised" because the site's LAN and WAN are fully redundant. Yet half of the users' Citrix Thin Clients and VoIP phones were down. After discovering a hung secondary CPU / switch fabric in one of this site's dual…

A sweet sales pitch story. And I mean that in a positive way. Some reactions I had while reading it: 1. It's probably not the network if you've done a good job designing and implement and monitoring the network 2. But MTTI isn't our proper goal. We must be team players and use our resources and abilities to not only prove…

I'll gently offer discussion against one of your premises: "off-duty defense professionals need to be able to use internet-enabled devices with fewer restrictions". I understand that off-duty professionals may want to use internet-enabled devices. Maybe even use their OWN devices. It certainly could be convenient for them…

Exactly!

Thanks for choosing a fun selection of prizes. This mission is timely for me; I've got three DBA's interested in DPA. Plus I've learned it's not to be used "on its own", but requires SAM or SRM--I'd no idea! This will be a fun one to learn from.

If/when Hamilton said “a promise must never be broken”, I like it, but I doubt folks in government took it as any more than an ideal.

Done, but I'm saddened to read (in the rules & fine print) that the contest opened on 2/25 instead shortly before I read about it in my Thwack Inbox this morning. That means there's been two days for folks to get their surveys in before I did, potentially meaning I was too late for the Amazon gift card. Here's hoping this…

Over 500 data centers already closed? How many ARE there in total? Over 3000, according to https://www.deltek.com/en/learn/blogs/b2g-essentials/2017/04/how-many-data-centers-does-the-department-of-defense-actual… . How many new ones have opened since 2011? On the bright side, fewer means more efficiency, right? More VM,…

IPAM integration with Inflobox is working in IPAM 4.8 now. I verified this with the Beta. Go for it!