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Would you say that once many folks become aware of, and comfortable using, SQL on Linux, Oracle's prices should decline?

One of the unmentioned reasons that I found NCM so helpful occurred when my act became a team instead of a solo, and the new guy person wasn't yet mature enough to submit his change to the Change Administration Group before he'd pull the trigger. I'd be on-call and things would go south. Without NCM I'd take much longer to…

Any organization or individual who provides free wi-fi access to the public should have been on notice LONG before reading the article about how free wifi is a hacker's dream. Hospitals, public schools, cities, stadia ( the plural of stadium), restaurants, libraries, and more are all complicit when they hide behind AUP's.…

I've seen what they're working towards; it has some valid use. On the other hand, I saw what Cisco offered for a GUI in the 1990's and early 2000's--it looked nice but was starved of features and ran off a terribly slow Java solution, and all the html files required to present the GUI consumed more flash space than the…

I'd be interested in seeing: * A list of MS Exchange monitoring tools that folks have tried * A rating for each of them, provided by folks who've evaluated them * A comparison rating of an Orion monitoring tool as experienced by someone who's compared Orion to a third-party tool for monitoring Exchange. It could save some…

You didn't see organized crime targeting other peoples' computers for illegally mining crypto-currency? I did, right away. It seemed a no-brainer, particularly when taking into account how those bad groups of people can benefit from currency exchanges that can't be tracked. Anything that requires a "cyber wallet", or its…

Hah! "The luxuries of Wi-Fi!" Managing 2000 AP's, I understand the convenience and its luxury, but it seems all I hear are complaints--which are all associated with overloaded AP's and Guest Internet pipes. "What is Not Explicitly Permitted is Forbidden" Sounds like you lived through NT4.0, but only after passing through…

Quadriga. Seriously? Someone risked their money on that? Perhaps they deserve the results of risky ventures . . . ?

You're spot on. There's no deterring someone who wants to leave, so I count them out of this equation. Better to create an environment that employees do NOT want to leave. That's the best of all worlds! Bolt - Super Rhino (English) - YouTube

Envy. There are MANY desert birds I'd love to add to my life list--and this one's a beauty! On the other hand, there are a few species up here that folks enjoy coming to look for, too, and I tend to take them for granted now that I've lived here 25 years. I call these "The Four B's", and have had them all in my back yard.…

That makes sense. I'd hoped my idea might be useful, but not ideas always apply the way we'd like. Thanks for the response. Rick S.

NPM saves the day again. I've seen similar redundant solutions, designed for HA / failover, fail on one of the links. Thankfully NPM catches the failures and alerts us before we have to rely on those (missing) links.

Crucial teams still rely on Nagios instead of leaving the Dark Side for our existing NPM solution. I can't get 'em to budge. I also see the following: ISE ACI Splunk Cisco Prime MobileIron migrating to InTune ASA's replacing Sidewinders (McAfee Firewall Enterprise) instead of moving to StoneSoft firewall solutions…

SCOM seemed to be MS's first generation tool and answer to some much needed functionality. But in typical MS fashion, it didn't scale as well as it might have, wasn't necessarily intuitive, and left room for someone to step in and build a better mouse trap. SAM's the next generation. And it's only getting better.

It seems the answer to your question focuses on restricted access to a password manager. For example, my organization provides password management apps to all of us, but requires us to store them in the network instead of on PC's or laptops or smartphones. Access to my own, or my team's, password database is restricted by…

Regarding IoS devices reaching out and hurting you from their graves, I suspect IT people are aware of the problems with IoT devices. On the other hand, home users may not know those risks. Preventing these devices from being built and sold while insecure is the Pandora's box that was already opened. Educating consumers…

Magni-BUMP-itionistic BUMPtion Guaran-BUMPING-tee Ixil-BUMP-elnic What magic word will get this done?

Wow--that story about the Voice Phishing is scary-intense! I know far too many retired / senior citizens who don't have the skill set to recognize this malicious activity. They'd trust and lose everything. Thank you for sharing this.

Ah, so it's earworm time, eh? There are millions of 'em, but this is the first from that era that came to mind: . . . workin' at this end of Niagara Falls is a undiscovered Howard Hughes . . .

Ah, but your meme failed to mention Equifax . . . I like them carrying the burden of scrutiny. They're the cuttlefish of our Caribbean adventure. Pirates of the Caribbean 3 - Jack Sparrow - Cuttlefish - YouTube

Some fun power added there.

"It's all GEEK to me!"

OMG--a DOCTOR WHO MISSION! Please make it so! Not that I'm that big a fan of the Doctor, but I do enjoy some of the episodes. There are some lovely morals to pick up as side bonuses. I'm looking forward to the lady Doctor, even though the recent gentlemen Doctors have been fun and interesting. I don't envision many alien…

Microsoft, if you're only trigger anti-reply-all when there are at least ten reply-all emails to over 5,000 recipients within 60 minutes, you're no one's friend. No one should be able to reply all to more than twenty folks, and that's probably fifteen too many. There are other tools for that, like Teams.

I'd love to help, but I'm done giving e-mail addresses to strange vendors. All I end up with is spam. Sometimes loads and loads of it. If there were a way to leverage some other private, unshareable credential, I'd be on board. But I'm not even willing to temporarily create a throw-away e-mail address to make this work.

Ditto. I'd be up for using Thwack points to buy some of the Mission prizes, if that were allowed. I've enjoyed some of their descriptions, but haven't happened to win any prizes for over a year. I won't complain--I expect MANY folks are still waiting for their first prize from getting a week's worth of correct answers, or…

Ruby was an impressively annoying, fantastic character creation. But I know of know one who'd want him as a sidekick over KITT or Genie or Hermione. If we're talking 5th Element, I'd pick Leeloo over Ruby any day.

We use MobileIron to protect our assets when a BYOD device--or corporate-owned device--is lost. We have had a directive from Security for the last 15 years that no split-tunneling is allowed, and I can see their point. I still end up driving down the path that hyper connectivity can too easily mean hyper vulnerability…

There should be a large list of techy euphemisms for mistakes made at business. It's one thing to "put your foot in your mouth" or "bark up the wrong tree", but it's quite another to participate in: * Resume Generating Events * Career Limiting Decisions * ?

I'd like to move SW products up a level or two, well into the "largest enterprise' version, so we could get the kind of performance from LEM that we do with Splunk. That goes double for anything that has any limits on it, whether it's WHD or Dameware or Patch Manager, or anything we use LANDesk for. And of course, awesome…