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Obviously, Solarwinds products can quickly get to the root of the problem. It's nice to have that single pane of glass and just find the problem right in front, highlighted in red. But if not, then: * Is the PC's CPU or RAM or Hard Drive maxed out? * What about the RAM and CPU on the switches & routers between the PC and…
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Creaven's specific plans to implement "against" the wealthiest people in Palo Alto is bound to gain approval from those who aren't billionaires. But will he survive to propose it as a local ordinance, or submit it as a bill to become law? When the wealthiest are also the most powerful, we know that power corrupts. Will…
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What a beautiful "infinite pool" photo! Maybe they'll do their next conference in the South Pacific. If they do, count me in!
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I love that concept!
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Regarding Yahoo trying to hide their culpability, I suspect $35M is insufficient incentive for them to change. Ideally a stick needs to be large enough to make a significant impact. They'll tie this ruling up in court in appeals, get it reduced, and continue doing business as usual, if they're like other corporate…
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I'm interested in learning more about the process that's failing for you. Where exactly is it halting, where in the process do you need the bulk approval performed. Screen shots may help me better understand your need. My team uses Ansible to make large configuration changes to hundreds of switches, tens of thousands of…
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Really? I saw prices for everything, including shipping . . . If he doesn't sell them, why are there prices?
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As long as they all shout "EXTERMINATE" when they're going to attack, and are slow to move, I'm OK with home appliances trying to take over. Of course, they can't be battery powered or solar powered or nuclear powered--every one of them must have a power cable, without which they die. And they should look like salt cellars…
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Did you ever read George Orwell's 1984, or see a movie or play from it? Our IoT devices, smartphones, iPads, web-connected TV's, Siri, Alexa, Facebook and it's peers (including SnapChat, Skype, old MySpace, etc.) any web-connected device's camera, . . . They're all watching, hearing, listening, recording, and transmitting…
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ThinNet. BNC connector. 1980's. No?
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What would be better next to your morning coffee than a bacon toaster? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bacon-toaster_us_5882477ce4b096b4a2315a18?utm_hp_ref=bacon
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Ah, the Dream Job just keeps getting better . . . I envy you, Leon--in a good way. Of course, loving your job can sometimes mean getting loads less pay, so there CAN be trade offs.
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Those are some great stories! Thank you for sharing them with us.
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Giant Asian Hornets arriving in North America. Not what anyone needs. One assumes they're arriving as stowaways since they're near shipping ports with a lot of Asian commerce. We've seen similar unwanted imports within ship ballasts (Zebra Mussels) and tires filled with water (West Nile Virus in mosquitoes). Folks will…
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I think anyone would understand your implementation. I wonder if a Technical Writing instructor in college wouldn't simultaneously understand it, yet mark it incorrect? Once I looked up the definition and implementation/use of an ellipsis, I found myself always writing it with spaces between the periods, just as the…
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I monitor a few VM's, and it seems you'd be able to easily get them into NPM with monitored volumes if you used the Network Discovery option. Please forgive me if you've already tried & discarded this solution: * Settings > Network Discovery * Add New Discovery > Start * Select the preferred polling engine (if you have…
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Security can be an additional bit of collateral damage that's easy to accidentally incorporate when going "agile". Folks just don't know what constitutes a problem, and they move forward with best intentions, unaware they may be building a security breach during their daily work. Security? What security? Four million data…
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Jfrazier The 2010 model Prius made some big changes; battery cells can be replaced individually beginning with that model year, instead of having to replace the entire system, thus reducing battery repair/replacement costs immensely. Before I bought into the Prius line, I reviewed testing and reviews of Toyota products by…
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I'd settle for a management team that understands that silos reduce productivity and slow down troubleshooting. I also wouldn't say no to management that allocated the right amount of staff and monitoring (Solarwinds) resources to do the job right.
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Wow. I love the fine details and the logic. In my organization, we in IT adhere to one philosophy: "If someone consumes your service, they are your customer." And the customer is always right, even when their demands are unreasonable, inconvenient, expensive, impractical, difficult, or impossible. In effect: "Here: this is…
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I see similar results from Google. It's as if they've modified their motto: "Do no evil--but we get to define what evil is, and if it increases our company's profit it can't POSSIBLY be evil."
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I think the solution for those of us unable to attend is for the Head Geeks to wear digital recorders at all times, and then use an excellent speech-to-text transcription program and post them to Thwack, after judicious editing. There are so many explanations and insights and stories we'll miss out on, without being able…
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Pick the one that's caused you frustration and apply liberally.
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I flew to the East coast over the holidays. There were numerous announcements over the airport P.A. system and in the plane's onboard P.A. system that Galaxy Note 7's are verboten, and anyone carrying one must bring it to an airline employee immediately for appropriate handling. Poor Samsung! Someone probably lost their…
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When I am in a similar situation, after a while I start creating papers or blogs or Fun & Geeky articles to tide me over until the missions or challenges or upgrades begin. This is just the list I created in 2017:
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Back when I was the only guy with access to an NMS, and the network I'd built and supported wasn't one in the 7x24 Critical Health Care realm, I leveraged the NMS's ability to make my life more efficient through R/W permission. Now that more people have access to my current Solarwinds NMS, and now that even enabling or…
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If I were to develop a college Network Management class, it would not be able to be contained in one quarter or one semester. But part of that would be because I'd want it to be at least a 2-year Specialists' Degree, and I'd require 80 hours on every Orion module, from setup / installation to upgrades to customization and…
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The Fixer-Upper Houses' page has some homes with real curb appeal. It's web page is also unfortunately plagued with pop-ups and adware. One day we should have a way around that, where companies and web page designers don't have to clutter their product with distracting advertisements. "O Bright Tomorrow, Wherefore Art…
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Is it still called SeUM today (October 2015)? The concept remains, but I think it's packaged under a different name, and touches many different modules and end users' products.
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Companies that DON'T plan to be compliant need to plan to be hacked, pay big fines, lose customers, lose lawsuits . . . Not moving towards compliance is not a viable plan for survival. We must all adapt and change to accommodate increasing security demands, or we'll be victims, dragging our companies and their clients down…
