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More folks going to Vegas? Excellent. (Granted, I should have eaten breakfast before responding to the Actuator, so I apologize to all for my hairy-eyed observations this morning). More air pollution from jets. More water taken from the Vegas aquifer that takes a thousands years or more to replenish. More carbon put into…

Hopefully you'll get more out of the product than you pay for it . . .

A Tween son of a good friend just gave up his Astrophysics position at a major communications satellite manufacturer and hopped on a boat that's ultimately destined for Singapore. No family ties, no worries about insurance, no concerns about how he'll get home (one-way ticket!). It's one thing to be young, another to be…

That environment sounds fun! I wish it were so where I work.

You've hit on one of my frustrations. Auto-dependencies DO work for me, but not 100% of the time. Maybe only 80% of the time are they good. In some cases they've made the router or switches Dependents of a UPS. (Which, in a way, they ARE--but not in the way I'm interested in.) Like others, I've requested information about…

Regarding feeling lucky to find a PC with a CD-ROM drive to read the Mueller Report, CD's don't seem to be nearly as vulnerable some cloud-stored resource, with only a password, and perhaps MFA, to protect it. It's HARD to be Layer One security, and if you've got control of the physical media, no one else gets to read it.…

Agreed. I use Standard / Pre-Approved Changes on a daily basis, but they still require being documented: What was done, who did it, when it happened, etc. The "Standard" or 'Pre-Approved" status simply means I don't have to wait for CAB approval before I do the work. I still am required to document what was done, and…

In the bad old days, VM solutions for our Orion NPM pollers didn't cut it, and we had to go with stand alone servers. Today, with improved understanding of design and specifications, and a better SW solution, all our pollers and NPM instances are virtual, and they run acceptably--much better than the old VM world.

Learning ways to treat disease or medical problems with cells instead of drugs is fascinating. I think it's a good thing. I also think that the world needs to do a better job funding education at all levels so this kind of thinking and knowledge becomes more common. Wouldn't it be cool to know that you voted for someone…

Let's dig for another name. How about any of these? * Cyber Soap (opera) * Thwack Opera * Electron Thriller * Digital Dreams * Digi-Drama * Bit Hanger * Cyber Angst * Serial Parallels

You actually CAN fix ignorance--education and examples are the solution to that problem.

I'm so happy these are available to attend, and to review later, too. Thank you!

The comment is a happy realization that this is an ongoing concern, and noticeable progress is being made. I like the two threads, and find good value in both, and in seeing the differences a year makes.

I'd enjoy seeing the rest of the lyrics to that holiday song, too. It’s the cray-craziest season of all With the users complaining And confidence waning in DHCP all . . . It's the sill-silliest reason of all That your users are getting conflicts from forgetting your addressing sprawl It’s the cray-craziest season of all!…

This seems pretty helpful, intuitive, and easy. Thanks, Jiri!

Oh, those folks Down Under are the MASTERS of it, aren't they?! I've studied their lingo a little bit due to my fascination with how they force language to evolve--and often times it seems the changes are made just for the fun of it, to make life more interesting. Sometimes changes are made just to befuddle hoity-toity…

Why do I think the folks behind GDPR only have a surface understanding of the problems, risks, and challenges of blockchain? Google "immutable transaction" and one of the links does a pretty good job explaining it: Blockchain Explained: How Does Immutability Work? The rest of the world accepts it as "Internet Magic" and…

Mission accomplished.

We deny/control this type of access through corporate policy, and blocking those web sites, and AD rights, and perhaps most importantly through education. Eventually the loose canons are removed from the company (if they won't change their ways), and the risk moves to another area. But we're always watching for people or…

That weak-link border patrol vendor . . . Uff da! Like the old saying goes "Love many, trust few . . . "

Dang--I incorrectly assumed NPM could do the above. Thanks for pointing out an interesting difference between Nagios and NPM. Some of my company's teams use only Nagios, and I've been looking for differences between NPM and Nagios, hoping I could pique their curiosity to try NPM. I'll have to include the above "lack" as a…

I suspect that the new forum's method of establishing pecking order via kudos received may cause some folks to decrease the amount of kudos they give out. Where the previous forum used "likes" and did not count them towards the Leader Board. I'm trying to offer Kudos everywhere now, in hopes that folks will be encouraged…

I understand the need and the concern. You could do it If: * Those support staff were in a unique AD group * You used AAA TACACS that referenced that AD group * Your permissions to that team only allowed the commands you specify. For example, instead of allowing shut and no-shut on a port you could allow that team only…

I've been burned too many times on mission questions. I've stopped going to the Mission at the first part of my day. By late morning (USA CST) I can rely on our friends down under and on the East Coast to have run into issues and posted their concerns. Sometimes the problems have even been fixed by the time I opened the…

Saying "No" to IoT is so simple. And so worthwhile!

Can Facebook force members to "play nice"? Can FB prevent falsehoods from being disseminated? Can nations and parties prevent themselves from being unkind or untruthful? Will legislation be the reaction or the prevention? I don't think it'll be the solution. That will come from better information sharing. From people…

That NSA Charging Station is a sweet I.Q. test!

Nice view at Goats Rock. We have a couple like that up here in Duluth; if you ever get up this way, look me up. I'll take you on some nice hikes or car drives. Weather permitting, a boat ride in the Duluth Harbor, the lower St. Louis River, and Lake Superior. But back to the topics at hand. Being able to search anyone's…

The Data Transfer Project is another one that is based on trust, and too many untrustworthy solutions have come via the Internet. "Trust me to help you discover all your data, to not copy it, to move it ONLY to the place(s) you define, and to help you delete it from the previous place(s)." I'm too jaded. Maybe it's just…

Remember that using WHD also ties your Help Desk into the Orion suite, giving them a single pane of glass through which to look and see the problems of your I.T. environment. Sure, other stand-alone products or suites may offer good Help Desk solutions. But they don't integrate with NPM, and that can leave your first tier…