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Mondays: BAD! But you made me happy with this article about Mondays! I smiled. Next time, post it on a Monday! Failed AI Imaginings: You're on a roll here. This is the second article that made me glad today. It also made me glad to be literate and well-read in SF. Keep this trend up! Driverless Cars Deciding Who Dies?…

I wonder if your statement is true: "If your data center is a SaaS data center hosted in the cloud, there are still things you need to do, but far fewer compared to an on-premises data center." I believe I want to know every bit about their cloud environment as I do my local physical data center environment. Practically…

Automatic pizza ordering, with appropriate PCI security, has my highest praise!

The answer's so simple in principle, somewhat harder in practice: * Understand your network, hardware, apps, supporting infrastructure, clients, and team members. * Document it all. * Manage change. * Purchase, install, configure monitoring and alerts based on policies and needs. * Train! * Remediate, test, baseline,…

I think I might know what you're referencing, but I'd love it if you'd care to expand on the experience you're talking about, regarding when you RMA an item.

Proving a negative can be a colossal time consumer, and I feel the pain & frustration. We call that process "Mean Time To Innocence"--how long it takes between being assigned a Help Desk ticket and correcting the problem, or how long it takes to diagnose/triage/prove (to a reasonable amount of doubt) that it's not…

Steve Balmer's Treasure: I hope this story is true, and is as transparent as it looks. It's hard to imagine someone who lead Microsoft, who retires early and discovers the need to be useful, does good for us all by discovering altruism. My hat's off to Steve! Replacing Data Centers with "The Cloud": Skeptical Cat remains…

She has great insight (or good instructions) for choosing the right gifts! Kudo's to your wife.

Yes, I wish I could retroactively enforce the underwear rule, making it mandatory back in '79 and '80, when I worked and lived with a group of guys at a summer resort. Yes, it was an informal environment. No, I would rather not have discovered that some of my coworkers were going "commando" regularly those summers.…

That solution was reliable--and healthy! And VERY easy to troubleshoot. Sometimes I'm amazed by our dependence on the network and remote communications for things that can easily be done in person. When I e-mail or I.M. the guy on the other size of the cube wall, instead of talking to him in person . . .

The good story of the day is how GitHub was prepared for a massive DDoS. The bad part is that it was easily possible by folks without much technical skill, and it was made possible by individuals and businesses who have not implemented recommended security procedures from long ago.

I saw drones increasingly used to disrupt airport traffic in the last several years. It happens more frequently as knowledge of drones expands and their price point decreases. What I must be missing is how parents and adults and children and peers react appropriately to those who misuse drones. Without consequences,…

This thread brings me back to when I was frequently setting up new views and when NPM was new to some of our departments. Creating a test user, applying all the special rights to it as the new department view needed, logging in as that user . . . Who has time for that? This is a good suggestion.

This circular pattern certainly bears out the axiom that "Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it." But that may not always be a bad thing. Of course, it's also not always efficient, particularly if we don't learn from the mistakes of the past while trying to create a working present and a better future.

That one made me smile. Thank you.

Leon, aLTeReGo‌ rocks most extremely and in high style, but a million Leon points still sounds pretty fine to me. I'll never catch up to those top tier experts, but I enjoy sighting in on the next person up the points ladder and doing what I can to advance to their level--or beyond. MVP sounds mighty nice, too. Maybe soon…

I remember the dog & pony shows for VM years ago. It promised a lot, but we were skeptical. Initial deployments revealed insufficient horsepower for the apps, and resulted in impressions that VM wasn't as good as stand alone servers. Later improvements and better budgeting/understanding resulted in much better…

It's nice to read that GMail is becoming even more complex in its efforts to discover and combat malicious attachments. But focusing on that item is sort of like paying a lot of attention to the ants infecting a few trees in the forest, when our attention might be better directed at the forest fire that's burning the woods…

For what it's worth, I just completed a Gartner survey about NPM. Like others, my company paid a lot of heed to the Magic Quadrant, and it took strong logic to persuade the powers that be to go with something that wasn't in the upper right corner. After reading some of the comments here, and after having filled out a…

wabbott​, don't feel bad about us whining. Your teams do a wiz-bang job at nearly everything; no one can get it all perfect every time. 

I think it's a sad commentary that the National Weather Service can't use lower case characters. Although all upper case often feels like shouting, in this case (perhaps the font?) it seems like monotone computer droning. But you called it--put out your patio furniture, receive the white stuff. Maybe you need a slide out…

You're the only one who caught that oblique pun reference--congratulations on having a sharp wit and a quick eye to correlate obscure items. I bet you do well on jig saw puzzles! The way I learned it: "I see!" said the blind man to the deaf woman, as he picked up his hammer and saw.

https://youtu.be/JeGyVrcS9eo?t=13

Oh, go for it--lay out your stories for us. We're all professionals here (I hope!).

Training. Say it over and over. At budget meetings. On the golf course with the CIO. At lunch where everyone can overhear you. Training.

I'll be waiting for the latest Star Wars Bad Lip Reading, too.

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"It's knowin' that'cher door is always open, and your furniture is gone . . ." Seriously, we're social animals with predators circling us. To reduce our strength and effectiveness, isolate us from each other. Then cut us out of the herd one at a time . . . I imagine a day when profit & greed isn't a motivation, when power…

The "working from home" story reflects my own experience. I prefer to stay in touch by being physically adjacent to coworkers, even though my home is a better environment. My observation is that working from home can also be a negative; suddenly the place you escape from work BECOMES the place you work. That's a major…