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I missed the text you sent under that picture, and laughed out loud when I read it. Turn that into a meme! Here: https://imgflip.com/memegenerator

I love the idea, but I've got the Agent installed on my pollers, and when I look at a monitored volume, I see no information. Digging a little deeper, when I edit that node, which lives in VM world, I found this message: Which explains why I see nothing below. I have a little more work to do before I can get this data…

It's unfortunate for AMCA, but it benefits us all when failure is rewarded appropriately.

Mirror bump.

Futurists predict we'll have IT links / hardware added into our wetware in less than 20 years. At that time, if SNMP-V2525 is up to the challenge, NetPath can also become merged with our bodies & minds, and with GPS and the Internet. Think "Send this IT question to my circle of IT experts . . ." and it'll happen. We'll…

I DO understand what you're saying here, but I still think K.I.S.S. makes better sense the original way: "Keep it Simple, Stupid!" Swapping the two last words around is sort of clever--things SHOULD be stupidly simple--so simple that a stupid person couldn't mess them up. But it doesn't feel right. The word "Stupid" works…

My fingers are crossed for VMware's upgrade. We rely heavily on VMware; I hope the new solution is reliable and secure right out of the gate.

"Paying it forward", or silently demonstrating your own altruism, is a way to get a positive feeling of value of your self. Too often folks have no clue what altruism even means, and I run into cases where people become puzzled and ask why they'd do something for someone else, or for society, without expecting any…

In this definition, an ellipsis is constructed with a period, a space, a period, a space, and a period--except when the ellipsis is next to a quotation mark. Only in that case are the spaces between the periods are omitted. One should use this . . . Unless one needs this "..."

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I agree: giving to others makes one feel good about themselves. Altruism seriously rocks. To get even more positive feelings, don't blow your horn about your giving. It's what everyone should be doing, and when everyone's doing it, there's no need to tell the world about how much you give. Not only will you feel good, you…

sqlrockstar​, you'll ALWAYS be more than lipstick on a pig, in our book! Although I DO rather like the Einstein quote: "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." Which would sort of by like putting lipstick on a pig.

Skeptical Cat wonders if they're just throwing one rider to the wolves, or whether the problem is actually more systemic and part of the nature of their IT deployment and management style. It's easy to point at just one poor soul and blame them for everything, fire them, ruin their reputation, and then proceed with…

I ran into a coworker who'd done this very thing--removed the DHCP scope for a Radiology subnet in numerous sites. As leases expired or devices moved about, health care providers were calling to ask if the network was down. I'm not advertising Infoblox in any way, shape, or form, but Infoblox has a "Trash" folder that…

Pay employees a better / competitive wage so they have incentive to leave after they're trained. Your business should be one which people are lining up to get into, not get out of.

Frankly, even though it's for entertainment value, Michael Dougherty's video isn't what anyone needs. Some will get more stressed by it. Others may use it to manipulate public opinion in either direction. Nope. I'm not sharing that one in social media.

We learned about Bluetooth viruses and hacks long ago. Have we not deduced that leaving Bluetooth enabled--even for just connecting to our cars for hands-free cell phone access and playing music through the car's stereo--is a bad idea?

We installed fresh last September when we redid our licensing. We lost a lot of legacy settings and reports. I'm glad we installed new, but we didn't have all the right steps for preserving NPM and NCM settings, and it''s taken quite a while to get things back to where they were before. Similarly, upgrading to NPM 12 was…

Robin had too much negative history for me. I grew up with him in the '60's campy-TV series, and was disappointed with his attitude and "dark side" in the newer and darker Batman movies. I never clicked on the link explaining Wilson--I'd assumed the whole while he wasn't a ball on a deserted island in Castaway, but was…

If only DC were within a 2-hour drive of northern Minnesota . . . Oh well.

Post-Thwack-Camp-Friday-Getting-Ready-To-Hit-The-Road-Home-Singing-The-Sixteen-Little-Red-Noses-And-A-Horse-That-Sweats-Bump. Jim Stafford - 16 Little Red Noses and a Horse That Sweats - YouTube

Chalk up another score for the technically minded / "I can fix it" mentality. You are, and you remain, my hero.

Agreed!

Go for it! Or head over here and I'll take you out. We'll catch a bunch of sunfish & bass, or head for where the big Walleyes live. These are two different fish from two different days on the same trip. The left one was caught and released in a weedy bay on a big Lake Trout spoon, the right one was on a night crawler in a…

I like all the concepts you covered. Thank you! When we think of accountability-driven compliance we sometimes equate consequences with accountability. "Keep us properly patched or you'll be fired, you'll have ruined your reputation, no one will hire you again . . ." Part of successful accountability requires verification…

It sounds like SDK and SWQL should be able to do this for you.

That's a great observation--it made me laugh! Your description reminded me of someone (or something) skewing the results from what was expected, simply by knowing the system was being observed. My son's working on a Ph.D. in Theoretical Particle Physics, and he was explaining how merely observing a process--just watching…

Each time I run a Compliance Report, I run into variations of configurations that are acceptable, but for which the Compliance Report seems too rigid to handle. Suppose we define a device as "compliant" for a particular purpose if it has ANY of lines x, y, or z? Or it's compliant if it has lines (x or y), or (a or b), but…

That's my policy with Solarwinds major Release Candidate upgrades. Once Hot Fix 5 is out there, things are probably pretty stable. I went through four months of pain with the last upgrade when I was right on top of it. That's what I get for being anxious and swallowing the Kool-Aid. Fool me once . . .

I found it odd the original story doesn't define GDPR. Yes, "GDPR" is listed everywhere, but nowhere does it explicitly say "GDPR stands for "General Data Protection Regulation". The link to the official document also is missing that definition. People new to the topic would be left wondering what those letters represent.…