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Check your configuration comparison criteria in NCM's Settings and look for these lines: The top line likely is the one that can help you out, but the other lines have also helped clean up my configs.

2/6/2020's Mission Question knows the way to our hearts:

Yes, PLEASE! Make it so!

See Heinlein's "The Tale of the Man Who Was Too Lazy to Fail", about Navy cadet David Lamb who rises in the ranks while avoiding any semblance of real work by applying himself enthusiastically to the principle of "constructive laziness". In this story, the hero leverages creativity and the system to write himself out of a…

Now that the existing bottlenecks were highlighted, and assumedly being rectified, you'll probably find the network again becomes the new bottleneck. Chasing that around and around is our life. Proving where the problem lies is Orion's life.

I'm still liking this!

I do not trust my fellow drivers because they are insulated and isolated from me in their cars, without a personal interaction capability, and because they are distracted when they know it's illegal to be distracted, and they break the laws they've promised to obey, and because they are in needless hurry--and being in a…

"People pollute processes." What a truth! And I fear I'm one of the polluters, although as time passes I seem to recognize--and control--more and more of my potential polluting behavior. Some of the best communicators seem to find ways to get the message across, to effect change, without treading on toes or causing…

OK, bring on the meat & potatoes. I'm looking to see what I can learn from others' questions, maybe even generate my own (once I get a feel for the content of this forum). Management came to my team recently, saying "Department X needs to have a Reserved IP address on our corporate WLAN--something they can use from any…

Yes, this makes me become thoughtful, and start to nod. Good one!

Yes, the results suggest what you've shared would require a person to have college entry level reading skills to understand it. The ability to easily read and understand text is measured through the ratio of sentences, sentence length (words per sentence) and how many sentences contain words with three or more syllables.…

The perfect bacon / donut options.

Those are some interesting diversions. The link to Fast.com kills my IE 11 browser every time I open that link up with it. Chrome handles it without dying, but won't run it--says I'm not connected to the Internet. Sort of an April Fool's Day speed test site, I'd say. After looking briefly into all of them, I'm struck by a…

Regarding 9/29's clue & answer, rather than seeing what they want to see, let us use Solarwinds to see reality.

As I design DR for my hospital systems, I'm always aware of Helicopter Ambulances and above-ground fiber or copper network paths, such as through skywalks between buildings adjacent to the rooftop helipads. A helicopter crash through one of those skywalks will take out only one of our dual-geographically-diverse network…

In '79 a dance band offered me a dream position in a house band gig at a beautiful northern Minnesota lake for the summer, and ongoing gigs for the coming years. The only condition was that I had to learn how to play bass in five weeks. I didn't have a bass. But I had a friend who enjoyed custom-building solid body…

I appreciate reviewing these--it's been a long time since I last saw this list. There's PLENTY-O'-Cognitive-Bias in the current Battle Brackets, that's for certain! And there's plenty in the network monitoring world. I don't get (or take) the opportunity to become familiar with products that compete with Solarwinds,…

A hacker in tweed flannel jacket Attempted to pre-fix a racket. He sent his e-mail And wound up in jail When NTA displayed his packet

My wife was a Project Lead on a power & light company's upgrade in the South. They're vulnerable to hurricanes, and they needed an energy management system that could monitor and report and control all the information for substations, relays, coal & nuclear generators, etc. during a Class 5 storm. Their spec said the…

Remember to submit that picture and suggestion here: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/solarwinds-community/geek-speak_tht/blog/2017/07/07/altactuator-the-bacon-edition

Thank you for the kind words, scott.driver​. I love the idea of the cloud, and I've seen some unfortunate disappointments and surprises when a few businesses have moved to it. I like to think those are the exceptions, but I fear more people experience problems and unanticipated expenses during the move there and the time…

My wife, a very technical IT expert/manager, also does not love Algorhyme the way I do. https://etherealmind.com/algorhyme-radia-perlman/

Those bits are all good advice. I'd add: * Take a bio-break twenty minutes before a session begins * When you arrive, sit close to the front. * You'll be more engaged and less anxious to cut & run to the next event. * Sitting up front gives you opportunities for Q & A that others won't have, and might even get you invited…

I enjoyed so very much about the movie. I stayed with the comic book tale of amazing powers and events--right up to the point where Dr. Strange trusted Dormammu's word that the bad dude would leave the Earth alone in return for being released from the time loop. Seriously? Dormammu is "bad guy". He's not bound by anything…

Ha! We're so silo'd, I haven't even been asked to monitor the cloud's apps on which we rely!

There's a great Wiki on this one: Dewey Defeats Truman - Wikipedia

Kudo's to Jim Gaffigan for his varied routines praising & promoting bacon. Here's a short one: Jim Gaffigan - Bacon - KING BABY - YouTube

If wishes were fishes, I'd fish for a society that viewed the Internet primarily as a library, and secondarily as a source of funding through advertisements, speed charges, bandwidth charges, etc. I treat much of the Internet as a library: * I research, I find entertainment, I request information and sometimes receive it.…

Perhaps its time the U.S. do what other countries do and invest in our children's educational futures as a way to improve our quality of live, our economy, and our safety. Instead of saddling young people with mountains of debt that slow down their ability to be productive and improve our country and our world. I recall my…

I'm pretty sure accurate identification of the reptile dragging you underwater won't be all that useful for survival . . . But it IS fun & silly!