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I'm on board with this request. However, have you worked with SDK and run SWQL or SQL commands to generate the reports you want? Have you reviewed existing canned Reports to see if the inventory query you desire is present? "So far" I've not run into any inventory reports that I need that either are not already provided,…
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When running into synthetic personalities like Alexa, I get more mileage from entertaining Alexa and myself with non-sequiturs and nonsense. "Alexa, how am I supposed to drink my tea without an envelope?"
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Yes, as Jfrazier observed, for Solarwinds / Thwack members to discuss planning a Cloud adventure without having monitoring involved at the ground level will create a difficult challenge to establish baselines and determine performance improvements or declines. How will you have a successful deployment without metrics to…
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Some thoughts from our experience of deploying Splunk: * Ensure you have an accurate estimate of how much traffic your network will send Splunk. Our firewalls and wireless controllers are the heavy traffic generators to Splunk, and our VAR's initial estimate of how many messages they'd send was incorrect. It resulted in a…
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Back in junior high school, my peers and I knew who had their acts that well put together. And those few individuals achieved the success that few can claim--retiring at age 50, independently wealthy. Or marrying successfully right out of high school (the key word is "successfully"--these kids got married in 1977 and are…
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Thank you so much for the fixes, updates, improvements, and the many hours/days/weeks/months you and your peers have put into making this so successful! ( @"yumdarling" I'm still unable to upload images because of the 1000-image limit) Rick Schroeder
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I'd assumed Gartner actually had reviewed products in hand, used them in their own laboratories, and really knew the products before ranking and rating them. After participating in a Gartner survey, I no longer have that impression at all. Instead, it seems that only second-hand reports of a product's efficacy are used to…
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I'm not Microsoft's A-Number-1 Top FAN for various reasons, but I like the demo / rehearsal they made of the Apollo landing. Rather than focusing on the demonstration failing during the press conference, I'd have been better served by The Verge telling us why it failed, and how it was later corrected. Leave the throwing…
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I think you have the right idea. I'd start it even earlier in life--as soon as a kid is able to operate a mouse or click a button with intent. My fear is that it may train some impressionable minds to try to behave irresponsibly or even with negative intent once they understand that they can impact others' lives with…
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No matter how interested a person may be in discovering how well or poorly an anonymizer may work, requiring them to provide PII to see how easily they are tracked on the Internet certainly seems a mistake. One of the LAST things I'd do is provide my date of birth and gender and zip code to the Internet. "Here lies Common…
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Hormel is giving away bacon-scented face masks so you can smell bacon everywhere you go Making COVID-19 Masks even MORE valuable! https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/22/us/hormel-bacon-face-mask-trnd/index.html
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Thank you, wabbott, for the second chance!
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My first reaction to the sim-swap-hack-attack was "Whew! I'm glad I'm not important enough for someone to go that far out of their way to hack ME!" Then I realized: that's probably EXACTLY what the hackers want me to think. I'm lulled to sleep by my ignorance of how important hacking the little guy's phone & MFA are.…
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We all use GUI's today, and a GUI is simply a shortcut to scripted commands, and it's (hopefully) simpler and more intuitive. The more powerful the GUI, the greater the possibility it can command and control some-of/many-of/all-of the script lines behind it. Excel and Word and Visio--all run the equivalent of scripts…
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Looks like your "warmest" options are the north shore of Lake Erie, or Nova Scotia. Although Vancouver's not so cold this week--53F / 11C. I've been fishing in weather a lot colder than that. Maybe having a sauna is the ultimate solution if you don't want to leave the country? Maybe something right on the water, go out &…
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Yes. Skynet really is that bad. We don't have out-of-control A.I.'s (Skynet) building and deploying killer robots (terminators) to hunt us down to exterminate us as a race. We may be doing it to ourselves with military drones, or unsafe research, or pollution, and some may argue those processes are out of control. But at…
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As always, thank you for continuing to improve and enhance and correct the product! Your work is impressive, and much appreciated.
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Folks know my opinion of the cloud and bypass me if possible. But equally as bad is when a leader or department head is exposed to direct advertising by a vendor specializing in that leader's departmental area. Someone perceives a need, gets private budget to buy whatever the vendor is selling--WITHOUT GETTING IT…
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There is an alternate consideration: Avoid the cloud until it is regulated and secured better than banking and financial industries. I liken the cloud more to Wall Street than to the doctor who I trust to take care of me. The Cloud may have evolved from folks trying to reduce I.T. costs and improve up time and…
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Your point on "average" and sampled customers is well taken. Here's a text book example of "average" and sampling presenting erroneous results: " . . . one of the most powerful and famous examples of sampling bias being committed on a grand and impactful scale occurred during the Truman-Dewey United States presidential…
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Why not simplify troubleshooting from the DBA / NPM point of view and create a Bottleneck Detector and escalate its alert to the top of NPM/DBA?
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LOL! Thanks for making me smile! "Sudden Situational Awareness"! Ha!
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I remember this one. The audience loved it. Chevy did a perfect job mocking advertising hosts. And the performance by Gilda and Dan was exemplary for its mimicry of stereotypical nuclear family bases in that socio-economic strata for that ethnic group. But . . . EEEwwwwww!
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"Smart" appliances. Yes, they spy on you. "IoT" means "Internet of Things", and it's not there for your convenience. It's there to mine your activities and report them so you can be targeted for more spam and advertising. Worse, these devices aren't secure. Other people and 'bots access the data to actually watch you…
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When you talk about Cisco 3850's being End of Life or End of Service/Support, do you have a Cisco web page / document that defines this? I can see lots of EOS/EOL announcement strictly for certain versions of IOS code on 3850's, but the switches seem to be without EOS/EOL so far. Switches End-of-Sale and End-of-Life…
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I think both of your scenarios are accurate. But both scenarios can be prevented if we train the users why things are done one way and not another. Rather than thinking of it as an insurmountable task, I just would put it in the annual H.R. / Compliance Training program that everyone takes, right along with what to do in…
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If you think you need to see the video to find the right answer, after reviewing the available answers . . . well . . . uh . . .
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"It's not as if we'll have 800 million people unemployed." You might be right. Maybe it'll only be 700 million. Millions Of Jobs Have Been Lost To Automation. Economists Weigh In On What To Do About It
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What a time saver it is to have these excellent Thwack members sharing ideas! The above blog and comments are excellent resources to take away and adopt or implement--thank you all for the deep thought you've obviously put into the topic, and for taking the time to share your ideas.
