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Mining previous posts for this sort of thing rewards a person with gold. It's almost like nearly the entire thwack site is one big F.A.Q. Pearls like this page make the mining for gold that much more efficient--and rewarding

It's an apt analogy--cooking and performing IT tasks well at work. We keep a cookbook online through a corporate SharePoint portal, and try to provide documentation and processes to our staff, listed in intuitive categories. Ensuring buy-in and consistent use of the portal by our staff is often the challenge. In a team,…

I still seem to run into Cable Broadband technical people who have the same mentality from the 1990's: "So what if it's down? So somebody climbed up on top of the apartment building and spliced into a cable so they could get the big game on Sunday? We'll get around to fixing it eventually." Even when an SLA is in place…

I, too, would be a DPA customer, were it not for the SW license cost would exceed $1M in my environment (we have a large number of databases, and many instances of SQL and Oracle). I also don't have SAM (since the System Admins went with Nagios freeware for their monitoring), and the result is that my single pane of glass…

Let's pick a different syndrome name, since that one could be come "ReGIS" (as in Philbin). I'm scratching for a better one, but it's not magically appearing in the brain yet . . .

Maybe just a one-off lemon?

Perhaps you got it right because you listened to the audio? Or perhaps you have a little more recent experience that helped you avoid the obvious answer? Or perhaps I got cocky and made an assumption, and definitely didn't listen to the audio (since the answer was so obvious!). "Here, let me introduce you to my little Red…

I'm surprised at the solution. I figured SW would have an enterprise trap/syslog/filter/HA solution to offer for beaucoup bucks. Proving I've become jaded and cynical by other companies. I was forgetting that Solarwinds can be about the results instead solely about selling product. Some folks will have to Google "altruism"…

End Game. I'm happy I'm alive to be able to see the MCU movies. I'm impressed at how well they've intermeshed with each other. Even though that makes the "complete" experience more expensive. For example, I'd never seen Ant Man and The Wasp, but read that there's a possibility it will have significance in the End Game, so…

Oh, yes, I've wanted this for over a decade! At a minimum, I'd like to be able to clone an existing account and apply it to a test user account so I can verify views and permissions assigned to a person or group. But being able to take an already-existing account and copy its permissions and views into a new user's account…

My team built this feature into an external Excel spreadsheet that relies on NPM inventory data. The spreadsheet lists all devices in the NPM inventory, highlights items in yellow whose serial numbers indicate they should be replaced in the next six months, and highlights them in red if they are past due for replacement.…

I'd prefer to see highway use fees generated by some formula that accounts for miles traveled and weight of vehicle. Something that actually places the cost of repairing, building, or replacing a highway squarely on those who wear it away quickest. If we postulate that cross country trucking and moving heavy construction…

How high will this scale, assuming you're targeting LEM as the answer?

It's funny you'd mention finding a wormhole in the network. Wormhole switching - Wikipedia

Sometimes I think businesses, governments, organizations, and individuals may not realize how moving things to the cloud may simplify unauthorized and unknown access to their data by criminals. Moving so much to the cloud, (well, moving ANYTHING to the cloud) makes the cloud that much more of a prize to compromise. And…

That was another wonderful week of thoughtful advice and insight. Thank you for sharing it!

The surprise to me was it works through RDP and Citrix--neat!

Imelda Marco had her shoes Some guys love Wonder Woman: When I was a kid I had 62 Hot Wheels (this guy puts my collection to shame): Jay Leno has his full-sized cars: It seems like every other home I visit has a spoon collection: I know a few guys with big beer can collections: Frankly, I think electronics parts are a…

In the article about 9 Cybersecurity Takeaways, I'd never seen bad guys advertising Exploit Kits and Corona Virus Phishing attack kits for sale. That's all the negative adjectives I can come up with--combined! And yet their governments do nothing about it? Apparently not. Or, their governments take a cut of the sale?

I try to spend a few weeks in places like that every year. Once I was able to expand the size of my Network team, and try to get them enough training and access to the right support contracts, it became easier for me to visit isolated areas and finally let go of the mental stress.

Oh, there might be so MANY reasons! * It's useful--the information I get here helps me do my job more efficiently, and stimulates my creativity * It's fun! There are so many bits of trivia to pick up & use, so many fun ideas & comments, so many great graphics shared . . . * You have no other social life. That's not…

Wow. Just wow! Between the food & the info and the 7-year-old Wonder Woman images . . . Wow.

Grace Hopper rocks!

This type of Jenga block-removal could provide incentive for software writers to perform at their very best levels: Slow Motion Whip Jenga - YouTube

I can't go wrong with a Guardians Of The Galaxy hint--I loved the first movie, and was astounded the sequel was even better (IMHO) than the first. Sequels that improve on the original are rare, in my experience. The next episode promises to combine many of the fun teams I've come to enjoy, while they attempt to defeat the…

I've studied gerrymandering. I've concluded it's one of the most insidious and unfair tools in use today to remove political power from groups. Micro-dividing neighborhoods is done for political gain, not for improving efficiency and reducing costs. It's patently vulnerable to extreme manipulation resulting in…

YES! Send this to your Representatives and members of Congress. What a great way to improve efficiency while reducing government waste! Frankly, if the government isn't using Solarwinds, they could be doing a LOT better . . .

Agreed. The cloud initially reduced our MS costs by $6M/year. But the drastic and horrible amount of time we now waste waiting for Outlook or Excel or Word to open may wash that savings out completely through lost productivity by our employees. And that's without any "enemy" action or solar storms!

Wow. That is fun, but I'm very disappointed the creator of that graphic is ignorant of the differences between Astronomy and Astrology. If the majority of Trek fans ALSO were very concerned about what constellations happened to be overhead when those same Trek fans were born, and if they paid attention to snake oil…

Apparently Microsoft doesn't think their default file association is a security risk because fixing it would cause them to spend time and money doing what should have been done 30 years ago.