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Gorgets are wonderful when the males flash them your way in the sunlight!
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What are the chances of getting an update to the highlighted link?
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Oh, you poor soul. Welcome to the world of wonderful experts who freely contribute their time and ideas! Welcome to the world of real humans, who may whine on occasion. Welcome to the world of communications challenges. If you're OCD about grammar, welcome to the place where folks accidentally or freely interchanging its /…
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I read an interesting paper from one of the major elevator companies based on buttons in New York lobbies. The topic was buttons that don't work, and apparently between 60 and 95 percent of "Door Close" or other elevators don't work, and that's by intentional design. It seems that complex algorithms and computer analyses…
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Many databases are going to the cloud. Not all. Those those that require fast response and security may stay in the data center.
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Some companies have created processes that reward employees for reporting problems and/or providing ideas for new products, new methods of saving money through better process efficiencies, for decreasing downtime or increasing production through reducing or preventing unscheduled outages--like those power bars you…
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I still maintain that DevOps is nothing more than good customer relations when creating apps, writing software, designing a network, planning a database, etc. Smoke & mirrors for a philosophy of how to do the job well and achieve a successful result. Writing good code always required everything covered by DevOps. At least,…
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Yes, I agree: "Everything cycles." It's why I can't agree that "the cloud is here to stay." Although it MAY be here to stay, I'll continue to look for a comparable solution that's more secure and more reliable than the cloud for users and businesses in rural areas where ISP and WAN Carrier options are extremely limited.
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Where, O Where is the Actuator? O Where, or Where can it be? With its Wednesday links and its I.T. hijinks O Where, O Where can it be?
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For those Thwack members who've joined in the last 24 months: A Christmas Upgrade Story
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The November 2018 upgrade to the Orion platform is the biggest "level up" example a person could hope for. If you've ever done an upgrade back in pre-V12 days, those days of cumbersome and complex upgrades are over. Get to the current version and stop spending time and sweat and anxiety on upgrades, and start spending it…
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I've spent more time trying to prove to Captcha that I'm NOT a robot than I've actually used some of the sites it protects. It's a poor solution and should be discarded in favor of something more reliable and fast. Ron Funches put his finger right on the robot/Captcha issue here in this standup comedy bit: Ron Funches -…
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A very specialized request, and without being a programmer or web guy anymore, I'd like to think it's possible. I wonder what threshold of Up votes must be achieved to get something in front of the SW developers . . . And then I wonder what level of complexity is too much for them to put this into a future release. I…
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I don't see a hesitation to jump on the cloud band wagon as a negative. In fact, it seems practical to: * Wait for security flaws to be discovered and corrected * Let others live on the bleeding edge, and possibly be compromised * Live with less Internet and less screen time, rather than with more * Not rely on vague…
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(With full honors to Allan Sherman and Lou Busch for their song "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" Hello Cisco. Hello Netflow. Please tell me where . . . all my bits flow. Oh your graphs are . . . very pretty. And your Netflow poets sometimes are quite witty. I was streaming . . . M.C. Hammer And I caught the . . . SQL Slammer…
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Another mark against Apple, being vulnerable to such web sites. Another check against Apple users who haven't secured their iPhones. But it's not only Apple. Androids, Unix, Linux . . . all have their vulnerabilities, and none can overcome staying vulnerable due to clueless or lazy users. Still, folks I know who read the…
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Say it ain't so!
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Agreed--why re-invent the wheel? The facetious / business answer is "Because if we do, we can get paid for our time and effort, and we can fool the customer into believing they're receiving value for that development and support time." It's not right, but I've seen it happen everywhere--from I.T. to auto repair to…
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Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. I don't see a good reason why anyone's systems would still be vulnerable to this issue more than a decade after it was discovered and addressed.
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With the right clothing and some good friends to share the outdoors with--you'd have the time of your life! Call up Outward Bound or Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge (Your Guide to our Guided Dogsled Trips | Dogsledding Trips | Trips ) and schedule a trip that's several days long. Many options exist, from sleeping outside with…
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Sometimes I like to even be ABLE to push back, or at least offer concerns. Instead, it's "The Cloud will save us so much money! And you won't have to manage as many systems. We can reduce our costs, and your team will be able to tackle other new challenges!" Instead we end up troubleshooting AWS and Azure instead of moving…
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As Orion admins come and go, and Compliance Reports with built-in Remediation scripts are created and applied, I foresee a situation where an old remediation script causes new problems by adding or removing or changing lines in the running-config files. It might be useful / helpful to have some sort of icon or flashing…
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All a person, or a company, can do is: * Staff correctly * Train sufficiently * Implement correctly * Monitor fully * React appropriately If you've got all the SW Orion tools & suites & modules correctly deployed, and staff who understand the information provided by Orion, and people with time to address issues, and great…
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I've requested this in various formats; here's hoping this one gets results!
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Another product I'll never see. We've tried many solutions, and are currently dealing with the unpleasant and inconvenient (and expensive) migration from Lync to Skype to Teams, with several one-offs favored by various departments in between. I can't claim Dameware is good or bad, but I believe forcing everyone in the…
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Costco sells bulk Mac-N-Cheese that might be 20 years old before you get to eat it? I've one word for that:
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Melman. Priceless.
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Let the monitoring commence! And let me know successful strategies you've used for breaking through I.T. silo walls that get SW products monitoring more than just the network.
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Vulnerability in Cloud-based resources--who expected THAT? Everyone. If you and your customers think The Cloud is secure and reliable and trustworthy, you might just deserve what's likely coming your way via The Cloud. Microsoft Maps for Drones & Cars: Change is coming, and if you valued your privacy, peace and quiet, and…
