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Renting a car but not driving it. I had to read the article completely to sate my curiosity. I suppose this activity results from over-population in the limited space of the Japanese islands and cities. One also might wonder if these hourly rentals may also (eventually?) serve the purpose of hourly motel room rentals in…

Twitter urging folks to change passwords? Is this not another "Well, DUH!" moment? Personally, I'd suggest they urge Twitter users to drop Twitter rather than paying attention to that which is unworthy of your time.

I'm up for more UX meetings to highlight challenges and make recommendations for simpler displays & more intuitive screens, to better focus development on improving the product in ways that benefit more customers with specific use cases. I suspect the assumptions about what's typical for most customers might be missing…

Thanks for your work on this. Remind users to be aware of when they're approaching the point of "throwing the baby out with the bath water', also known as "not striking an appropriate balance between users' needs, security, and design considerations." One can go too far in either direction--too little security to…

Ha! Wait until the next Carrington Event.

My environment has grown from three polling engines to seven in the last ten months, and when we added UDT I had to stop using snmp-v3 to poll/monitor switches and move back to unsecure snmp-v2c to get the benefits from UDT. My solution, which you might consider adopting, was to simply build an ACL that only allows my…

What a wonderful photo! Thanks for making me smile.

Coordinate / obtain permission from the Chief Geeks, and post your submission as a Draft after you get their approval. Then get some comments and advice from them for improvements, tweak any typos or grammar errors, and publish it. I find it particularly satisfying (more so when a post of mine ends up being appreciated /…

Tear down the silos & welcome efficiency and increased customer satisfaction. Perhaps the silos were necessary long ago, but as things become more integrated through the network, isolating teams is no longer great customer service. I imagine it as if the plumber and the electrician and the TV repair person and the…

With a nod of appreciation to Robert Frost's classic, I offer you this: “Whose bits are these?” I’d like to know. “What is their source? Where do they go?” “Why are they filling up the WAN And causing many users woe?” I start up NTA to see What type of packets they might be That take the place of data streams And rob me of…

While going through a recent NPM/NCM/NTA upgrade, the installer threw an error at me, saying my VM didn't meet the specs for CPU as required by the new product versions. Very nice, but I was thinking my day was done until I could get a System Administrator to reallocate additional CPU's to the VM. But serena​ was watching…

On the topic of data analytics, will Solarwinds take this story to heart and begin offering a data warehouse solution that Orion users can leverage to identify problem areas and track trends over ten year periods or longer? It would be ironic if SW isn't paying attention to The Actuator.

If you've done the NPM 12.3 Beta UX, you know this is coming.

Having to pay extra just to use Solarwinds products . . . That's going to be very irritating. Not to mention losing that ability will play into the hands of the fox guarding the hen house. If we can't monitor performance, how can we guarantee we receive that for which we've paid? Good points--I like the point of view you…

@"janobi" My original exposure to the Hulk was back in the mid 1960's Avengers series. The animation quality was no match for classic 1950's cartoons like Bugs Bunny or those made by Tex Avery designed to be shown in theaters, but it beat watching a test pattern at 6 a.m. Here's the intro to The Hulk:…

Wow. Apparently it pays to be late to the game--I never saw the dual answers.

Your Tab 4 would be MUCH appreciated here!

Imagine needing to use your smart phone, needing to access data on it, take pictures with it, listen to music stored on it, and being unable to do so. Then imagine yourself going out and buying another one.

Test & Dev licenses remain the responsibility of your organization to purchase, not of Solarwinds to provide at a free or reduced rate. MVP Not-For-Resale (NFR) licensing is only available to MVP's, and is limited to a single license (or to the smallest sized license pack you can purchase). NFR licenses are handy for…

I like that you're reaching out for improvements, but I bet the developers would like as many specifics as you can offer. I manage a number of F5's and can confirm SolarWinds has done a lot of improvement on monitoring them over the years. GTM's and LTM's show pools and members, status, activities, rules, etc. I seem to…

I knew Quad back in the '70's. It's problem was it could only fully service one person's audio needs. I'd walk around until I found the auditory central focus and then stand there with my eyes closed. Until someone bumped me out of the focus so they could stand there. I suppose it was also a challenge to properly place…

buglovin‌, I've no idea. "Just say 'no' to web implants/mind control/Thought Police and Brain Hackers?" Black I.C.E. (Intrusion Counter Electronics--from cyber punk novel "Burning Chrome"--an excellent story about a pre-Matrix environment). Black ICE is fiction, but is used against wetware that breaks rules. Think of…

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If we had all-electric aircraft, so they wouldn't consume petroleum products and create CO2 and heat pollution, maybe we'd also have quieter airports and skies. Of course the airplanes' construction would still cause pollution, consume petroleum / plastic products and steel. But it's quite a claim to say an airline is now…

This sounds like the voice of experience--I like it. How to clean up that 5th floor one-off? Budget for it next fiscal session if you don't have funds now. Set that in stone, put a calendar schedule on it and just do it. How to prevent it? Have great planning, enforced standards, and C-level administrators who understand…

I haven't heard that one since Bill Murray was on SNL. Fun!

adatole​ This is worth reading twice.