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If you don't see the parallels between the article about "The Girls" taking over the office and the B.O.F.H.'s environment . . . well . . . It's coming.

Yes, Sky-NET may be only one step step of hubris away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator)

Would you please send me contact info / details / published announcements about the premature retirement of the 6800's?

Back in 1979 I was a budding audiophile with a Bang & Olufsen turntable that was far too expensive for my income. I loved it, but was very aware of diamond needle irregular wear and degradation. I could afford to replace its $80 needle with another one, while traditional phonograph needles were in the $6 range. And the…

Sadly, that's how the U.N. works, too. One country can say "no" and block something all countries want that's good. There is a need for an Evaluator of each"NO." Someone to validate the rationale for each dissent.

Facebook isn't serious about securing its app. If so, it would improve its product's user security, thus making it better from the users' point of view. Which MIGHT reduce FB's profit margin. Nothing shall stand in the way of the bottom line, I think. They're not serious. They can't afford to be. But . . . can they afford…

Containers are a direct conceptual grandchild of what used to be called "pigeon holing", and the U.S. Mail system has been great at it ever since post office boxes and home mail boxes became places things get sorted to, and thereby managed by the owners / renters of those boxes. And before the mail system, pigeon owners…

I recall Desert Shield and Desert Storm, where the U.S. and its allies deployed 802.11b for wireless video surveillance. Unfortunately, it wasn't secure for military use, and the opposition was able to tap into the video feeds and see what our cameras and drones were seeing. Worse, they were able to use those feeds to warn…

I suspect many (all?) organizations / individuals recognize there is benefit in consistency, and that nearly all understand making all things consistent is expensive in time and money. But few guides focus on the benefits of that consistency. Sure, we know a few of them. It's nice to have everything set up using the same…

Nicely written. You made my eyes sweat. Thank you, adatole​.

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In a worst case scenario, you might be able to leverage NCM's Job / Scripting capability to run commands at every one of your managed devices and display the information you need. You'd still have to aggregate the output of every job. At smaller organizations in which I've worked, we kept manual track of the information…

Have you had any formal FTD training? If so, from which training solution? I'm looking to get some for my team. I see there are nine different Cisco FTD offerings from Global Knowledge. Sigh. Which ones to take . . .?

So much about securing information and systems is based on NOT securing information. By that, I mean "don't assume everyone knows the right way to do things, or why things must or must not be done a certain way. Don't keep THAT information secret!" "Train a child up in the way they should go, and they will not stray from…

It's disappointing major companies have no great sandbox into which a product update can be dropped and many white hats can be given access to hacking it and reporting their results before the product is released to the public. Or . . . maybe this update made it through such a round, and some of the brightest minds missed…

I'm disappointed the things we can learn from the Capitol One hack don't result in advice to stop using the Internet for personal and financial data. Sure, it would be inconvenient and cost ridiculous amounts of money to many corporations to leave it now. But . . . isn't that exactly what happens each time PII and PCI is…

Yep. The tension was surprising, the outcome rewarding. I live & work where those guys are from--Duluth, MInnesota and Superior, Wisconsin. I have friends who are curlers--it's quite the intense and friendly pastime and culture.

Our Platinum Cisco VAR still is recommending 6800's for our needs, despite the special access clients and certain line cards have had EOS announcements. I recall Cisco telling us the 6500 platform was targeted for retirement in 2022. Recent searches of their products haven't revealed any replacements for Core or…

It's been an excellent product line for us to use. I'm happy Thwack was built to help us get more satisfaction out of our Solarwinds environment.

The problem I've seen is that The Cloud isn't reliable. NetPath proves it, and when you can't get your MFA notification on a smartphone, or your approval of the request on your smartphone isn't received in a timely manner through The Cloud, then there's no access happening for you. It's still not ready for prime time,…

My InfoSec team talked to me yesterday about Bluetooth attacks they're seeing (as long as you mentioned Bluetooth). Bluetooth hasn't been a widely publicized target in the past. Its internal rights and hooks higher up in the hardware and OS, and its ubiquity make it (sadly) perfectly vulnerable and desirable to compromise.…

adatole​, I like your example, but I submit for your consideration that idea that you've possibly missed a few columns in your calculation; as a result, the cost/alert and Monitoring savings columns aren't what they might be. Let's use UPS monitoring for our example, and let's say Management has opted to cut funding for a…

I'd probably say "We, on Thwack, are likely his biggest impedance. Or impediments." Our increase or decrease of resistance (to his ideas) might vary by the magnitude of his ideas, or the phase of the moon. When we're directly working with supporting his ideas, our impedance for him is low. But when we're alternating…

I'm interested in reading what others think about the coming loss of Net Neutrality. Will it impact your life? Your shopping? Your use of MMORPG's? Will it keep you from Skyping your family? Will it take more dollars from your pocket?

My wife's a Business Manager for a local corporation, formerly their I.T. Director. I had her read the 6th story in this series; she appreciated it!

Not willing to wait for those views, I simply kluge a 9-second view update by dedicating a monitor solely to key WAN router and firewall interface port stats through use of the Engineer's Toolset Bandwidth Gauges showing Historical Graphs. It works slick!

Polyurethane, Baby! Polyurethane! It'll keep anything in place! Of course, you won't be able to USE the abacus after it's been put into "archive", except to look at it and retrieve its data . . . Just don't look back:

Thank you for your kind words. Rick

Lovin' it!

Thank you for sharing the story of Alaska's ability to respond quickly and efficiently to earthquake damage. I was unaware of their actions and the amazingly fast repair of the roads. I expected they'd be unavailable and unrepairable until spring, and that poorly designed temporary kluges would be the rule. Kudos to the AK…