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Being professional and non-accusatory, staying positive and keeping the attitude of "what did we learn about this outage that we can use to reduce downtime or eliminate future outages?" is one of the most important things that can be done. Obviously, sharing the learned information AND documenting it for future similar…
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Sign me up for someone who's binge-buying Solarwinds admins. I bet I can bust their budget with DPA SQL and Oracle licenses. ;^)
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Galaxy Note 8 battery issues are unfortunate. I loved the Note 3--its screen seemed enormous, and it worked well! Making changes to better compete with other models & brands, and having those changes result in damage or injury . . . It shows the push for faster R&D is not always the best path to follow blindly and without…
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I agree with you 100%. Just because are new things doesn't mean old things can--or should-- be tossed out.
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I'm not medically-oriented enough to know the answer to this: Doesn't DNA info also contain blood type? Certainly blood is not required to get enough DNA to analyze. But I would not be surprised if the DNA contained the blood type. On the other hand, who cares what your blood type is once they have your DNA information?…
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This is a popular topic, and various insufficient suggestions & kluges have been offered over time. LEM, or NPM's built-in Syslog solution, can track port-up / port-down via syslog messages received from switches. If you had a talented DBA or an "Excel Rainman", they could generate reports for you from these syslog…
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Ouch. It sounds familiar. Network rooms have been forgotten in the past, and once a building is finished, modifying it to provide proper network space, in logical locations, is expensive and inconvenient. I've dealt with that for the last 28 years. We're building a new $1B hospital and it's looking like it will have…
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Thank you, yumdarling. Honestly, your handle is the most-fun-one I've ever seen.
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Michael J. Anderson (pictured above) reminds me strongly of Richard Howland, one of my favorite magical characters from the series Lost Girl. If you're into physically fit wild & "gifted" people of the magic realm, fighting evil (human haters) against good (those wishing to save humans from extinction), this series has…
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HA! Oh, you're a devious one--I LIKE it!
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It seems that Hadoop, like any "idea", grew until competitors started running into each other. And then they start merging. It reminds me of the airline business over the last 100+ years. Orville & Wilbur had some good ideas, patented them, got interest, and eventually other folks started making competing products. Soon…
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Someone shared with me this closest degree of (Kevin) Bacon Grease. They didn't even apologize. What say you, Bacon Lovers Of Thwack?
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It can be helpful to have multiple e-mail addresses to limit your spam exposure. I also use dead-end e-mail addresses that are valid but never checked, for filling in those annoying pages that require registration before you can view potential resources behind the front access page. Back in the 1960's and '70's my peers…
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Bingo! We have a winner, folks! Some meetings seem to be all about whether and how the cat should be "belled". They often have no productive outcome, and only serve the purpose of commiserating about a problem, rather than creating positive action steps and requiring those steps be accomplished in a defined timeline.…
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Microchip implants in humans. I like the way this article stayed technical and kept away from emotional issues and paranoia. But before going out to get chipped, do the following: * Read George Orwell's 1984. Don't watch the movie, read the book. * Watch the recent movie "The Circle" * Watch last year's movie "Kingsman:…
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What? Another Challenge/Mission? Shocking! Are there no end to the points we may attempt to collect?!
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From the comments, it's apparent there are great needs for improved communications within an organization's multiple teams. How does one make that happen? If such a directive came from on-high, and folks were taught to be good listeners--even if something incorrect or inflammatory were said by anyone--and each group truly…
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Apple Maps. (shaking my head) I like innovation, new tech, pretty GUI's, improvements, Moore's Law (but a $1000 telephone!?). And poor Maps. Yes, there should be competition for Google. Noe, I don't need yet another company collecting my personal data, location, browsing & driving habits, and then selling it to others. I…
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Sign me up! However, both of the links you provided were locked (to me): Was I omitted from getting to choose a word this year?
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In a word: "Yes."
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I live this every day. My team has a long list of items to deal with when one of us leaves, and these are separate from InfoSec tasks, where those folks take care of disabling AD accounts and removing e-mail accounts from groups, etc. Management wants port-to-port security through ACLs and ISE and AMP and ACI and FTD. And…
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What's in it for me? Forgive me for being candid, but the list starts with: * Expense. * Buying the new monitoring tool * Purchasing / configuring the server or resources in which it will reside * Time spent setting up that monitoring--from smtp strings or WMI credentials on the end devices, to learning the (millions of)…
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Detecting drones spying on you is just another brick in the wall of the cat-and-mouse game of Spy Vs. Spy. Someone will always want to know what someone else is doing, for any reason--legal or illegal. And everyone has the right to privacy, particularly when on their own property or in their own home. Maybe someday that…
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We use Ethernet on the front end, FC over the back end. Servers have FC links separate from their Ethernet links, meaning we don't worry about backups causing application slowness or failures due to simple data throughput on servers' Ethernet ports. We investigated FCOE; it wasn't ready for prime time when we looked into…
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Thanks for the second article on apps stealing our privacy and folks selling that data to folks we don't know.
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Visualization Lies: If you haven't see SNL lately, it's a classic example of how the public and the press seem to have found, and pointed out, some pretty stunning examples. melissa mccarthy sean spicer - YouTube Typing in VR: How do you suspect this could be used to manage Security, Routing, Networks, WLAN's, etc.? It…
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I'd take a step back and simplify it to say "Cloud Smart's Success Relies on Securing the Cloud." Monitoring is necessary, but until you can trust the cloud for the physical or logical security of your data, what good is the cloud except for providing bad guys access to your data?
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If SolarWinds NPM were a car, I'd make it a one-ton diesel pickup truck--not with dualies, though. Not especially a glamorous image, but here's why I picked that vehicle: * There's so much in the transportation world a one-ton pickup can do. It can:* Do what you need doing, whether it's quick trip to the store for eggs, or…
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Facebook. So many use it for socialization, staying in touch with distant friends and family, without understanding how its used to change one's opinions and invade one's privacy. There are several really enjoyable TED talks about Facebook. I recommend them all:…
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When the signs may be spying . . . It's not been enough to: * Tell people to obey every law--they don't do it. They WON'T do it until they find it more inconvenient to NOT break the laws than to break them. * Ask government to provide enough police to enforce all laws. Tax payers continually vote for people who run on a…
