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Ah, yes--A Wish For Wings That Work. A Wish For Wings That Work - YouTube

Maybe Leon could create a catalog of his travels and share the highlights? It might be made into a book for those with I.T. Feline tendencies . . .

My take is that this outage was power-related, at the electric utility level. Delta might not have been able to predict that. And if this was caused by power, calling in enough 18-wheeler generator trucks, wiring them in, starting them up, and transferring the load to them--and migrating off of them later--likely couldn't…

The top right quarter supposedly represents the best place to be. What do other products/companies offer that makes their "completeness of vision" so much better than SW? What is SW doing to make strides further to the right?

Post-Turkey-Day-Weekend / pre-Hump-Day bump!

Sort of an I.T. version of Angie's List. I suppose it would cost an arm and a leg, or be under-supported. Maybe a Consumers' Reports version instead, for pay? I don't see people with strong I.T. spending their time on doing security evaluations of IoT gear, at least, not for free or cheap. Too bad IoT designers, builders,…

Talk about building the ideal target for bad folks with Docker and its peers! If you were a hacker or a malicious entity (private, corporate, or governmental) wouldn't you just LOVE to have access to "a place where developers can store app "containers," which can be quickly deployed or moved"? Especially if it contained…

Yes! Buying bodies & licenses and hardware & time to have a Dev & Test & other sandboxed environments to prevent testing in Prod is expensive, but it prevents a lot of bad code from being exposed to clients/users. While testing in Prod is the only "real" way to know if changes are good or not, doing so regularly seems like…

Isn't it amazing companies can move forward with changes while not having an overview and a destination in mind? Surely everyone has a punch list of items to accomplish, and the order in which they should be completed, before they begin making changes and spending budget . . . "And don't call me Shirley."

It's OK--you're a Pepper!

I'd love to have an awesome SolarWinds Help Desk ticketing tool for our Enterprise to replace the HEAT and ITSM and LANDesk Service Desk / Web Desk solutions we've used over the years. Each had their own attractions, but all fell short in deployment. I have to confess the pricing structure is such a large hurdle that I…

I'm wondering if someone's compared SW Patch Manager to LANDesk. Does one have better functionality than the other? Our Desktop Support team's always interested in a better product, and I'd enjoy hearing about what others are using most successfully.

Your story reminded me of two occasions where a primary data center's cooling failed. Everyone was scrambled for an all-hands-on-deck deployment of how to temporarily reduce the heat load without shutting down mission critical systems. Resilient/redundant power supplies were disconnected, industrial fans were brought in…

You're cruel. I watched a naive young wife go into an auto parts store on the request of her husband (who remained in the car) to buy some "Blinker Fluid". She got quite irate at the clerk, certain that he was giving her grief, also certain her husband would never set her up like that. (No, I wasn't the husband. Or the…

For what it's worth, GNS registration isn't required, but an e-mail address IS required. And there's no verification that it's a working e-mail address, it only has to be in valid e-mail address form.

The question "Can a human brain hold all of one's life experiences?" seems a strange one, to me. In my ignorance, I accept no limitation on my brain's ability to hold that which benefits my survival. Of course, I can remember the telephone number of my childhood home, and those of all my friends, more than fifty years ago.…

I shared my comments in the post-presentation review, which shows up on my screen twice at the end (what was that about? Did I not get credit for attending the class?). The highlights of my notes in the review include: * The first thirty minutes were spent introducing everyone who was attending. I didn't feel this was a…

Have a plan for isolation of sites/segments/data centers in the event of infection. Imagine the impact of isolating a site when ransomware is discovered there. Now imagine the impact of NOT isolating that site from the rest of your organization. The complaints of the site being down will be nothing compared to what's heard…

Bump!

This kind of identify management never passes my desk, is just one of those regular housekeeping items that sometimes happens well, sometimes happens too slowly. I agree that to have a great meal, all the courses require excellent ingredients and care. It's just that this one ends up being H.R.'s baby, and our H.R.…

We've implemented Cisco ISE for our NAC to do just that, and we're constantly modifying it. We have one full-time Network Analyst who does nothing else, and we need a second full timer to help him. MAC address control is only the tip of the iceberg, and while it's a good start, the way Cisco has it laid out for easy and…

Today's Mission Question Hint Link opens this page: Mark, you're right, the hint page for yesterday's question doesn't show the info that this question's Hint Page shows. It seems if we use an other resource beside the one provided in the hint, our mileage may vary. It would be best if SW had info properly updated & in…

Your circuits go out due to floods AND dry spells? That sounds counter intuitive--were you providing humor, or do dry spells really cause outages? If so, how?

Receiving budget for this is the key. I worked for two school districts and I know that budget is very difficult to obtain. In one district I was the Audio/Visual coordinator for five sites, and my entire year's budget for repairing AV equipment was $100. Ridiculous! The trick is to show the benefit from monitoring every…

Ha! No, others deserve that honor more than I. I sit in the background fretting with Imposter Syndrome. ;^)

One vulnerability is I.T. staff who have install rights, and who may install something inappropriate, out of good intentions or bad ones. Of our 17,000 employees, only SysAdmins, Network Analysts, and End User Support Techs are in the Local Admin Group on PC's.

Orion has a module that could answer that last question. I had a boss who called these situations "The Death of Common Sense." ;^)

This remains a good idea.

Machine learning for kids: Wouldn't it be creepy--even disturbing--if someone used this technology to manipulate young minds and steer them into socially unacceptable paths? Is that even possible? Will it be possible tomorrow? Or, will it all be good, done with great ethics, done without care for profits or power? I…