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Speaking strictly from a network point of view, vendors LOVE to have your environment be 100% all their product. And they'll give you incentives, and dangle bait out in front of you ("Once all your systems run on our hardware, our other solutions can leverage our proprietary hooks in everything, and you can improve your…
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Boston Dynamics is certainly the General Robotics of the future. Hopefully it's not the Sky-Net. Once we have "real" A.I.'s, we'll be in for a world of . . . "education." Let's hope "intelligence" remains beyond them.
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Strava reveals soldiers' habits and locations? How is it the government / military didn't understand this was the logical and inevitable outcome of sharing personal data tracking via the Internet?
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Leaking Windows Source Code: Any leak is unacceptable. It doesn't matter if what was obtained is insignificant. The fact that theft was successfully accomplished represents a lack of competence in securing corporate data, and thinking this is "OK" is arrogant and incorrect. Would YOU want to business with a corporation…
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The benefits of Thwacking from Down Under . . .
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The "solution" to that shortcoming (by Management) is to get the vendor/VAR/Tech Services company to include training your team as part of the technical deployment. Management must NOT balk at the additional cost; if they do, they'll end up having to hire that outside vendor every time they want a change to the products…
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I'm still drawing a blank on Question 15. "Severity Filters"? I'm not seeing any Filters anywhere . . . One of the earlier comments nailed the way to interpret this. It has the most likes for today's question, and justifiably so.
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I've been in that same boat. Legacy apps on ancient servers, everyone says "We'll migrate to the new app/server soon" and "soon" doesn't happen until the server breaks down. Then it's a crisis.
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The new version of Thwack prevents me from adding any more pictures because it knows I uploaded a lot of images to the previous version of Thwack. And it doesn't like that. Sooo . . . . . Imagine a bright and cheery, eye-catching picture of a little Dunkin' Donuts paper container that might normally have a donut or three…
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We have that exact policy where I work. Leave within 12 months of receiving training, pay for the class AND travel / hotel / meals that were covered by the company. Leave between 12 and 24 months after receiving training, only reimburse the company for the class tuition. Unless you've been with the company for ten years or…
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Heroes helping heroes.
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Maybe there's hope. Maybe the physical activity side of this is the tip of an iceberg where programmers and companies are trying to change human habits and nature, so unproductive time is at least partially spent doing something that can improve physical fitness. On the other hand, I suspect some of the designers and…
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I like the way you think. I, too, love a good turn of phrase.
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It may simply boil down to an opportunity for companies to train their employees to be experts in something new, and then setting them loose to make it all work. The trick will be to: * Identify what services & technologies will be appropriate for any part of a company's I.T. environment * Accurately predict the future so…
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The "Mistake that almost got me fired" article is excellent! Thanks for sharing it! I've been in similar situations, on both sides of the decision point, and the options and conclusions of the author are spot-on in my experience. Sometimes you leave a company, sometimes you change your attitude. It never hurts to have…
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This year there was some great Thwack Camp insight into the value of data to nefarious folks trading on the darknet. When a Social Security number can be sold for a dollar, and a personal health record can be sold for $1000, that tells us how much care needs to be taken with PHI, PII, and PCI.
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I, too, have pencil "lead" remaining in my hand from grade school days. Fortunately it is not lead at all (I'd be dead from blood poisoning), but is simple graphite, which is MUCH LESS POISONOUS than elemental lead. Pencil Lead Poisoning - Overview - NY Times Health
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My team is trained to use Cisco's "reload at" or "reload in" commands whenever working on a remote switch or router and when there's a possibility you could isolate the device from the network, requiring a drive to recover it with a POPO. Before running their normal commands, they estimate how long it will take to make the…
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Yes, my team also has to deal with a good amount of regularly scheduled annual company safety & security policies & training. Those are outside the scope of my requirement for entities to provide technical (switch configuration, router configuration, firewall, wireless, general security, etc.) training sessions. We go…
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Somehow those sandstorms don't make it into my local TV news reports. Those are huge--look like they must be from overseas.
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Agreed--when the responsibilities of a team or person are undefined or not performed, inopportune events occur. A complete understanding of what's necessary and required for managing/monitoring servers (or anything else) must be in place for all parties. Then an automatic system must be deployed--one that ensures checking…
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I didn't have that experience, perhaps due to great advice from one of my favorite uncles. When I was a little boy, he told me about how important it is to remove all jewelry when working around things electrical. He'd been working on some old jalopy back in the '30's, and did not remove his wedding ring before staring to…
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I agree with others--the GoPro Hero 7 is a worthy prize, and I hope to earn the opportunity to be included in the drawing for it. My fishing expeditions in northern Minnesota and western Ontario would be well-served by such a camera mounted in my boat, recording my attempts to CPR (Catch, Photograph, and Release) large…
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To paraphrase a previous quote: A Dragon is essentially a Loch Ness Monster that can fly and breathe/blow fire. (Dragon stories I grew up with omitted spell casting by dragons, but did include the ability to entrance/enslave someone holding conversation with a dragon and gazing into its eyes. That's sort of "spell-like".…
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The first week's prize--somehow I saw "Ankle Portable Charger" and envisioned "house arrest" ankle bracelets. Ufda!
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As VM claims it wants to be a "Cloud Switzerland" for everyone, the implication is that it will be neutral and safe and reliable. VM should remember that it turned out Switzerland was not that way, and may not yet be that way. And that it has no defenses. Let's hope VM and IBM will much BETTER than a "cloud Switzerland,"…
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ITIL would have us not only reacting to events, but being proactive and prevent them, and being predictive and anticipate what is required to prevent their root cause. That might require: * An "ultimate security template" or "inoculation" that can be applied everywhere simultaneously to wipe out current and in-transit and…
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Your example is marvelous--someone using the network to tell you the network's down. I had an I.T. Director (years ago) who was a loose canon that way. Once he called my cell phone when I was off campus at lunch. "The entire network's down--get back here quick!" He said "frog", so I jumped. When I was back at my desk, my…
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That's a challenging climate. If you don't mind telling us, what city are you in that experiences this kind of hail & rain?
