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Something about the statue of that red cow's head & ears made me think it was a dog. Eewww.
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The information in A Benchmarking Checklist Should be standard ideas that everyone uses and asks and does when testing. Thanks for sharing this one. I expect there are MANY more "common sense" thoughts that should be sussed out, published, and inserted into educational programs everywhere. When studying college Chemistry,…
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Spot on! I've tried to use that kind of example to PREVENT Proof-Of-Concept deployments for something that's not secure, not compatible, that goes against our best network practices. Unfortunately, "wiser heads" adopt the hardware or applications, and the rest of the teams have to try to plug the gaps, document the…
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You're funny: "Let your DBA's get it." I don't have control over whether they get it, and I wish I did--Management and Budget control that choice. I'm an advocate of all things Orion, and I'd be happier with DPA and SAM and SRM added to our pane of glass.
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I'm for this idea, but nothing beats talking over the phone with the user. Chat is slow and allows for confusion, and can inadvertently generate frustration--especially when one side or the other is handling other conversations/chat sessions. Until Chat is made available in this product, I recommend talking with the…
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"The Cloud" (can you say "A.S.P."? I knew you could!) DOES seem to decrease the concrete and increase the abstract. And as resources expand and decrease on demand in the VM world, there should be a corresponding automatic increase and decrease in snmp monitoring. Call it snmp-4 or 5 or snmp-9000, the label matters only for…
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Your description of an I.T. Sea Gull also matches the impression some I.T. contractors have left once they've come & gone. One fellow in particular was touting his resume and wide experience, but his ability to solve deep problems was not present with the surface credentials. He wasted plenty of time and ended up heading…
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Kahn & his buddies were totally creeping me out with his ear worms/critters, as were other similar alien parasites controlling Federation staff in ST:TNG. https://youtu.be/g_Vr9LnogLM?t=1
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Venice flooding? Due to climate change? Maybe it IS due to climate change. Maybe that climate change is hastened or exacerbated by human action. It's interesting that the automobile began being manufactured in 1885, about the time oil started being burned in increasing amounts, which coincides with global temperatures…
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Thanks again!
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I suspect Seth's Blog post about hotel alarm clocks focuses incorrectly on the clocks or the hotel staff. The root cause is apparent: He didn't perform the correct action when he makes a mistake setting an alarm clock. He appears old enough to be responsible. He should know better than to cast responsibility for his act…
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Now, if I could only get my AIX System Managers to drop Nagios and jump on the SW train . . .
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Hopefully we all err on the side of safety and security, without impacting business income, if and when we err.
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May I request you offer a list of vendors and hardware models on which serial numbers are difficult for NPM/NCM to discover? That information may spark ideas in Thwack or at Solarwinds, and while you may not get a major revision or hotfix to provide this feature, you MIGHT get responses from our community that could help…
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I attended a week long ASA training class whose instructor was a former Security Advisor to an important group for eleven years. He told us "I'm going to tell you to use security settings on your ASA that aren't the most powerful ones that the ASA's descriptions and labels suggest. I can't tell you why, just don't use…
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I'm in your exact same condition. I'd rather not waste our server admins' cycles by requesting they blow away my test VM and rebuild it identically (same name, .NET, IP address, remote access rights, etc.).
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I suspect you can already do this from a high level point of view by making a screen shot of your compliance reports, sorted by Status Descending. It'll show all the Enabled reports first. It may cover multiple pages, depending on what you have enabled. Then you can simply Manage the Policies and Rules and sort on which…
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Yes, the headache factor just jumped an order of magnitude. Plus I have a problem with the phrase "The Cloud." It's not a cloud, it's not nebulous, it's not vague in any way to a Network person. The correct term is "A.S.P.". As in "We're moving some of our services to an Application Service Provider via the Internet. Their…
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I'd love my organization to invite me to this party . . .
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It's possible you may need to dig deeper into the page's resources. I was able to quickly find an exact match to one of the answers by looking further.
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I was fascinated by Logan's "friend" and assistant ("minion?"), Caliban. Not because he was powerful or cool or strange--all of those descriptions apply to virtually all of the mutants in the Marvel realm. But because his name has been used throughout history as someone synonymous with bizarre powers & forms, as someone…
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Even within my own team, I don't see all our "rules" followed for documentation and following through. I guess we're as human (and as bad) as the rest of them.
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Is this a thing yet?
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@"tomiannelli" I did the same thing--did the 30-day test subscription, binged the short Treks & Picard & other Trek related things, then cancelled the subscription. I'm willing to put up with the old advertisements on TV, as back in 1966 for ST:TOS, but not give CBS direct access to my credit card. Giving in to all the…
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I'm not surprised web sites don't encourage or require better passwords; it's hard, costs customers, costs support, etc. But additional cost and difficulty aren't sufficient reasons for NOT doing the right thing. However, I'd love to know just how much anyone benefits from requiring harder passwords. How many accounts are…
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As they move forward I hope they keep in mind lessons that should been learned in the past. For example, during Desert Storm the military used 802.11b without encryption for mobile communications and monitoring, and the opposition was able to access the same information and use it against us. When I heard the Center For…
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Twenty years ago I was working with companies and government units and schools to improve / install basic fiber services across a large region. It didn't work out where I was due to too many people worrying about how much they'd spend, compared to how little others would spend, and how much everyone would benefit from…
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A nice, basic read. Thanks for sharing it.
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It's unfortunate that heart transplants cost so much, and that insurers always don't cover them and their peripheral costs 100%. Rather than thinking of hospitals as "for profit", consider their costs and repayment options from a business point of view. It's probably a harsh reality reality check. Let's pretend you're a…
