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Alto Clef blew me away the first time I saw someone playing it. Then that someone showed me how Alto Clef moves around the staff--AUGH! Folks who play Viola well have my admiration and respect. The same for Stick players. And there are FAR too many jokes targeting every specific instrument--and Viola didn't escape them…

It seems all like Cisco Tetration to me. Necessary, incredibly expensive, time-consuming to implement, useful to the Nth degree for troubleshooting and SLA's.

Where Art is, IS civilization!

It's easy to become complacent and expect all answers to be intuitive or obvious or easily searchable within the text. It's those questions whose clues are buried within the monologue of a video that are the challenging ones for those of us who are accustomed to a quick and easy 150 points.

Monitoring and alerting tools (AND their resources AND the budget for them) must be sufficient to allow IT staff to predict problems instead of react to them. This enables IT to offer SLA's to customers instead of guessing whether resources, tools, staff, and training will be sufficient to the need. We all benefit when we…

Hoping goodness and improvements will be the result . . .

I send my respects to those of the profession who innovate, and those of us who clean up after them. We're all one team, fighting the good fight.

Done. But it's very reminiscent of popularity contests back in junior high, with the added benefit of getting my work e-mail address on a hundred new spam lists. I wish it would be possible to actually winnow through the voters and only allow the votes from people who had actually tried all of the competing products in the…

I'll bet that there's no number at which SW "has to do something", but I also believe that the higher the vote count goes, and the more frequently bumps occur (to indicate this is not a deprecated technology), the more interest SW understands we have towards making this feature request come true. Given Cisco's predominance…

And I bet you call her "The Wahoo" when you talk about her . . . Maybe?

You've presented (again) the concept of Disaster Recovery, and it's not too soon to have people rethink what they have, and how old it is, and how important it is. Imagine living without that device or application--or site!--for thirty minutes--or thirty days! When something ubiquitous vanishes, you truly learn how…

Oh, the HUMANITY! Bacon is being recalled in several states! Bacon and ready-to-eat turkey products recalled in four states - CNN

@"Dez" You are a culinary hero, and know the way to the hearts of all people (not just men)! Carbs are sure appreciated during the winter, and during social isolation for COVID-19 protection. Perhaps not the best thing to binge on while watching Disney+ or Amazon Prime Videos, but delicious never-the-less. Your creativity…

It's amazing how this takes me back so many years, when our SA's thought Microsoft could provide a reliable dual-NIC HA solution, or how they believed that LACP was the be all and end all. Now, with UCS and VM and port-channels to those technologies, life's become so much less unpredictable. Thanks for keeping these old…

I'd also add that greater benefits can come to an organization when the silo-ed departments adopt a common monitoring platform that can present a big picture in a single pane of glass, which also allows drilling down into those silos like Network or Database or Server or Application, etc. NCM and NTA and NPM are excellent…

I, too, have a remote and rural home office, shared with only my wife (thank goodness my two teens have moved out on their own!). The fastest service contract available is a theoretical 12 Mb/s down, and 756K up. "Blazing Fast DSL", if you recognize the vendor's claim. I say "Blazing fast, HA!" But in the interests of…

I'm not convinced this statement "The best way to accomplish this is offering a limited number of users the final tool as a beta and receive a feedback to build a model of interactions . . ." has the right solution. It can represent a START, but you may find you've bitten off far more than you can chew--if you didn't FIRST…

You've re-identified the age-old problem mice deciding the cat is too dangerous, and that a bell must be put on it so the mice will hear it coming. No one is willing to commit the resources to accomplish the task. Belling the Cat - Wikipedia

The 201 class was too basic. Looking forward to more advanced topics and examples for getting more out of NTA.

That "bomb shell" story about Russian plagiarism was eye opening. Thanks for sharing it. I reminds me strongly of other technical journal publications associated with projects outside of Russia--the problem appears to be more universal than the focus on Russian issues implies.

Evil-doers, or horror characters. Which one is the worst, or most powerful, of them all. Or even the reverse--which is the "worst" villain--meaning "Vote for the villain who is least competent at being evil." Scary folks/creatures in general. May not even be restricted to being criminal (depending on the context). The…

Hire, train, test, train, test, train, test . . . This goes for every employee.

Weaponizing public schools' information? What the . . . ? It's a sad situation when virtually everyone assumes the Internet and access to everything is safe, is a good thing, etc. And that the simple act of connecting a school or a cell phone or laptop or notepad to the Internet makes it possible for bad folks to do bad…

Here's a grass roots work around in tech to combat high prices of insulin pumps. I find it a very creative use of IT / computer / hacker / electronics skills to save lives and improve quality of life for a family. Diabetics Are Hacking Their Own Insulin Pumps - YouTube

For those Reboot! fans out there: Dot, running through a prison filled with loose dangerous binomes: "And don't forget to declare your variables!" Bob, frantically programming an unfamiliar interface to stop the prisoners: "Hey, I'm not THAT basic!"

A touch of reality: some IT Pro's lose time trying to increase their Thwack points by responding to each Blog and participating in tests and new items. This isn't saying that there is no value in learning new things and corresponding with IT Professionals who are peers and experts. But it would be easy for me to spend two…

Bump! I'm in middle of a forklift upgrade of switches, and when a site goes down and I get a bunch of alerts for multiple down nodes, it would sure be helpful if I could enter a node name for parent or child into a search window and see the group and dependencies in which it participates. Instead I have to scroll through…