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Bacon: it's not just for Androids anymore.

Can you give us some examples of devices that don't respond to TCP 443 or TCP 22 or any other TCP port, but that DO respond to ICMP?

But hitting the first one of a month's worth of mission tasks and getting it wrong--that's a downer for the day. There's nothing like looking at that red X on Day One and being reminded one is out of the running for certain prizes & points. I Googled "Prize Loser" images and laughed at what some folks have come up for…

Bump!

My first storage system was a 7-tape HP DAT bank. It worked well and intuitively, and when I had technical support questions, the team from HP in charge of this specific product was exemplary to work with. Their product never failed me, and I was sorry to retire it for more modern / less reliable solutions.

The 12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech is pretty practical. I don't agree with all of them, but most are spot-on in my experience. I suspect that "Tech ​IS Inevitable." Somewhere, someone, some business, will try to apply Technology to any situation, to any perceived need--whether real or imaginary. And where…

Sadly, that simple definition / example of Machine Learning is ridiculously dull and boring. When the results of that thing are fast and powerful, one would think the defining of it would be impressive.

That was excellent action on your part! Many of us would not want to share the requested info, but would NOT know the GDPR info to reference.

I did NOT expect the ending frames' content! You gave me a smile. Thanks!

I'd focus on the cost savings and one variant of the "survivability" factor: Cost Factors: It's pretty easy to determine the TCO--for anyone with access to the list of employee hours spent on the project, and the BOM for the hardware, and the service providers' costs, and the recurring support and hardware replacement…

One hopes that people don't treat architectural structures and projects as opportunities to line their pockets. One would be naive to actually believe that isn't happening anywhere.

Our firewalls and wireless controllers generate about 45B messages per day. When I approached SW about LEM's capabilities, I was told this exceeds what they can handle. Hence, we use Splunk. It wasn't cheap, and the initial sizing was too small. But after up-sizing, it's quite the tool! Now, if only I could get a week or…

You wouldn't back up a PC, unless it's your own personal one, and you have financial or family photos on it that you don't want lost. We don't back up work PC's; we require users to store data they need on a network share, and we back that up. Problem PC's just get reimaged or replaced. The reasons TO back up a corporate…

The important thing, in my opinion, is that you took the opportunity to warn Management pre-incident, and that there is record of it. I don't like needing a "Get out of jail free!" card, but having one beats the alternative. It's one reason why I rely on e-mail instead of voice mail or telephone conversations. Not only do…

The only reasons I can see any justification for increasing pricing or increasing throttling revolves around customer satisfaction. I can imagine value in ensuring all users get equal performance. Maybe that comes by charging per bit, or for using some type of QoS with a fee associated, but only as long as the fees…

@"Radioteacher" Marine Mobile Office 2's antenna is VHF. It's not the wider hollow core that's available, but having upgraded to an 8' whip from a 4' shorty, I find the tx / rx range is tremendously improved. While guiding a family of 8 (in three boats) up on Ontario's Lake Nipigon, I discovered I could be 35 miles from…

Monitoring will be important, but protection will be challenging. I agree with monitoring, but it's not the solution. I don't see ANY solution proposed in the article for protecting e-mail across the Internet. By putting more of (or all of) our eggs in the Internet cloud basket, by doing more and more business via…

It sounds wonderful! At first I was worried that Hurricane Maria would impact your doings in Orlando, but a quick check of the NOAA web site revealed:

Routers report EIGRP neighbor changes to my NPM via syslog. They could also report via traps. And either could cause NPM to fire off an e-mail, send a text or a pager message, or even perform a script. I wonder what specific functionality the original requestor familyofcrowes​ imagined?

I still can't get over trusting ASP's to get their security right, therefore SaaS remains a challenge for me, personally. After all the breaches that have been made public in the last few years, companies want us to trust them with our data and PCI information, but won't let us monitor and inspect their security solutions?…

Your comments about using super computers to solve important problems instead of winning poker is insightful, practical, and appreciated. The article claims solving six-player-poker with computers is merely an intermediate step towards solving complicated real-world problems. But it doesn't give examples of the knowledge…

Murphy Controls D&D Dice. And high visibility upgrades to the network.

A darker option would be nice. But not TOO dark! No one wants to stumble in the dark and be horta . . .

When COVID-19 sent most of our company's 650 IT Department specialists (System Admins, Biomed Techs, Apps Analysts, Security Analysts, Network Analysts, Database Admins, etc.) home for isolation at the end of February 2020, we wondered how we'd get the job done. We were each accustomed to dropping by someone's cube without…

I don't know what it might be, but an alternate / private / secret technology seems like the only solution to bandwidth/security/eavesdropping/interference for military purposes. And what someone can imagine and invent, someone else can imagine or copy and interfere with. Does anyone ever get the idea that competition…

I always start with whatever SW provides, the modify it as necessary to get the job done. For me, the trick is completely understanding the way to upgrade manually, one box at a time. I carefully document every single step and then compare it to what's available within NCM's Upgrade Manager. If NCM doesn't have a solution…

Service Now is the goal here, as well. But deep data diving and using what's there is the key to unexpected efficiencies and success. Here's an example of using AI or deep data mining to find problems about to happen--and then making sure the problems DON'T happen. With minimal expense. It's worth a listen, or a read.…

Agreed, Jfrazier​ When a VIP believes the marketing tools from a vendor who wants to be paid huge ongoing subscription fees, it can become problematic when the marketing results in a misconception of the value received. If that VIP doesn't learn new data that adjusts the perception towards accuracy, and the VIP requires…

How sad their answer didn't include "We also added the appropriate Solarwinds monitors to the solution, and set up the right alerting and NOC Views so we're not caught like that with the new system."

Of course--why not?