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We've seen these exact issues in our similarly-sized Citrix environment.

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The B.O.F.H. has the right tools to "correct" and retrain problematic I.T. officials. If you're not familiar with the B.O.F.H. stories of networking and server administration from the 1990's and 2000's, I recommend you Google them. They're online for free if you dig a bit, and they were also turned into a number of books.…

Absolutely it was at fault. However, since the cloud-based HA DR solution discussed would be expected to replicate all files and access, this particular service would cost me money, but not protect me against idiot devices and ignorant or careless folks. I'm just reacting to paying more money for yet another service that…

Been there, done that--especially at our remote business sites that cannot get bigger bandwidth pipes. One example was very similar to yours: Our Help Desk received a call that users at one of our remote Clinics on the Canadian Border with Minnesota were reporting their Thin Clients and printers and medical applications…

It's hard to intentionally "allow" IoT devices into the network, even through ignorance, when we read articles like this one: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-c… That hardware is hidden in boards our equipment comes with. We can't not buy…

I appreciate the "How will this cert benefit me?" analysis. Thank you!

If it comes to Duluth, MN, sure--I'll step up to the plate. If it's in the St. Paul / Minneapolis area I'll drive down to attend, but I don't have resources or connections there for facilitating a meeting.

I don't know the Head Geeks well enough to know their stories, so I'll ask: * What does the star over Leon's left should indicate? * What does the half-star above the trio of Geeks mean? * What's the story behind the parrot?

I was hired by the competition--folks who'd made / used / sold PAKO equipment. It was a nice job--little stress, a person gets to see all sorts of pictures from around the world. Working with my hands fixing things and installing things, training new owners, reconditioning equipment. I look back at the 80's as a pretty…

The results of deploying Hybrid IT are the only ways to judge its worth. Did it provide the desired results at the desired price point or cost? Or did its results not meet the need? Did its cost to learn, implement, test, discover, remediate, use, and support exceed the previous solution's costs? Are there additional…

Blockchaining Pigs and Hotels. What an interesting and attention-grabbing title and idea. I confess, THIS one's a bit over my head. Well, MORE than just "a bit." I admit that I'd be more impressed if the company was leveraging blockchain to securely protect sales and web sites, instead of eliminating double-booking of…

What is this "away" you speak of for Christmas decorations? Don't the lights stay up all year round on the outside of the house? It's hard work getting them up, and worse taking them down. Jeff Foxworthy: You might be a redneck if you leave the Christmas lights up year round. Jeff Foxworthy Redneck 12 Days Of Christmas -…

I'm in favor of your idea. Could you achieve the needed results with NPM by creating a status or response time view in a separate window? You could have all the nodes in your 80 country sites listed there in a table, with the current latency to the router or server in each one. It wouldn't have the NetPath ability to drill…

If I understand Cisco's rationale for creating these interfaces, they target additional functionality in security through DOT1X. There are a number of comments/requests in Thwack about them: (https://thwack.solarwinds.com/search.jspa?q=controlled%20uncontrolled ) For my environment, with 50 fully-populated 4510's, they…

Reading the stories here reminded me of other occasions that worked out well, but were too random to predict--situations for which only luck / coincidence could account. * Your Richard Branson meme struck a chord with me--I had an amazing opportunity, could NOT fill the need immediately, but said I could. That instance of…

It seems to me that our fear of losing Net Neutrality might be EXACTLY that we have something to hide. If there's something about us, or about our surfing / searching habits and history, that someone else can use, can exploit "against us" in any way, then we have something to lose. I'm thinking primarily of discrimination…

Will there be a place to insert a tip in the drone? Or will it come afterwards via Visa/MasterCard/PayPal? If you don't tip, does the drone operator target you for something "special?" Or just black-list your address from future deliveries? You've heard of "flash mobs" where strangers all show up at a site, coordinated via…

I'm so happy that fast fixes have high priority with SW! How would one anticipate an undiscovered vulnerability and plan on remediating it 100% at some remote future date? You'd need something in the app that notifies you when it's installed or when it runs, and that something would need to include contact info for whoever…

I'd roll it up into a few ideas why to go to SD-WAN: * The price has decreased, and total COO is making this more viable for more people * The complexity of implementation has decreased from 1000 lines of router code to just 10, making implementation less intimidating * The variety and flexibility of multiple types of WAN…

So true.

I think these articles fell out of the TARDIS--amazing, quirky, entertaining. When's the Doctor going to tighten up that loose TARDIS door? A good Sonic Screw Driver can be had for under 30 Quid these days:…

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The story about Uber and its peers was eye-opening for me. I wasn't aware of the problems. I HAVE recently seen an Internet meme that strikes a reminder of good advice you were given when you were younger, combined with a diametrically opposed bit of advice regarding Uber:

Agreed. What was a correct answer Friday is no longer correct today. My interpretation is that there was only one answer that contained two items that were talked about slightly later in the video, and that was the original correct answer. As soon as some people answered incorrectly, they made a case about there being two…

Twice a month I receive Nexpose security probe reports and scores for all of the systems for which my team is responsible. I go through them with a fine-toothed comb and send updates about nodes incorrectly assigned to my team, correct the vulnerabilities found on my nodes immediately where possible, schedule updates to…

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