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I love imagining worms high on caffeine, bobmarley​. I know it doesn't work that way, but my mind plays a little cartoon of worms getting up and being super fast and doing all sorts of tasks. Just the kind I like to use for fishing bait . . .

Elio definitely caught my eye. Then I read through the comments below, in that article. Roger W. has definitely called out some seriously short-comings--enough to turn me on for this product / company. However, I don't know his point of reference, what agenda he may have. Certainly, he is very upset with Elio. His…

Cisco's PBR can do somewhat similar things. "Based on X or Y, I want to use this interface." If/when the criteria or conditions change, then a different solution is automatically implemented, depending on your configuration.

I was a "junior astronaut", and contributed my dimes to the cause all through the 1960's. I built TWO lunar landers, and was watching that hot summer evening in 1969. I was seriously stoked! Now, I'd love to do that kind of travel--if it included gravity and comfort like that shown in Star Trek. I fear if I went into…

I work in Health Care; our Bio Med technical support team has to learn and manage and troubleshoot over 500 unique kinds of interfaces from a wide variety of vendors. In some cases there may be only one or two of a particular kind of device in the organization (100 hospitals & clinics, 14000 employees). There's no…

The method of implementing snmp-v3 with UDT can be found here: https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/SNMPv3-BRIDGE-MIB-commands-need-to-be-added-to-Cisco-devices Troubleshooting snmp-v3 with UDT can be found here:…

Add to the existing challenges mentioned above, the joy of managing patches in a health care environment where vendors claim their systems can't be Windows patched or AV updated because they were tested and FDA approved without those patches. Ridiculous.

I've seen similar issues, but it seems when I administratively disable the unused ports containing GBIC's, and stop monitoring those ports with NPM, that the critical alerts stop. Is that an acceptable work around? I"m not interested in receiving interface-based alerts anymore than I am node-based alerts. NPM isn't quite…

I never left-click on the link, since I always want it opened in a new window, and sometimes it doesn't do that. It's easy to right-click on it and select "Open in new tab" or "Open in new window."

There seems to be some problem with the link to Week 4's prize description at Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Anker-PowerCore-Portable-Double-Speed-Recharging/dp/B01JIWQPMW/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=anker+powercor… On the bright side, this link sent me to a different part of Amazon I've never chanced to run into--Meet the Dogs of…

And my memory being what it is, I can't even remember what I was impressed with.

My peers (apparently) still live in 6th grade. When they read the Domino's Delivery Via Drone message, I heard numerous wry comments with attached smiles: * Can you deliver a steaming back of doggy you-know-what to (ex-spouse, problem neighbor, neighbor with a good sense of humor, ex-boss--you name it)? * How about…

In no particular order, here are items I'd love to "receive" as holiday gifts from the IT infrastructure: * Adoption of 100% hitless upgrades by all vendors * End users who are very forgiving and accommodating and understanding about maintenance windows * Infinite good morals, ethics, and altruism from all people in all…

I enjoyed your waterfront jogging photo! If you ever get to Duluth, Minnesota, they've done a wonderful job transforming an industrial waterfront into one that's people friendly and beautiful, with a biking trail and a board walk that extend for miles along the water. I walk it each chance I can.

Thanks, Bill. For now, I'm good. I was just probing, checking to see if this is a service SW offers.

I appreciated my organization implementing MFA for better remote-access security. But then they applied it quite aggressively to certain environments that not only require MFA, but use a different domain, different user names, and mandatory 30-day password changes. Sigh . . . Now I find it less enjoyable. I also question…

Today, using IE 11.0.9600.19035, I'm not seeing the issue. Time stamps are as expected. I checked it out with Chrome today, too (version 67.0.3396.99, just upgraded from .88 yesterday afternoon). No issues. Time stamp is correct. wabbott​, I'm mystified. The problem appears to be gone.

This is helpful information, and I'd love to see folks expand on it. There needs to be a definitive reference guide for shopping for a Help Desk solution that includes the above--and more! I've been with my company for twelve years, and I've seen Help Desk and Change Management tools come and go--often with changes in…

Kleptocrat: Because no one ever went out and did something bad or stupid or illegal after they learned how. Seriously? Entertainment that trains people how to commit crimes or behave irresponsibly isn't "entertainment." It's sedition, subversion, provocation, and irresponsible. Heaven knows people don't need MORE ideas…

"Secure" Cloud Services: Another Fiction To Believe In We've learned (through painful experience) that anything someone can "secure" with encryption or physical access can be un-secured through new innovation and new technologies. Or through social networking. Do we really need another vector by which we can be burned…

It seems to me that the predictable and trite has become "news" again. Is it really a surprise to anyone that companies are rolling out "new" management/security/apps/uses for the cloud? I'd say it's inevitable instead of a surprise. I'm increasingly surmising that the merry-go-round of jumping onto the cloud's bandwagon…

Oh, I'm so jaded. C-Level and higher level management will either keep their jobs and get raises, or leave under golden parachutes, only to take over at positions of higher responsibility at other companies. No one will see jail time, few will even see court time. And the customers and investors will lose their security…

Yes, your family and friends will benefit from such a document.

Scooters not better for the environment than automobiles? It hardly seemed intuitive. Certainly scooters are abusing parking more than automobiles, and that's gotten them impounded in many locations. https://www.google.com/search?q=company+confiscates+scooters&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS819US819&oq=company+confiscates+scooters&aq…

Happily.

Hmmm. I can't use this to connect to my Cisco ASA firewalls for some reason. Is this only for Palo Alto?

Small wonder Linux admins aren't happy. Who wants Microsoft in their corner, chewing up all the goodness? Leveraging skills in graphics and statistics gives others new appreciation for comparisons between Olympic runners. I like this a lot. When someone comes up with "National Braunschweiger and…

Twenty-five years ago I wish I could have enforced one concept on the entire IT / Internet industry: Force the developers to use the slowest equipment and network speeds used by any of their target clients. If you've got customers who surf the Net via a 14.4K modem at home, give the HTML page creators that speed to work…

The sessions are all available today for review--and I think they're better this way because you can pause them at need, rewind and review specific concepts, etc. I don't think you missed much by not being able to view them in real time. In fact, the first sessions on Wednesday were very disrupted by ISP provider problems.…