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Buying used and being happy with it, and paying it off immediately, or quickly, is a path to remaining financially solvent. I'm shocked when I see car & boat & RV dealers offering 20-year loans on their products, just to keep their monthly payment down to where a consumer can manage it. I love the latest bells & whistles…

Quantum Computing reflects an awareness of superposition and entanglement, and leverages those mechanical phenomena for different storage options. Moore's Law leads us to expect that more processing power will be available at lower price points on a predictable extrapolatable line. But nowhere in this heady world of…

Thanks for clarifying the meaning of "deprecated." Folks here were concerned that it meant "no longer supported on our current gear."

Congratulations! It's amazing how quickly the points build, if/when a person get more engaged with Thwack. Of course, hosting a SWUG meeting is the fast-track to jumping levels in points rapidly. But Missions and Submissions & Papers & Ideas and Answers all make it happen, too. Submitting enjoyable / useful items or…

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Oops! Wacky gamification. Thanks for keeping the accounting books balanced, DanielleH​. You and your peers do good work!

After upgrading to NPM 12.2, I've had issues with Solarwinds' database when the DBA's do their re-index or defrags. I'll come into work in the morning and NPM is hung, with this message: So there's a classic case of a database impacting customers. In this case I resolved it by rebooting the NPM main instance; perhaps I…

Somehow, as I read the topic again, I got the yawns. Am I the only one jaded enough to think that the folks who call the shots in the multi-billion-dollar ranges are going to do whatever they want to increase their holdings (a.k.a.: "power") and I'll end up supporting whatever they choose to make available? Somehow the big…

Zoom meetings quit at four hours? First off, let's keep Zoom out of that area completely. My experience with them has been poor, unreliable, and insecure. Perhaps yours has been better. Then let's not say video conferences quit after four hours. I can actually attend eight hours of video conferences for many days in a row.…

I suspect "informed consent" is rarely given because it's rarely understood correctly. Before allowing someone to consent, it might be wise to require they take a test and fill in the answers about what things of theirs will be shared and/or sold, and what the worst case risks to their data / access may be.

If ever an "unpleasant entity" wished for an opportunity, I doubt it could get a better wish than governments and businesses and individuals putting their critical data in The Cloud. When you can point at your hardware and data, you can protect and secure it. When you have it in The Cloud, you're taking someone's word that…

NPM has made proving that the problem is NOT the network much easier. Unfortunately, we have many long-timers who recall our old Nortel network, which WAS the problem many times. So they have a poor trust factor, and a long memory.

Perhaps that's a good thing, Microsoft being more reliable, more trustworthy. But I've been fooled before. Earning my trust back will take more than reviews; it'll take a long time and lot of testing. I'm glad to hear they're making a positive impression on you.

"The Fog". That's the best pseudonym I've heard yet for ASP's calling their product "The Cloud." Nothing like being lost, alone, no where to turn, when "The Cloud" fails.

May 18th's question asks "What topics will be discussed?" I'd have accepted a number of answers, based on paragraphs two, three, and four in the hit: * How to include what managers, executives, and business operations really want to know * The importance of baselines * How to start discussions with various business units *…

Absolutely! This makes perfect sense. I get around the problem by having a nightly Job that saves running-config to startup-config and then downloads both to NCM, but it's not as good as having the option to automatically download the config. Maybe even include the opportunity to re-run the report and Compliance…

December 14, 2017 is the date of the vote. I'm unaware of provisions within the bill that limit how soon after the bill becomes law that changes to access & pricing could occur. FCC will vote whether to delete net neutrality on December 14 | TechCrunch

Somehow that snow angel seems to be fluttering frantically. Nicely done!

@jm_sysadmin, you and your organization are my heroes.

Nothing like trying to talk past someone wearing boots. Don't know if/when the FCC ever enforced the rules on those guys. They sure mess up life for the rest of us.

The Mercury News hotlink for Facebook employees' data being stole defeated my patience. Do us all a great favor and find other links to stories, and eschew Mercury News' web site. It's a frustrating and irritating experience.

Tia Carrere did a nice job, but the "Crucial" fact is that the band is totally one-sided. Oh, you might correspondingly say The Blues Brothers are two-faced, but face the music, friend. It's not your fault. You ran out of gas. You had a flat tire. You didn't have enough money for cab fare. Your tux didn't come back from…

In addition, always remember that your backups are only as good as your last restore. Regularly restoring data seems risky, but it's the only way I know of to prove your backups are good ones.

Honestly, the left hand bracket is stunning. As a popularity contest goes, I realize it means little. But I honestly thought most Thwack members would recognize the experience, maturity, training, and ethics of Picard. Or the leadership superiority of Kirk over Solo.

Zuckerberg using Oculus Gloves: Here's a great opportunity to try to determine what part(s) of this will be treated as "alternate facts." Lawsuit accusing Facebook-owned Oculus of intellectual property theft heads to trial

Anyone care to bet which of today's Actuator topics will be most heavily focused on in ThwackCamp 2018?

You're a glutton for snow punishment. Here's what can happen when you put out your patio furniture in the spring: Time Lapse - Blizzard 2016 - YouTube

ebradford​ , I'm not sure what I'd do with a camera like that one in my boat. I don't boat after dark, so any IR / night vision capabilities would be lost. At $2600.00 it's a spendy accessory for my life style. Tell me how you use it? Rick Schroeder

Multi-Cloud: It's the first time I've seen someone extoll the virtues of Microsoft's work over Amazon's. Just wait--I'm betting AWS's SE USA infrastructure issues will be quickly resolved, and soon surpass those of Azure. Microsoft AI in Drones? Yes, Sky-Net isn't that far away. In fact, it's probably working in today's…