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You're three for three in helpful AND ironic links today! Blockchain not working? Perhaps not reliable, not predictable, not for ethical/moral humans to use and rely on? Check. Check. And check.

I'm not certain there's anything new here. This is what we always do, isn't it? Strip away the advertising hype and discover what's practical, reasonable, safe, and affordable? Deal with the tail wagging the dog (users defining what must go on the network) and then get budget for training, hardware, software, licenses, and…

If/when you hear from head hunters looking for a Solarwinds Admin, I'm always open to contacts in this realm. Either I'd consider a job (if it allowed telecommuting) or I have friends who are looking for new opportunities. Don't be afraid to offer them my contact info. Maybe I can't help 'em out, but maybe i can!

I saw IBM buying Red Hat earlier in the week. While I have friends who are long-term IBM employees, and while I had a very positive impression of IBM (due to their 1960's and 70's advertising campaigns), I'm not certain this is a good thing for Red Hat users. It may bring additional support costs and delays to solutions to…

Lest anyone forget, there are good ideas at an earlier poll's thread: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/polls/2474#comment-215259 A number of things remain on my Christmas list, while many others have been removed or replaced. In no particular order: * 26' Fifth-wheel camper trailer with rear-towing capabilities for towing my…

It would be more convenient that it not working. But I feel it would be most convenient to be able to access SSH directly from hovering over a node in NetPath or in NPM's list of nodes, and selecting SSH.

I apologize for hijacking the original mission thread, for both music and photofinishing. I'll offer one musician's joke in recompense: Do you know the definition of "perfect pitch"? It's when you throw the banjo into the dumpster and it lands right on the accordion.

As the UK gives up on centralized data for tracking COVID-19 exposures, I wonder if the replacement offered from Apple or Google will be a stepping stone towards greatness, or towards Sky-NET or Big Brother. I hope the former.

And in the meantime most of us feel like the person born without wrists.

That Facebook option for stalking your female friends, but not your male friends, is a pure example of bad ethics. Mr. Z, shame on you. Again.

The fragile global supply chain is fragile because it was easy to build that way. Inexpensive, unreliable, multiple single points of failure, easily compromised . . . But hey, what do you want for nothing? If you think the Cyber attack was worrisome, just imagine that Carrington Event I continue mentioning. It's enough to…

Loses almost $400K, realizes this isn't a problem if you're wealthy. First World Problems don't need to be ignored simply when someone can afford to make the mistakes and fund & enable the scammers. Yes, it's nice to be able to put a bad mistake behind and out of memory, but the same mistake drains the live savings of many…

FITARA is all about visibility and making sure you know what you need to secure your data. Solarwinds has done a nice job with that.

I'll fall into the trap and say the expected: The book is a LOT better than the film. If you haven't read the book, it has TONS more action and emotion and conflict and thought than the movie. Not to mention more covers than I'd ever expect a single story to want/have/or need: Apparently some folks may want to have every…

How ironic it would be if someone posted a reply to the topic of preventing or mitigating ransom-ware, and that link lead to an infected site that installed ransom-ware . . . Wow, I gotta stop being so cynical!

I agree--having all the puzzle pieces really helps solve the puzzle! On the other hand, having too much data, extraneous data, "data noise", and un-actionable alerts or information can be so distracting that a person can't get the job done at all. It's like having pieces from MANY different puzzles while believing there's…

“Only in silence the word, Only in dark the light, Only in dying life: Bright the hawk's flight On the empty sky. —The Creation of Éa”

You'd be well on your way to $5.00! I like the way you think. ;^)

If true "wetware" becomes a thing, a la The Matrix and Burning Chrome and other Cyperpunk stories, many training & tools might exist in one's head--particularly if/when networking goes subcutaneous and wireless. There'll still be need for physical storage and archiving and retrieval, but building a new tool or developing a…

I like the way you think outside the box. For my money, I'll hope SW can keep this "inside" the box, and just do it in a beautiful and intuitive fashion via the GUI.

"Nature versus Nurture?" I agree with you--some folks must have an innate tendency to be better or worse than other folks. And it can be obvious at an early age. But it can be grown out of, or even trained out of to an extent. "Nature" is the part that can show itself very early. "Nurture" can be the result of a negative…

I can see where doing a LOT of imports would be tedious--even worse to have to do it repeatedly every X days or months, and that it would be cool if NCM could simplify and speed this process for you. Under what situations do you need to import many configurations? How frequently do you need multiple imports? (I ask because…

Ah, this sounds like the mice have arrived at the conclusion that the cat should wear a bell for their protection. Who will bell the cat? Or, who will commit to working toward (and funding) cultural and technological modifications to mitigate risks associated with private information, data theft/loss, etc.? And what chance…

You asked "What’s holding you back from turning off every single on-premises server?" Here are a few items to answer you: * Trust. If we don't control physical and remote access to the resources, we must trust strangers to do it for us. Trust is earned, not given. Tell me only authorized people have access. Then prove…

It represents a bump that repeats once. Any musical notes between the two "colons" in a measure are repeated once. It's allowed to add a note above the measure that indicates how many times it should be repeated (e.g.: 2X, 3X, Repeat / Vamp Until Queued, etc.) . "Repeat" indicators save music writers from having to…

When that article, about a genealogy database being leveraged to capture a bad guy from a thirty-year-old crime, went viral last week, I read it and pointed it out to some friends. That's pretty amazing tech. And hopefully it will serve to deter people from negative behavior in the future, rather than having them scheme…

No seatbelts? Ridiculous!

Study it. Enroll in classes that enable you to test and achieve a CISSP rating. Let your employer know you're interested in I.T. Security, and ask if there's a place in your organization to which you can contribute or transfer.…