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Sadly, my organization hasn't adopted this part of Solarwinds yet . . .

Things have come to a head (missed notifications, notifications being buried in too many other notifications, etc.) and we're going to finally spend some time with this. Thanks for keeping this going!

Oooo! I could get started on it . . . but I fear my ridiculously prodigious verbosity and keyboarding speeds would be a big turn-off to everyone on Thwack. Yes, I do have an opinion on the matter.

Wendy, you've been a shining light in our darkness, you have proven to be the pinnacle of patience, and your excellent efforts and achievements have been recognized and appreciated by us all. May your future adventures be even more fun and rewarding to you and to your new peers and audiences. You're already missed. If you…

I'll be waiting for my Thwack-paid travel & hotel information . . .

Congratulations on another MS MVP, sqlrockstar​ !

There MUST be a way to multi-task all meetings simultaneously while retaining all information content AND corresponding with all the I.M.'s!

I had an encouraging conversation with SW staff about this topic earlier this week. While they would not specify what may or may not be changing in this realm, or when it might or might not occur, I felt optimistic after sharing my frustrations about upgrades with them. They had good things to say. I feel something new is…

I'm for anything that makes things cleaner, easier, and more intuitive. But if it makes it clumsier, more challenging to support, requires more training . . . not so much. A remote control for a TV is an appreciated thing--until it's so complex it's ridiculous:

To answer the topic's title question, my infrastructure might be used to: * Locate or triangulate on such vehicles--perhaps for their drivers, or for investigators * Help such vehicles update their firmware wirelessly * Cripple or monitor autonomous vehicles (see Car hackers demonstrate wireless attack on Tesla Model S -…

Oh, goodness. You might be sorry for biting off more than you wish to chew, at least from some of us who are capable of prodigious quantities of prose. But I thank you for the opportunity, and I look forward to contributing and reading the contributions of others.

Wow. Listening (and watching) to both tracks, Hedwig's Neil Patrick Harris really brings it home! So much more musicality. So much more entertainment value! Don't be angry--VOTE Angry!

It's apparent that picking a unique keyword to activate a voice interface system is not sufficient. It must also perform voice recognition. Even Star Trek dealt with that vulnerability nearly 20 years ago in the episode called "Brothers", where Data hijacked the Enterprise by mimicking Picard's voice and installing a long…

The boating and fishing-electronics forums are often very helpful, but they are also subject to . . . "less enlightened" opinions being shared. Frequently. One must have thick skin to spend six months in those areas. And be willing to bite their tongue (or keyboarding fingers). The Golden Rule applies there, here, and most…

Leverage Moore's Law and you'll make us all happy. More power, more features, lower cost, or even free.

Smart Light Bulb Worm: Another case of IoT making your life worse. Just want you don't want: IoT door locks securing your home, being unlocked by users who gained access to them through your other IoT devices--like Internet-aware-light bulbs. Not only are multiple vulnerabilities explored and exploited in this story, but…

I agree with this 100%, and if it were possible I'd require even more attention to be focused on training and providing budget to ensure all employees have the necessary knowledge and tools and training to help the endeavor to succeed in a more timely fashion.

Or we could just turn to Sheldon, and put a phaser or a disruptor in his left hand . . . ;^)

There's no question. Even if it isn't broken (to the best of your awareness), things need to be upgraded. For various reasons: * Vulnerability Reports released by Cisco or some security team/agency may reveal problems of which you were unaware. Yes, your systems may be working flawlessly, but you are still required to…

This topic is timely; just today I introduced QoE and NPM to another individual in a different department at one of our remote sites. He was frankly a bit astonished at what he can finally see about his servers, and I think he's going to be an ambassador to the rest of his team, promoting the new information I've made…

I can see we're on a topic/roll here, with bad folks exploiting poorly secured code. This time with Linux vulnerabilities. OK, I get that everything needs to be patched to fix holes & problems designers didn't recognize or anticipate. Who's fixing the holes & problems in individuals, corporations, and…

31-month bump.

Well, we can't do it by censoring comments and stories about conditions that cause malware to be written, DDOS's to be directed. Especially comments that are accurate.

My apologies for this very-late response. The sensors do not use the same OID--they are multiple / different hardware models and manufacturers. The sensor names are not consistent across the platforms. Some are "air input", others can be "air intake", "ambient air", "external temp", etc. I'm still looking for a way to…

Backhoe fade is a fact of WAN life, and it hurts when it reaches out & touches hundreds or thousands of employees at stub sites in rural businesses. But when it hits at home, for a home-office employee, options are great to know about. * If you're working for a bigger company, and are telecommuting to manage exposure to…

It's hard to select which step(s) are either most important, or hardest to accomplish. I'll settle for an oldie and a goodie:

Ha ha! I think I beat you there.

Cameras are good. It's the people who Photoshop their images that are not trustworthy.

Definitely creepy. As in Matthew 10:29's " . . . not a single sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it." Definitely data management on a BIG scale. Similarly, as the ISP's collect and sell your web surfing & searching history to advertisers, to the government, to your neighbors . . . It just doesn't…