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NCM set to report configuration changes in real time will help you keep track of those loose canons.

I'm just disappointed my kids have dropped using Facebook for their primary social media, moving to Snap-Chat and Instagram and others. It was nice to share their worlds and activities. Which is, no doubt, why they left FB for the Over-40 crowd.

I'm definitely not appreciating the need to view the video to get the Mission answers. It's not a good use of my personal time or work time. In the interest of efficiency, I'd appreciate future missions to be able to be answered by reading for the answer. I'm not opposed to the option to view a video, as long as there's a…

Amazon discounts at Whole Foods. There's one of those stores just about three blocks away from me. I'll stop by today and see what I can save. Thank you for sharing this!

Being exposed to views outside the U.S.A. is a welcome part of being part of Thwack. Thank you for sharing this!

Based in the information in the links (above), I think I'm just fine with ONE poller managing up to 100,000 UDT entries.

Oh dear. Might SolarWinds reconsider offering the Kuerig as a prize? It's pretty harmful to the environment. If you're not aware of the scope of the problem, here are a few resources: * This one's from the inventor of the K-Cup (the little coffee container that goes into a Kuerig): How Bad Are K-Cups for the Environment? -…

My hope is that people will reduce screen time for physical time, as in playing baseball instead of watching it on a screen or from the stands. If you've spent time with friends by being seriously engaged in hitting the ball, catching it, running the bases, scoring or being tagged out, you've had a very different…

Now THERE'S an option I hadn't considered. I was thinking more of the classic and traditional nepotism. Google Bud Frump in "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying." A complete failure, riding his uncle's coat tails, dragging down moral and degrading company performance wherever he goes. Yet anyone treating him…

If this is still a thing, please make it real!

I agree with your assessment about those who repealed Net Neutrality. It has enormous potential for creating unfair treatment of data flow. My impression is that the prime concern was enabling new ways to increase profits for Carriers and ISPs at the expense of those who use the Internet. With a secondary, and more…

I'd be happy just to accomplish Step 1 !

"New trend?" Naw, see Cisco's entire history. And that of the military and its vendors, too.

We've assumed that documentation will be useful, but we've missed how important it is to learn how to write USEFUL INFORMATION. Poor grammar, incomplete thoughts, missing punctuation--these things (and more) may derail the benefits of documentation. Do not merely document; take a Business Writing or Technical Writing class…

Will your travels ever bring you to Minneapolis area? Or better still, to the western tip of Lake Superior, and Duluth, MN? Our travel budget never allows for trips out of the country, and getting plane fare & hotel funding for training dried up back in 2008. Now training's online or within 150 miles of drive time. It'd be…

Monitoring without baselining might be like stating humans do or do not have impact global warming. How can you make an accurate assessment without baselines and trend analyses? xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline

We have a team dedicated just to Splunk. All my network hardware either sends syslogs to Orion, which forwards them to Splunk, or they report directly to Splunk. I've played around with the Splunk dashboard and queries, and decided this is one tool that will require a lot of time to learn and practice with before I'll have…

I have four VM pollers, each in its own data center. One of them also happens to be the main NPM instance, to which all four pollers report. This works very well for us, and my issues with it are few and minor: * Reported latency for devices must be viewed in terms of the location of their poller. One poller is 250 miles…

"Out of office message" really made my morning--thanks! In particular: * ". . . participants who were cut off from email experienced significant reductions in their stress levels..." * " . . . a proposed law in New York that would make it illegal for business to contact employees by email or instant-messaging services when…

Monday bump.

Seriously? The bad reputation Bitcoin created, coupled with the malware that tries to install block chain mining apps in one's computing equipment without permission, have left a permanent black mark on my impressions of all things blockchain. Yes, I'm possibly throwing the baby out with the bathwater, leaving myself blind…

You're right: that Croquet article is a good one. Thanks for finding it & sharing it with us. 

Wow, that's scary. That voice-recognition option may hinder a child's brain development if it keeps them from having to learn to spell at an early age . . .

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Security vulnerabilities appear to become more insidious and hard to prevent as we increase our scanning and security posture and awareness of vulnerabilities. It's also a different twist on "trust" to focus on American drones killing Americans--that's a kind of "security" I don't…

Oh, let's just be fun and obvious: Start using SAM.

Out here at the edge of the Internet, where WAN services can be liimited to one provider (with only bonded T1's or DSL), and ISP's sometimes limited to satellite service or mom & pop broadband, I tend to take the path of the control freak and want the databases where my team can ensure they're up and available and secure.…

I suspect many of us are logic-oriented, and look for answers in a concrete-sequential manner. For example, searching the Hint page for all five of the words that were answers revealed that at least two of the answers were not on the hint page, nor in any of the tables. Yes, it's possible to get around this kind of…

I like the idea of reverse engineering your premise through saying "If a project was successful it had a great P.M." Or, "We put a great P.M. on that project and it was successful because of that P.M.'s expertise." But we know projects that succeed with mediocre or even no P.M.s. And projects that failed despite having…