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I'm no splunk expert, but I have access to one one staff. I've continued to ask his advice, and I record his queries for learning and future re-use. In today's world of GUI-Everything, I imagine a Splunk interface that was about ten times more intuitive for our generic Windows users, with drop-downs and selections via…

I've nothing to add--you nailed it all. (Not this. Never this.)

All we can do is all we can do. Until we learn it isn't enough, and are tasked to do more and do it better. Power failures, resilient and redundant and alternate power solutions that also fail, are simply opportunities to learn and correct. One of my phone centers lost power a week ago, despite the fact that it was on an…

You're right, and when big business spends big bugs discovering and marketing our personal information, it results in a big amount of unwanted advertising and spam, which is just a big headache for the end user. Wouldn't it be interesting if there were a way to trace the source of that unwanted privacy intrusion to the…

Best comment about cloud computing yet: ".... all clouds are not fluffy and white....." George_S, you've achieved an "Ehhh!" on your work. 4.0--excellent work!

?? SAN had backplanes that did 100 Gigabytes in 1990? I'm impressed; I didn't know that.

Emoji license plates? Not for me. But I WOULD like to see the stats/demographics for those who purchase them, AND I'd like to see what the extra money is used for in the local Department Of Transportation budget (assuming that's where it goes). I'm flashy enough to appreciate a vanity plate if it means something…

Fake Amazon Reviews--for cash? Remember "Trust--but verify"? The convenience of the Internet couples with the gullibility of its users. Again.

That made me laugh out loud! Thanks for sharing it.

That's a thoughtful use of the cell phone notification system--I like it. It's -33 at my house in northern Minnesota this morning. A few other temps to compare it to: Moscow, Russia: +32F Nuuk, Greenland: +14F Astana, Kazakhstan: 0F Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: 0F Earth's South Pole: -6F Utqiagvik (Barrow) Alaska: -10F Today's…

Hey, @"jreves" , when you publish your book of the contributed Thwack Flowetry, let us know. I'd love to have a copy on the shelf--especially if my kids can see my name in it as author of a few selections. Rick Schroeder

I may offer a re-ordering of your items 1-3, if we want this pandemic to go away sooner, and to have fewer fatalities: 1. Stay at home. It's the simplest thing possible--don't socialize with folks outside your "COVID-19 Bubble". Sure, it's not as fun. We can do things that aren't as fun--when it means we can eventually get…

Which might explain why dark themes aren't working as well.

Compare the musicality & the technique, the expertise of the performance. Compare the poor quality animation to the poor quality hair & makeup. I'm sure you'll find the Wyld Stallyns outperform Josie & her P-Cats. The question is whether you will be manipulated by the toys, frosted-coated sugar bomb cereals, and non-stop…

You may never be able to determine how much you're truly saving in the cloud due to a growing list of intangibles: * Did someone physically access your data in some cloud data center without your knowledge? If they did, were they able to copy or manipulate your data? You don't have physical control of someone else's…

I've enjoyed watching some of the YouTube marble races--in sand--over the last year or two. Seeing the races elevated to hard tracks is the next step in self-isolation-excitement.

I sometimes think about Hee-Haw's Grampa Jones in the same light. He started as a young man, but used make-up and clothing, voice characterization and posture and acting, to look like an old man, even when he was young. When he actually grew old in real life, he carefully kept that original "old man" look from when he was…

Spectre & Meltdown need a new "Jann Effect" directed at remediation instead of just discovery. Oh, and a time machine might not be bad to have, either.

Customers expect "EVERYTHING", along with expecting it to be 100% secure, 100% available to ALL devices (including personal devices off-network), and available EVERYWHERE and AT ALL TIMES. And they expect it to be free or very affordable. And compatible with every system in the world so they can easily move from…

I can take it either way--working from home has proven a better return on investment, more cost-effective, for my employer. And it's been better for me--I can eliminate ~7,300 miles of commuting, and eat from the refrigerator for a fraction of eating at a restaurant. Plus, I can sleep later in the morning before starting…

I'm not aware of a way to tie GIS into NPM Maps, but there are a number of threads & feature requests & tangent ideas you can review to see what folks have thought of, what they want. Then get in touch with the authors or their respondents for progress reports. https://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-171232#start=200 How…

Like you, I'm unfamiliar with the product, but I DO like to get the points. Hence the digging and research and questioning . . . But because the answer wasn't in plain site, and required me to try various options and click on multiple things, I learned a lot more than I would have if I just searched for the terms and found…

ELK seems like just another flavor in an already saturated ice cream market, doing the same thing numerous other products do. The most important information is missing: * How does ELK compare to the other products? * What can ELK do better than the other product? * What's the mean time to resolution for problems, given…

Net Neutrality? I say "bring it back!" I don't find that congress taking away Net Neutraulity helps me in any way. In fact, it only contributes to increasing my cost of using the Internet, and it reduces my security. While lining the pockets of folks with greed and without altruism. I might be biased here . . .

There might well be sufficient robots in fiction (and in the real world--let's not forget Boston Robotics and its competitors) to make a fun bracket battle. wabbott​

I'm fighting that last issue today as a recently-deployed printer management/discovery tool turns several thousand printers into DDOS tools for scanning subnets via snmp. Ugh! I sympathize with the printer group for wanting to have a simple and complete network-based management tool. But misconfiguring it to hit not only…

It's easy for the mice to all agree that the cat should wear a bell. Putting the good practices into motion . . . that's where Management must understand the scope of the tasks, and then budget appropriate resources (staffing increases, contracted outside experts, etc.) to accomplish the goals within the desired time. 

Companies without Change Control processes, and monitoring solutions equal to the need, are spinning their wheels while their competitors advance. Don't invest your career in a place that isn't providing the right processes, tools, and training budget to ensure the jobs are planned and done correctly.

Oh, I SO wish you'd instead said "Data is the new gold to be mined, analyzed, controlled, and wielded to PREVENT disruption."

OMG! I LOVE that! On the other hand, while it was an American-made film, I also love the friendly fun Rex Harrison poked at the many dialects spoken in England. I suppose his song and diatribe weren't appreciated in the U.K., but they served for some satisfying entertainment in a movie / Broadway musical. Rex Harrison —…