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Writing KB articles may be tedious, but when you've done a good job, your Help Desk calls decrease dramatically. And not that I'm vindictive, but there is some entertainment in being able to send a link from the KB information to a technician who's clearly trying to hand off a call that is their responsibility as First…

Given that ISE doesn't come complete with Tetration, and that Tetration is mandatory for required east-west control, and that Tetration costs over $1M for my environment, I won't be surprised to see us dropping ISE for one of its competitors that do a the job at a lower price point. Cisco promised much, delivered less than…

Remember the transparent computer controls in The Matrix, for the access doors into Zion?

That's a great example of good ethics in play! Thanks, bobmarley​ for following policy and doing the right thing. Your example is a great one for everyone to see and appreciate.

Perhaps part of the solution is to avoid not training people how to do the tasks a new environment requires. Treating their observations that they've not received training as a weakness on their part is a mistake--it's a shortcoming on the company's side. When old dogs have proven they can learn new tricks, providing…

Please do your due diligence before accepting any claims made by a cloud service provider. We moved to O365 in the cloud sixteen months ago and have nothing but slower performance and outages. Just last Friday (April 5, 2019) my organization of 17,000 users was unable to access cloud-based resources during the business day…

Hence the problem with one of the answers in today's Mission question. "Intent".

"Hints? We don't need no stinking hints!?

I've personally been affected more this year at work by cloud resource unavailability than in any ten years of local resource unavailability. There's no hybrid when the cloud isn't available and reliable and secure. Making local systems cover for when the cloud resources can't be reached wastes resources and bypasses the…

And they're listening to everything we, and the people around us, say. What happens to all of those conversations? Who hears them, or reads their transcriptions, or analyzes them and uses the output to better target us for advertising--or worse?

Question 15, January 26: The embedded video in the Clue seems to have problems--I'm not able to get it to play:

I can attest to this. 100% spot-on.

I'd love the points, but have come to realize the detrimental behavior these sites take toward e-mail accounts they know are valid, or Linked-In accounts that are active. Thank you for the opportunity to be infinitely spammed and mined. But, since the survey site won't accept a Yahoo.com account, I'll pass. I've no need…

You're likely better off to recommend solar-flare-proof storage and great fire suppression systems, and quick-trip circuit breakers and insulated/isolated UPS's when that day comes. At least if you recommend them, you'll be a hero for being right, even if management chooses to ignore your best advice. And if the flare…

Subscribing to IT and Security groups--and frequently perusing them--is a good start. I've been exposed to seemingly endless new and interesting ideas here in The Actuator, and I share them with some friends and peers via social networking or internal IM's. Keeping an eye on new vendors and their new technologies is often…

While that picture DOES appear a bit creepy, and WAY over the top for most movie fans, it's NOTHING compared to folks who collect cars, boats, airplanes, stereo equipment. And don't get me started on what I've seen in the living rooms/dens/basements/garages of server admins and Network Analysts. While their home networks…

If you know about "Burning Chrome", you're my hero!

Astrologers have to fleece someone, if they're to make a living with weak thinking.

I do without, or find alternate semi-satisfactory solutions. I've a theory that the desire to play/perform beautiful, pure, clean music might be similar to the need for some species of birds to sing. To show their worthiness as a potential mate, to claim territory, to announce to the world that they are there--ready to…

Facebook continually mistakes me with several of my friends, and that's using commercial grade facial recognition. And it doesn't update as I update my pictures with newer ones showing my hair color changes or weight changes. Putting the police onto someone who looks like a criminal---London is grasping at straws. As…

If only . . .!

Given we are relying increasingly on Telemedicine to reach remote / rural patients, I envision this Blog's title in terms of patient care: "How to Decide Which Virtualization Best Practices to Follow" First check the patient's virtual heart rate . . .

Duluth, MN, remains mighty comfortable June through August! And when the weather's nice here, it's BEAUTIFUL. Of course, that one weekend books up pretty quickly, so get your reservations in early.

Automatic Dependence Mapping sounds like a dream. Like it's too good to be true. I wish we had this.

There's nothing quite as sobering as having to restore using six or more incremental tapes, and discovering at least one of them is not readable.

Deduplication and firewall mapping.

Works for me!

The above list seems to cover not only everything at my job, but most things outside my job, too. I think the fear of PCI fines may be less than fear of "Censure from credit card transactions." It's one thing to pay a fine, but it's another much larger issue to be prevented from participating in credit card payments.

I'd appreciate several deduplication options: * It's best for me to see the traffic recorded once on its way across my network. But if I enable Netflow (ingress and egress) on my core routers and on my L3 Distribution switches, and on edge routers, and on remote WAN routers, and on remote L3 Distribution Switches, and on…