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It's such an ethical dilemma--those decisions about who get hurt. A machine can make the decision quickly enough if the parameters are clear enough. Who decides the parameters? There seems to be no way to have sufficient information about whether "The needs out of many outweigh the needs of the one" or "The needs of the…
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When I put on the 70's wristbands and sweatband and showed off to my wife, she could hardly stop laughing. I'm not the lean kid I was back in the 70's. But I still have the most important characteristic for a successful marriage--I can still make her laugh.
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That link works fine in Chrome. Although Chrome usually works very well. When it sits & spins, I usually only notice it when I'm opening up messages. That's one of those wonderful functions where NPM 12 can probably be used to look back in time--and with NetPath--to see if something was weird internally and not working as…
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Zoom seems to have the same challenges as Kubernetes (that I mentioned above). It was developed to fill a need, maybe make a profit, but it's not the tool for the job when we can see hackers corrupting & disrupting Zoom sessions at a world-leaders-conference level. Was it too quick to be released? Were the developers…
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I like "do it right the first time." It's every bit as good as "trust but verify." But "better?" I can't decide. I'll go for it being at least as good!
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Those are familiar stories. One kid figured out how to do a timed netsend, and configured it to run the morning of the last day of school. Thankfully the message was friendly, but he (incorrectly) assumed it would only hit all the PC's in his computer lab. But he'd sent it to all 14,000 PC's on the network--even the…
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I know a couple of people still using IBM 360's from the 1960's. Ridiculous! But, paid-for, efficient, off-the-net, doing the jobs they need. I have no idea how anyone can get support on that old gear--it must be crazy expensive from IBM.
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MS made it appealing for us to move to the cloud. They cut our Office licensing by $6M annually to dump our local servers and move our documents and e-mail to the cloud. After doing that, e-mail performance drags, accessing documents is unpredictable, and I get a lot less work done. No additional budget was added from…
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And the second Facebook article, as well, is good. Please read them and stop using Social Media. And write your government representative about your concerns. Include the two links to the FB articles from The Actuator. There's no need for this to keep getting worse, or to even keep going as it is presently.
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Could be!
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True, price is a major hindrance here, too, when I try to use Solarwinds solutions for new silo'd teams. It's no matter that those teams would derive great information and value from the SW monitoring. But when I show them the license for their SQL or Oracle servers or storage volumes will approach or exceed $100,000.00,…
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Lots of folks talk like we can become Amazon or Google or Microsoft, treat routers & switches and firewalls like cheap commodity boxes and simply make everything interchangeable and quickly replaceable or upgradeable in case of failure or growth. It might work for those big companies, but we're challenged to match their…
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AI and Compute. The cloud seems a magical, simple way for us at the end of the supply chain to fill our minds with more stimulation, to expand computing power to handle bigger and more challenging questions. Doug Adams probably wasn't too far off with his story about Deep Thought. And one day we may be told "42".
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How unfortunate that the correct answer requires a period in it, when the question already provides a period. Double periods are incorrect punctuation, according to the schools I've attended. Further, how even MORE unfortunate that the hint link points to a page with a "virtually" identical content to the one that…
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ATM's vulnerable to physical access hack--is this really a surprise? Physical access could get you everything in a network, depending on how things are set up. Hopefully banks will wise up to this and fix the problem. Hopefully the bank security cameras catch the user's face and their vehicle's license number, etc.…
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I gave up long ago trying to guess what's easy to hack and what's not. The same goes for determining / guessing appropriate incentives to compromise a Small Office / Home Office or personal device. It was right after I read https://www.amazon.com/Hacker-Diaries-Confessions-Teenage-Hackers/dp/0072223642 . Some folks don't…
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Yes, I'd like to see a new War Games movie, but I know too much, now, to enjoy it. The things I've learned from I.T. Security over the last 20 years would either have me scoffing at the movie, or going home to dig an underground shelter and start wearing aluminum foil on my head. Combine the state of the technology with…
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You (rhetorically) asked "How far must inflation carry this?" That made me curious, so I Googled the idea to find out how much a penny from 1950 is worth today. Using the online calculator below, it's worth ten cents. Not as bad as I expected! The new phrase becomes "Here's a dime for your thoughts."
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Here in the medical field it's nothing BUT collaboration. Electronic Medical Health Records no longer can be built in-house with flat spreadsheets or even with the old relational databases. We partner with: * VAR's * Manufacturers of EVERY technology (security cameras, NOC's, data centers and DC Management corporations,…
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Thwacksters, be there or be . . . uninformed. ;^) Swift packets, all!
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My kids were into it (as was I when I was little), but my nephew wasn't into it at all--until I suggested there were unusual surprises inside the plastic eggs. That did the trick for him, and off he went to discover them. The unusual surprises? Sliced grocery store mushrooms. Go figure--he thought it was incredible!
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I don't know the answer to your question, but I'll hazard a guess: SW pollers know about the managed IP address of a node. If one poller happens to be managing one IP address on a node that has two or more addresses, and you inadvertently Discover the network and happen to select one of the unmanaged addresses on a node to…
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I like the sound of "Yum spiciness!" It also makes me imagine you have not only a quick mind with a fun sense of humor, but perhaps also some culinary expertise? Do tell, yumdarling ! Are you a chef with a delight for working with spices?
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To play it off as something new is . . . Salesmanship.
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I haven't tried it since upgrading to the latest platform, but I'm happy to believe you that it works. Nicely done!
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You're right. Having worked in the U.S. public schools system for years, and then moving to the private sector/health care industry, I feel like the schools have so many odds stacked against them: * Parents not engaged with the schools * Parents expecting teachers to do the parents' jobs (teaching manners, providing the…
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I see the rationale for the merger, while I also see so many possible stumbling blocks and major expenses. One of my old coworkers spent his time in Navy installing resilient parallel Alcatel networks in destroyers, while another in the Air Force used a different brand. My peers in the NSA and Guard and Air Force were…
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* Thank you, Corporate Administration, for trusting my team's advice about what hardware and services are required to provide a Hospital Grade Network to our patients and providers. * Thank you, Enventis and Cisco, for providing hardware and code that replaced faulty/failing Nortel Core, Distribution, and Access layers. *…
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wabbott, thank you for starting the monthly missions again! I was suffering from withdrawal symptoms and was beginning to spend time more time doing my regular job . . . I do enjoy learning and competing on Thwack.com!
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Another great product graphic that should be blown up to poster size and put on the back of every restroom stall door so people can do some serious thinking about how they should be processing troubleshooting needs, instead of the way they actually troubleshoot. Thank you so much!
