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We had a major upgrade (NPM 12) last Thursday evening. We had a one in a million fluke where the upgrade caused McAfee to go psychotic and cause our core Orion server reboot sporadically. We finally had to revert to the old version after months of anticipation and planning. My tech team in India managed to finally get…

Just send the foreign winner an Amazon gift certificate to their email. Have done it, easy as pie.

Griping about today's question is forbidden. It's easy.

Recommending this to my vendor support team overseas. These Camps have all been very worthwhile.

Here is the English version of their Whitepaper: http://www.icon-software.de/SapOrion%20WhitePaper_En.pdf

An old EDS mantra: You are responsible for your career. You may and should find mentors and peers that will help, but at the end of the day, your company or HR department or your manager should be secondary to your goal setting, training, and advancement.

These questions should not be easy, but the double answers and the word play are going to turn off users in the long run. I think the amazing Thwak team should consider that, as the main goal of these contests is to introduce products to customers.

Here is a good article for SMBs: The Best Practices In Cyber Security For Small-To-Medium-Sized Businesses "Things are so bad that the FBI now recommends paying the extortion fees!"

"Blades that are populated" is incorrect. They are asking for blades that are "up". From Wikopedia: " HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure (populated with 16 blades), with two 3U UPS units below." There are 16 blades "populated" in the above node. The questions asks the same, but the answer is for "up".

The Day The Earth Stood Still - Truck Destruction Sequence - YouTube

If you search, and read the document, the answer(s) are there. The question with only one button available is correct.

This will do... Back to the Future: Flux Capacitor Replica Unlimited Edition - Walmart.com

A long story condensed; my sister-in-law JP gave me a foot in the door to now unfortunately defunct EDS, after a career in retail/wholesale and of all things plastic injection molding for the automotive industry. My 1st group was on the cusp of transferring an existing system of data transfer to auto dealers via satellites…

Great topic!

Hot coffee, a fill in the blank thwak contest question, and learning network defense. The morning is good.

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Best thwack contest, ever. Thanks thwack staff! A Millennium Patriot, er I mean Falcon tool kit to boot too!

The CIA WikiLeaks dump stated that "Weeping Angel" app installed on Samsung Smart TV's allowed eavesdropping on your TV, even when it was turned off. Conversation recordings are then be relayed to CIA servers for analysis. 1984!

The executives at Equifax should be serving prison time. They sold all their Equifax stock prior to making the public announcement of the hack.

Vote for the cool meme:

I see what you did there...

Attn DOD:

Future thwack prize just for you.

Only human: Amazon Finds the Cause of Its AWS Outage: A Typo - WSJ

I have come to the conclusion that Spock would only get 50% of these questions correct at best based on his logic. Uhura, on the other hand, would cut and paste the key words and verbs into Hint page and weed out the bogus answers. Uhura wins the PS4 with Kung Fu Panda.

the old Steelcase Furniture HQ Switch converted. The State of Michigan gave this company 0% sales tax as you mentioned in your post. That stirred the honey pot and now other data centers in Michigan are demanding the same "green". Switch GRAND RAPIDS: Largest, Most Advanced Campus in the Eastern U.S. - Switch

Re-use, recycle, reduce. Be kind, the thwak team may be having issues right now.

Hate to nitpick, DanielleH, but the comment: "Make it through the entire mission and you'll also win a Samsung 40" 4K TV!" should be revised to "Make it through the entire mission and you could win a Samsung 40" 4K TV!" #keeplawyersaway