sparda963 · Network Engineer

Our law makers won't do anything about it until it has an effect on them. Just look at facial recognition and what the ACLU did to finally get a response from congress on it, and it worked. Amazon facial recognition mistakenly confused 28 Congressmen with known criminals - CNET

I read a story recently (sorry I do not have the link ) that said within the next 5 years there will not be enough power generated on the entire planet to process bitcoins blockchain ledgers anymore if things continue the way they are right now.

I just got the Pixel 2 about 6 months ago, had to upgrade for my dead Nexus 6P. I am seriously contemplating upping to the Pixel 3 for the wireless charging and other stuff that comes with it.

I just read another story on cnet about some of the things that were said during equifaxes ex-ceo beating on capital hill today. Equifax ex-CEO blames breach on one person and a bad scanner - CNET Couple of things that popped out at me immediately in the story: "The company, which staffs 9,900 employees, only had one…

I share your issues with memorization and test taking. I am terrible at both. That is the main reason I have not taken any certification tests. They are purposely designed for people who memorize the book material.

What sound followed the drip? A zzzzzZZZZT, POP, or AAAHHHHHH?!?! lol

The Network, in the court of IT, is guilty until proven innocent. Many Network Engineers were harmed in the making of this statement.

I quite literally laughed out loud when I read this. Luckily I just put my water down, or I might be out a monitor right now! I think POE needs to stay limited to devices that NEED network connectivity to do their job. Otherwise your going to have someone that wants to run the office Kuerig off the damn thing so they can…

Thankfully I work in an environment where mistakes are going to happen, and as long it was a mistake and not a purposeful malicious intent you are pretty safe. If you learn from the mistake it is even better. A prime example of this is a few years ago I was doing some labeling of power cables on switch stacks and during…

We deal with this all the time with our partner. They are hosting our EPIC environment, including the data and the user access for it through AD in their realm. They forget about us all the time when they make changes to the systems. A great example is they recently implemented 2FA on their Active Directory, which included…

Since moving into my Network Analyst position just over a year ago here I have learned a lot on just about everything. When I came into the job, I knew it was going to be more then just network, but I had no idea what I was getting myself into really. I have learned more about servers, sans, wans, lans, wlans, storage,…

I agree that a well trained individual will be less likely to make mistakes. I feel the flip side of this coin is that you need to encourage people to understand they will make mistakes and to learn from them. To much of culture now days is expecting perfection all the time, and that a mistake is failure and not allowed at…

I don't know about you, but I am prepared and willing to serve our new robot overlords! I imagine they will need someone to do basic maintenance or something for them. Hopefully we will still be useful to them as something other then target practice.

I think this points to a bigger problem with corporate america right now. The unwillingness of companies to train and promote from within its own walls. They would rather another company do all that hard work and spend all that money then just reap the rewards afterwards and pull the person over with shiny objects. I see…

Your password policy is pretty brutal. I would basically have to use a password manager or I would never be able to login to anything ever. I can barely remember my passwords as they are and I have to change it every 90 days let alone every 30 days. And never being able to reuse one, while I understand the reasoning behind…

Just today they went and pushed out a change that blew up our whole facility. Basically they made a security change and forgot to tell us about it and the changes we would need to make on all of our end points in order to connect without error. They had to go in and undo the change this morning lol.

I am going to make a counter point argument towards this, just for the sake of creating some conversation. Businesses seem to want their IT people to know more and more about more and more things. Pretty much gone are the days of only being a network, or a firewall, or a storage, or a linux person. Now you still need to…

I think a third aspect of why people are not worried about this is ignorance. They don't understand what kind of data is actually being collected about them and what can be done with that data. If you have the facebook app installed on your phone, then facebook literally knows where you are at all times. Some people might…

Sloth Scripting! I like it. This is about 95% of what I have done

I agree with some of what he says in this article. Unfortunately when the FCC decided to put net neutrality into place, they were facing huge pressure from both sides, so they had to do it fast instead of doing it right. Had they had the time to do it right and build it from the ground up, they could have made it better…

An Opinion On Offense Against NAT "So, with Mr. Huston taking up the shield, let me find my +5 Sword of NAT Slaying and try to point out a couple of issues in his defense." I actually laughed out loud when I read that one. Culture is the Behavior You Reward and Punish These couple of lines struck me pretty solidly. I…

Option 4 seems to be my favorite!!!!

My bracket got busted when the werewolf lost Got my money on the dragon now. But that nessy has a lot of sleeper fans/support apparently!!!

Actually where I am at, people are being very social while in the hot spots. I have been spending some time at a few of them the last couple of weekends and everyone is being nice and social for the most part. It's good because you know the people who are around you have at least one interest in common with you, and that…

Even spell check fails me from time to time!

Our current SAN's are both all spindle. The new SAN's in a few years will be hybrid. We have a lot of archival requirements, and using flash for that is just horrific overkill. We will be implementing spindle for archival and low usage data, and flash for high usage data. Get cheap spindle for with low performance for the…

I live in Northeast Wisconsin right on the lake shore. Our weather stations do not even bother with snow unless it is going to be more then 5 inches. Watches are usually 6-9 inches, advisories are 9-11 and warnings are 12-20. 21 and over usually constitutes people starting to get worried, but does not happen that often…

I have been dealing with a perfect example of this the last 6 months now. I have federal student loans. I also have my cell phone registered on the do not call registry. Every day, and I am not inflating the numbers at all on this, I get 2-3 calls from companies offering student loan stuff. These range from consolidation…

"Sometimes I feel that I have to choose something to forget in order to make room for new information" This is why my shoes are slipon's and do not have laces. I needed room to learn the Forinet Firewall GUI and something had to be purged to make room for it in memory!

Yeah I am holding out hope for a few big changes to take place here. The IT Director is due to retire in the next 2 years or so, along with a manager in IT who is also a huge source of problems for the department and the way it functions. Once those two are gone I am hoping for some big changes to take place and the needed…