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Wow!!! Talk about casting generalizations and stereotypes. Not cool... According to Urban Dictionary, a brogrammer is defined as: “A programmer who breaks the usual expectations of quiet nerdiness and opts instead for the usual trappings of a frat-boy: popped collars, bad beer, and calling everybody ‘bro’. Despised by…

I've been sifting through these too and picking up some tidbits here and there. Some of the Custom Properties docs and vids have given me some new ideas. Thanks for posting, or reposting this!

The current presidential administration using unsecured communication devices is unsettling on many, many levels. For national security reasons the phones should be taken away. I read an article about GWB's timeline immediately after the 9/11 attacks and how he was furious that he was not allowed to return to the White…

Hi Tregg Hartley, network defender​, thanks for joining us!

One of the joys of using imprecise words is that you transfer the responsibility of accuracy from you as the speaker to the listener(s). Example: Speaker: It is likely to rain. Listener: What does that mean? Speaker: It means that there is a good chance that it will. Listener: Can you be more precise? Speaker: I cannot or…

As long as there managed service providers there will continue to be a demand for specialists in storage, backups, firewalls, virtualization, etc. The demand and the capacity is there to drive that level of expertise. Information like this that reveals what's coming down the pike is a big boost for the GOAT or laymen (like…

There are multiple surveys out right now. Is this the same one I took last week on Containers?

You'll let us know if you find what you are looking for because I don't really believe it exists beyond marketware as of yet. Or if it does the pricepoint is absurd.

You guys have so much fun!!! I'm so jealous!

Not sure if we are having our weekly Actuator tomorrow or not. For all us Yanks, Happy Independence Day! For the rest of you lot, Happy Wednesday! ;-)

I am starting to move towards service-based monitoring instead of server or resource. No one cares about high mem or high cpu, etc. anymore. They only care on the operability of the app. In the alert I provide detail on the critical resources, CPU, RAM, bandwidth, hardware, diskspace, Windows Services, to help the tech…

When I made my leap from Help Desk schlub and really set my career in motion I joined an up-and-coming managed web hosting company. This was late 90's. I was surrounded by people my age, predominantly mid 20's to early 30's. We were eager, strong, full of energy, and known for our, "...entrepreneurial spirit." What I found…

It's 77 degrees here today in Baltimore. Can you send some of that Barcelona weather up here? Something ain't right when it is this warm in Feb.

3. Start monitoring — but take it to the next level & 5. Don’t stop — be proactive and continuously monitor My favorite points. Monitoring & Availability should be accelerated into a proactive, goal-oriented, state.

That quote is just simply shocking. Especially considering the roots of the Quaker Oats Company.

Also, real-live quests can also be created using augmented reality where your character battles computer generated creatures and so forth.

Thanks to current events and news (NOT trying to be political!) but many of these words are now making their way above the fold. This terminology is no longer just for cyber-professionals and conspiracy theorists. It's almost pop culture. But this article does provide a valuable service. If educates those, me included, of…

Great points. I cannot stress enough the importance of grooming. Your providers can agree to take full divergent paths when your circuit is installed and then one day through grooming they become converged. It's important to periodically check in with your providers to confirm your paths. And watch out for the mistake of…

Sorry that I have been incognito the past week or so. I have been at SAP GRC training. Also, last weekend it was my daughter's 12th birthday. I submit to you the best bacon-themed birthday card ever! The best bacon birthday card ever! - YouTube

I would really appreciate a reliable SSL certificate expiration date monitor.

Very impressive article. This is very useful even for non-coders like myself. I hear Python, Go, Powershell, and have a vague understanding of what their sweetspot is. This article has educated me. Thanks.

Oddly enough where I work the interactions with the end user is relatively low beyond the Service Desk. However... internally within IT it gets very chaotic, I witness huge time sucks, interruptions, and distractions everyday. We totally do it to ourselves and we don't see it. Honest to Joe it drives me nuts... sometimes I…

Sounds like a real exciting time. The buzz that a conference of that size generates can really get you going. I was in Orlando last week for SAP's yearly conference and I find it to be a real motivator, borderline inspirational. My biggest disappointment was how quickly time flew by. I am looking forward to all the great…

These have all been good submissions so far. But I'll honest, each response has taken a toll, albeit just a little, on me. Reflection can be difficult sometimes. I'm the type of person who prefers to look forward.

Love the shirt. It sums up my life, as well as my intent in life, nicely.(I like being on the outside looking in. The watchdog, the auditor, the monitoring guy, checks & balances, etc.) And let's all take a moment to think about it some... would it be so bad if robots did take over the earth???

We automated several of our deployment tasks within VMware... but then we learned that we do not deploy enough servers, nor are we under a tight enough deadline to deliver them. So I guess what I am trying to say is that we are half pregnant.

I totally missed the Day0 listing. Yes, you got me. And hey! Thanks for the call out. I get that my entries so far haven't been technical. I promise my future ones will be. In my defense many of these words are defined the same in life as they are in IT.

Cloud Monitoring still seems elusive to me. Traditional KPI's to benchmark aren't as effective, or effective at all. I am still dodging my management on how to monitor and quantify our Cloud presence before expand our beachhead. But do not fooled, they aren't waiting for me. It'll be on me to catch up to them after they've…

Honest ***! This one takes you to a Wikipedia link explaining the "Turtles..." reference. I am not that cruel.