tesla’s cybertruck [almost] does two things i’ve said for a long time
“Telsa will add solar power to the Cybertruck to generate 15 miles per day. Fold-out solar wings for the Cybertruck would generate 30 to 40 miles per day. The average daily commute in the US averages...
View Articlehow-to timechart [possibly] better than timechart in splunk
I recently had cause to do an extensive trellised timechart for a dashboard at $CUSTOMER in Splunk. They have a couple hundred locations reporting networked devices. I needed to report on how many...
View Articlevampires *can* coexist with zombies
I made a mistake 4 years ago. I said vampires and zombies couldn’t [long] coexist. Because they’d be competing for the same – dwindling – food source: the living (vs them both being undead). But I was...
View Articlesplunk: match a field’s value in another field
Had a Splunk use-case present itself today on needing to determine if the value of a field was found in another – specifically, it’s about deciding if a lookup table’s category name for a network...
View Articlea poor user’s guide to accelerating data models in splunk
Data Models are one of the major underpinnings of Splunk’s power and flexibility. They’re the only way to benefit from the powerful pivot command, for example. They underlie Splunk Enterprise Security...
View Articlethink-read-speak
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View Articlewhen in doubt … learn regular expressions
Because if you don’t know them, you will wish you did. And when you do know them, you will know when to not use them.
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