@Dashrender said:

@thanksaj said:

@Dashrender said:

I haven't tried letting all of that stuff connect on my Android device.

Does it allow the use of your real phone number, not a google voice number?

You can text from your phone with your real number via Hangouts but not from your PC. When you SMS from your PC with Hangouts, it always uses Google Voice. Your phone just uses the last number that sent a text to the number your text as the source. You can switch back and forth and Hangouts aggregates it all into one thread in Hangouts. It's nice.

The other side could be confused though if they don't have your google voice number in your contact, or worse, it can't aggregate sources.

Hangouts goes by contacts, so if you have someone who had 17 cellphone numbers and you had them all saved in your phone under one contact, all texts would be aggregated into one conversation. But yes, if someone doesn't have an SMS client that aggregates, it will make your texts via Google Voice and texts via your cell number as separate threads.

I don't ever use it so I wouldn't notice really. The only thing I see is the new groups thingy. Which because we don't use Lync any longer is useless to me.

@Carnival-Boy said:

Evil capitalist companies don't get to dictate the English language, even for their trademarked names. 😡

Well said

@Carnival-Boy said:

Anyway, if you did add an 's', shouldn't you also add an 'e'? Like mangoes. <opens can of worms>

Not for those of us who speak true English. THERE IS NO U IN COLOR!!!!!

😉

That's kinda how I feel. It actually feels overpriced. I can get a better Chromebook for less money.

Did that age range ever have a good grasp on reality?

LOL, nope, it is very, very real.

@Dashrender said:

This makes me wonder what percent of music is still not offered DRM free?

Probably not a lot anymore, but there could be a few random licensing agreements still hanging out there. Apple is pretty aggressive about things like that though.

@Reid-Cooper said:

The thing that I found to be most interesting was that Word started as a UNIX product, on Xenix, and was only later ported to DOS.

I had no idea. I worked on Xenix circa 1997.

@Dashrender said:

Not just US spy agencies have this. I'm talking their own.. or their neighbors... not specifically us, the USA

Well only their own spy agency, which I am SURE can't do this, would be willing to consider such a thing. Certainly none of their neighbours, none of which have that capability, would be willing to share that data even if they could.

Remember, most countries don't have satellites at all, let alone spy satellites.

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That 3220 is getting to a much better price point. Very competitive with used* gear now and you get a warranty!

*for small shops

@scottalanmiller @coliver I did not have time to set it up yesterday, but I will try and do it today on CentOS 7.

Tonight is my online D&D game so nothing will get done after work hours today!

There are lots of vendors out there that will slice you a partition on a larger iSeries or even give you a blade and shared storage, even IBM will do it. It was one of my DR solutions for my last job, ship tapes to Rochester and load a slice up.

For xSeries, don't know. AIX is also a different beast and doesn't do the same thing that OS/400 does for partitioning.

It's been more than a decade. If Microsoft hasn't figured out mobile phones by now it is best to just give it up.

@Dashrender said:

Wow, only 1024 route able IPV4 addresses? That seems like a really small number.

That's more than I thought there would be. Only the elite of the elite are allowed to have internet access