@StrongBad said:

Oh boy. LOL. Where is that tart post when we need it

Alas, I'm probably the only chick on here that would think it was funny to be a called a Mango Tart. Too much butthurt from those without my sense of humor.

I was a lazy poster, I meant that fingerprint readers give the perception of being extreme and big-brother, especially when it seems that certain people are being singled out to use them, while others are not required to do so. We have been talking about getting a fingerprint scanner lock for the front door for years. It would be so much easier than giving people keys to your house, and is much more James Bond than a combo lock.

I wish I could make it, but we'd need a sitter.

So I have my new Yoga 2 Pro from Lenovo, and I'm trying to post to Mango Lassi from it, but it won't post. It doesn't load the preview window, and when I hit "submit" nothing happens. I have tried Chrome, Firefox and IE, and the same behaviour is exhibited across all browsers. It looks like the ajax call-backs are failing.

The laptop is running Windows 8.1 Home (disappointing) and of course it came with a bunch of stuff installed on it. It's hard to tell what to delete, since there are like 15 things that start with "Lenovo". It had McAfee Livesafe - Internet Security on it, and we uninstalled it. Also uninstalled McAfee Central, and Scott is currently uninstalling a bunch of apps from the Start screen.

Ideas?

@scottalanmiller said:

How anonymous can you be if you have a logo?

+1! I'm pretty sure if you're sporting the logo that you can't be doing anything particularly useful or interesting in the name of Anonymous.

Doh! Now it happened to me. I thought it was just other people.

I'm going to try Windows 10 on the new Lenovo. Ugh with the problems I'm having with this thing. I'd be so upset if I hadn't gotten it free!

http://www.cio.com/article/751942/Using_IT_to_Make_Vacationers_Happy?page=1&taxonomyId=3178

We've never been on a cruise because Scott can't handle being disconnected like that. I like this quote “This is a huge change that makes us even more compelling in the resort vacation market. When one of our guys got to meet Michael Dell, for instance, he said he'd never been on a cruise -- he just couldn't be that far away from the office for that long. With our new technology, this isn't an issue any more.” I'm hoping maybe we can actually take a family cruise sometime in the near future, at least on Royal Caribbean.

I know that @JaredBusch mentioned in a post on SW how he wished there were more advanced classes offered. Perhaps a 101 and a 201 (or higher) track so that each level could be addressed? Maybe before scheduling, get an idea of who would like to attend which session so that people don't have to make hard choices and miss sessions they really wanted to attend? It's not like we're likely to have 5 sessions running at once at the first ML-Con.

We checked Mango Lassi, and again I couldn't post, so I rolled back the network driver from Intel's 2/18/2014 driver, to Microsoft's driver from March 2013 and Mango Lassi works again.

@Bill-Kindle said:

I'm a little confused, how is this thread not a nice conversation? I haven't seen any name calling, just lively debate......

On the contrary, Scott has repeatedly been called a narcissist. I would say that counts as name-calling. It's also, completely untrue, and an illustration of how little the name-caller actually knows Scott. Confident? Yes, and with plenty of justification for it, but not a narcissist. That's like calling a confident woman "bossy".

On another note, who knew that this topic was going to spark such heated debate? I feel a bit like I threw a match over my shoulder into a pool of gasoline.

I @pchiodo

Awwww @ajstringham thinks I'm special

Okay, I admit that I wanted to make sure that the wiki wasn't going to be a ton of extra work for me. Sometimes @scottalanmiller has these ideas and proposes them with "and it will be great experience for you to work on this" so hence my perpetual caution whenever Scott has a brilliant new idea.

@IRJ said:

He wants MJ....

What does it say that the first thing I thought of was he wanted MJ from Spiderman, and the distant second was the other kind of MJ? I'm pretty sure I'm a super nerd.

Very helpful.

I am loving Windows 10. I was having trouble getting the Pro version of 8.1 to install on my Lenovo laptop, but the tech preview of 10 worked without issue.

@RAM. Sounds like you're having one of those "when it rains it pours" days. On the upside, it's nice to have one of those every once in a while to reinforce to management why they need an IT guy.

Windows 8 suffered from the "we know what's best for you and we don't care what you want" mentality, otherwise known as hubris. With Windows 10, I feel like MS listened to customer demands - for example, bringing back the start menu button, and shrinking the Windows 8 start screen down to a less annoying, and user-friendly size, cause let's face it, everything popping up full screen is frustrating, especially when it's not what you're used to - and delivered, at least in the tech preview, a snappy, intuitive, just plain nice to use OS.

I remembered to turn off the AC and everything.

Here, here!