@ambarishrh Article has a couple good points—
Keep an eye on Lifehacker, they tend to have their short snippets on office space infrequently. Each has lots of options for making your workspace more productive.
@scottalanmiller Good old ASCII. Made me think of the VLC text mode—
@Bill-Kindle said:
Tesla wasn't all that crazy after all......
Obligatory—
@IRJ Time to start a faraday cage business, mayhap?
@david-scammell @scottalanmiller @jaredbusch
Good I'm not completely overlooking anything. Trying to stay with reputable sources (NYT, BBC, Rueters, Washington Post, etc). Weirdness of the situation is getting weird.
@scottalanmiller said:
Yes, one app. THEY provide one thing, a vanilla platform....
Given these are proprietary systems, information is scarce. Might you know a source describing their vanilla platform? Tend to think in terms of what OpenStack is presenting.
Trying to follow this story, but after a week reporting on it seems to be taking very strange turns. Don't know what to make of the increased speculation.
Can appreciate the task of tracking and trying to find it by these air traffic videos—
Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have one app? Can see each them having their own "single" distributed OS with myriad products running underneath it.
Each has had issues, emphasizing automation isn't perfect and remains a challenge.
@Nic @bill-kindle Psychotic CEOs was a popular topic a few years back.
Google around, and a few links to start—
Automation is the inevitable trend. Microsoft with Azure, Amazon with AWS, and Facebook have smart folks only able to continue doing business by automation. LISA has great talks on it (okay, boring to non-I.T. folks), at times by these people.
There is a reason Google "sysadmins" are called SREs (site reliability engineers). Google has a process for he automation, documentation, change control, and following up on the inexplicable weirdnesses. Calling them "engineers" is apt, as they need to go to a low level to get an understanding of issues, and craft appropriate checks & workarounds.
@PSX_Defector said:
Do you think this kid ever used his name again after posting this desktop shot?
For using WinXP, IE6, or the folder of shemale vids?
Figured warranty and/or RVS (Rotation Vibration Safeguard) would have been mentioned, as well.
Consider warranty to be an OEM's confidence in their device. Bit on RVS, http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/bad-bad-bad-vibrations/896
Cost math on price can be interesting. As an example, a device getting twice the value out of a set of Red drives vs RE drives. SMBs would be more of the mindset to take the lowest price (yeah, yeah, not enterprise).
@JaredBusch Mac and its features do have a consumer bent. Gotta consider I.T. pros being responsible for themselves and their own processes.
Actually, surprised you did not mention doing the backups via cron/systemd/etc.
Am a bit curious on the current performance comparison between Parallels v9 and VMware Fusion v6—
Another sad case filed under reality being stranger than fiction.
Gotta love those. Enjoyed Maximum Exposure during its run—
@scottalanmiller iTunes U is strangely positioned. Hard to find it if not already aware of it. For instance, it is deselected from being visible on default iTunes software install. As they are more straight classroom recordings, content is less polished and takes more time to find the gems.
Overlooked mentioning the Great Courses are pricy, however have seen them at various libraries. A rather good one, getting away from I.T. and relevant at the same time—
Amazon's Audible can be a way to get them more affordably—
@Bill-Kindle Not so much apathy as the impacted people have little clue where to go and how to resolve. Seems you can get one "cause" per year with Syria, North Korea, MH370, "the economy", and other issues...not much remaining bandwidth for outrage.
Security != convenience, else people would've jumped en mass to MSFT's own EMET ages ago—
@Hubtech Using Symantec PGP since before it as Symantec's.
Backend is not for the faint of heart. Not inexpensive overall. Central management and policy enforcement was a mandatory component for the clinical users/HIPAA. Has a reasonable wrapper for multiple logins to access the encrypted HDD, can do remote revocation, tracks usage/callbacks, and makes our OCR monitor happy. Have an agreement for data recovery & encryption key exchange if/when that needs to occur. Has a CD boot option to decrypt drives. Works for external HDDs. Policy has high number of options, which we have much limited for manageability.
Generally have problems with:
Some I.T. admins have got it on dual boot machines, but most in the organization make do with VMs for those users. Can take 3-6 months for a PGP update to catchup to the "new" OS or laptops.
@Katie Been using a Mac since the 128k.
Apple is maintaining the primary trend on focusing on consumers.
Upfront price has never been their strong suit. Overall value is there. Notably, many people encountered have bought Macs to not have Windows problems (virus, frequent updates, forcing off OSes, etc). Having been in higher ed and assorted design firms, Macs fit in the culture.
In recent times, Mac has been more about being in the Apple ecosystem—iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, etc. "Ecosystem" is mainly as it is the software, hardware, and peripherals. Can get nifty and smart benefits when drinking their purple kool-aid. Never have been "all in", so haven't been bit by their sudden changes in directions too much.
Have a good relationship with the local Apple rep and the Apple system engineer. No, they don't know what is coming next, either. Can be useful to get perspective on the "tips & tricks".
Mac Pro shows a nod to the pro users for design, video, audio, and associated fields. "Spendy" doesn't quite reach the appropriate expletive to describe the Mac Pro's price. The thunderbolt is one of the nifty things it is meant to exploit. It is not meant to use network resources, such as NAS or iSCSI (grr).
Thunderbolt, like firewire before it, is great & smart technology. Typical consumer won't understand the difference, and be easily swayed by lower price USB2/3 devices. Meanwhile, they miss slick options as daisy chaining monitors. Heck, am baffled at how many Mac users don't know what Time Machine is, and for the ones which have an idea that don't use it. Back to "target disk mode"? Might as well try to explain craps or the workings of the stock market.
OS X server has dropped to $19, and ARD has dropped to $79 ... odd, but use it. They have Configurator and the iPhone Configuration Utility, which can be used for interested results without added cost. (Probably still want a grown up MDM.) Updates to the iTunes VPP is helpful, if late. These bits point to limited support for limited deployments.
The non-repairability trend of the MacBook Retinas and other hardware is not a popular move. Certainly a hot button item, even among the Mac faithful.
As always, "usefulness" depends on the user, their needs, and their receptivity.