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@scottalanmiller said:

@Nara said:

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@Joyfano said:

@scottalanmiller said:

XP to Mint has a lower learning curve for many people than XP to 8. We tested it. Much easier.

thought of testing Linux Mint today. We still have issues that cannot resolve in windows 7, so we are using Win XP mode in virtual

You can run Windows XP on VIrtualBox on Linux Mint.

If you're going to run a VM, why not just move to Win8.1/7 with an XP VM?

Because Mint is her main OS and what she wants to be running.

Yes Exactly.

@Dominica said:

@chad-k Some Like It Hot is definitely on Netflix Instant, though. I LOVE that movie. One of my all-time favorites. So freaking funny.

Really great cast. I wish that it wasn't so late, I feel like watching it now.

Interesting.
I fall into an outlier from that post. Facebook has allowed me greater access to a larger social circle. Granted it's rooted in the fact that I am part of a club called the 501st, which does have it's own forums, but many members use FB as their primary connection conduit because of it's simplicity and convenience vs using forums.

Our club started out with a Yahoo group in 1997, and moved to a forum base in 2005. I felt the forum based move was a great one at the time, and today it definitely provides an easier place to find previously posted data. The place that I find it fails today is getting messages out to the people in a easy way. Mangolassi suffers this same problem - all forums do, and so does Facebook.

We have information overload, there's no way to keep up. For a while my club's forums had an email subscribe option. It did mean getting 100's if not 1000's of emails a day, but I found that I was able to stay on top of information more effectively as it came in versus going to the boards manually and reading the new content.

I'm not sure there is a real solution to allow us to stay in the know of all the things we are interested in (frankly I've never used RSS feeds - they just might be the magic pill), but I'm constantly on the lookout.

@scottalanmiller said:

We've broken a few - just a fact of life when you give one to a one year old! My brother in law has managed to fix several if ours and several of theirs.

too many glass splinters for me. there's a fella here in town Mr. Fixr who does a good job for a fair price

Watching The African Queen with @dominica and my daughter Liesl. Academy Award winning 1951 historical drama about the impact of World War 2 on East Africa. Mostly shot in Uganda but some of it is filmed on the Congo which @minion-queen will appreciate.

@JaredBusch said:

I have not seen this since I got rid of my Laser Disc player and media. Now I just may have to go buy the Blu-Ray.

I still have all 350 of mine. Great stuff. The LD era remains my favorite. There was something visceral about the analogue transfers. Jurassic Park on CAV, Chungking Express, Tune in Tomorrow.... LD reigned over what was, to me, the golden age of cinema. The 1930s might have officially been the golden age, but I feel that the 1990s produced some of the most amazing films ever, but many that were forgotten.

@RoguePacket said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Zagat they just shut down and made go away, though.

Thought so, too. Hard copy books are still being published, website exists, and there are iOS & Android Zagat apps. Noticed the books' copyright page does have Google on it—

http://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A27%2Cp_n_feature_fourteen_browse-bin%3A5483165011 http://www.zagat.com/

Yes. It's running on automation and skeleton crew. There was an article published from the Zagat staff about how Google has liquidated everyone and was just keeping enough around to fake the business still being there. No one producing content though.

@scottalanmiller said in Scott Alan Miller Sites:

Well we have a blatant self promotion group now, I'll take advantage of that to get my name out there a little bit more. I'm never one to shy away from some blatant self promotion.

My personal diary / identity blog since 2000: http://www.sheepguardingllama.com/

My Linux blog: http://www.scottalanmiller.com/linux

Where most of my articles go: http://www.smbitjournal.com/

My most popular article ever: http://www.datamation.com/storage/do-you-really-need-a-san-1.html

Thank! You this awesome journal i used to read this before 2 years ago.

The community here runs on Ubuntu too.

@scottalanmiller said:

So Todd over at Pertino turned me on to the PacketPushers podcast recently and I am loving it. Very enterprise network admin and engineering stuff, not the kind of stuff that you find in the SMB but incredibly well done and educational.

http://packetpushers.net/

Thanks for the share!

Yes. Their BeyondRAID is always the same.

I hear this all the time:

Customer: I didn't click on anything, I don't know how that got installed.
Me: Yes, but program A is on your PC.
Customer: Oh, yeah...I installed that! They say proudly, all smiles and such.
Me: Yeah and did you uncheck the boxes that said we are going to install these other programs?
Customer: I don't think there was anything like that.

Yeahhhh....

And... Why are you stuck with a BB?

@Dashrender said:

Wow.. Windows 8 is only 18 months old - this does seem kind of quick to me. But yeah when you consider that Windows 7 is 5 years old this year I suppose it makes sense.

And @scottalanmiller who, besides you and NTG, Truely buys into the Windows vision? No company large or small I know of stays anywhere near on top of things like Windows versions. LOL a thought question, not a real one.

I'm very much into the Windows ecosystem. With the exception of Hyper-V and the now-defunct TMG, the MS platform is an amazing dynamo of interoperability and centralized management.