@Dashrender said:

Oh.. come on.. I killed many an hour during server upgrades on Minesweeper!

I remember I used spend so much time playing snake on my Nokia 5110

The computer that learns to play video games is pretty cool.

Chips keep getting smaller and smaller as technology progresses. We already carry hand-held mobile devices, and there are innovations where you can wear camera-assisted technology like glasses. I love living in the future! It's awesome to see new developments like this.

@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!

@scottalanmiller said:

@Hubtech said:

Oh all of the data that will be based

Based?

database. come on dawg, too early?

@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.

I liked Caldera back then.

@reid-cooper
Bruce Schneier touches on the overall scenario—

@lance said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I thought that they tried this long, long ago. And then didn't it kinda of again with Flickr? And now there is Vimeo and others. Is there room for another player like this?

I think they will have to do something out of the box to drive people to the site.

Something pretty dramatic.

@Bill-Kindle said:

@lance said:

@Bill-Kindle said:

They've been talking up a faster release schedule for a while now. Expect a new OS to roll out every 2-3 years now if not sooner. I'm just hoping that 2012 R2 isn't too old by the time I get certified.

That's one reason I don't like some of the MS certs, although they aren't as expensive as alot of other certs.

Well, in order for most businesses to upgrade on a cycle like that, MS is counting on the economy getting way better. Investing thousands (even more than that for most SMB's and up) upgrading OS'es every 2 years isn't something that's going to go over very well. Which ironically, plays into their selling of cloud services with Office 365, Azure, etc.

Sneaky little..... Well played Microsoft.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/restore-refresh-reset-pc

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

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I literally use absolutely no Windows 8 apps. I hate them so much. So jarring and weird and none of them work well. Just a bad idea. I've tried several and not a one of them has had any value that I could ascertain.

I have yet to use any either - I haven't bothered to look through the store either.

There is no way to find anything. The store is completely worthless. If you don't already know about what you want and its exact name you are completely SOL.

The community here runs on Ubuntu too.

This is the Unreal engine. So tons of games will be based on that.

That's pretty cool. LIDAR is a fascinating technology to me.