What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tonyshowoff It's their overwhelming sense of shame for having bought something so obviously crazy and pointless and trying to make it less obvious to others or to lie to themselves that it wasn't totally irrational and/or that they weren't played for total suckers by a sales guy that they should have seen coming a mile away.
Often it's shame, but other times I do get the sense that it's outright delusional behaviour. We've got a few customers who definitely have delusions of grandeur and an over inflated sense of self-worth and ability because they own a business. There's one in particular who I've watched destroy his own business to where his revenues were about $1 million per year in 2013 and last year they were a little over $500,000.
Granted it's a small business, but we've gone out to lunch a few times over these last few years and he has repeatedly told me that advertising via the Internet is a waste of time and that direct sales work best, and that the Internet aspect of his business isn't that important. He's losing all of his clients to other businesses which do focus on the Internet.
By the way what they do is essentially provide merchant services for credit card processing, all of which is handed off to a larger company, but they're one of hundreds of independent sales organisations which provide merchant services to other businesses. They did lose about $45,000 in revenue from one client last year because he switched to authorize.net because he does all of his billing via his web site and he could say 5 cents per transaction. I only know this because we also provide IT services for him.
Then again, the Internet ain't all that important, and he insists to me that he can recover the losses of these businesses leaving him in droves by hiring a sales person, yet again, his third one in the last four years.
.* Some details altered to protect clients
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
God damn Scott, you're telling everyone there's no tourists in Chișinău by the time I get there, hopefully the next few months, it's gonna be packed balls to the walls. Knew I shouldn't have left that town up to you.
I do love Moldova though, way more than
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We were checking out apartment prices. Seems really reasonable.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We were checking out apartment prices. Seems really reasonable.
I usually stay at Hotel Dacia, it's a really crappy hotel, but it's right near the Stafan park, it's about a 5km walk from the train station. It's a really ugly off grey building in a sort of brutalist architecture style. Inside is like taking a time machine, and that's what I like about it
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@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We were checking out apartment prices. Seems really reasonable.
I usually stay at Hotel Dacia, it's a really crappy hotel, but it's right near the Stafan park, it's about a 5km walk from the train station. It's a really ugly off grey building in a sort of brutalist architecture style. Inside is like taking a time machine, and that's what I like about it
We rented a penthouse about two blocks up the hill from the train station on Izmail. It was two floors and had great views (a lot of the videos were from the balcony.) Very close to the Hotel Chisinau. And it let me walk to the Armenian Cemetary very easily.
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Just found out my Sky contract runs out 3/7/16 so looking at new deals and ditching the TV altogether.
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@hobbit666 for internet/phone? I switched to PlusNet and got a really good deal, I paid line rental up front for a year, reduced rate means just under £180 I think, then for £14.99 a month I have unlimited 40Mbps fibre...no site restrictions as they're essentially BT with English Call Centres, and no delay/throttling that I've seen...
Their "hub" is ok, but I'm currently waiting till Ubiquiti stuff drops in price on Amazon to get a dedicated FW and WAP to link off the back of them...
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I'm wondering when they are going to come out with an owncloud app for the chromebook/chromebox or can it be done through webdav? I see a WebDav app. Hm.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm wondering when they are going to come out with an owncloud app for the chromebook/chromebox
Why would they need an app? Just browse to the website.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm wondering when they are going to come out with an owncloud app for the chromebook/chromebox
Why would they need an app? Just browse to the website.
To Sync the files
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm wondering when they are going to come out with an owncloud app for the chromebook/chromebox
Why would they need an app? Just browse to the website.
To Sync the files
Isn't the whole point of a chromebook is that nothing is local? Everything is accessible via a web browser?
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm wondering when they are going to come out with an owncloud app for the chromebook/chromebox
Why would they need an app? Just browse to the website.
To Sync the files
Isn't the whole point of a chromebook is that nothing is local? Everything is accessible via a web browser?
Yes but you still need to be able to edit a document and then have the edit apply to the file in the oC server, right? Kind of a pain to re-upload it manually.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm wondering when they are going to come out with an owncloud app for the chromebook/chromebox
Why would they need an app? Just browse to the website.
To Sync the files
Isn't the whole point of a chromebook is that nothing is local? Everything is accessible via a web browser?
Yes but you still need to be able to edit a document and then have the edit apply to the file in the oC server, right?
Sure, but they have a built in editor for that, otherwise you would probably be looking at Google Docs for most things.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm wondering when they are going to come out with an owncloud app for the chromebook/chromebox
Why would they need an app? Just browse to the website.
To Sync the files
Isn't the whole point of a chromebook is that nothing is local? Everything is accessible via a web browser?
Yes but you still need to be able to edit a document and then have the edit apply to the file in the oC server, right? Kind of a pain to re-upload it manually.
Then use the owncloud built-in document editor. Or as @coliver said, Google Docs.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm wondering when they are going to come out with an owncloud app for the chromebook/chromebox
Why would they need an app? Just browse to the website.
To Sync the files
Isn't the whole point of a chromebook is that nothing is local? Everything is accessible via a web browser?
Yes but you still need to be able to edit a document and then have the edit apply to the file in the oC server, right?
Sure, but they have a built in editor for that, otherwise you would probably be looking at Google Docs for most things.
I wasn't aware it would work. Haven't had the chance to test it, although I did just get my fiance a Chromebook. I might test it out on that. Thanks!
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm wondering when they are going to come out with an owncloud app for the chromebook/chromebox
Why would they need an app? Just browse to the website.
To Sync the files
Isn't the whole point of a chromebook is that nothing is local? Everything is accessible via a web browser?
Yes but you still need to be able to edit a document and then have the edit apply to the file in the oC server, right? Kind of a pain to re-upload it manually.
Then use the owncloud built-in document editor. Or as @coliver said, Google Docs.
From what I've seen of the oC document editor its pretty annoying to use. Maybe it's just me. I'm setting up an oC server as we speak so I'll play with it. I'm going to attempt certbot today.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm wondering when they are going to come out with an owncloud app for the chromebook/chromebox
Why would they need an app? Just browse to the website.
To Sync the files
Isn't the whole point of a chromebook is that nothing is local? Everything is accessible via a web browser?
Yes but you still need to be able to edit a document and then have the edit apply to the file in the oC server, right?
Sure, but they have a built in editor for that, otherwise you would probably be looking at Google Docs for most things.
I wasn't aware it would work. Haven't had the chance to test it, although I did just get my fiance a Chromebook. I might test it out on that. Thanks!
The built in editor will work for documents on ownCloud. Google Docs on the other hand will edit documents in Google Docs. If you're buying a Chromebook you are also buying into Google's infrastructure and apps, so the assumption is that you will use Google Docs as your built in storage and Office suite.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm wondering when they are going to come out with an owncloud app for the chromebook/chromebox
Why would they need an app? Just browse to the website.
To Sync the files
Isn't the whole point of a chromebook is that nothing is local? Everything is accessible via a web browser?
Yes but you still need to be able to edit a document and then have the edit apply to the file in the oC server, right?
Sure, but they have a built in editor for that, otherwise you would probably be looking at Google Docs for most things.
I wasn't aware it would work. Haven't had the chance to test it, although I did just get my fiance a Chromebook. I might test it out on that. Thanks!
The built in editor will work for documents on ownCloud. Google Docs on the other hand will edit documents in Google Docs. If you're buying a Chromebook you are also buying into Google's infrastructure and apps, so the assumption is that you will use Google Docs as your built in storage and Office suite.
I'd like an alternative to Google Drive though. That was the intent anyway. Google drive uses WebDAV too so it's essentially the same thing except I can run my own server.
