so I spoke to a very nice rep at Blissfully named Daniel . Great guy! I am not sure if they are a direct comparison to BetterCloud. but I will say that they are at least responsive. BetterCloud seems to not want any business as they dont pick up the phone and no responses since Tuesday to emails.

@CCWTech said in Restoring Google Drive Folders Instead of Individual Files: Unfortunately what they did ended up orphaning the files. https://support.google.com/a/answer/6008339?hl=en Ouch

@gjacobse said in Google Family Link: Control Chromebook: They likely won't use Youtube or Youtube Kids... They already watch that on iPads and a laptop.. so they truely don't need yet another device to YT on .. They also don't need Netflix - again.. on other devices and we want to be able to control some of what they get to. Besides controlling what they can download from Google Play store, I would just worry about blocking websites. Either stick with blocking mature sites or only allow certain sites.

The engine may end up being an "Enterprise Mode" like IE I think? Edge as a browser works well but with a few show stoppers that killed any further usage for us: 1: Downloads mysteriously won't start or just plain stop for no reason. 2: Edge ate my favourites way too many times. The containerized Edge, Application Guard I think(?), is a great idea. If Edge was as good as they had hoped it would provide a fantastic sandbox experience to protect users from drive-by attacks and bad GET commands from e-mail clients. At least we are not getting stuck with the legacy ActiveX that keeps rearing its head every once in a while because of IE.

@scottalanmiller said in Another Major BGP Mishaps Redirects US Traffic to China: I noticed that YouTube was down yesterday for a little bit. Very short, though. Even Facebook got taken out for a bit too... Don't know if it's related or not, but still...

So chrome is finally starting to catch up with the level of ad blocking I've had for years.

@jmoore said in How Can You Block or Disable "People Also Search For" in Google Results: @stacksofplates Yeah I've always wondered this forum is titled as such because its an Indian drink and tasty https://mangolassi.it/topic/4/welcome-to-mangolassi

@irj said in Sentio, an Android Laptop Dock: I kinda like the idea, but I hate the way they mount the phone. It looks really cheesy. But for $129 i think it's a not a bad price It was $150 when I looked, which seems awful given the $179 price of a great Chromebook.

@doug said in ScreenConnect for ChromeOS: @scottalanmiller said in ScreenConnect for ChromeOS: Google Management Console Are you referring to https://chrome.google.com/remotedesktop ? No, that's just a desktop remoting system. We're talking about a management platform. More like MDM. Not remote assistance.

I got an old junker laptop I was going to play with CloudReady on: https://www.neverware.com/freedownload But I'm thinking instead I'll come to the dark side and try Fedora 27 on it

Sadly, Zimbra is an exception.

@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out: @penguinwrangler said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out: We need a post that lays out all the reasons why Lenovo is bad. Then we can just link to it. It comes up all the time it seems like. There is a link to Travis' blog post but his site was down. https://travisdh1.net/lenovo Yeah, I got caught in the fun domain renewal and switch dance, gr.

And you wonder why people have to sign an NDA to even interview at Google. We've long known that Google was a terrible environment to work in, they've become famous for questionable practices and having to keep every aspect of their company secret to continue to attract out of touch college students who don't realize that career pariah that Google is.

What you may need to do is log in to the Calendar's web interface on Google... then go to Settings. Then click on the Calendar you need to sync... and then scroll to the bottom and get the "Secret Adddress in iCal format" Then Link that one in iCal on the Mac... I think you add it by URL... But that should give you 2 way Syncing, not a one time import.

SDX Central wrote about the deal as well: https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/google-scale-unite-hci-google-cloud-platform/2017/09/ Scott Lowe at VMware even blogged about it: https://blogs.vmware.com/feed-items/scale-computing-hc3-cloud-unity-seeks-to-tear-down-infrastructure-and-application-walls/ Outside of tech, the deal is being talked about by the likes of Business Inside and Forbes: http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/Scale-Computing-Collaborates-with-Google-Cloud-to-Remove-Barriers-to-Cloud-Computing-with-Hybrid-Cloud-MobilityHC3-Cloud-Unity-combines-Scale-HC3-and-Google-Cloud-Platform-on-the-same-LAN-allowing-1002732170 https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinwarren/2017/09/28/scale-computing-gets-cloudy-with-google/

Started working, took about five hours for the emails to flow. Must have been a long setup time on the back end.

@irj said in Google Introduces Chrome Enterprise: I shared this with my team. I think this may be a Windows killer, but everyone else is skeptical. What do you guys think? The Windows killer is "customers with a clue" and "the capability to move to modern software". Put those together, nearly everyone can drop Windows. Not everyone, but most everyone.

I think someone was like... 10 DEF GOOGLE_GO 20 GOTO $PUN

@travisdh1 said in Why Are Search Engines So Fast?: Hey baby, would you like to see my algorithms? haha. . . @Tim_G said in Why Are Search Engines So Fast?: @travisdh1 said in Why Are Search Engines So Fast?: Hey baby, would you like to see my algorithms? Only if they're bug free. Come on baby, like EVERYONE has HPV. . .