@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.

@bbigford said in ScreenConnect for ChromeOS: @scottalanmiller said in ScreenConnect for ChromeOS: @bbigford said in ScreenConnect for ChromeOS: @scottalanmiller said in ScreenConnect for ChromeOS: @bbigford said in ScreenConnect for ChromeOS: @scottalanmiller said in ScreenConnect for ChromeOS: I had no idea that this existed until today. If you log into ScreenConnect normally from ChromeOS, you get nothing, not even the account management fields in SC. It's pretty disappointing. What it should do, though, is tell you that there is an alternative. If you are no ChromeOS (not Chrome on something else, only ChromeOS) there is a browser extension just for ChromeOS that adds ScreenConnect functionality in the browser and works insanely well. Better, in fact, IMHO than the normal ScreenConnect client! The speed is near instant and super smooth. I'm really impressed. So if you use ScreenConnect and wonder if ChromeOS is an option, it definitely is! I have yet to find something that goes the other way, being able to support ChromeOS devices from a central console. I know... that's the design of Google Chrome, but still on the lookout. We do use ScreenConnect so this is good information. Google offers that, it isn't cheap, though. What's the product? I haven't looked into it for quite some time (maybe 3 years, back when I was heavily supporting ChromeOS devices in the public sector). Is it something they've rolled into Google Apps G-Spot G-Suite? Google Management Console, I think. $5/machine/month. Ah, they've expanded capabilities then. Interesting. Yes, about a year ago. To compete with Azure AD.

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. . .

@stacksofplates said in Google Workers Fired for Leaking Working Condition Information: @IRJ said in Google Workers Fired for Leaking Working Condition Information: This sounds like India to me. Unbelievable they are able to get away with treating people like this here in the United States. http://www.betsysharp.com/working-for-leapforce-what-it-was-like/ Sounds a lot like the people that talk kids into selling magazines across the country. A lot of shared culture there Im sure

Dallas is on the "maybe" list. We would be so excited to see that happen.

Not even nearly so creepy as Echo Look. Get your fashion advice from Amazon, and maybe a few pointers on other things as well...

@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV Goes Live Today in Five US Cities: @wirestyle22 said in YouTube TV Goes Live Today in Five US Cities: @scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV Goes Live Today in Five US Cities: @momurda said in YouTube TV Goes Live Today in Five US Cities: More than the cost of Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Netflix combined per month. And you have to watch youtube commercials in addition to the broadcasters commercials. It's to compete with Sling, which costs about the same. The reason to pay for Sling too is for Sports. The only thing keeping cable packages alive right now I think that YouTube TV is handling that, isn't it? Not all

Yes, it's internal. Sorry, I should have made that clearer in my OP. Although it's actually a list of merchants that sell our products, so I can see that ultimately we may want to make it public and put it on our website. That's at least a year away though.

@scottalanmiller said in Google Renames Messenger to Android Messages: Just a branding change, or does this signal a change in strategy for messaging on the Android platform by Google? Nope, it's still a mess with all the different apps. They do like to rename one of the many, I can only assume it's meant as a marketing ploy because they rarely change the app functionality (unless they're removing features.)

4 different Google accounts have asked me to sign in again on my android device over the past week-end. Still get occasional blips.