Oh, interesting problem. I'm curious as to how well this type of card would work, and it just seems vulnerable outside the case, although the cooling is probably improved.

I love me a good bourbon, scotch, or whiskey. I like to sip it, on the rocks, not too slowly, because I don't want it very watered down, not too quickly, cause whiskey shots and I do not mix, and really, it's a waste if you're not tasting it.

It might be silly, but that ram pic made me giggle. It would be nice if they didn't go into the actually offensive realm, however.

Maybe you could include a "non-traditional storage solutions - thinking outside the box" section. I can think of a particular product to highlight here, maybe with a guest speaker? This might be a topic for a separate webinar, though.

@art_of_shred said:

What's wrong with a too-tight shirt that says "cheap. fast. easy. just the way you like it."? That should be the only way to wear it!

Mine is tight in just the right spot to make the slogan especially appropriate, lol.

I really think you need to move on to CYOA on this one, now that the CFO has the impression that you approved everything, your ass very well could be on the line, even though it had nothing to do with you. If I were you, I'd set the record straight ASAP.

I found great last-minute travel deals for Danielle, so if anyone wants to go and needs help with flights and hotel, let me know. Don't let logistics hold you back.

@scottalanmiller said:

@SarawithanH Thanks. A lot of people are actively interested in this simply because they want a completely non-Microsoft backup of everything that goes through the system. Less as an active archive and more as a contingency plan. We have a lot of Office 365 customers and while many are happy using nothing but Microsoft because if anything goes south it might take all of their email history with it.

It's common for them to be seeking a third party archiving or backup system to old all of the emails as a last resort against total loss at MS.

I know I was talking to one of our clients about archiving O365, and I cannot remember who it was... I think MailMeter is what they were hoping it would do.

LOL, some of those are pretty darn disturbing.

I feel like MangoCon would attract some pretty confused people, wondering where the sessions on mango growing and harvesting are.

@Reid-Cooper said:

What about the Spanish ConMango! The convention with mango!

This made me snort!

@scottalanmiller said:

What about something like just "Connections" because that's really the goal.

Someday I'll find it, the Mango Connection, the IT nerds, the geeks and me!

@Dashrender said:

In our case (and other offices around here I've been to) they handle everything - They are HR (most small clinics can't afford separate staff), the person ultimately responsible for compliance (think HIPAA), depending on size, they are the first line of IT support, etc, etc.

In our case, her other duties (managing company direction, budgets, the GL, advertising, etc) she has spun of many jobs to other people beneath her, like basic accounting, IT, managing personal within specific departments (those people in charge are called supervisors, though they are really more like team leads - i.e. no real authority, but they do make schedules).

Here's a good example of why job titles are confusing and subjective, and one needs to be careful not to use a title outside of its accepted meaning. Obviously your "office manager" is far more than her title would suggest. Perhaps Managing Director is more appropriate? or Director of Operations, even.

@scottalanmiller said:

Looks like I am working on Saturday in Manhattan and on Sunday taking the wife and kids around Manhattan as a sight seeing day in our home city.

We have a Flat Stanley project to complete for a friend of the L's, so we are going to NYC to give Stanley an interesting adventure.

I haven't had any weird loading issues or lag today. Cool!

@Minion-Queen The turquoise one my sister got is pretty girlie

I'm feeling like the Linux 101 session has been just about covered in this thread...

Also, I like the topics mentioned by AJ, the storage 101 idea and the "Linux: When and Where for the SMB" idea. Good stuff. It's hard to narrow things down when the sky's the limit.

I know that @JaredBusch mentioned in a post on SW how he wished there were more advanced classes offered. Perhaps a 101 and a 201 (or higher) track so that each level could be addressed? Maybe before scheduling, get an idea of who would like to attend which session so that people don't have to make hard choices and miss sessions they really wanted to attend? It's not like we're likely to have 5 sessions running at once at the first ML-Con.

@scottalanmiller said:

I think that it is only on its "last legs" after four years of kid abuse speaks volumes for what a great product it has been.

Well, yeah. I didn't imply otherwise. I guess I meant that there's no equivalent substitution for an iPad, especially for the use for which we have them.