@scottalanmiller 410. Nice.

That is another exam I will be doing.

Well, that and 411,412 then the Office365 MCSA and also the Salesforce Administrator exam.

How many are you studying for at the moment?

I find my 30" monitor two wide and hence why I would prefer two smaller monitors, 22" or so.

Some of you have dual 27" and I think that's way too wide, as scott said too much head movement.

If I could I'd have dual 20" with 1600 x 1200 resolution.

We were talking about dual monitors the other week.

What do people think about this one? Its 34" ultra wide. I personally not sure how it would work for normal tech support people

You've done it per user.

A user can have many aliases if required such as info@ support @ and so on.

However if you want you could also have it as info@ supoort@ warranties@ being users in their own right but thats just expensive and not good practice for most businesses.

I've had this.

I resolved it by removing vmware tools. Rebooting. Installing the latest version of vmware tools.

Thanks,

G

I use gmail quite a bit.

Our business email infrastructure is on google apps too.

I haven't used any of the chrome books but I'm finding it hard to justify one.

How do these live in your workflow? Do you use these for business?

ok today a bit more productive.

Dropped wife off to work.

Went to a meeting for a local IT company/web company, who will be hopefully subcontracting some of the work to me, which will be good.

Also meet up with a client who was potential, but they have signed me up to provide training for 2 hours a week, on general wordpress/twitter/linkedin/facebook elements as well as helping them a bit with their site.

I'm now around 85% complete on the client site I mentioned yesterday, been putting in quite a few hours on this to ensure all is ok.

Need to still get cracking on with the VCP exam, I need to finish studying and get that bloody exam done.

Now, going to Nando's and having a beer!

50k is a lot of money when you are starting off.

You'll have to work with a VAR as stated above, some are lovely and extremely helpful.

Best of luck

@alexntg It is a difference, agreed. Never said there wasn't.

I'm more than aware of the differences between VDI and RDS, as well as their limitations + advantages. Thanks though as this might help other people if they search for anything involving this topic.

However, the fact remains, that there is a lot of stuff that RDS will do fine and have no issues with, plus RDS is cheaper and easier to deploy.......

It's like a car, you can get from A to B with a ford focus without an issue if it's a normal road, or you can do it in a limousine. Sure it's nice to have the comfort of being driven/driving the limousine but sometimes trying to justify the much higher cost isn't worth it.

Now, saying that. I too, am a real geek. Love all techs and if I had my choice, I think I would rather deploy VDI due to the large advantages you get and so on, also due to the technology advancing a lot more. However, if the client requirements meet an RDS install, I would not bother pushing VDI because I can earn more money or because I want to play with new tech.

Nevertheless, I digress BADLY here.

@scottalanmiller It's a desktop to the end user. Who doesn't understand the technical elements of it

But to the guy writing the cheque (non geek) the cost difference between RDS and VDI could be substantial enough to choose which option the company would understake, knowing the advantages/disadvantages of each option.

I like CMS's like I said, specially WP.

If you want to start from scratch, there are SO MANY frameworks, so many opinions and so many people arguing.

One that is really good (in my basic eyes) is Laravel. It is PHP based, use laracasts videos for learning, teaches you a load of stuff.

A yes, good old days of notepad with classic ASP (my case PHP) used to love includes and all of that.

Still getting this, it's a little bit annoying.

Should be a relatively easy fix.

Thanks,

G

@Dashrender a few things.

Resale value.
Quality of hardware.
Support from Apple if anything goes wrong.
Ability to use MS and Apple SW Legally.
Egonomics.

I was considering the X1 Lenovo laptop, but didn't stack up that great.

The only other laptop I have really liked was the Dell XPS's but they have now changed and sadly ( i know it's pathetic) I hate the font on the keys.

Any other recommendations? ........ I think I have gone through a huge amount of expensive/cheap laptops and always go back to MBP.

Again, not affiliated to Apple, just appreciate their "quality".

Good replies on here. This should help others out.

@pol.darreljade said:

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/28/tech/web/skype-translator/index.html

With you on this.

English to Spanish and Spanish to English whilst using a translator is the funniest thing.

Expensive.

Ridiculous pricing in the UK, even worse in Australia.

Anything over 32GB and you need to remortgage.

Having said that though, I would play with one (tablet) but not sure I would buy it.

As laptop servers for out and about seeing clients, with iPad if just showing concepts/designs.

Desktop at home for bigger stuff.

Can't see where it would fit in my workflow, unless I got rid of the ipad and Macbook pro.

Please note, I don't get horny over Apple, I just think they make some good quality stuff. I still prefer MS as an OS for main work, rather than OS X.

@scottalanmiller could not agree more.

Seems that everyone is using the term VDI for any desktop (regardless of user or server desktop) which is accessed through the cloud.

VDI is rather expensive, XenApp/RDS will work for most things as you have well said a million times.

interested in knowing too please.

I thought you had been proper banned. That's lucky for them that it's a bug !

What was the outcome of this?

Would be good to have it on here as will help others out.

Thanks,

G.