@scottalanmiller so was ClearOS.

I like them as a user, but then I also took the time to learn how to use it. I only ever see them used for basics in business.

My 4 year old has one in her preschool classroom though and they at least use it to move things around. In the morning the teacher has an attendance thing on there with everyone's name on the "Home" side and the kids have to find their name and move it to the "School" side.

The teacher does other stuff with it also during the class day.

@scottalanmiller said:

We used to be a Postini partner years ago and the price, even to us, was $2. And the service was horrible. Worst ever.

I believe the price was changed to $1 per user per month billed yearly around the time Google bought them.
I have loved the service for the last 3+ years. Not so much anymore.

Without a domain managing server2012 sucks. I have never successfully connected to a server 2012 with server manager unless they were both on the same domain.

@scottalanmiller said:

I just looked up Postini and here in the US they are already gone.

If you purchased Postini services though a partner, many of those are still running on Postini and not Google Apps. All users that were purchased direct via the Postini website have been migrated to Google Apps. I have 2 clients that have been converted and one not. The one not was purchased through a partner. Google has really delivered a shit product from the end user point of view. There is no portal for users to manage things. They just log in to Gmail to see the spam or wait for the daily email and if you log in to Gmail and mark something not spam it goes to the Gmail inbox and is never delivered to the mail server. The users have to then forward it to themselves.

The Postini pricing was $12 per user per year in the US. When converted to Google Apps, they are letting you keep the price for now, but require you to pay monthly by credit card instead of yearly.

Hmm looking at that screen shot, I should say "this morning"

Here is what google shows me this evening.

I can limp along in baby talk in Japanese.

I really really need to work on this. My daughters have way too easy of a time keeping a secret right in front of me with their mom.

@Bill-Kindle said:

What app or device is that?

The app is called clear day. On an iPad.

Only coffee for me. I do not like any energy drink I have tried, so I have up and do not drink them.

Here is a link to a Symantec post on the subject: http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/cryptodefense-cryptolocker-imitator-makes-over-34000-one-month

@scottalanmiller said:

@Minion-Queen said:

Being a Cloud Partner with Microsoft is completely different. We had to go through the total process of signing up and getting our certifications via Cloud Partner Program when we started to resell it. We have separate account managers and technical account managers etc.

That's bad terminology. You can't resell Office 365. NTG is an advisor of Office 365. That is the difference between the programs. Gold partners are part of the reseller program. Premier partners are the gold equivalent in the advisory program.

No matter who your partner is, the service is always direct from Microsoft.

Yes, the partner I work with for Microsoft licensing has stated that basically, they get marked as the partner of record on the account, and get their credit or whatever. But all services and such are MS direct.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Carnival-Boy there are no upgrade penalties and total flexibility within the enterprise E plans which includes hosted Exchange.

The specific penalty of opting to take a small or mid size business plan is that there are size caps and no flexibility. As an Office 365 partner we always warn people to only look at E plans and ignore that others exist. Like SBS, they are generally just a bad idea.

Stick with E and your concerns go away.

Small business plans do not offer service accounts either as far as I can tell.

@scottalanmiller said:

@JaredBusch said:

I never did read more than "A Wrinkle in Time" and "A Wind in the Door" back in middle school, but Madeline L'Engle was the author that sparked my interest in Science Fiction.

I don't recommend going back to that cycle. Much more poorly written than you probably remember. They are actually pretty bad. Many Waters is the best of that series. Written fourth but should be read third.

I skimmed the books 10 years ago or so in a bookstore and could not bring myself to buy them to reread. I wanted to keep my memory and inspiration intact.

@scottalanmiller said:

Vyatta is actually the best of the lineup but the learning curve is ridiculous. And updates may not be forthcoming anymore for the free version.

VyOS was forked out of it after the Brocade buyout. I have not really followed that though because my current use of Vyatta is all inside Ubiquiti hardware.

@scottalanmiller said:

How does mono stack up? Only one of these I've never touched.

I thought m0n0wall and pfSense were branches of the same ting at one point in the past. I may be misremembering things though.

For pleasure reading, I am about to start the final book of the Wheel of Time series, "A Memory of Light"

@scottalanmiller said:

I read typically one thing while commuting via Audible on my iPhone and then one or two things at a time on my Kindle at home.

My current Audible title is: An Endless Ring of Light which is the fourth title in Madeline L'Engle's "Austins" cycle. I've worked my way through the cycle which I haven't read since I was probably in middle school.

I never did read more than "A Wrinkle in Time" and "A Wind in the Door" back in middle school, but Madeline L'Engle was the author that sparked my interest in Science Fiction.

Currently reading Zero Downtime Migration (http://www.zerodowntimemigration.com/) as we have a number of clients on various SBS platforms that will be migrating.

Starting with Customer 0 (us).

What was not valid in an anything goes thread?