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@Nic said:

Truly anywhere? On a spaceship traveling the galaxy.

Unlimited Flight Pass idea has been an awesome concept since had heard about it. Sadly no longer available, and outside my means anyhow—

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2012/05/lifetime-airline-passes

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Books are going away. Like records, don't expect them to be extinct.

Newspapers and magazines have been dropping for years. Shift to all digital formats has stalled the drop for those who can commit to it.

Kindle's price point has been attractive. Heck, even seeing numerous traditional libraries offering digital checkout. Certainly more convenient than travelling with weighty tomes. (yeah, more delicate than those tomes, of course.)

Been noticing digital versions being released months in advance of printed editions. Significant point for technology topics.

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Ars has a small bit on the satellite pings—

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/malaysian-airliners-path-ultimately-tracked-by-satellite-pings-doppler-shift/

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@joyfano There is web design, and there is web development.

Though job descriptions tend to muddle the two together, they are very distinct and separate as @jaredbusch notes. There can be marketing, copywriting, photography, and a bit of legal involved. (Legal bits are "CYA" for claims, trademarks, and such.) Within web design and there is web development, there are several sub-specialities such as illustration, logo design usability, accessibility, and mobile developer.

@scottalanmiller is spot-on about the majority of "web stuff" these days is CMS based. Usually there is a long list of pleasing templates to choose (as he noted), as well as a selection of applets/modules for functionality. CMSes take much of "the pain" away from making and maintaining a website to allow one to focus on content creation (no small task!). Clever use of a CMS can create a site which is less obviously using a template/CMS (i.e., "a good thing").

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@scottalanmiller said:

....most popular ones are WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, probably in that order....

"The Google" agrees—

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=WordPress%2C Joomla%2C Drupal&cmpt=q

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@scottalanmiller said:

http://www.csszengarden.com/

Great site. Takes a long time to work through it to see you like & things you don't (i.e., personifies your design aesthetic). As the site mentions, all the designs use the same HTML. Difference is custom art and hand tweaked CSS.

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@garak0410 @scottalanmiller Check out BBS: The Documentary—

As the Wikipedia bit notes, it can be downloaded for free, though the DVD is recommended.

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@nic Wireless hard drives are new-ish and have interesting promise. Have yet to try one.

Guess there are those OS X users which rave about their Time Capsule, Apple's own take on it.

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@Lost_Signal773 Don't bring that up to M- Olan. Someone would be liable to get hurt. $:-\$

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Sometimes I think we haven't passed the Dr Frankenstein level of medicine in technique or values.

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Consider Readability add-on for Firefox a must-have. Allows a "day" mode (bright), and "night" mode (dark). Had some added tweaking to boot (serif & sans serif options). Know the El Reg mobile app does day/night, too.

Soo.... one button day/night switching would be awesome.

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@scottalanmiller "New & improved", right?

Reasonable reads (& for @dashrender)—

@JaredBusch said:

@RoguePacket said:

But DA requires Win7 or Win8 Enterprise clients

I was all excited for DA when I first heard about it, too. Then I read about it and learned that. Turned me right off.

But, but, but MSFT employees need to put bread on the table for their families!!

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@Katie said:

@scottalanmiller Yes, ad-hoc storage - I have a 1TB hard drive that I want to format in the most efficient way possible for use with both my work machines.

Big thought is where the Time Machine backup is. Not mandatory, but close. Keep in mind the ability for current OS X versions to have multiple Time Machine mount points (say, one at home and one at the office with each being encrypted as well as the laptop itself).

Best interfaces for an external drive between the two platforms would be Thunderbolt for OS X and USB3 for Windows 7/8. Partition one for OS X and one for NTFS. Main reason is to be able to encrypt both. Would suck to lose (or "lose") the drive.

Can get a 2TB rugged drive from LaCie with Thunderbolt & USB3—

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10599
Yes, seeing the 1TB drive already available

Macally tends to have Mac friendly enclosures (FW800), but aren't on the cutting edge (Thunderbolt).

For the OS X NTFS utilities @nic alluded, check—

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/ ($20, more popular option & works well enough)
http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/ ($31, haven't used)
http://osxfuse.github.io/ -and- https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/NTFS-3G (haven't used)
http://www.catacombae.org/hfsx.html (old & haven't used)
Good perspective, http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1386199

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Lynda.com is great. Huge recommendation is to have two monitors—one for Lynda.com, and the other for the application of interest. Mobile app is helpful for the soft skills modules.

To keep current, keep an eye on modules with "Tips" or "New Features" in the title.

They have many companies & universities as clients, and a few delivery models for those scenarios.

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@scottalanmiller said:

DirectAccess is IPv6 only. Pertino is both IPv4 and IPv6.

True for Server 2008. Not true for Server 2012.

But DA requires Win7 or Win8 Enterprise clients

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@Bill-Kindle said:

Yes, I would like to get my Bachelor's in Business, with a focus on IT related areas, just haven't decided for sure which one yet.

Operations Management, if available.

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@bill-kindle Congrats to the wife!

HR processes do suck. Sadly seen too many bozos in HR to boot. Networking and referrals still rule the day.

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General thought of the MOS cert is a good way to differentiate those who say "I know Microsoft Office", and the ones who can actually use Excel pivot tables, outlines in PPT, mult-level page numbering it Word, and generally using macros.

@LadyJane said:

What is a MOUS certification?

Microsoft’s map for the intermediate, expert, and master level—

@scottalanmiller said:

@Katie said:

@scottalanmiller What is the purpose of that over a singular certification? I mean - is there a point to a "beginner" Excel cert? Or is it like the A+ certs?

There is a cert path for "normal" people and an extra, higher cert for people who are seriously hard core into the applications.

Good thing about going through the material is being exposed to the names of the features. Makes googling/searching for their particulars easier.

Microsoft tends to have tons of free stuff on their site...but can be difficult to find. MS IT Academy is a low cost option fairly widely available—

http://www.microsoft.com/education/itacademy/

As always, try a local library for books. Technical books in my area libraries get overlooked. Having a foundation of the MS Office programs from even a version or two old MS Office (2010/2013 vs 365) books ought be better than most users.

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@jaredbusch ....yeah, wasn't sure. <sad>

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@jaredbusch Against the little crooks, sure. NSA & gov't level entities? Not so much.

Many have gone to SSH instead (key distribution for it has its own issues). Try "ssl circle of trust is broken"—

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@ambarishrh Sweet. Was just talking yesterday to a user how OneNote was one of the few MS Office programs still exclusive to Windows. Now, you've made a liar out me! =:-o

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More hilarious? This happens more than one would like to think. Drop in "beach car tide" to Google Images—

https://www.google.com/search?q=beach+car+tide&hl=en&site=imghp&source=lnms&tbm=isch

The fail army is strong!