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@scottalanmiller said:

We've broken a few - just a fact of life when you give one to a one year old! My brother in law has managed to fix several if ours and several of theirs.

too many glass splinters for me. there's a fella here in town Mr. Fixr who does a good job for a fair price

Watching The African Queen with @dominica and my daughter Liesl. Academy Award winning 1951 historical drama about the impact of World War 2 on East Africa. Mostly shot in Uganda but some of it is filmed on the Congo which @minion-queen will appreciate.

@JaredBusch said:

I have not seen this since I got rid of my Laser Disc player and media. Now I just may have to go buy the Blu-Ray.

I still have all 350 of mine. Great stuff. The LD era remains my favorite. There was something visceral about the analogue transfers. Jurassic Park on CAV, Chungking Express, Tune in Tomorrow.... LD reigned over what was, to me, the golden age of cinema. The 1930s might have officially been the golden age, but I feel that the 1990s produced some of the most amazing films ever, but many that were forgotten.

@RoguePacket said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Zagat they just shut down and made go away, though.

Thought so, too. Hard copy books are still being published, website exists, and there are iOS & Android Zagat apps. Noticed the books' copyright page does have Google on it—

http://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A27%2Cp_n_feature_fourteen_browse-bin%3A5483165011 http://www.zagat.com/

Yes. It's running on automation and skeleton crew. There was an article published from the Zagat staff about how Google has liquidated everyone and was just keeping enough around to fake the business still being there. No one producing content though.

@scottalanmiller said in Scott Alan Miller Sites:

Well we have a blatant self promotion group now, I'll take advantage of that to get my name out there a little bit more. I'm never one to shy away from some blatant self promotion.

My personal diary / identity blog since 2000: http://www.sheepguardingllama.com/

My Linux blog: http://www.scottalanmiller.com/linux

Where most of my articles go: http://www.smbitjournal.com/

My most popular article ever: http://www.datamation.com/storage/do-you-really-need-a-san-1.html

Thank! You this awesome journal i used to read this before 2 years ago.

The community here runs on Ubuntu too.

@scottalanmiller said:

So Todd over at Pertino turned me on to the PacketPushers podcast recently and I am loving it. Very enterprise network admin and engineering stuff, not the kind of stuff that you find in the SMB but incredibly well done and educational.

http://packetpushers.net/

Thanks for the share!

Yes. Their BeyondRAID is always the same.

I hear this all the time:

Customer: I didn't click on anything, I don't know how that got installed.
Me: Yes, but program A is on your PC.
Customer: Oh, yeah...I installed that! They say proudly, all smiles and such.
Me: Yeah and did you uncheck the boxes that said we are going to install these other programs?
Customer: I don't think there was anything like that.

Yeahhhh....

And... Why are you stuck with a BB?

@Dashrender said:

Wow.. Windows 8 is only 18 months old - this does seem kind of quick to me. But yeah when you consider that Windows 7 is 5 years old this year I suppose it makes sense.

And @scottalanmiller who, besides you and NTG, Truely buys into the Windows vision? No company large or small I know of stays anywhere near on top of things like Windows versions. LOL a thought question, not a real one.

I'm very much into the Windows ecosystem. With the exception of Hyper-V and the now-defunct TMG, the MS platform is an amazing dynamo of interoperability and centralized management.

Here is a talk that I gave:

http://www.mangolassi.it/topic/24/cloud-computing-architecture-scott-alan-miller-speaking-at-spicecorps-dfw-2012

@Bill-Kindle said:

I completely agree with his "Magna Carta for the Internet" idea. I'm a huge proponent of net neutrality.

Me too neutrality is necessary.

For those interested, NTG now has the Drobo B800i iSCSI SAN being used as a datastore for a XenServer cluster in the NTG Labs.

@ambarishrh said:

Yesterday night I got an iPad mini retina 🙂
Initially after @scottalanmiller post I was almost ready to get a kindle but then thought of my next exams to take this year. We have a corporate cbt nuggets which I use extensively and so decided to get iPad which could be used for both reading and cbt plus you know! 😉

Woke up very early and playing around with the new toy. ML looks great on iPad too 🙂

Nice unit. I plan on trading my iPad 2 for an iPad Mini Retina later this year. We use those for the office. Kindle is just for reading.