Good. Let the dinosaurs die in peace.

Actually, it is in fact my decision to make, both because of seniority, because I know the systems best, and because we finally (FINALLY!) have a collection of managers that aren't completely clueless.

If you are not allowed to influence your own tasks, I suggest you find better employment.

Didn't I just specifically mention that the only reasonable way to have mailing lists is for people to subscribe and unsubscribe themselves?

Unfortunately, if you've ever worked closely with anyone in management at a larger company, you would know that even this "ideal" solution is doomed to fail. Managers in general cannot be bothered to "do all that technical stuff" and will always ask some underling to do it for them.

They only understand powerpoint presentations made specifically to their individual needs and whims, with plenty of colorful graphs. They're a bit like overgrown babies, actually.

Because managing a mailing list for each individual report is bullshit work, a waste of time that can and should be avoided. The managers in question can either set up and manage their own mailing lists, or log into a dashboard that remembers their custom view settings. They can even have the dashboard mail a copy once a week, but they have to check the boxes themselves. It's pull versus push reports.

The first option is never ever going to happen, no manager can be bothered to maintain mailing lists. The second option for the custom dashboard is the best solution, because it gives the managers the customized views they want, without the time-wasting activity of maintaining mailing lists and custom reports. It's a matter of 30 minutes spent once for the manager to set up a dashboard filter, compared to hours wasted every week maintaining mailing lists and custom reports. If they can't figure that out, they're not fit to manage other people.

I've been doing monitoring and reporting for the last 7 years, I know all of this from experience. Report mailing lists turn into uncontrollable messes quick, but a simple webpage where people can choose for themselves exactly which info they want and/or see them on a dashboard is the only sensible solution. Mailed reports are fine, as long as nobody has to waste time managing the mailing lists.

Before I bought my current phone (Samsung GS4 Mini), I specifically checked for CyanogenMod etc. support. It's just received the update to 4.4, but it's very likely that no more official updates are coming from Samsung's hand, since they're probably focusing on the S5 generation and beyond.

I really didn't want to add to the semi-monoculture of Samsung-made Android phones, but it was objectively the best choice compared to the competition. It has 1.5GB RAM instead of 1GB, a user-replaceable battery, perfect size, known-good build quality, CyanogenMod compatibility and so on, plus it was on half-off sale with no plan attached at a local electronics chain store. But the CM compatibility was the biggest factor.

A previous poster already corrected me on this, they were (are?) indeed magnesium.

Stodgy oldschool design, but probably the best laptops ever made.

Thanks for the clarification, I didn't know it was split like that.

That makes sense for cost reasons, actually.

I'm still using my 2003-vintage T42 that I bought way back then for school usage. It's been lugged all over Europe and has lived up to countless software experiments including running at full tilt in my backpack because my suspend scripts were messed up. Didn't even phase it one bit, though it was seriously burning hot when I pulled it out.

Best piece of hardware I have ever spent money on.

Not hating at all, you gotta admire the sheer bullheadedness that Apple sometimes displays.

"No ones done this before because it was too hard/complicated/expensive? Fuck that shit, we're Apple and we're doing it!"

Sometimes it doesn't pay off, but usually it does, and Apple products are at a price level where they can afford to use unconventional solutions if they see a benefit. If there's no benefit (sapphire screens for iPhones), they'll drop it again.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was bought by Western Digital in 2011.

Thinkpads used to have titanium frames, but those were internal and I don't think they were one-piece. The outside was black plastic, of course.

Milling a laptop body from a single piece of aluminum is over-the-top excessive and a bit silly. Of course Apple wanted to do it before everyone else.

What you're looking for is a Chromebook or Chromebox. Stripped-down, does all the basics really well and the new generation of Tegra K1-based Chromebooks have over 10 hours of battery life.

Google has already shown a couple of Android apps running natively on ChromeOS, and the proof of concept of basically all Android apps running as Chrome apps is another step in that direction.

Mozzarella should be the primary cheese, but there's nothing wrong with adding a bit of gorgonzola, parmesan, fontina, pecorino, provolone or scamorza for a bit of added flavor.

Microsoft Boob?

Sick burn, brah.

If you'd put any effort into it, it might even have worked a little bit.