Agreed. Those 4-UID's are jerks.

...which is a Roku add-on and it requires a PC component to serve the files. The Roku, natively, can't stream directly from a local network source such as a NAS. At best, it's a hack and it while it works, it doesn't work as well as a native solution would.

I'd like to find one single device that can stream from all of my sources natively. Is that really too much to ask?

So, the only way to get our representatives to take note of civil rights abuses is to have them affect a protected class. I wonder how I get myself classified as a journalist?

Master's degree. You will have already dropped $100k on your 4-year degree before ponying up another $6k for this one.

You had me until you brought out the "dumb sheep" trope. You would be more effective in persuading people if you could leave out the hyperbole and tired, cliched insults.

I wonder what role social media is having on the timeline for this event?

It would be nice if tablet designers, OS designers, and app coders stopped treating tablets like media consumption devices and started treating them like actual replacements for people who need to do actual work. Try working on a spreadsheet on one. Yes, you can do it. Yes, it's a colossal pain in the ass. Wanna reset a password in Active Directory from your tablet? If you're on Android or iPad, there's MAYBE one or two apps that can do it and then not very well. Oh, but if you want to listen to music on the crappy little speakers, there are about a thousand music players out there. There are any number of freemium games out there, too.

Tablets are fine for what they are, but you can't sell them as a productivity tool without actually designing it as one, and that's what Microsoft tried to pull with Windows RT.

As usual, the only people who know (or care) about SysAdmin Day are sysadmins. Therefore, nothing is being done to celebrate it. Not even a free donut.

They need a better message than "You're down. You're f***ed. Call back later." Yeah, I know we're down. That's why I called. They need to provide BETTER information. Put something useful on their blog, FB, Twitter, etc. Instead, every time there's a problem, they close the blinds and lock all the doors while the angry mob gathers outside. That's a hell of a way to run a railroad.

So, your contention is that it's "too easy" to climb and therefore the mountain itself is some kind of absurdity? You must hate every minor hill on the planet.

How is it a "joke of a mountain"?

Yeah, that's why I don't want to talk to them, either. I just wanna talk tech with the techs.

>Is it that you don't want to talk to an attractive salesmodel or you have trouble talking to women in general? It's an important question.

Neither. I don't want to waste my time talking to someone in a booth who doesn't know anything about the product being sold. Their level of attractiveness and their gender are both irrelevant.

I like looking at booth babes as much as the next guy, but c'mon. It's just unprofessional. And frankly, I don't want to talk to a hired salesmodel at an IT conference, either. I want to talk to a technical person who knows the freaking product and can answer detailed technical questions about it. If I wanted a brochure, I'd go to the website. It's a waste of my time and your money to have anyone in your booth that doesn't know the product inside and out.

On Sprint here. When I renewed my contract and went to set up my new phone, GVoice took over completely. I can't find any way to use it for voicemail only, but when I originally set it up it was before Sprint's "full integration" with Google Voice. I'd be thrilled if you can tell me how to use it for voicemail only.