Geek Speak

A common refrain in technology (heck any area) is the need to both stay current and lean forward to remain relevant. Like you, I can remember pivoting from the sad demise of Novell NetWare to Window Server (remember NT?) leading up to the granddaddy of all migrations: the end-of-life (EOL) *and* and of service of Windows Small Business Server (SBS) to whatever (cloud et. al.). Do you realize that all happened in 2014 - ten years ago. This was the same timeframe as the Windows XP (EOL). Another example of voluntary (for some of you it was involuntary) professional evolution from break-fix to the Managed Service Provider (MSP) business model based on monthly recurring revenue (MRR) (invented by the telcos IMHO)

Here We Grow Again - Looking Around the Corner into 2025

I recently attended a keynote at the Mindset Reset conference

I’m not claiming to be Nostrdammus with his legendary forecasting capabilities in the 1500s. But the data doesn’t lie and I saw it with my own eyes. Let’s geek out on this. 

Dropping Prices

Let’s start with the end-in-mind as author Stephen Covey said in his book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.”  So the end of the story is about the housing market: buy, sell or short.

Join us for this important online on November 12th - here are the dets!

Welcome to the forthcoming 2025! Join our expert panel as we double-click into this migration scenario impacts SMB partners, MSPs, VARS who depend on MAPs to run da’ IT business and serve customers. Not many people are aware of this quickly forthcoming change so its CRITICAL you attend this Webinar to get the FACTS to insure the continuity of your business operations.

After quickly re-defining MAPs and its history, we’ll look at the fourth pathways to MIGRATE off of MAPS.

And we’ll save plenty of time so you can ASK your important migration questions

Date and Time:

November 12, 2024

1:00pm CT

Panelists

Calling the NERD HERD!

Be There - the Holiday Party for the Rest of Us! 

Our most popular mantra and message to IT Pros, Managed Services Providers (MSP), Geeks and Nerds is that you are NOT ALONE! 

GEEK WIN!!!  I cut the cords today! Finally I sat down and reduced Spectrum down to Internet-only and then added YouTube TV. Total bill went from $280 to $140!  Should done this a lot sooner...other thoughts.

Spectrum kept trying to throw in a new mobile phone (boo hiss - I don't need another phone)

For free - Spectrum added a goofy TV service called TV Stream with 90+ Tier 2 channels I either get with YouTube TV or don't care about...

In other cable provider/streaming news:

I recently conducted a limited investigation of dogs v. cats. The focus was food. The methodology was an on-site visit to a grocery store to compare similar treats for both dogs and cats. The baseline results were the cat food was nearly 29% (28.6807% to be exact) more expensive.

This was calculated, as seen in the pictures below. The dog kibbles/treats were $4.48 and the cat kibbles/treats were $5.98. What does it mean?  On the surface, cats are more expensive than dogs. But I have questions.

Are food manufactures profiting off the deep love and affection cat owners have and will pay whatever it takes to keep Maggie the Calico Cat happy?