291: There's No School Like The Old School
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Topics:
-Back from the holiday, Joe, Jerry, & Sam had a chance to meet up in the real world
-Jerry can name all three wise men but Joe & Sam draw blanks
-Joe “re-learns” a lesson about taking a red-eye across the country
-Surprisingly, nobody received any tech for the holidays but Jerry purchased a Sonos subwoofer for himself and has a new interest in the Amazon Fire Stick
-Jerry may need to update his TV to match all his audio tech. In that discussion comes about the old remote controls, like the one Sam used growing up…
-New Year’s Resolutions:
Joe - Going back to basics and focus on the fundamentals (ie. billing out as efficiently as possible, migrating more clients to managed services). On the personal side, developing a routine while living nomadically.
Sam - Would like to travel less for both business and personal reasons. On the business end, it makes it difficult to run if he is not always there to attend meetings or give directives. On the personal side, he would like to attend more events for the children.
Jerry - He is interested in growing his business and increasing revenue
-Jerry also has a plan to be organized moving forward and it includes the use of DayOne, an Apple friendly journaling app. DayOne can collect notes, images, audio recordings in journal entries and help organize your life and business.
-Joe shares his thoughts about how malware appears to be a more persistent problem with client devices.
-Jerry talks about using that term and clarifying between various naming conventions (malware, adware, virus, worm, etc.)
-This all leads to an issue Joe was having with a persistent Safari homepage that would not change back. As it turns out, a security feature from Apple disallowing “synthetic clicks” was not allowing Joe to resolve this issue remotely. Thanks to Patrick Fergus (@foigus) on Slack for the assistance.
-Sam brings back the MDM conversation when talking about how Apple is providing ways to be more preventative from a security standpoint.
-Joe & Jerry have similar issues with built in applications not running correctly on older operating systems
-Sam shares a new beta feature from Slack shared to him by Patreon sponsor Chad Swarthout. Slack gives you the ability to federate between multiple Slack teams:
https://slackhq.com/introducing-shared-channels-where-you-can-work-with-anyone-in-slack
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