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185: Live Show "We're Not Geeks To The House"

A favorite iOS app for Joe & Jerry, Panic's Status Board has been discontinued - https://panic.com/blog/the-future-of-status-board/

Joe follows up about his new MacBook Pro speeds, diving deeper into Apple Mail plug-ins, indexing & high CPU usage.  How long has he been migrating?  Jerry shows his sympathy with similar tales of woe.

Thanks to Tom Bridge for pointing Joe in the right direction with some helpful links for dealing with the Console in macOS Sierra
-https://eclecticlight.co/2016/09/29/welcome-to-macos-sierras-new-console-its-buried-in-terminal/
-https://eclecticlight.co/2016/10/01/using-the-logs-in-sierra-some-practical-tips/

Joe goes into detail about troubleshooting /var/folders, building on a helpful link sent to us by listener Dave Provine
-http://www.magnusviri.com/OS_X_Admin/what-is-var-folders.html

Sam brings back an age old discussion about billing clients for things like conference calls, as well as deciding when it is appropriate not to bill.  Did somebody say managed services?