That's awesome.

I am spending too much money on tech these days, but losing the laptop hasn't made me want the big new NAS less.

now the new NAS is working like my own private Dropbox.

Nice. Is there a way to share files on it securely with the outside world?

I don't know. I don't use the public folder feature of Dropbox, so I haven't looked for it with this. My guess would be no.

Well, maybe you could set up the FTP server for anonymous access to a particular folder in your sync folder. I haven't looked into the FTP and SFTP servers yet.

It seemed like there was something in the documentation about using it that way. But I may be conflating things I'd looked at. I remember thinking it wasn't an issue for me because I have data limits, so I really wouldn't be using it that way for any external access. But I guess I probably could.

Why is the mac laughing at me sometimes? That seems like a strange choice for an audio cue for whatever it's cueing.

Also, will I need a Windows emulator to run Quickbooks Premier? Or would my company file be readable by the Quickbooks for Mac version?

I bought another Sony to replace my dead one, but I'm already having buyers remorse that I didn't just go all the way over to the dark side and get a macbook. Unfortunately, Sony was having a clearance sale that took an additional 25% off the refurb prices, putting the vaio cost at three hundred dollars under the macbook for the same specs. But I am liking the studio machine, which I am temporarily treating like my own personal machine until I get back up and running. I will rededicate it to audio later. But it sure is nice now.

what do you all think about email transparency like this:

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apparently almost all email sent in the company is encouraged to be posted to a company-wide archives list.

I could see it working pretty well, depending on the setup and how difficult it was to view/favorite/search. Handy to my have right people saving the same email.

I don't send personal emails from work, normally. I'd probably just change the few bitchy emails to coworkers to IM or something.

I think for a small company that could be great, but I doubt it would scale very well.

that's what I was thinking.