I do sell IT surplus equipment and the real issue I see here is that the fees are about double that of eBay's. The exchange getting a 20% cut is a huge deal on the lower-end items. Combine this with their limited user base, general shopping practices, and small amount of value add, it's not worth the extra pricing information.
For instance: I have a stack of Cisco 2960G Switches. I can go to eBay, do a search for closed auctions, or go to any number of pricing services to get historical selling prices. Since these are common, I will have no issue seeing the buying range. I make a compelling ad, pay $0 to list and pay 10% on the final value and probably 2.7% on the payment end. I can make a compelling ad and create incentives to get people to use me instead some other seller.
Now take something like a Thin Client, KVM cables, Rack keyboards, etc: low volume, and low price. Same fees for eBay. Double for this exchange. AND no one is looking for them because it's geared towards the network hardware side of things.
While I think it's a good idea and if they can get people to pay that much for an automated pricing system, great. But I'll be skipping it for now.
The issue here wasn't that a security person took down the poster, it was rather than call someone higher up and ask "why the hell is a rent a cop touching my personal property?" he decided to go to name calling. That is not how things are done in business if you want to keep your job. You call your boss, he makes a call, a couple hours later either the matter is dropped and you put your poster back up or your boss calls you a douche for putting up a dumb poster. Either way, quick resolution.
But no, let's put up a new poster implying the security people were fascists. Because that will help. Now everyone gets called to the (metaphorical) principle's office because your couldn't handle it like an adult.
Oh and BTW, they took down a poster in your work environment, not beat you for stating political ideals. There's a difference.
When I was working on the arrestor portion in 2001, we had a system controlling two linear induction motors attached to the arrestor cable. Turns out that yes, you can use this type of system to stop planes, it is effective in many situations where planes come in at odd angles (the system pulls the plane towards the center of the deck), and you can recover power from it.
However, if you wire the position encoders backwards, the motor cores eject quite violently as soon as the control system is turned on. Thankfully, interns are surprisingly good at dodging.
Actually, Windows 7 has Windows XP available as an option. It runs XP apps in a VM and displays the window as a native window on the 7 desktop. You would need to tweak the default install to get IE 6 on there (it ships with 8), but it's still cheaper over the long haul than not upgrading to windows 7.
Ya, I did it with Asterisk a while back. Found out accidentally when I dialed my cell phone while setting my call ID to my cell's number. So I tried it with a friend's number. Hilarity ensued.
If you're doing it to get department unity, or to get better visibility for your people so you can get the recognition for a good job, it's not a terrible idea. The trick is that you don't want the IT guys to dislike it, or so that users don't start pulling guys away from higher priority tasks due to the new visibility.
I know, I prefer wearing the uniform when I go out on calls (saves me from having to think about my outfit), but our shirts are actually comfortable and appropriate for the weather and clients we're servicing. That and as a small company, we really need to have a professional, unified image.
Having an internal team wear them just to be easier to stick out, or for reasons that don't help your team directly, will brew internal tension.
I believe that your proposed bill which would require your
identity revealed on the Internet for select communications is
completely unenforceable. I also have great concerns as to the
ramifications of free speach should it become law. I urge you
to reconsider your stance on such a bill.
Bullshit. They're under no pressure to hide things from the law. They could give me all of anyone's access logs and never be criminally liable.
Bottom line is they assumed that the prelim would hold up and rather than piss off the authorities, they decided to hand it over after a few days to give the guy a chance to appeal their action. It's a compromise so as not to piss off the authorities. You want to argue that they should have given him more time, fine. You want to argue that the libel is an outdated concept, fine. Don't compare releasing log data with illegal search and seizure. Google can pretty much do anything it wants to with it's access log, regardless of what the privacy policy states (since they can change it at any point, and you've already agree to these changes).
It's pretty easy to see why someone would write a book about their success plan, instead of continuing it: More Money!
Take the "Make millions in real estate" category. It works... in fact, it's so rock-stupidly simple that TLC has shows about it now with people who really have no business in real estate somehow managing not to lose money. Sure, most of those people are only making $100K-$200K per year at it, but they don't do it for a living.
So, why don't these millionaire-author guys keep doing it? Because it's hard work all the time. Books, OTOH, are hard work for the time taken to research, write, and promote it.... but if it's a hit, it brings in money for years while you're.... that's right! Making more money using your system! Or not... nothing wrong with cashing in for a while, or maybe, like you said, the bottom has dropped out of the market they're pimping.
Granted there are plenty of crap systems out there, and all of them understate the amount of work required to do anything, but just because they have a book doesn't mean it doesn't work.
I'm afraid that TeamSpeak has about a 2-second delay in messages being received. Fine for "Watch for the camper on the hill". Bad for just about everything else.
With the right codec, you could use Asterisk, since it's completely designed to do this. Problem becoes finding a soft or hard phone that supports those codecs.
m/Cluster is a fine solution for MySQL clustering, and it's almost reasonably priced. Be preapred not to use it on RedHat EL4 for a bit while they work out rpoblems with RH's kernel tweaks, but it works really well for our large LAMP and e-mail system.
The Internet is an agreement between interested parties using a common protocol... nothing more, and nothing less. If the EU wants to force the issue, it's fine. Let them renegotiate the agreement. See how far they get. If they force the issue, and begin to change how DNS works, or how IP addresses are assigned, then they have broken the agreement, and have effectively made a different Internet. A different agreement that will get cut off from the regular Internet so as not to interfere. A different Internet without anything on it that people want.
My friend had a gathering at his house to sit around and enjoy the company of geeks, and maybe play some Doom (I). We were all encouraged to bring PCs and since I worked at a company that wrote finite element analysis stuff, and some visualization on heat flow, I borrowed the presentation computer.
A $10,000+ SGI Indy with all the trimmings. Xtank ran well. The screensavers were also a huge hit.
All of these are good suggestions. My biggest problem is that the share nothing approach isn't always available. I'd love to slap some of my clients for some of their technology choices, but that was specifically listed as a "Don't" in Selling for Dummies.
Share nothing is also not a good strategy in certain applications where your have to carry around a ton of persistant information. Even if you put it all in the database, you're just moving the problem around. I guess it comes down to where you feel it's cheaper to require the power. In eBay's case, ya it was a much better idea to throw money at a fantastic DB system, and let the crappy web servers hit it with some descent caching. In the case of data entry/retreival services, it may make more sense to keep the databases crunching reports, and hold state in the (much cheaper) web servers.
Anyway, this is going off topic quickly, but I will say that I don't disagree with what you're saying about share-nothing technologies scaling well by adding more hardware. They do. It's just that many systems of complexity require the session state, and when you do that in a share nothing farm, you shift the session load to a back-end system.
What is wrong with the second approach: each user is assigned a particular server for a given session.
Nothing... I was just stating that it's one of the most common ways to do it... sorry for the confusion. The "no-state" doesn't work in complicated apps, and the 3rd-party session server just creates a different bottlneck somewhere else.
I know I will probably get slammed for stating such, but this seems mostly a problem with OOP designs, which tend to create mini roll-your-own navigational databases in memory.
Actually, I see it mostly in Windows webapps using DCOM. The problem seems to be they push the simplicity of designing complicated apps with that framework, but slack on the hard-core docs on how to manage memory, persistance, and caching.
You know, I've made a tone of cash begging to differ with this. Perhaps you should ammend that statement to be "There is nothing easier in the world to scale than trivial webapps".
First off, a webapp is not a peice of code on a web server; it is a functional system that does desirable work. Yahoo Search is a web app, but I'd be really impressed if it ran on one server. The front end may be easy enough to scale out, as long as you've figured out how to effectivly manage session handling (either by not using them, having the state kept on a 3rd party system, or assigning a session to always go to one web server).
Now, if we're talking only the front end part, than it makes it a whole lot easier to scale out by throwing money at it. The problem I've always run into is the various resource utilizations on the web server.
If your webapp calls up an application framework and calls up a ton of copies of it, or even just takes up a lot of memory, you run out of it, which now asses a 10,000% penalty on access thanks to swapping. You won't see this if the framework requires a couple megs, and is going to be pooled in some way, but it suddenly gets real interesting when you have hundresd of copies floating around (for whatever reason). When this happens, you now need to know how much of a monetary hit you take to get it to an acceptable level. It may just end up being way too much cash spent to get you to the next level. Then you may have to do it again.
I wound up doing a job that each web app used about a gig of RAM if it ran long enough. I told them to fix the leak. They said the programmer just quit. So we throw money at it. They ran up to 60 web apps on Windows. Guess what.... it would have taken $20,000 and a bunch of downtime to do the upgrades. Once the guy stopped yelling, he realized they were forced to fix the app.
Same priciple applies to anything that hits the disk more than it should, tries to factor large numbers, or tries to download all the Internet porn right now. You run out of something, and have to either see if you can spend money, or fix it so it should have to.
Basically, if you've got a simple app, it's easier to throw hardware/money to scale it. If your app is a large system with complex requirments, it may be possible to do that to an extent, but it's much better to have different tools that may provide much better results.
I'm also a little tired of the "hack" moniker being thrown around so readily. Soldering a couple of wires together is not a "hack" in most cases, it's just... well... soldering.
Dude, this is a hack in the purest sense of the word. Dirty, cheap, and barely viable for the desired outcome, and done with stuff lying around. Back in the long-long ago times, on alt.hack, every post had to have a hack listed, so even though some people listed these elaborate hacks, a lot of them were of the "duct taped this contraption to that one, and you could use it to hold a cup of coffee!" variety.
No one ever questioned the validity of those hacks.
Not to sound crass, or anything, but Wikipedia has been around for a few years, dealt with many of these problems before, has been looking for fixes, and if it really was this easy, it would already have been done.
Without delving into any subtlety of the situation, for one, who's moderating?
If I'm casually reading about some topic, then there is a good chance that I have little very little idea about what's going on. The entry may be very well written, and have nice diagrams, and fine links, but be, by all accounts, flaming garbage. I wouldn't know. Moderators would have to seek out the revised articles in their area of knowledge, and then grade the changes. Then you'd just have to hope that the moderators would have the time to check out all the changes.
So, I guess it would be possible, but it seems like motivating that many people to do a lot of quality work for little more than some unheard "Thanks", would be impractical.
It's a non-steroidal anti-inflamatory medication used generally for arthritis related joint pain. It works about as well as Ibuprofen, but without any of the stomach irritation. It got its notoriety through a MASSIVE ad campaign.
It's also been volentarilly recalled by the manufacturer because of a study showing that it can accellerate heart disease. Hence, what all the fuss is about.
Seirously, this isn't a horror story... it's shady marketing. A horror story would be if it required him to install a 3rd party application which broke/uninstalled the rest of his stuff, and then it went outside, keyed his car, then poured arsenic on his lawn.... because the player's development office was built on top of an INDIAN BURIAL GROUND!
I get the rights when this gets on the big screen.
Not a whole lot of people really need the hassle of installing another DNS server
It is the standard by which other implementations get judged
It supports just about every obscure feature known to the DNS world
If you know how to hack the config files, it makes manually setting up tons of vhosts dirt simple
The name is just so powerful
Certain other dns server authors(*cough*djb*cough*) always manage to piss off too many people, even when they are proposing a superior solution to a problem.
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I do sell IT surplus equipment and the real issue I see here is that the fees are about double that of eBay's. The exchange getting a 20% cut is a huge deal on the lower-end items. Combine this with their limited user base, general shopping practices, and small amount of value add, it's not worth the extra pricing information.
For instance: I have a stack of Cisco 2960G Switches. I can go to eBay, do a search for closed auctions, or go to any number of pricing services to get historical selling prices. Since these are common, I will have no issue seeing the buying range. I make a compelling ad, pay $0 to list and pay 10% on the final value and probably 2.7% on the payment end. I can make a compelling ad and create incentives to get people to use me instead some other seller.
Now take something like a Thin Client, KVM cables, Rack keyboards, etc: low volume, and low price. Same fees for eBay. Double for this exchange. AND no one is looking for them because it's geared towards the network hardware side of things.
While I think it's a good idea and if they can get people to pay that much for an automated pricing system, great. But I'll be skipping it for now.
The issue here wasn't that a security person took down the poster, it was rather than call someone higher up and ask "why the hell is a rent a cop touching my personal property?" he decided to go to name calling. That is not how things are done in business if you want to keep your job. You call your boss, he makes a call, a couple hours later either the matter is dropped and you put your poster back up or your boss calls you a douche for putting up a dumb poster. Either way, quick resolution.
But no, let's put up a new poster implying the security people were fascists. Because that will help. Now everyone gets called to the (metaphorical) principle's office because your couldn't handle it like an adult.
Oh and BTW, they took down a poster in your work environment, not beat you for stating political ideals. There's a difference.
Who cares? I don't devote myself to the geek arts for mainstream acceptance. I do it because shit gotta get hacked.
As bad as every other site that doesn't require https:// for login.
When I was working on the arrestor portion in 2001, we had a system controlling two linear induction motors attached to the arrestor cable. Turns out that yes, you can use this type of system to stop planes, it is effective in many situations where planes come in at odd angles (the system pulls the plane towards the center of the deck), and you can recover power from it.
However, if you wire the position encoders backwards, the motor cores eject quite violently as soon as the control system is turned on. Thankfully, interns are surprisingly good at dodging.
Actually, Windows 7 has Windows XP available as an option. It runs XP apps in a VM and displays the window as a native window on the 7 desktop. You would need to tweak the default install to get IE 6 on there (it ships with 8), but it's still cheaper over the long haul than not upgrading to windows 7.
Ya, I did it with Asterisk a while back. Found out accidentally when I dialed my cell phone while setting my call ID to my cell's number. So I tried it with a friend's number. Hilarity ensued.
If you're doing it to get department unity, or to get better visibility for your people so you can get the recognition for a good job, it's not a terrible idea. The trick is that you don't want the IT guys to dislike it, or so that users don't start pulling guys away from higher priority tasks due to the new visibility.
I know, I prefer wearing the uniform when I go out on calls (saves me from having to think about my outfit), but our shirts are actually comfortable and appropriate for the weather and clients we're servicing. That and as a small company, we really need to have a professional, unified image.
Having an internal team wear them just to be easier to stick out, or for reasons that don't help your team directly, will brew internal tension.
Bullshit. They're under no pressure to hide things from the law. They could give me all of anyone's access logs and never be criminally liable.
Bottom line is they assumed that the prelim would hold up and rather than piss off the authorities, they decided to hand it over after a few days to give the guy a chance to appeal their action. It's a compromise so as not to piss off the authorities. You want to argue that they should have given him more time, fine. You want to argue that the libel is an outdated concept, fine. Don't compare releasing log data with illegal search and seizure. Google can pretty much do anything it wants to with it's access log, regardless of what the privacy policy states (since they can change it at any point, and you've already agree to these changes).
It's pretty easy to see why someone would write a book about their success plan, instead of continuing it: More Money!
Take the "Make millions in real estate" category. It works... in fact, it's so rock-stupidly simple that TLC has shows about it now with people who really have no business in real estate somehow managing not to lose money. Sure, most of those people are only making $100K-$200K per year at it, but they don't do it for a living.
So, why don't these millionaire-author guys keep doing it? Because it's hard work all the time. Books, OTOH, are hard work for the time taken to research, write, and promote it.... but if it's a hit, it brings in money for years while you're.... that's right! Making more money using your system! Or not... nothing wrong with cashing in for a while, or maybe, like you said, the bottom has dropped out of the market they're pimping.
Granted there are plenty of crap systems out there, and all of them understate the amount of work required to do anything, but just because they have a book doesn't mean it doesn't work.
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I'm afraid that TeamSpeak has about a 2-second delay in messages being received. Fine for "Watch for the camper on the hill". Bad for just about everything else.
With the right codec, you could use Asterisk, since it's completely designed to do this. Problem becoes finding a soft or hard phone that supports those codecs.
m/Cluster is a fine solution for MySQL clustering, and it's almost reasonably priced. Be preapred not to use it on RedHat EL4 for a bit while they work out rpoblems with RH's kernel tweaks, but it works really well for our large LAMP and e-mail system.
Oh, I think I hear some bagpipes in the back ground....
But hey, it'll be fun to watch....
My friend had a gathering at his house to sit around and enjoy the company of geeks, and maybe play some Doom (I). We were all encouraged to bring PCs and since I worked at a company that wrote finite element analysis stuff, and some visualization on heat flow, I borrowed the presentation computer.
A $10,000+ SGI Indy with all the trimmings. Xtank ran well. The screensavers were also a huge hit.
All of these are good suggestions. My biggest problem is that the share nothing approach isn't always available. I'd love to slap some of my clients for some of their technology choices, but that was specifically listed as a "Don't" in Selling for Dummies.
Share nothing is also not a good strategy in certain applications where your have to carry around a ton of persistant information. Even if you put it all in the database, you're just moving the problem around. I guess it comes down to where you feel it's cheaper to require the power. In eBay's case, ya it was a much better idea to throw money at a fantastic DB system, and let the crappy web servers hit it with some descent caching. In the case of data entry/retreival services, it may make more sense to keep the databases crunching reports, and hold state in the (much cheaper) web servers.
Anyway, this is going off topic quickly, but I will say that I don't disagree with what you're saying about share-nothing technologies scaling well by adding more hardware. They do. It's just that many systems of complexity require the session state, and when you do that in a share nothing farm, you shift the session load to a back-end system.
Nothing... I was just stating that it's one of the most common ways to do it... sorry for the confusion. The "no-state" doesn't work in complicated apps, and the 3rd-party session server just creates a different bottlneck somewhere else.
Actually, I see it mostly in Windows webapps using DCOM. The problem seems to be they push the simplicity of designing complicated apps with that framework, but slack on the hard-core docs on how to manage memory, persistance, and caching.
You know, I've made a tone of cash begging to differ with this. Perhaps you should ammend that statement to be "There is nothing easier in the world to scale than trivial webapps".
First off, a webapp is not a peice of code on a web server; it is a functional system that does desirable work. Yahoo Search is a web app, but I'd be really impressed if it ran on one server. The front end may be easy enough to scale out, as long as you've figured out how to effectivly manage session handling (either by not using them, having the state kept on a 3rd party system, or assigning a session to always go to one web server).
Now, if we're talking only the front end part, than it makes it a whole lot easier to scale out by throwing money at it. The problem I've always run into is the various resource utilizations on the web server.
If your webapp calls up an application framework and calls up a ton of copies of it, or even just takes up a lot of memory, you run out of it, which now asses a 10,000% penalty on access thanks to swapping. You won't see this if the framework requires a couple megs, and is going to be pooled in some way, but it suddenly gets real interesting when you have hundresd of copies floating around (for whatever reason). When this happens, you now need to know how much of a monetary hit you take to get it to an acceptable level. It may just end up being way too much cash spent to get you to the next level. Then you may have to do it again.
I wound up doing a job that each web app used about a gig of RAM if it ran long enough. I told them to fix the leak. They said the programmer just quit. So we throw money at it. They ran up to 60 web apps on Windows. Guess what.... it would have taken $20,000 and a bunch of downtime to do the upgrades. Once the guy stopped yelling, he realized they were forced to fix the app.
Same priciple applies to anything that hits the disk more than it should, tries to factor large numbers, or tries to download all the Internet porn right now. You run out of something, and have to either see if you can spend money, or fix it so it should have to.
Basically, if you've got a simple app, it's easier to throw hardware/money to scale it. If your app is a large system with complex requirments, it may be possible to do that to an extent, but it's much better to have different tools that may provide much better results.
Dude, this is a hack in the purest sense of the word. Dirty, cheap, and barely viable for the desired outcome, and done with stuff lying around. Back in the long-long ago times, on alt.hack, every post had to have a hack listed, so even though some people listed these elaborate hacks, a lot of them were of the "duct taped this contraption to that one, and you could use it to hold a cup of coffee!" variety.
No one ever questioned the validity of those hacks.
Not to sound crass, or anything, but Wikipedia has been around for a few years, dealt with many of these problems before, has been looking for fixes, and if it really was this easy, it would already have been done.
Without delving into any subtlety of the situation, for one, who's moderating?
If I'm casually reading about some topic, then there is a good chance that I have little very little idea about what's going on. The entry may be very well written, and have nice diagrams, and fine links, but be, by all accounts, flaming garbage. I wouldn't know. Moderators would have to seek out the revised articles in their area of knowledge, and then grade the changes. Then you'd just have to hope that the moderators would have the time to check out all the changes.
So, I guess it would be possible, but it seems like motivating that many people to do a lot of quality work for little more than some unheard "Thanks", would be impractical.
It's a non-steroidal anti-inflamatory medication used generally for arthritis related joint pain. It works about as well as Ibuprofen, but without any of the stomach irritation. It got its notoriety through a MASSIVE ad campaign.
It's also been volentarilly recalled by the manufacturer because of a study showing that it can accellerate heart disease. Hence, what all the fuss is about.
Seirously, this isn't a horror story... it's shady marketing. A horror story would be if it required him to install a 3rd party application which broke/uninstalled the rest of his stuff, and then it went outside, keyed his car, then poured arsenic on his lawn.... because the player's development office was built on top of an INDIAN BURIAL GROUND!
I get the rights when this gets on the big screen.