If you're trying to do plain course delivery, WebMentor is a useful (if not very elegant) solution. If you have the resources and clients with bandwidth, take a look at BlackBoard, which is more robust than WM.
Many people have pointed this out, so it's probably redundant, but make sure your employees are happy with things other than their pay. The place I work at pays good, but not the best possible wages, but nobody on the tech staff works in cubicles, we have a great dress code, opportunities to try new technology, excellent machines, and I genuinely like my co-workers. Stuff like this matters much more than just whether you make $1,000/year more than your previous job.
My question about NSI "reclaiming" a domain: companies like Amazon have their domains trademarked (such trademarks have been upheld in court). So if NSI yanks the amazon.com, aside from facing a lawsuit, what can they do? Very few people would risk Amazon's wrath and use the domain.
The Connecticut Distance Learning Center (www.ctdlc.org) offers a huge number of courses for anyone (not just CT residents). The fees aren't that bad, and the courses are real classes taught be instructors who teach at real colleges
@Home offers cable internet over most of Connecticut, including (I believe) New Haven. They just hooked up West Hartford. Free installation, www.tci.net
I liked Nudist and 20M, but Bombardiers is clearly the best Bronson. It is about bond traders, to an extent, but the real focus of the book is just about having a job. The politics, the stories, the friends.. It's a kick-ass read.
If I recall, when NSI tried to move whois access from the main page to a subpage (this was awhile ago), they were forced to move it back by the government. Perhaps someone could tell their local, technology-aware senator/congressperson (I live in CT, so not a chance:).
This is obviously to stop register.com and the like, but anyone who's dealt with NSI before shouldn't be surprised.
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If you're trying to do plain course delivery, WebMentor is a useful (if not very elegant) solution. If you have the resources and clients with bandwidth, take a look at BlackBoard, which is more robust than WM.
Many people have pointed this out, so it's probably redundant, but make sure your employees are happy with things other than their pay. The place I work at pays good, but not the best possible wages, but nobody on the tech staff works in cubicles, we have a great dress code, opportunities to try new technology, excellent machines, and I genuinely like my co-workers. Stuff like this matters much more than just whether you make $1,000/year more than your previous job.
My question about NSI "reclaiming" a domain: companies like Amazon have their domains trademarked (such trademarks have been upheld in court). So if NSI yanks the amazon.com, aside from facing a lawsuit, what can they do? Very few people would risk Amazon's wrath and use the domain.
The Connecticut Distance Learning Center (www.ctdlc.org) offers a huge number of courses for anyone (not just CT residents). The fees aren't that bad, and the courses are real classes taught be instructors who teach at real colleges
@Home offers cable internet over most of Connecticut, including (I believe) New Haven. They just hooked up West Hartford. Free installation, www.tci.net
I liked Nudist and 20M, but Bombardiers is clearly the best Bronson. It is about bond traders, to an extent, but the real focus of the book is just about having a job. The politics, the stories, the friends.. It's a kick-ass read.
If I recall, when NSI tried to move whois access from the main page to a subpage (this was awhile ago), they were forced to move it back by the government. Perhaps someone could tell their local, technology-aware senator/congressperson (I live in CT, so not a chance :).
This is obviously to stop register.com and the like, but anyone who's dealt with NSI before shouldn't be surprised.