The cost of colocation is entirely dependent on bandwidth usage. Of course some companies pricing structure don't really make this clear, but it is the bottom line when it comes to dedicated servers and colocation. Actually colocation is not that expensive as long as your bandwidth is small. For example some of our colocation customers pay as little as $70 per month for 64kbps bandwidth. Of course there are those who need a full T1 and they pay for it.
With the industry being as new as it is, it really pays to shop around, since there is really no standard out there. Some companies offer great deals and others completely rip you off. Shop around...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
I'm not sure I quite understand how this chip compares with the Athlon. Apparently, it is similar to the Celeron processor. Does it just have less L2 Cache onboard? Please advise...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
There are already companies out there that are doing this for free and when they find a broken link they send and email to webmaster@thedomainname.com.
This is nothing new really...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
Ok, this is definetly great news but what I'm wondering about is more games getting ported to Linux from other platforms. I really don't think we need this new platform thing as much as we need games ported to the Linux environment.
Take for example Age of Empires. Granted this is pretty much a Microsoft thing but wouldn't it be cool if it was ported to Linux? Until then I'm stuck with running my pc in dual boot mode...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
I would build myself a full size yacht and take it for a cruise. If you don't believe me visit my lego site on my homepage. Trust me it can be done given enough lego and time. Of course for safety I would be sure to bring along the inflatable dinghy. You can never be too safe.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
My question is if backward compatibility is such an issue why don't the software manufactures port the software to the new platforms then we wouldn't slow down the hardware development. I'm sure if they wan't to Microsoft could port Office 2000 to the 64 bit platform just as easily as they port it to the Mac. Come on, software developers do the right thing...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
This is totally awesome. Why haven't we thought of this before. The privatization of any industry leads to its explosion of growth and innovation. I mean look at the internet, it started out as a government/educational thing and then people figured out you could make money with it.
Space exploration is no different. I would love to see a RadioShack robot on the moon or a communication outpost on Mars sporting the ATT logo. This is all good stuff, I say promote it.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
Ok, I hate to compare this to domain names but I will. This compression standard will be similar to a.cc domain. I mean nobody wants anything other than a.com simply because it is the standard now, it had a foothold. The same holds true for the MP3 standard. It has gained serious nameshare as well as tonnes of exposure. I mean how well have the other formats competed with MP3, like windows media and the vqf thing or whatever. Heck, I can't even remember the names of the other formats, that is how dominant the MP3 format has become. This new format will just be another Beta vs. VHS thing, I'm sure of it.
The only thing that will blow the MP3 away is something which has vastly better compression and comparable sound quality. Anything else is doomed to obsolesence.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
Think about... how do 95% of the population access the internet, via some sort of browser or another. If you can somehow get your fingers into this market you wield an insane amount of power. With your browser you can control which protocols and standards are brought into play or what will go mainstream or not. Don't underestimate the power of the browser. It is the portal to the internet and will continue to play a significant role for years to come.
All you have to do is look at the history of the browser to realize it is one of those things that is here to stay. If you compare today's browsers with browser's from 5 years ago not much has changed, just a little functionality. Therefore we can pretty much assume that the basic function of a browser will not change in the future and will remain a key player in the internet world.
My suggestion is to split Microsoft into further pieces and essentially make IE its own company. With this, the browser technology would begin to leapfrog again like it did when Netscape was on the cutting edge with its Navigator. Either way whoever owns the dominant browser will continue to have power to influence the standards and programs that make the internet work.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
IE should be its own company then maybe we would see a decent browser come out of this and also create more competition and development in the browser market.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
Who said pinball is dying? The person that posted this comment needs to give us some proof of his claim. I still see pinball machines in almost every arcade I go into. Sure its probably not as popular as the latest Tekken 3 but that doesn't mean its dying.
Pinball is kind of like The Beatles it had its day of fame but it will never completely die. Its to much a part of the American Culture. Ten years from now no one will even know what Tekken 3 was, but PinBall will still be kicking around. I mean ask a 6 year old Nintendo freak what Space Invaders or PacMan is and they probably couldn't tell you. Games like Tekken 3 are just passing fads, trust me they will never eliminate PinBall.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
If only we had the power to see into these other solar systems we would most definetly find other life. I'm am firmly convinced that our exisence on this planet is not an accident. If you think about it and the billions of years the universe has been in existence it makes sense to think that life evolved quite a long time before we or this earth came along... and that life evolved to such an advanced level that we probably cannot even comprehend it.
My theory is that these advanced creatures actually seeded our earth and the life on it. In fact, they have probably seeded countless planets. You ask what is the point of all of this, I'm not going to give you that answer, you will have to figure it out yourself. But the point is that life as we know it is only a small part of the big picture really out there. I think these advanced creatures have purposely shielded us from interaction with other planets and forms of life to maintain an environment that essentially protects us and at the same time keeps us ignorant of other worlds.
Anyhow it is just some food for thought.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
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I bought a server from Gateway (don't ask me what possessed at the time, I should have built it myself). It was supposed to ship with windows 2000 server but instead it came with Win NT 4.0
So I contacted customer support requesting an upgrade. However due to Microsoft's new licensing crap they could not send me an upgrade since they would be technically giving me two operating systems, or something like that. The only other option was to swap out my server with one pre-installed with Win 2k. Of course I couldn't do that since I already had over a 100 clients webhosting accounts active on the machine. So I didn't get the OS I had paid for, long story short.
Who's to blame here and what action should I take. Gateway has been less than helpful...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
So they break it up into two companies... how is that going to change anything. Windows (OS) will keep on creating operating systems that support windows apps and Window (Apps) will keep on creating apps that run on Windows (OS).
This doesn't change anything. There must be a better solution, such as sharing their source code or something.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
I have an alphanumeric pager that I keep for monitoring our servers and it is usually spammed about once a week. Don't ask me how they ever got ahold of my phonenumber/email address for this pager. I suspect that paging service provider is selling these numbers off for profit, but I could be wrong. However, it is rather annoying when my pager goes off and I just about have a heartattack thinking one our servers is down only to find out that it is nothing more than another advertisement . Not to mention that every page I get counts toward my monthly quotas and soon I will be charged to receive "spam".
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
Why are you airing this on Slashdot? There should be a forum just for domain name disputes and the legal hassling over this. On a personal note I hope you win against Mattel but I don't give you much of a chance since they probably have millions to throw at this case.
I would also make sure I read over the Domain Dispute Policy provided by ICANN before registering domains that are borderline legal messes.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
After spending most of my life living in Canada all I can say is that sociallized programs and government subsidized services stink. Yes the price is great but the quality is pitiful. It is a great idea to give Internet Access to the masses but in our Capitalistic World the incentive will not be enough to provide quality. For quality you need competition not a "monopoly".
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
I agree this is interesting technology however in comparison with just running a bunch of processors in parrallel there is no real advantage, at least not in performance that I can see. Costwise however there would probably be an advantage but then you have all the problems of trying to make this heterogenous "solution" talk to itself. Personally I think we are better off just going the multi-processor route on a single motherboard. Also the Japanese were not the first to do this, similar research has been going on at the Almaden Research Center (IBM) in San Jose for some time now. It is just the japanese who where the first to publicly announce it.
My question always is, why do we need faster processors when the software we are using is still not utilizing this speed. Of course the argument can always be made that in a year to six months from now the software will have become so bloated that it will need this speed. I disagree, look at Linux, you can easily run a Linux box off of a 200Mhz processor, you sure as heck don't need 1.2 Ghz or whatever is the cutting edge right now.
The funny thing is that I read somewhere that Microsoft had come out with some sort of spec where it said that to have Windows 2000 run properly and see a performance boost in all its Apps it would need at least a 2Ghz processor. Boy, there must be something going on between Intel and Windows (Wintel) for this kind of announcement. You would think it would hurt sales but it doesn't.
Anyhow, I think the speed thing is just a little overated. I say we need to pay more attention to the motherboard speed and the peripheals...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
Yah, your probably right. There is alot of crap raining down on earth every day, but how do you find this stuff. I mean its not like I ever get up one morning and find a 3 kilo meteor sitting there in the middle of my lawn. Its like searching for a needle in a haystack. I don't know I'm just a little suspicious about the source of these supposed meteor materials.
As far as my sig is concerned, if you don't like it don't pay any more attention to it than to those silly banners at the top of this page. Sorry if it offends you but it does serve a purpose.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
I know this may sound strange but even though Descent on Unix is great and all, I would just like to see other games ported to Linux/Unix like my favorite, "Age of Empires". Admittedly, this is a microsoft product but it is definetly a great game. Microsoft could start another surge of game sales and unload a tonne of these games if they would just port it to Linux. I would definetly buy it for $49.99 or whatever the going price might be.
Linux has made great progress but it still has a long way to go to get into the gaming market. Come on developers... come to your senses!
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
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The cost of colocation is entirely dependent on bandwidth usage. Of course some companies pricing structure don't really make this clear, but it is the bottom line when it comes to dedicated servers and colocation. Actually colocation is not that expensive as long as your bandwidth is small. For example some of our colocation customers pay as little as $70 per month for 64kbps bandwidth. Of course there are those who need a full T1 and they pay for it.
With the industry being as new as it is, it really pays to shop around, since there is really no standard out there. Some companies offer great deals and others completely rip you off. Shop around...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
I'm not sure I quite understand how this chip compares with the Athlon. Apparently, it is similar to the Celeron processor. Does it just have less L2 Cache onboard? Please advise...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Ok, well lets port directX then...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
There are already companies out there that are doing this for free and when they find a broken link they send and email to webmaster@thedomainname.com.
This is nothing new really...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Ok, this is definetly great news but what I'm wondering about is more games getting ported to Linux from other platforms. I really don't think we need this new platform thing as much as we need games ported to the Linux environment.
Take for example Age of Empires. Granted this is pretty much a Microsoft thing but wouldn't it be cool if it was ported to Linux? Until then I'm stuck with running my pc in dual boot mode...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
I would build myself a full size yacht and take it for a cruise. If you don't believe me visit my lego site on my homepage. Trust me it can be done given enough lego and time. Of course for safety I would be sure to bring along the inflatable dinghy. You can never be too safe.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
My question is if backward compatibility is such an issue why don't the software manufactures port the software to the new platforms then we wouldn't slow down the hardware development. I'm sure if they wan't to Microsoft could port Office 2000 to the 64 bit platform just as easily as they port it to the Mac. Come on, software developers do the right thing...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Actually this is a really cool idea. I would love to just be able to visit a website and catch a real time shot of the earth from space
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Does anyone know who this person is?
Who knows pretty soon they are going to have the 100 mile high club...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
This is totally awesome. Why haven't we thought of this before. The privatization of any industry leads to its explosion of growth and innovation. I mean look at the internet, it started out as a government/educational thing and then people figured out you could make money with it.
Space exploration is no different. I would love to see a RadioShack robot on the moon or a communication outpost on Mars sporting the ATT logo. This is all good stuff, I say promote it.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Ok, I hate to compare this to domain names but I will. This compression standard will be similar to a .cc domain. I mean nobody wants anything other than a .com simply because it is the standard now, it had a foothold. The same holds true for the MP3 standard. It has gained serious nameshare as well as tonnes of exposure. I mean how well have the other formats competed with MP3, like windows media and the vqf thing or whatever. Heck, I can't even remember the names of the other formats, that is how dominant the MP3 format has become. This new format will just be another Beta vs. VHS thing, I'm sure of it.
The only thing that will blow the MP3 away is something which has vastly better compression and comparable sound quality. Anything else is doomed to obsolesence.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Think about... how do 95% of the population access the internet, via some sort of browser or another. If you can somehow get your fingers into this market you wield an insane amount of power. With your browser you can control which protocols and standards are brought into play or what will go mainstream or not. Don't underestimate the power of the browser. It is the portal to the internet and will continue to play a significant role for years to come.
All you have to do is look at the history of the browser to realize it is one of those things that is here to stay. If you compare today's browsers with browser's from 5 years ago not much has changed, just a little functionality. Therefore we can pretty much assume that the basic function of a browser will not change in the future and will remain a key player in the internet world.
My suggestion is to split Microsoft into further pieces and essentially make IE its own company. With this, the browser technology would begin to leapfrog again like it did when Netscape was on the cutting edge with its Navigator. Either way whoever owns the dominant browser will continue to have power to influence the standards and programs that make the internet work.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
IE should be its own company then maybe we would see a decent browser come out of this and also create more competition and development in the browser market.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Who said pinball is dying? The person that posted this comment needs to give us some proof of his claim. I still see pinball machines in almost every arcade I go into. Sure its probably not as popular as the latest Tekken 3 but that doesn't mean its dying.
Pinball is kind of like The Beatles it had its day of fame but it will never completely die. Its to much a part of the American Culture. Ten years from now no one will even know what Tekken 3 was, but PinBall will still be kicking around. I mean ask a 6 year old Nintendo freak what Space Invaders or PacMan is and they probably couldn't tell you. Games like Tekken 3 are just passing fads, trust me they will never eliminate PinBall.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
If only we had the power to see into these other solar systems we would most definetly find other life. I'm am firmly convinced that our exisence on this planet is not an accident. If you think about it and the billions of years the universe has been in existence it makes sense to think that life evolved quite a long time before we or this earth came along... and that life evolved to such an advanced level that we probably cannot even comprehend it.
My theory is that these advanced creatures actually seeded our earth and the life on it. In fact, they have probably seeded countless planets. You ask what is the point of all of this, I'm not going to give you that answer, you will have to figure it out yourself. But the point is that life as we know it is only a small part of the big picture really out there. I think these advanced creatures have purposely shielded us from interaction with other planets and forms of life to maintain an environment that essentially protects us and at the same time keeps us ignorant of other worlds.
Anyhow it is just some food for thought.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
I bought a server from Gateway (don't ask me what possessed at the time, I should have built it myself). It was supposed to ship with windows 2000 server but instead it came with Win NT 4.0
So I contacted customer support requesting an upgrade. However due to Microsoft's new licensing crap they could not send me an upgrade since they would be technically giving me two operating systems, or something like that. The only other option was to swap out my server with one pre-installed with Win 2k. Of course I couldn't do that since I already had over a 100 clients webhosting accounts active on the machine. So I didn't get the OS I had paid for, long story short.
Who's to blame here and what action should I take. Gateway has been less than helpful...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
So they break it up into two companies... how is that going to change anything. Windows (OS) will keep on creating operating systems that support windows apps and Window (Apps) will keep on creating apps that run on Windows (OS).
This doesn't change anything. There must be a better solution, such as sharing their source code or something.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
I have an alphanumeric pager that I keep for monitoring our servers and it is usually spammed about once a week. Don't ask me how they ever got ahold of my phonenumber/email address for this pager. I suspect that paging service provider is selling these numbers off for profit, but I could be wrong. However, it is rather annoying when my pager goes off and I just about have a heartattack thinking one our servers is down only to find out that it is nothing more than another advertisement . Not to mention that every page I get counts toward my monthly quotas and soon I will be charged to receive "spam".
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Why are you airing this on Slashdot? There should be a forum just for domain name disputes and the legal hassling over this. On a personal note I hope you win against Mattel but I don't give you much of a chance since they probably have millions to throw at this case.
I would also make sure I read over the Domain Dispute Policy provided by ICANN before registering domains that are borderline legal messes.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
http://www.theregister.co.uk/000505 -000008.html
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
After spending most of my life living in Canada all I can say is that sociallized programs and government subsidized services stink. Yes the price is great but the quality is pitiful. It is a great idea to give Internet Access to the masses but in our Capitalistic World the incentive will not be enough to provide quality. For quality you need competition not a "monopoly".
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
I agree this is interesting technology however in comparison with just running a bunch of processors in parrallel there is no real advantage, at least not in performance that I can see. Costwise however there would probably be an advantage but then you have all the problems of trying to make this heterogenous "solution" talk to itself. Personally I think we are better off just going the multi-processor route on a single motherboard. Also the Japanese were not the first to do this, similar research has been going on at the Almaden Research Center (IBM) in San Jose for some time now. It is just the japanese who where the first to publicly announce it.
My question always is, why do we need faster processors when the software we are using is still not utilizing this speed. Of course the argument can always be made that in a year to six months from now the software will have become so bloated that it will need this speed. I disagree, look at Linux, you can easily run a Linux box off of a 200Mhz processor, you sure as heck don't need 1.2 Ghz or whatever is the cutting edge right now.
The funny thing is that I read somewhere that Microsoft had come out with some sort of spec where it said that to have Windows 2000 run properly and see a performance boost in all its Apps it would need at least a 2Ghz processor. Boy, there must be something going on between Intel and Windows (Wintel) for this kind of announcement. You would think it would hurt sales but it doesn't.
Anyhow, I think the speed thing is just a little overated. I say we need to pay more attention to the motherboard speed and the peripheals...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Yah, your probably right. There is alot of crap raining down on earth every day, but how do you find this stuff. I mean its not like I ever get up one morning and find a 3 kilo meteor sitting there in the middle of my lawn. Its like searching for a needle in a haystack. I don't know I'm just a little suspicious about the source of these supposed meteor materials.
As far as my sig is concerned, if you don't like it don't pay any more attention to it than to those silly banners at the top of this page. Sorry if it offends you but it does serve a purpose.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
I know this may sound strange but even though Descent on Unix is great and all, I would just like to see other games ported to Linux/Unix like my favorite, "Age of Empires". Admittedly, this is a microsoft product but it is definetly a great game. Microsoft could start another surge of game sales and unload a tonne of these games if they would just port it to Linux. I would definetly buy it for $49.99 or whatever the going price might be.
Linux has made great progress but it still has a long way to go to get into the gaming market. Come on developers... come to your senses!
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
How is these lyrics insightful? Its disgusting...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com