Remember back in the dotcom hayday, everyone and their brother was rushing out to make a new portal? You know, the all-in-one start page for the browser -- stock quotes, weather, sports scores, yadda-yadda. I think it was an attempt to clone the (then) success of AOL. Search engine firms became media companies. Now, these media companies are trying to get back into the search engine fray.
Why? Because the ad dollars that were once banner impressions from billions of page impressions, are now far cheaper than they were back then (revenues are down from them), and now pay-per-click revenues are super-duper high. Remember, this isn't about making software for the greater good of man, these companies are in it to win it.
So anyway, here we are again. Searching your desktop. Web based mail. Yesterday's AOL is today's Google. Personally, a lot of these tools are overhyped, in my opinion. I really hope that these companies have more forward looking people, instead of just sideways looking (i.e. at competition). Because when contextual text-based ads start losing their value, it'll just happen all over again, and we may be talking about the search engine wars the same way we look back at the portal wars.
Honestly, if you're pro-Windows in any way shape or form, YOU CAN HAVE IT. Application and storage servers -- I would never host on a Windows box. Not because I'm anti-Microsoft, just because I know how Linux works for my company. The adjectives to describe Linux's role for us are: fast, reliable, secure, inexpensive.
So, blast through all of your metrics and case studies, and even tell me that I don't measure my costs properly.. but my company has been in the black since its inception, and I have to give a lot of credit to my backend boxes, which, from day one, have always been running Linux.
I've mixed and matched VNC servers to clients, and I've had many problems (and no, I don't mean obvious ones like plug-in encryption on Ultra and a non-encrypted client). The main problem that I have with mixing and matching is mouse pointer handling. One reason I really liked RealVNC 4.0 is that the local mouse pointer option works GREAT.
UltraVNC I've found has had some mouse pointer location issues.. it's spotty. Could be just me, but this was true on several different installs of servers and clients (and different connection permutations).
Probalby a redundant answer, but I'd say try them all out for yourself. I'd say the compression methods for all of them are pretty much even-steven amongst the flavors. I think the higher level of encryption is something to be looking out for, and the ability to browse directories and transfer files in the background is pretty cool, in UltraVNC.
C-Net's advanced cursor movements were called "MCI". What MCI stood for, I don't remember, but having twirling cursors and really cool cursor movements in the 300/1200 baud days was pretty advanced and fun. Yes, indeed, they were fun times.
BBS is to the Internet WWW, as Zork is to Doom III. Bulletin board systems left so much more for the imagination because it was so cutting edge, new, and you didn't have 1600x1200x16.7M colors to convey your message. It was text/ASCII (and later ANSI) purely.
So, on that analagous mindset, yesterday's MCI/ASCII is todays SWF.:-)
Dr. Duplicate/AC (my old BBS name)
Resume/Qualifications:
Sysop and co-sysop of: Electronic Empire/AC, The Ice Rink BBS, Kangaoro HQ/AC, Sethanon/AC, Redford AE (300/1200 AE baby w/20MB Cider), The Game Room, Highway 61. (these are all Detroit Area BBSs) And of course, AC = Aristo*Crack. Oh lord. My first waR3 claim to fame: cracked Castle Wolfenstien by Muse Software (I was part of the Saltine Krackers at that time, however -- very big movement.. me and my buddy, who never even knew the Hayes AT command set)
Hardware: Apple IIe with a Hayes Micromodem IIe (internal, 300 baud). Then I graduated to an Avatar 1200HC. Mean jump to a Hayes 2400. Happy to be a pioneer with the Zoom Telephonics v.32bis 14.4K.
It's no wonder I got into the Web and have been making a living on it for 10 years.;-) I'm a sysop all over again.. but this time, to put food on the table, not for the latest war3z.
..what Huo Jiyu REALLY said was, "Damn this government and their sweat shop mass production satellites! If there were only democracy, capitalism and competitive markets in the Chinese aerospace industry, this wouldn't have happened to me... WHY ME?? Fortune comes in threes, so I can't WAIT for what's in store for my next two."
.. in other news tonight, fan blade manufacturer Oster has been bombed by the United States military. Oster, a subsidary of SunBeam, was not immediately available for comments; however, Donald Rumsfeld says that a special Halliburton deployment team will be sent to Boca Raton, FL to reconstruct the area, and get fan blade production back to peak efficiency.
..that means the meta-keyword 7X trick should get me to the top of the search results on MSN Search as it did back in the late 90s. Anyone want to bid on the first 10 positions of any English search term? I'm your daddy.
Make sure you have the codes to shut down SkyNet. Oh yeah, lock yourself into a hardend underground base with Claire Daines to reproduce and save the world. Damn worms.
Not because we have some Dr. Evil Big Brother that wants to watch everything you do, but because someone wants to: A) spend money, just because it's there; B) create and execute a plan with their name on it, so they can get political credit; C) Did I mention just spend the money?
"We're at war." Damn straight, but not with terrorism on our turf. We the people are at war with politicians and their henchmen telling us we're at war. Put this $2M towards real intelligence projects, and hell, put more cops on the harbor/bridge. Do you know how many full time cops you can fund with $2M? (actually, that's jus t a little cream on top of the $25M homeland security grant).
By the way, I'd love to read about the on-going expenses to keep the system up and running, and fully manned 24/7/365, so that we're not just talking about the video-taped incident(s) ex post-facto.
I hope this just wasn't a Michigan phenomenon thing, but many years ago when cell phones became mainstream, we went out in droves and everyone owned one of those memo-pads with the suction cups to stick on their windshield -- you know, to take those important notes whilst driving.
Seriously, man, what were we thinking? That we looked important and cool? I mean, I did, but the rest of you.. anyway..
So, my suggestion, while traveling, use a suction-cup memo-pad with the nice spiral-cord attached pen, that, of course, writes like complete sh*t. You can stick it on the window on the plane, or on the seat in front of you. When you're renting a car, you can stick it on that car's windshield. The possibilities are endless, really.
Make sure that when you remove the suction cup, you carefully lift the little rubber nubby nipple -- makes removal so much easier.
I compile everything from scratch. I'm a Slackware devotee for reasons of habit and, well, always just been a CLI guy. A mouse for an install? Gag me with a.. umm.. mouse?
What would I prefer? A perfect world where I know exactly what dependencies (and their respective versions) are required for every single piece of software that I install. Hell, I just had that struggle this morning trying to compile some stuff on servers that didn't have a single X11 library installed.
What we really need is something as cool as CPAN, that notifies you of library/module version dependencies when you install something, and actually PROMPTS you to install a new dependency module.
In the 10 years I've been using Linux, I've probably used RPM or something like it about 5 times. But after tooling around with Cygwin on my Windows boxes, and getting an X server, the latest Perl and Python running in 8 minutes -- I think I may just have to check out what this Gentoo hype is all about.
I've been using Cooks Recipes. The webmaster, Hope Pryor, has a great collection of recipes, and just good overall easy-to-follow directions. Great for beginners to seasoned pros. Wonderful site.
I think that YOU are Alex Jones trying to make us believe that Alex Jones has detractors, thus making him even MORE valid in the eyes of the skeptical.
..just called me the other day to see if I wanted to step mine up to 3Mbps down (512kbps/up). It's only $15/more a month. Their price stratifications look like this: 112k down ($34.99/mo), 500k down ($39.99/mo), 1.5Mbps down ($44.99/mo), 3.0Mbps down ($59.99/mo).
Off topic? You clod. You just don't get it -- Half-Life 2 has been talked about forever.. they'll never release it, was my point. Who in the hell is moderating this anyway? I'm funny, damn it. Now laugh. That's better.
.. by the time they release it in 2015, you'll be able to ALT-TAB between Linux Kernel 7.7.15 and Windows 2010 Advanced Server (the last version of MS-Win Server released after they decide to get out of the server market in Q4-2009).
First, there was vaporware. Now, there are vaporworries.
I read in some book (I think "Good to Great" by Collins) something that I find very useful. It's called the "Not To Do List". Instead of a To-Do list, which sometimes gets crowded with obvious large tasks or minutia -- make a real TO-DO list along with a NOT-TO-DO list.
On really busy days, my NOT-TO-DO list includes Slashdot, believe it or not. It also includes checking the weather, stock quotes, instant messaging, snacking, staring out the office windows for cute gals, etc.
If you actually tracked how much time you spend goofing off, distracting yourself, you'd see how valuable the NOT-TO-DO list is to boost your productivity.
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Or, what if I just starting yelling "Halalalalalala!!" during my shooting spree -- that should be enough to dupe the system.
And did anyone else notice her enlarged breasts and backside of her thong exposed? This is a wonderful artistic achievement!
Remember back in the dotcom hayday, everyone and their brother was rushing out to make a new portal? You know, the all-in-one start page for the browser -- stock quotes, weather, sports scores, yadda-yadda. I think it was an attempt to clone the (then) success of AOL. Search engine firms became media companies. Now, these media companies are trying to get back into the search engine fray.
Why? Because the ad dollars that were once banner impressions from billions of page impressions, are now far cheaper than they were back then (revenues are down from them), and now pay-per-click revenues are super-duper high. Remember, this isn't about making software for the greater good of man, these companies are in it to win it.
So anyway, here we are again. Searching your desktop. Web based mail. Yesterday's AOL is today's Google. Personally, a lot of these tools are overhyped, in my opinion. I really hope that these companies have more forward looking people, instead of just sideways looking (i.e. at competition). Because when contextual text-based ads start losing their value, it'll just happen all over again, and we may be talking about the search engine wars the same way we look back at the portal wars.
Honestly, if you're pro-Windows in any way shape or form, YOU CAN HAVE IT. Application and storage servers -- I would never host on a Windows box. Not because I'm anti-Microsoft, just because I know how Linux works for my company. The adjectives to describe Linux's role for us are: fast, reliable, secure, inexpensive.
So, blast through all of your metrics and case studies, and even tell me that I don't measure my costs properly.. but my company has been in the black since its inception, and I have to give a lot of credit to my backend boxes, which, from day one, have always been running Linux.
I've mixed and matched VNC servers to clients, and I've had many problems (and no, I don't mean obvious ones like plug-in encryption on Ultra and a non-encrypted client). The main problem that I have with mixing and matching is mouse pointer handling. One reason I really liked RealVNC 4.0 is that the local mouse pointer option works GREAT.
UltraVNC I've found has had some mouse pointer location issues.. it's spotty. Could be just me, but this was true on several different installs of servers and clients (and different connection permutations).
Probalby a redundant answer, but I'd say try them all out for yourself. I'd say the compression methods for all of them are pretty much even-steven amongst the flavors. I think the higher level of encryption is something to be looking out for, and the ability to browse directories and transfer files in the background is pretty cool, in UltraVNC.
Amusers online. Holy moly. Wasn't that game (MUD) called Kyrandia? Loved it.
C-Net's advanced cursor movements were called "MCI". What MCI stood for, I don't remember, but having twirling cursors and really cool cursor movements in the 300/1200 baud days was pretty advanced and fun. Yes, indeed, they were fun times.
:-)
;-) I'm a sysop all over again.. but this time, to put food on the table, not for the latest war3z.
BBS is to the Internet WWW, as Zork is to Doom III. Bulletin board systems left so much more for the imagination because it was so cutting edge, new, and you didn't have 1600x1200x16.7M colors to convey your message. It was text/ASCII (and later ANSI) purely.
So, on that analagous mindset, yesterday's MCI/ASCII is todays SWF.
Dr. Duplicate/AC (my old BBS name)
Resume/Qualifications:
Sysop and co-sysop of: Electronic Empire/AC, The Ice Rink BBS, Kangaoro HQ/AC, Sethanon/AC, Redford AE (300/1200 AE baby w/20MB Cider), The Game Room, Highway 61. (these are all Detroit Area BBSs) And of course, AC = Aristo*Crack. Oh lord. My first waR3 claim to fame: cracked Castle Wolfenstien by Muse Software (I was part of the Saltine Krackers at that time, however -- very big movement.. me and my buddy, who never even knew the Hayes AT command set)
Hardware: Apple IIe with a Hayes Micromodem IIe (internal, 300 baud). Then I graduated to an Avatar 1200HC. Mean jump to a Hayes 2400. Happy to be a pioneer with the Zoom Telephonics v.32bis 14.4K.
It's no wonder I got into the Web and have been making a living on it for 10 years.
..what Huo Jiyu REALLY said was, "Damn this government and their sweat shop mass production satellites! If there were only democracy, capitalism and competitive markets in the Chinese aerospace industry, this wouldn't have happened to me... WHY ME?? Fortune comes in threes, so I can't WAIT for what's in store for my next two."
And this is my low content first post. People, important point.. it's pronounced LEE-nus, the very first sentence reads.
.. in other news tonight, fan blade manufacturer Oster has been bombed by the United States military. Oster, a subsidary of SunBeam, was not immediately available for comments; however, Donald Rumsfeld says that a special Halliburton deployment team will be sent to Boca Raton, FL to reconstruct the area, and get fan blade production back to peak efficiency.
..that means the meta-keyword 7X trick should get me to the top of the search results on MSN Search as it did back in the late 90s. Anyone want to bid on the first 10 positions of any English search term? I'm your daddy.
Make sure you have the codes to shut down SkyNet. Oh yeah, lock yourself into a hardend underground base with Claire Daines to reproduce and save the world. Damn worms.
Not because we have some Dr. Evil Big Brother that wants to watch everything you do, but because someone wants to: A) spend money, just because it's there; B) create and execute a plan with their name on it, so they can get political credit; C) Did I mention just spend the money?
"We're at war." Damn straight, but not with terrorism on our turf. We the people are at war with politicians and their henchmen telling us we're at war. Put this $2M towards real intelligence projects, and hell, put more cops on the harbor/bridge. Do you know how many full time cops you can fund with $2M? (actually, that's jus t a little cream on top of the $25M homeland security grant).
By the way, I'd love to read about the on-going expenses to keep the system up and running, and fully manned 24/7/365, so that we're not just talking about the video-taped incident(s) ex post-facto.
I hope this just wasn't a Michigan phenomenon thing, but many years ago when cell phones became mainstream, we went out in droves and everyone owned one of those memo-pads with the suction cups to stick on their windshield -- you know, to take those important notes whilst driving.
Seriously, man, what were we thinking? That we looked important and cool? I mean, I did, but the rest of you.. anyway.. So, my suggestion, while traveling, use a suction-cup memo-pad with the nice spiral-cord attached pen, that, of course, writes like complete sh*t. You can stick it on the window on the plane, or on the seat in front of you. When you're renting a car, you can stick it on that car's windshield. The possibilities are endless, really.
Make sure that when you remove the suction cup, you carefully lift the little rubber nubby nipple -- makes removal so much easier.
.. thought it said "Carbon-Filter" Stealth Ship. I was thinking,
Gee, what military strength -- the most powerful Brita water filtration system to rule the seas. Taste the difference.
I compile everything from scratch. I'm a Slackware devotee for reasons of habit and, well, always just been a CLI guy. A mouse for an install? Gag me with a.. umm.. mouse?
What would I prefer? A perfect world where I know exactly what dependencies (and their respective versions) are required for every single piece of software that I install. Hell, I just had that struggle this morning trying to compile some stuff on servers that didn't have a single X11 library installed.
What we really need is something as cool as CPAN, that notifies you of library/module version dependencies when you install something, and actually PROMPTS you to install a new dependency module.
In the 10 years I've been using Linux, I've probably used RPM or something like it about 5 times. But after tooling around with Cygwin on my Windows boxes, and getting an X server, the latest Perl and Python running in 8 minutes -- I think I may just have to check out what this Gentoo hype is all about.
I've been using Cooks Recipes. The webmaster, Hope Pryor, has a great collection of recipes, and just good overall easy-to-follow directions. Great for beginners to seasoned pros. Wonderful site.
I think that YOU are Alex Jones trying to make us believe that Alex Jones has detractors, thus making him even MORE valid in the eyes of the skeptical.
Haven't any of you watched Oceans Eleven? I think that the Bellagio better check their vault.
And this just in, UPDATE: Microsoft is unstoppable.
..just called me the other day to see if I wanted to step mine up to 3Mbps down (512kbps/up). It's only $15/more a month. Their price stratifications look like this: 112k down ($34.99/mo), 500k down ($39.99/mo), 1.5Mbps down ($44.99/mo), 3.0Mbps down ($59.99/mo).
Pricing found here.
Off topic? You clod. You just don't get it -- Half-Life 2 has been talked about forever.. they'll never release it, was my point. Who in the hell is moderating this anyway? I'm funny, damn it. Now laugh. That's better.
.. by the time they release it in 2015, you'll be able to ALT-TAB between Linux Kernel 7.7.15 and Windows 2010 Advanced Server (the last version of MS-Win Server released after they decide to get out of the server market in Q4-2009).
First, there was vaporware. Now, there are vaporworries.
.. in an Easter basket. ;-)
I read in some book (I think "Good to Great" by Collins) something that I find very useful. It's called the "Not To Do List". Instead of a To-Do list, which sometimes gets crowded with obvious large tasks or minutia -- make a real TO-DO list along with a NOT-TO-DO list.
On really busy days, my NOT-TO-DO list includes Slashdot, believe it or not. It also includes checking the weather, stock quotes, instant messaging, snacking, staring out the office windows for cute gals, etc.
If you actually tracked how much time you spend goofing off, distracting yourself, you'd see how valuable the NOT-TO-DO list is to boost your productivity.