I think that you've just violated your agreement by sharing your revenue information, and your choice of punishment is either a amzn_crawler DoS or a monetary penalty of 20 times your gross revenue generated.
We've noticed quite a few requests for robots.txt by the Alexa archiver. So a suggestion to boot may be throwing this into your root directory of your domain's web site (in a file called robots.txt)
User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow:/
And if its really annoying, bloody hell, just do an active firewall block and put the sharks (lawyers) away with those goofy lawsuits before they start wasting our senators' time and taxpayer cash.
Remember, if you host a bandwidth intensive site (not even necessarily tons of visitors, but huge pages -- such as all busy threads on slashdot) use mod_gzip or something similar to it. Slashdot supposedly has mod_gzip installed, but they did not seem to have it configured correctly in the past -- not sure if they do now.
Anyhow, we use it on our properties that have message forums, and we easily take 120K threads down to around 10K per page impression. This could definitely help you save on your bandwidth spikes if you run a burstable or 95th percentile billing with your ISP.
At a smaller ISP, we had to push out the air conditioner and let it drop two stories (because we couldn't pull it back in for some reason) and install a new one -- of course, the ISP did not foot the bill, WE did. This was to keep the servers cool on those 95 degree Michigan summer days.
At a large national ISP, we had ants crawling up the rack, ant traps scattered around the floor, cables at hip, eye, and foot level to get all tangled in -- and worst of all, an air conditioning unit (a 5 ton unit) that decided NOT to work on the hot days -- 115 deg. F ambient, temperature alarms, failing servers, and half-ass customer service staff that shook their heads wondering what to do.
Needless to say, we're now at a world class facility -- raised floors, key/scan access, more AC units than Las Vegas, and where the only thing one has to worry about these days would be, well, bankruptcy.
We often consult with them because it makes us feel better; however, I am a strong believer in doing your own due-diligence. Look for case records on similar topics that apply to your situation. Look for press releases and news articles, etc. You're looking for any type of information for which you can arm yourself and your attorney.
I'm gonna say it -- I can't stand lawyers. I think that many of their practices are just plain bullsh*t, particularly when it comes to how many "hours" they work on preparing documents and doing research. So, do your own, and when you work with a firm, share with them, and stay on top of the firm so that you know exactly how much work their billing you for, what they're doing, etc.
You need a lawyer when you think that it might come to litigation. However, even before that day comes, you must do your own due diligence. That is most important because often, in cases like this, that deal with "high-tech" topics -- attorneys don't have the knowledge or experience to handle your case in the most effective manner. You can save time, a ton of money, and your ass (in terms of winning the case) at the end of the day.
Not to pee on the parade, but no, banner ads could not subsidize a free wireless network. CPMs (cost per thousand) are so low for banner impressions, and really, at the end of the day, this model has been tried countless times.
People just have to PAY for it. PAY because there's real maintenance behind any size ISP. PAY because there's real equipment behind any size ISP. PAY because, well, people must, and banners don't. By the way, the same people that say, "Yeah, I'd do it. Banners forced on my screen are fine by me." are the same people who will also come up with a thousand ways around it, blocking your banners from ever being shown.:-) (a la AllAdvantage.com -- the $100M funded 'banner-on-your-desktop-for-cash'company that went belly-up)
Network World, Storage Management Solutions -- hell, you name it, there's plenty of free magazine subscriptions. That should keep you well up to date. Have your friends/family post your address.
Increase their cost from the $5.00 or so per domain, to $100.00 per two years -- make 'em feel the pain like we used to a few years back.:-)
Newton ahead of its time.
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We have a couple Newtons here in our company, and my brother recently resurrected his from the shelf. The handwriting recognition is out of this world. How it recognizes print or cursive is just amazing. Text to speech was actually useful (and used, might I add). The database for contacts was extensible. The cross references between messages/notes/contacts, etc. was very fast and intuitive.
The only issue we had with it was the synchronization capabilities. Apparently, it syncs quite well with Mac apps; however, that's one thing we don't have here.
Hell, we were just talking about this yesterday -- we wish they'd bring it back. The Newton platform is really nice. To me, its somewhere between Palm OS and CE (for those that wish to compare).
Wait a second -- you know what?
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The more I stare at that image, damn guy looks like Duke Nukem'.
Re:Make Mars Open Source!
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And let out the secrets and have Al Qaeda beat us there to sabotage our rover landing? Horrible idea.
Travel agents new frontier.
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"The aesthetic quality that Isidis, Melas, Eos, and Athabasca are just.. well, breathtaking, but the winds this time of year on Eos could just rip the head off a horse."
Now this would be a good/. poll. Hematite has my vote. Cool name, best conditions according to this chart of rankings.
One thing I've learned about "brand-name" PCs (even though I know these are "no-name") is that the components are tried and true in terms of their compatibility. Well, I really haven't noticed this for PCs, because that's not my bag, but rather, in servers. For instance, how many times have we pieced together a motherboard, memory, video card, and hard drive (I mean, how simple can it get?) into a case and NOT have it work because of some incompatibility?
Well, all I know is that I cracked open a couple HP LPR1000r (1U rackmount) servers and those motherboards have the ASUS name on it; however, it seems to have been a custom make for HP. Also, the same ole' sym53c1010 chips are sitting on that SCSI controller. But I believe the big difference is the testing -- the damn stuff just works together.
So, because I haven't got my hands on one of these whitebox Dells, I can't say for sure. But I'm pretty much going to guess that what makes this Dell a better no-name than the mom-and-pop no-name is that the components are tested to be reliable, but even more important, compatible.
I wonder if this will help smaller businesses compete in the government (municipal/state/etc) bids. What I'm really wondering is if these generic computers will be Gartner Group Tier-1 or 2 certified (whatever the hell that meant in the first place). Because smaller businesses that pieced together SuperMicro and Asus motherboards along with Intel and AMD CPUs in neat little Acer cases just couldn't bid unless they were reselling Gateway, Dell, HP or Compaq which really left bids for the big guns to win.
Every freakin' co-lo facility looks just about the same. That could be Level3, Switch & Data, or any ole' "raised floor big AC cage rack" facility. But now we know where farnsworth houses his equipment (and you mine).;-)
If the link to their site gets slashdotted, Internet2 isn't all its whooped up to be.:-) [j/k]
"Installation Practice and Drills". Damn. When we install at a new co-lo, I usually have this down on a dinner (White Castle) napkin two hours previous, lose it, and do our practice-and-drill in production-real-time. There's definitely something to be learned about build-out and deployment just from looking at their pictures. 8-/
Wolfenstein? Where the fudge are the Germans?
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Is this like the "politically correct futuristic no-Nazi-killing" Castle Wolfenstein? What happend to the "war plans", the SS, and the bullet proof vests?
Monsters? What in the hell are electric mega-guns and zombie monsters doing there?
I'd take the 2-D old school Muse Software version over this stuff any day of the week.
Hey, if she's sold on the marketing, you better do what a good man has to do. Just hope that you can convince her that you're fueling child labor and wars in Africa and save the $10K (and buy a new 47" flat plasma that you can say you found on eBay for $200).
By the way, if the new Diamonique and Zirconias (sp?) are so hard to differentiate from the real thing, what are you waiting for? Save a child, stop a war, and be the envy of all geeks with your new monitor.
They better not forget to sock away a few more of those big bucks to pay for the medical expenses of those poor cats who have to drive around in those cancer-boxes they're driving around.:-|
And for just a few grand I'll gladly give them my GPS coordinates of where I get dropped calls, without fail (or with fail, depends on how you look at it).
Slashdot Mirror
I think that you've just violated your agreement by sharing your revenue information, and your choice of punishment is either a amzn_crawler DoS or a monetary penalty of 20 times your gross revenue generated.
We've noticed quite a few requests for robots.txt by the Alexa archiver. So a suggestion to boot may be throwing this into your root directory of your domain's web site (in a file called robots.txt)
/
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow:
And if its really annoying, bloody hell, just do an active firewall block and put the sharks (lawyers) away with those goofy lawsuits before they start wasting our senators' time and taxpayer cash.
Remember, if you host a bandwidth intensive site (not even necessarily tons of visitors, but huge pages -- such as all busy threads on slashdot) use mod_gzip or something similar to it. Slashdot supposedly has mod_gzip installed, but they did not seem to have it configured correctly in the past -- not sure if they do now.
Anyhow, we use it on our properties that have message forums, and we easily take 120K threads down to around 10K per page impression. This could definitely help you save on your bandwidth spikes if you run a burstable or 95th percentile billing with your ISP.
mod_gzip here
..the "alleged" landings were fake.
Curious to see which pr0n passwords could be squandered from his inbox.
At a smaller ISP, we had to push out the air conditioner and let it drop two stories (because we couldn't pull it back in for some reason) and install a new one -- of course, the ISP did not foot the bill, WE did. This was to keep the servers cool on those 95 degree Michigan summer days.
At a large national ISP, we had ants crawling up the rack, ant traps scattered around the floor, cables at hip, eye, and foot level to get all tangled in -- and worst of all, an air conditioning unit (a 5 ton unit) that decided NOT to work on the hot days -- 115 deg. F ambient, temperature alarms, failing servers, and half-ass customer service staff that shook their heads wondering what to do.
Needless to say, we're now at a world class facility -- raised floors, key/scan access, more AC units than Las Vegas, and where the only thing one has to worry about these days would be, well, bankruptcy.
We often consult with them because it makes us feel better; however, I am a strong believer in doing your own due-diligence. Look for case records on similar topics that apply to your situation. Look for press releases and news articles, etc. You're looking for any type of information for which you can arm yourself and your attorney.
I'm gonna say it -- I can't stand lawyers. I think that many of their practices are just plain bullsh*t, particularly when it comes to how many "hours" they work on preparing documents and doing research. So, do your own, and when you work with a firm, share with them, and stay on top of the firm so that you know exactly how much work their billing you for, what they're doing, etc.
You need a lawyer when you think that it might come to litigation. However, even before that day comes, you must do your own due diligence. That is most important because often, in cases like this, that deal with "high-tech" topics -- attorneys don't have the knowledge or experience to handle your case in the most effective manner. You can save time, a ton of money, and your ass (in terms of winning the case) at the end of the day.
And on top of that, you must think about your EBITA, cash-burn strategy, and the community potential to maximize P2P and B2B wireless agenda.
Not to pee on the parade, but no, banner ads could not subsidize a free wireless network. CPMs (cost per thousand) are so low for banner impressions, and really, at the end of the day, this model has been tried countless times.
:-) (a la AllAdvantage.com -- the $100M funded 'banner-on-your-desktop-for-cash'company that went belly-up)
People just have to PAY for it. PAY because there's real maintenance behind any size ISP. PAY because there's real equipment behind any size ISP. PAY because, well, people must, and banners don't. By the way, the same people that say, "Yeah, I'd do it. Banners forced on my screen are fine by me." are the same people who will also come up with a thousand ways around it, blocking your banners from ever being shown.
Network World, Storage Management Solutions -- hell, you name it, there's plenty of free magazine subscriptions. That should keep you well up to date. Have your friends/family post your address.
Increase their cost from the $5.00 or so per domain, to $100.00 per two years -- make 'em feel the pain like we used to a few years back. :-)
We have a couple Newtons here in our company, and my brother recently resurrected his from the shelf. The handwriting recognition is out of this world. How it recognizes print or cursive is just amazing. Text to speech was actually useful (and used, might I add). The database for contacts was extensible. The cross references between messages/notes/contacts, etc. was very fast and intuitive.
The only issue we had with it was the synchronization capabilities. Apparently, it syncs quite well with Mac apps; however, that's one thing we don't have here.
Hell, we were just talking about this yesterday -- we wish they'd bring it back. The Newton platform is really nice. To me, its somewhere between Palm OS and CE (for those that wish to compare).
The more I stare at that image, damn guy looks like Duke Nukem'.
And let out the secrets and have Al Qaeda beat us there to sabotage our rover landing? Horrible idea.
"The aesthetic quality that Isidis, Melas, Eos, and Athabasca are just.. well, breathtaking, but the winds this time of year on Eos could just rip the head off a horse."
/. poll. Hematite has my vote. Cool name, best conditions according to this chart of rankings.
Now this would be a good
One thing I've learned about "brand-name" PCs (even though I know these are "no-name") is that the components are tried and true in terms of their compatibility. Well, I really haven't noticed this for PCs, because that's not my bag, but rather, in servers. For instance, how many times have we pieced together a motherboard, memory, video card, and hard drive (I mean, how simple can it get?) into a case and NOT have it work because of some incompatibility?
Well, all I know is that I cracked open a couple HP LPR1000r (1U rackmount) servers and those motherboards have the ASUS name on it; however, it seems to have been a custom make for HP. Also, the same ole' sym53c1010 chips are sitting on that SCSI controller. But I believe the big difference is the testing -- the damn stuff just works together.
So, because I haven't got my hands on one of these whitebox Dells, I can't say for sure. But I'm pretty much going to guess that what makes this Dell a better no-name than the mom-and-pop no-name is that the components are tested to be reliable, but even more important, compatible.
I wonder if this will help smaller businesses compete in the government (municipal/state/etc) bids. What I'm really wondering is if these generic computers will be Gartner Group Tier-1 or 2 certified (whatever the hell that meant in the first place). Because smaller businesses that pieced together SuperMicro and Asus motherboards along with Intel and AMD CPUs in neat little Acer cases just couldn't bid unless they were reselling Gateway, Dell, HP or Compaq which really left bids for the big guns to win.
Every freakin' co-lo facility looks just about the same. That could be Level3, Switch & Data, or any ole' "raised floor big AC cage rack" facility. But now we know where farnsworth houses his equipment (and you mine). ;-)
If the link to their site gets slashdotted, Internet2 isn't all its whooped up to be. :-) [j/k]
"Installation Practice and Drills". Damn. When we install at a new co-lo, I usually have this down on a dinner (White Castle) napkin two hours previous, lose it, and do our practice-and-drill in production-real-time. There's definitely something to be learned about build-out and deployment just from looking at their pictures. 8-/
Is this like the "politically correct futuristic no-Nazi-killing" Castle Wolfenstein? What happend to the "war plans", the SS, and the bullet proof vests?
Monsters? What in the hell are electric mega-guns and zombie monsters doing there?
I'd take the 2-D old school Muse Software version over this stuff any day of the week.
Hey, if she's sold on the marketing, you better do what a good man has to do. Just hope that you can convince her that you're fueling child labor and wars in Africa and save the $10K (and buy a new 47" flat plasma that you can say you found on eBay for $200).
By the way, if the new Diamonique and Zirconias (sp?) are so hard to differentiate from the real thing, what are you waiting for? Save a child, stop a war, and be the envy of all geeks with your new monitor.
.. is that the article on PCmag.com is dated September 3, 2002. Slashdot is going all Minority Report -- we know about news BEFORE it happens.
Honest to God, who in the hell is this guy? Have you seen the stuff this guy has invented? Son of a bitch, I knew I should have went to Stanford.
They better not forget to sock away a few more of those big bucks to pay for the medical expenses of those poor cats who have to drive around in those cancer-boxes they're driving around. :-|
And for just a few grand I'll gladly give them my GPS coordinates of where I get dropped calls, without fail (or with fail, depends on how you look at it).