I used to be with NetSol, until they started having really bad security issues allowing for domain hijacking a few years ago. I looked around and wound up with Register, because at the time they had one of the most secure systems for changing information, not to mention they had a great coupon at the time:) I ended up buying multiple years for each of 9 domains. Since then, I suspect a few other registrars have started up that are good, but I haven't bothered to look around, yet, since I don't need to renew until 2011. I personally would like to stay with Register, but $35/year/domain is too much for me, especially since I have a list of more domains I want to add. I'll want a bulk rate from my next registrar.
Be sure you find one with a commitment to security first and foremost, and that will let you sign for the transfer and then do the work of contacting GoDaddy for you. Oh, and GD probably has something set up to block transfer requests for your domain; you will need to log in and turn that off, before you launch with the new registrar.
It's not new to you because of where you live. In the US, it's still something of a big deal to have a car with nav. (I suspect less than 10% of cars actually on the road here have it built-in). It wasn't an option when I bought my car, and in fact my parents' new car from the same line is our family's first to have it.
How come positive reviews of products are given such a suspicious eye, that even when the post is from a four-digit ID with a long posting history (and website you can visit to check his credentials), it's seen as astroturfing?
This is interesting, assuming it's at all real, and reminds me of the idea of what happens when you become aware of your breathing and can't let it go back to involuntary mode.
Thanks a lot! Now why don't you start thinking about thinking? Are you thinking about thinking? About thinking?
If you've never won at a traditional auction before, the idea of a buyer's premium can be quite a shock. It's certainly something to budget for.
Back when I bought several lots of (original series and a half) Battlestar Galactica memorabilia from Profiles In History a couple of years ago, the amount of the premium made an impact in my decision to forgo bidding on other items. While tax wasn't an issue for me, because I was out of state, they did also charge an extra percentage for having a credit card transaction instead of funds wired in.
Isn't this the guy that started broadcast.com, that was later bought by Yahoo! for billions of dollars? I'd think he'd probably know a thing or two about this.........
Actually, he started Audionet, which became broadcast.com. I will never, never, never live down the fact that I interviewed with him personally, along with one of his engineers, in the spring of 1996 for a tech job here in Dallas, and I expressed disappointment that the pay was going to be meager, though there was a lot of stock being offered. My only defense is that the bubble hadn't even come to Texas yet, and nobody thought stock was worth the risk of working for a little startup. When the interview ended, he politely said he hoped I would consider them anyway. By the time I got home, I realized I'd made a blunder, and tried to call back to salvage things. I was shut out; I couldn't even get the secretary on the phone any more, or a reswponse to email. I was probably doomed when I walked in, though, because I wore a suit.
Secret fact/verification: the original Audionet building was a warehouse in the Deep Ellum area with a roof so bad I think it was rotting. There were dishes on the roof. They had a swing hanging from the rafters in one corner.
The old 1.0 Ghz G4 I have at home as a media server is still an adequate system that currently holds a terabyte of storage space and I'd love to drop a good 2.0 Ghz or higher chip in it for a reasonable cost. There are some 1.8Ghz chips out there that may do the job just fine, but the market has been stuck at 1.8Ghz for quite some time.
Put up a JE if you find a drop-in G4 that high, ok? My 1.42GHz is creaking badly under H.264. Actually, mine might be soldered in place.:( I might just try to overclock it to 1.58 and quit.
And yes, my blog is down until we get a new transformer installed at my building...... Hopefully tomorrow by noon as they are installing a new one as we speak.
Knowing you, I expect a couple pictures of this to show up.
yeah ! Let's make a back up of our chief engineer's brain, just in case he gets blown to pieces, you insensitive clod!
No, it's "let's not amplify the personal tragedy to the point where it threatens to collaterally damage the lives of all of our employees and investors and everyone who does business with us, by being too stupid to take sensible steps to protect our business."
Or, as the adage says, "don't put all your eggs in one basket."
Two hundred innocent people are killed and people are worried that future events like these might cause an IT outage? That's seems about on a par with worrying about doing business with Cantor Fitzgerald because they had an office located in the World Trade Center.
Many people died in New Orleans, too, when Katrina blew and washed through. Guess what? Companies are moving data centers away from there, too. Is that wrong? Plug in "hurricanes" instead of "bombs" for where you said "future events," and you'll get the picture, i.e., "that seems on par with worrying about doing business with a data center company because their center is located in a low-lying coastal area."
It's standard disaster planning to look at evolving environmental and political conditions and plan ahead. You may not like to think about it, but it's not any more callous than insurance companies making actuarial tables. The real point to take away isn't "don't do business with country X," but "don't put all your data or resources in one geographical location." And keep apprised of what is going on in the locations where you are operating. That's common sense, Dan.
I don't see where you are getting the Bulgarian link from, it seems to be hosted on a shared server in Boston. The registrar is a local seattle company, and all their net presence is on a linux box with dozens of other domains on Savvis' network.
ICDSoft's own website confirms they have a presence in the Waltham facility. So it's less likely this is stale info, as sometimes happens when providers don't keep their whois servers up to date. You can double check by tracing:
14 csr2-ve242.waltham1bo1.savvis.net (64.14.70.18) 58.097 ms 58.427 ms acr1-as0-0.boston.savvis.net (208.172.51.53) 60.124 ms 15 server262.com (64.14.68.15) 59.017 ms 56.119 ms 55.625 ms
anyway, the biggest point was that they are obviously outsourcing their own website and mail, and that the people they outsourced it to put everything, even DNS, on the same machine, which is rather risky. This bolstered my assertion that they weren't hosting anything for any customers at the end of their office pipe, and called into question what in the world they were really doing with that bandwidth.
Most are highly inequitious
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There are well-known principles of general taxation which are equitious
When you want people to believe you, it helps to use proper language. The words are inequitable and equitable. Though those are value judgements, and economists working professionally should avoid using them.
Tax is too complicated and too closely related to freedom to be used to implement political policy.
Taxes are used in this manner all the time, Toby. Taxes penalize activities and redistribute income. Have you ever heard of "tax incentives?" They're quite obviously also there to promote social/political policies.
There are well-known principles of general taxation which are equitious and minimize the discouragement caused by taxation to industry. These need to be followed at all times.
ANYONE suggesting tax should be done otherwise is a complete idiot with regard to economics and should be kept WELL away from any such decisions.
Ah, Toby, have you forgotten that sometimes the policy is exactly to discourage certain behavior? Or have you never encountered the idea of "vice taxes?"
In EXACTLY the same way, being a politician does not make you an economist - and if politicians are then making economic decisions, their decisions will lead to an economy in the exact same state as the particle accelerator they would otherwise have built.
And who would you have set public policy, Toby? The economists? Economics is a tool. Economics can tell you what effects certain stimuli are likely to have on the market, both in aggregate and in estimating individual purchasing behaviors. Economics alone can't tell you the right thing to do, however. This is why it is of paramount importance that we have smart leaders who really have our interests at heart, and who know how to consult economists when making policy. Because it's the politicians who decide, on our behalf, what society wants, and in which directions it should go.
In EXACTLY the same way, being a politician does not make you an economist
I would love to see discussions about software trends, especially things like learning software, cool new APIs or libraries or things like memcached [danga.com] which drives slashdot and other high volume DB based sites. I've used memcached successfully and really like it. I would like to see Linux topics like about the preemptive kernel patches. I like the MySQL/PostgreSQL/Oracle debates, but even those are not lead by very informed people. Basically, I would like a more experienced, professional twist to the discussions.
So what's your submission history look like?
If you want a higher level of discussion, sometimes you have to start it yourself. Write an article about your memcached adventures and submit it. Ask slashdot about those patches -- are they right for you? Please, though, pass over the db debates.:)
Be part of the signal, instead of complaining about the noise.:)
They were set in the universe, but telling completely different stories. So they weren't film conversions. Remember the fake websites and stuff that came out before the movie? There were apparently going to be tie-ins with some of that "history," and so forth. There could have been humans vs. robots taking over cities and the world (pick either side), etc.
The point is, if they cover them, we'll get a chance to see.
I hope part 2 covers the games from "A.I."
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Very little is widely known about the two games that were going to be made from the movie A.I., except that they were both supposed to be launch titles for the original X-BOX. My guess is that they were cancelled because the movie was not doing well. That's unfortunate, because apparently the games were going to expand upon the universe glimpsed in the movie, with completely different storylines.
They want their idea for "single monolithic software suite covering every possible activity" back.
I mean, really, modern operating systems know how to launch programs when you click contextually, via icon or URL or filename extension. The whole point is to let people create the best solutions to individual types of tasks, not one hulking thing that tries to do everything.
Code comments are only one form of developer documentation. Other forms include design and discovery docs (e.g. UML) and change comments (e.g. this change fixes bug 2938). Put design/discovery docs in an Intranet collaboration site. Wiki or any CMS such as Plone are good technologies for this. Put change comments in your source code control system.
If you fix a minor bug, and a week later you realize it's created a major bug, but in the meantime eight dozen commits have been made by your team, it's not always easy to just roll back to the version before the one you helpfully noted in the CVS comment as being "the" bug fix; you really do need to tag bug fixes in the code itself. The more documentation, the better. Explaining the "fix" you made should be part of this, though it can be out of the code itself, in external docs -- as long as everyone knows that that's where to it, and it's not split among five different places. That's where standardization really would be helpful. Some people still only comment in CVS, and I think that's just not enough if it's a team project.
# hah. I screwed that one up. What a perfect example of why commenting is important:)
You have a good point that nobody is eager to do this, but there's only so much they're willing to give up to keep everything together. Let's see what happens when the lawsuit shakes out. Especially if more stories come out in the meantime about automated mass surveillance, etc.
Mitchell makes the classic error in assuming "the internet" only exists in the US. I'd like to see him explain how he thinks the US is going to suddenly make rules for the rest of the world, with the many telecommunications providers run as government-owned monopolies, or even provide "Universal Service" for, say, Germany.
The internet will route around the damage, like it always does, and if the US enacts too many rules for its portion, American companies will lose business over it. That's all there is to it. In fact, since everyone is already plenty upset over ICANN retaining monopolistic levels of control, any further attempts to exercise control over countries will possibly lead to them setting up an entire infrastructure alternative in defiance.
I prefer 01-12-2005 for logfile names, so in a directory list, they appear by date even when sorting by name.
Unless you cross a year in your directory, like logs going from September, 2004, to August, 2005.:) I've found YYYY-MM-DD to be the easiest way to ensure chronological consistency.
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I used to be with NetSol, until they started having really bad security issues allowing for domain hijacking a few years ago. I looked around and wound up with Register, because at the time they had one of the most secure systems for changing information, not to mention they had a great coupon at the time :) I ended up buying multiple years for each of 9 domains. Since then, I suspect a few other registrars have started up that are good, but I haven't bothered to look around, yet, since I don't need to renew until 2011. I personally would like to stay with Register, but $35/year/domain is too much for me, especially since I have a list of more domains I want to add. I'll want a bulk rate from my next registrar.
Be sure you find one with a commitment to security first and foremost, and that will let you sign for the transfer and then do the work of contacting GoDaddy for you. Oh, and GD probably has something set up to block transfer requests for your domain; you will need to log in and turn that off, before you launch with the new registrar.
Obviously, someone managed to shoot an i out with the thing.
It's not new to you because of where you live. In the US, it's still something of a big deal to have a car with nav. (I suspect less than 10% of cars actually on the road here have it built-in). It wasn't an option when I bought my car, and in fact my parents' new car from the same line is our family's first to have it.
How come positive reviews of products are given such a suspicious eye, that even when the post is from a four-digit ID with a long posting history (and website you can visit to check his credentials), it's seen as astroturfing?
Get a grip, guys.
Thanks a lot! Now why don't you start thinking about thinking? Are you thinking about thinking? About thinking?
If you've never won at a traditional auction before, the idea of a buyer's premium can be quite a shock. It's certainly something to budget for.
Back when I bought several lots of (original series and a half) Battlestar Galactica memorabilia from Profiles In History a couple of years ago, the amount of the premium made an impact in my decision to forgo bidding on other items. While tax wasn't an issue for me, because I was out of state, they did also charge an extra percentage for having a credit card transaction instead of funds wired in.
Actually, he started Audionet, which became broadcast.com. I will never, never, never live down the fact that I interviewed with him personally, along with one of his engineers, in the spring of 1996 for a tech job here in Dallas, and I expressed disappointment that the pay was going to be meager, though there was a lot of stock being offered. My only defense is that the bubble hadn't even come to Texas yet, and nobody thought stock was worth the risk of working for a little startup. When the interview ended, he politely said he hoped I would consider them anyway. By the time I got home, I realized I'd made a blunder, and tried to call back to salvage things. I was shut out; I couldn't even get the secretary on the phone any more, or a reswponse to email. I was probably doomed when I walked in, though, because I wore a suit.
Secret fact/verification: the original Audionet building was a warehouse in the Deep Ellum area with a roof so bad I think it was rotting. There were dishes on the roof. They had a swing hanging from the rafters in one corner.
Put up a JE if you find a drop-in G4 that high, ok? My 1.42GHz is creaking badly under H.264.
Actually, mine might be soldered in place.
Knowing you, I expect a couple pictures of this to show up.
Oh. Stop feeding the trolls.
No, it's "let's not amplify the personal tragedy to the point where it threatens to collaterally damage the lives of all of our employees and investors and everyone who does business with us, by being too stupid to take sensible steps to protect our business."
Or, as the adage says, "don't put all your eggs in one basket."
Many people died in New Orleans, too, when Katrina blew and washed through. Guess what? Companies are moving data centers away from there, too. Is that wrong?
Plug in "hurricanes" instead of "bombs" for where you said "future events," and you'll get the picture, i.e., "that seems on par with worrying about doing business with a data center company because their center is located in a low-lying coastal area."
It's standard disaster planning to look at evolving environmental and political conditions and plan ahead. You may not like to think about it, but it's not any more callous than insurance companies making actuarial tables. The real point to take away isn't "don't do business with country X," but "don't put all your data or resources in one geographical location." And keep apprised of what is going on in the locations where you are operating. That's common sense, Dan.
Savvis told me:
ICDSoft's own website confirms they have a presence in the Waltham facility. So it's less likely this is stale info, as sometimes happens when providers don't keep their whois servers up to date. You can double check by tracing:
anyway, the biggest point was that they are obviously outsourcing their own website and mail, and that the people they outsourced it to put everything, even DNS, on the same machine, which is rather risky. This bolstered my assertion that they weren't hosting anything for any customers at the end of their office pipe, and called into question what in the world they were really doing with that bandwidth.
So what's your submission history look like?
If you want a higher level of discussion, sometimes you have to start it yourself. Write an article about your memcached adventures and submit it. Ask slashdot about those patches -- are they right for you? Please, though, pass over the db debates.
Be part of the signal, instead of complaining about the noise.
p.s.
Haven't we all?
That doesn't sound like VC, that sounds like Al-Qaeda, more like.
They were set in the universe, but telling completely different stories. So they weren't film conversions. Remember the fake websites and stuff that came out before the movie? There were apparently going to be tie-ins with some of that "history," and so forth. There could have been humans vs. robots taking over cities and the world (pick either side), etc.
The point is, if they cover them, we'll get a chance to see.
Very little is widely known about the two games that were going to be made from the movie A.I., except that they were both supposed to be launch titles for the original X-BOX. My guess is that they were cancelled because the movie was not doing well. That's unfortunate, because apparently the games were going to expand upon the universe glimpsed in the movie, with completely different storylines.
The article quotes someone claiming they want to eventually "completely eliminate" lag.
That's going to be a really neat trick, totally removing distance, the speed of routers, and the speed of the physical loop itself from the loop.
Maybe they have secret alien ansible technology.
They want their idea for "single monolithic software suite covering every possible activity" back.
I mean, really, modern operating systems know how to launch programs when you click contextually, via icon or URL or filename extension. The whole point is to let people create the best solutions to individual types of tasks, not one hulking thing that tries to do everything.
Slashdot coverage of the iPod.
from the well-thats-not-very-exciting dept.
The cameras are on the police!
No, wait. My head is about to asplode.
The police... no, I mean the people tell the police what... no...
I think my head is going to asplode.
If you fix a minor bug, and a week later you realize it's created a major bug, but in the meantime eight dozen commits have been made by your team, it's not always easy to just roll back to the version before the one you helpfully noted in the CVS comment as being "the" bug fix; you really do need to tag bug fixes in the code itself. The more documentation, the better. Explaining the "fix" you made should be part of this, though it can be out of the code itself, in external docs -- as long as everyone knows that that's where to it, and it's not split among five different places. That's where standardization really would be helpful. Some people still only comment in CVS, and I think that's just not enough if it's a team project.
# hah. I screwed that one up. What a perfect example of why commenting is important
Thanks for pointing that out. That explains a lot :)
You have a good point that nobody is eager to do this, but there's only so much they're willing to give up to keep everything together. Let's see what happens when the lawsuit shakes out. Especially if more stories come out in the meantime about automated mass surveillance, etc.
Mitchell makes the classic error in assuming "the internet" only exists in the US.
I'd like to see him explain how he thinks the US is going to suddenly make rules for the rest of the world, with the many telecommunications providers run as government-owned monopolies, or even provide "Universal Service" for, say, Germany.
The internet will route around the damage, like it always does, and if the US enacts too many rules for its portion, American companies will lose business over it. That's all there is to it. In fact, since everyone is already plenty upset over ICANN retaining monopolistic levels of control, any further attempts to exercise control over countries will possibly lead to them setting up an entire infrastructure alternative in defiance.
Unless you cross a year in your directory, like logs going from September, 2004, to August, 2005.