I have never signed up for FB, but my friends have tagged me in photos with my real name enough that I get auto-tagged now. I seem to recall hearing about "ghost" accounts that FB maintains for people like me who they are aware of, but have not actually registered any accounts with them.
I have well over 200 CD's that I paid full retail for at legitimate stores. I listen to music all day at work and for many years enjoyed my collection digitized and copied to whatever machine I was working on. That said, I haven't purchased a CD in over 3 years, and I don't download mp3s or touch any torrents of any kind.
I switched to shoutcast streams many years ago, and as of a little over a year ago I started using Pandora.com and haven't looked back.
I buy and play games for my xbox and my PC. I purchase movies (I still haven't paid more than $10 for an HD movie, MPC + HD/BR player FTW).
Anyway, that said - if you were to graph my spending over the last decade 1999-2009 you would see a lot of money going to the music industry (15-25albums/year @$15 each) dwindling down to nothing as of about 2005. Some spending on games (probably 5-8/year @ 50 each) staying pretty consistent with a slight upswing in the last 4 years. Movies, didn't buy all that many VHS, have probably 80 or so DVD's (at probably 10/year) - 20 or so HD/BR movies, all within the last 10 months.
I don't know that I could pull it off now but for my Senior summer (after a Junior year of slacking) I found myself taking summer classes from 8am-12pm Monday through Friday. This of course was the same time when parties were going on weeknights and quite simply I wasn't going to pass those up.
My solution was to sleep in a 12 hour cycle rather than the normal 24. For 2.5 months I was fully rested, never cranky, and hangovers didn't seem to phase me. I would sleep from 3-6 am and pm every day. After the first two weeks I started to keep the cycle for weekends and I did feel that my body had adjusted to it. I fell asleep fast, but wasn't tired until just about time to go to sleep.
I guess part of the quation should be that you can sleep for short periods of time as long as you only need to stay awake for short periods of time. Maybe alcohol was the catlyst that made it all come together. Anyone who wants to fund a study on this idea should contact me ASAP.
I run an inexpensive RAID 5 at home for my files, by inexpensive I mean not top of the line hardware.
4x 160GB ata133 drives - ~$100 each
1 cheap ass raid controller - High point - 4 channel ata133, supports raid0, 1, 5, JBOD. ~$100.
So we're up to $500 and I'm sitting at 480gb.. If I were to do it again today, I'd go with 250gb drives for about the same price - just checked Newegg and they have 250gb ata133 drives for $100.
Using those drives I'd have 1tb of space for $500.
May be overly simplistic, but how about you set your laptop to simply leave messages on the server? When on the road, you can read your new mail - but the message remains on your server so when you connect from home you can still see those same messages.
This obviously wouldn't help with sent items, but at least gets you messages at both locations so you don't have to worry about losing data if it is only stored on one machine.
For my work e-mail - I have my office machine leave messages on the server for 7 days, at home it has no deletion rule. I can leave both online all the time but still get all messages at either location with backups being performed on the work machine.
I was going to bring up this product in reply to another post but wanted to see if anyone else already had...
Everyone seems to be talking about how they still need 2, 3, 10 min to startup even on their 3000+ setups - It's not the processor that's holding you back - it's all in the drive speed.
If you need to access 300 megs of specific data in order to boot and load all the services you run, get a faster hard drive. I recently dropped some bills to upgrade my machine to a raid 0 config and my computer gives me JUST enough time to grab a soda from the fridge, not pour it, not open it..
A full restart, without cloing down all my programs prior to the command takes about 40 seconds.. Cold boot takes about 25. This is with 2x 36gb raptor drives. Somethin like that ram HD I would imagine boot times in the single digits. At that point I guess your processor might become a limiting factor, but it wouldn't feel like you were being limited in any way.
And for people talking about how it's a joke that yuo can see your desktop but not do anything when you boot w/ XP - try running it on just a single SCSI hard drive - you'll be able to hit menu's and load programms the moment your little fingers can drive the mouse to where you need to be. Even when I was on a single SATA drive the lag was hardly noticable for these actions, with the raid0 - I'd be hard pressed to identify a time when things aren't going as fast as I can direct them to do so.
Instant boot would be nice, but to the person who suggested that people would be willing to trade a longer shut down time for faster boot. I think that's crazy, get faster IO on your storage and everything is solved.
This and parent have some great ideas for an advanced bench, but most repair places are not going to have any use for solder and so on when doing warranty (and non) repairs.
Basically any warranty repair is not going to involuve it's use at all - even if fixing something that's no longer covered by warranty, few A+ tech's are going to be useful with an iron or a Perc raid card. (I may be mistaken, but don't most raid array's refuse to rebuild if you move the drives to anything other than the exact same card?)
Definitely need the various tools, Jewlers screw drivers (with hex, torx and so on can be a life saver.)
Vacum and compressed air for sure.
I find the use of a simple USB/Firewire external drive is plenty for backing up data on 99% of the jobs a normal tech bench will see. Get two for a large bench with a couple people.
A USB network adaptor - can be a real time saver, again.
Voltmeter.
And one thing that I found terribly useful and so cheap I'm surprised I don't see them more - Ice cube racks. When you're dismantling a system, you can go clockwise around the ice tray placing scres from each layer in a new mini-bin. THen when you are putting things back together you just work back through the bins/layers and make sure you get every screw back. This little trick makes it VERY easy to verify that you aren't missing pieces, or that you accidentally put another piece back in that blocks another screw and so on. (Things like that can totaly kill productivity on a bench)
Also a good information workstation per engineer at the bench can make things run much smoother. Access to repair PDFs and online information possibly not from the manufacturer can help to save time.
I don't know how this got modded up without being checked against at least a dictionary.. You, sir, seem to have a great grasp of the words root but please.. Dialogue can defintely be used to describe a group of more than two people conversing. I think this stems from the idea that Dialogue, (possibly more so than a 'meeting') implies an even exchange of two actions, speaking and listening.
Dictionary.com - Dialogue:
1 - A conversation between two or more people
It seems like 'Hollywood' will win in court, but what that means, I don't know.
This is exactly the problem with our current system of laws.. We have laws that people just expect to be broken, and all it does is give unjust power to the government over all of our lives.
I don't cause any harm to others, I am not a drain on society. I feel that I am a contributor. Yet I still break many laws nearly every day. If I were to be observed by law enforcement for a week, and they had reson to want to, I could get screwed.
I speed to work (70 on the highway is speeding), listen to a burned CDs that contain tracks I didn't pay for. The weekends might include some pot or designer drugs here and there. The last thing that I need is to have the possibility of more fines and jail time for having my favorite shows trimmed of commercials and time shifted to when I'm actually home and want to watch them.
That may not be the best set of examples right there, but I think we can all see how this kind of technology does have legitimate uses and shouldn't be this restricted. If nothing is done to prevent this legislation from going through the Hollywood Gestapo could bust down your door in 10 years for having a couple episodes of the Brak show saved on your personal hard drive.
I picked up a DVD set of the TV series, (6 discs, great quality, found on ebay, less than $70) both english and origional sound tracks, subtitled (non-macrovision encoded), and it came with the soundtrack!
Anyway, when I was looking for that I did see many listings for the movie on DVD, don't recall if it was an english dubbed version though.
Great series, excellent quality animation, cool action, interesting charachters, and a story that builds and keeps the watcher interested. If you really want to get into it, the subtitled japanese does have some different dialog than the dub version.
I love the differences that pop up because of the Japanese vs. American culture. Some people don't get it, but I love the stuff.
I believe AAA also sells an emergency cellphone which can contact police/911/AAA.
Actually, you can just use any old cell phone that isn't being used anymore. I think I read it first on slashdot, and in trying to find the article to link to found a couple other sources
confirming that you can use any cell phone to call 911 even if you have no active service!
Now all they need to do is come up with a battery that doesn't require constant reconditioning and can be left in standby (or even off) for more than a week without needing a charge.
Richard, you are brave... I saw your number, and I can't even think how many other people see this as well. Does make me feel more like this post was a hoax as well.
I nearly called you myself to ask how hackable this hardware is.. 800mhz Celeron, but can I install a video card or possibly plop a second 80gb ide drive in?
If someone isn't updating their software, it's because they are either lazy, or they don't care. If the software expires at a given date, these two types of people, I feel would be inclined to simply set back their system clock.
If this causes the creation of a mobius, and we're all forced to relive the 80s I don't think open source software will ever hear the end of it.
Everyone seems to be missing the point that I was left thinkging about when I read this article.
The government is trying to do something that has been proven to fail due mostly to the amount of information exceeding the ability of the technique designed to filter it. On top of this, they are proposing it be done with a vastly larger base of information.
How does the government propose it read every e-mail, website, IM (IRC, ICQ, whatever your flavor)and file transfer, pick out the child pornographers, "terrorists", and whatever other evil dooers are the pick of the year, and do so with any accuracy?
The article very clearly paints a picture that indicates the government will either have to develop an AI, or approve human cloning so they can staff an extra 10 billion CIA secretaries to read every word the rest of the world types. I don't even want to try and think of the funding needs a project like this would need to begin being useful in any way.
They don't try to record each phone call that every person makes, why should their e-mail be any different?
Tom's seems to think that microsoft has done some amazing things with their controllers but it doesn't look so new to me. I'd like to examine this claim by claim.
They[Analog sticks] can be easily operated with the two thumbs, and their excellent progressiveness proved to be better than on the PS2 pad.
Mmmm.. Progressiveness, this is always what I look for in an analog stick. I've used XBox and DualShock2 controllers and they do have a different feel to them, although I don't have a progressamomater to measure which is superior. I find that individual games are more resposible for the movement and response than the actual controller. To be honest, both feel to be a high quality, but I'd still give the edge to teh Dual Shock for it's smaller size and also because the controller is almost totally symetrical, and it makes good use of extra fingers with the R + L 1-3 buttons.
The digital direction pad with its cavities and its bumps is as good.
Here, I would have to agree. I don't much care for the "d-pad" design. But it's still needed for tekken anyway.
The two triggers are also analog, which will be a plus for all the automotive games. There too, the superiority over the PS2 pad is obvious.
Right, because having two triggers w/ analog capability is far superior to ALL of the buttons on the dual shock w/ 255 levels of sensitivity. How many levels does the XBox have again? Where's that obvious superiority?
I'll tell you what superiority I can see for automotive games.. It's called Gran Turismo. It was the best on PS1, now it's better. More cars, higher res models, great physics, better interface and oh yeah, it's owned by SCEA. Don't think it'll be coming to XBox anytime soon, and Project Gotham sucks.
I'm pretty dissapointed in Tom's w/ this review. It seems obvious that these people are not real gamers. From the reading it also seemed to be pretty much written from a microsoft marketing package that probably came with the demo unit. Stephane, Stephane, Jerome and Roland shouldn't be writing about things they have little or no experience with.
If people are looking for good reviews on the systems, check them out for yourself. Coconuts and wal-mart have xbox and ps2 systems up and running all over the place. Or if you must rely on others, at least look to peer reviews. Epinions.com has over 300 reviews for both and you'll be likely to get an honest review when you listen to someone who will never be getting a free lunch, demo unit, or any other kind of perk for giving a good review.
That's a bit like saying a car company shouldn't be held responsible for putting faulty brakes on a car, since after all, the car owner could have replaced the brakes with something that worked.
Say I buy a Micrsoft car.. I can't change the brakes, also can't find a munal to even see how they work so that I could maybe fix them myself.. My only options are to A) stop using the car or B) use the car, possibly kill myself on every hill and hope that they don't show up on my driving route.
In this situation, should Microsoft be liable(Or at the least owe me my money back if I live on a steep hill)?
Hell yes.
Now would I still think that Microsoft should be liable for for this fault if they had given me a choise of three different bakes and told me of the known problems with each including ones' problem with steep hills? What if they went further and made full documentation of the brakes available for free, and let me modify my brakes if I liked. What if they went even further and their engineers acutally would use my (or someone elses) fix for the problem in the next version, made it available to all service stations and let everyone know that the fix was there for free?
What if they went even further and just made it an open source car?
I work at an ISP that offers web hosting along with pretty much anything else a company would need to get online, including use of our SSL cert. We recomment that most companies get their own, but because of the cost, many smaller companies just use ours. The only real drawback is that the address does not use their domain name, but it works great for submitting forms and such in a secure manner. I have always thought that this kind of service would be pretty popular with all hosting companies. Possibly one could setup a secure hosting service that would specifically offer this kind of setup for lower budget companies that want to have secure access to their site.
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I have never signed up for FB, but my friends have tagged me in photos with my real name enough that I get auto-tagged now. I seem to recall hearing about "ghost" accounts that FB maintains for people like me who they are aware of, but have not actually registered any accounts with them.
OnStar not optional - all I can think is: "He's got a scan blocker, means he's a car thief. Blast 'em"
Is it bad that I would pay extra to have this 5min rule on voice calls?
I have well over 200 CD's that I paid full retail for at legitimate stores. I listen to music all day at work and for many years enjoyed my collection digitized and copied to whatever machine I was working on. That said, I haven't purchased a CD in over 3 years, and I don't download mp3s or touch any torrents of any kind.
/year @$15 each) dwindling down to nothing as of about 2005. Some spending on games (probably 5-8/year @ 50 each) staying pretty consistent with a slight upswing in the last 4 years. Movies, didn't buy all that many VHS, have probably 80 or so DVD's (at probably 10/year) - 20 or so HD/BR movies, all within the last 10 months.
I switched to shoutcast streams many years ago, and as of a little over a year ago I started using Pandora.com and haven't looked back.
I buy and play games for my xbox and my PC. I purchase movies (I still haven't paid more than $10 for an HD movie, MPC + HD/BR player FTW).
Anyway, that said - if you were to graph my spending over the last decade 1999-2009 you would see a lot of money going to the music industry (15-25albums
AJ has a new map section that hasn't seen much coverage yet.
http://maps.ask.com/maps
I don't know that I could pull it off now but for my Senior summer (after a Junior year of slacking) I found myself taking summer classes from 8am-12pm Monday through Friday. This of course was the same time when parties were going on weeknights and quite simply I wasn't going to pass those up.
My solution was to sleep in a 12 hour cycle rather than the normal 24. For 2.5 months I was fully rested, never cranky, and hangovers didn't seem to phase me. I would sleep from 3-6 am and pm every day. After the first two weeks I started to keep the cycle for weekends and I did feel that my body had adjusted to it. I fell asleep fast, but wasn't tired until just about time to go to sleep.
I guess part of the quation should be that you can sleep for short periods of time as long as you only need to stay awake for short periods of time. Maybe alcohol was the catlyst that made it all come together. Anyone who wants to fund a study on this idea should contact me ASAP.
P.S. - I like Vodka and Rum.
How does going to RAID 5 cost ~$1k?
I run an inexpensive RAID 5 at home for my files, by inexpensive I mean not top of the line hardware.
4x 160GB ata133 drives - ~$100 each
1 cheap ass raid controller - High point - 4 channel ata133, supports raid0, 1, 5, JBOD. ~$100.
So we're up to $500 and I'm sitting at 480gb.. If I were to do it again today, I'd go with 250gb drives for about the same price - just checked Newegg and they have 250gb ata133 drives for $100.
Using those drives I'd have 1tb of space for $500.
May be overly simplistic, but how about you set your laptop to simply leave messages on the server? When on the road, you can read your new mail - but the message remains on your server so when you connect from home you can still see those same messages. This obviously wouldn't help with sent items, but at least gets you messages at both locations so you don't have to worry about losing data if it is only stored on one machine. For my work e-mail - I have my office machine leave messages on the server for 7 days, at home it has no deletion rule. I can leave both online all the time but still get all messages at either location with backups being performed on the work machine.
I was going to bring up this product in reply to another post but wanted to see if anyone else already had... Everyone seems to be talking about how they still need 2, 3, 10 min to startup even on their 3000+ setups - It's not the processor that's holding you back - it's all in the drive speed. If you need to access 300 megs of specific data in order to boot and load all the services you run, get a faster hard drive. I recently dropped some bills to upgrade my machine to a raid 0 config and my computer gives me JUST enough time to grab a soda from the fridge, not pour it, not open it.. A full restart, without cloing down all my programs prior to the command takes about 40 seconds.. Cold boot takes about 25. This is with 2x 36gb raptor drives. Somethin like that ram HD I would imagine boot times in the single digits. At that point I guess your processor might become a limiting factor, but it wouldn't feel like you were being limited in any way. And for people talking about how it's a joke that yuo can see your desktop but not do anything when you boot w/ XP - try running it on just a single SCSI hard drive - you'll be able to hit menu's and load programms the moment your little fingers can drive the mouse to where you need to be. Even when I was on a single SATA drive the lag was hardly noticable for these actions, with the raid0 - I'd be hard pressed to identify a time when things aren't going as fast as I can direct them to do so. Instant boot would be nice, but to the person who suggested that people would be willing to trade a longer shut down time for faster boot. I think that's crazy, get faster IO on your storage and everything is solved.
This and parent have some great ideas for an advanced bench, but most repair places are not going to have any use for solder and so on when doing warranty (and non) repairs. Basically any warranty repair is not going to involuve it's use at all - even if fixing something that's no longer covered by warranty, few A+ tech's are going to be useful with an iron or a Perc raid card. (I may be mistaken, but don't most raid array's refuse to rebuild if you move the drives to anything other than the exact same card?) Definitely need the various tools, Jewlers screw drivers (with hex, torx and so on can be a life saver.) Vacum and compressed air for sure. I find the use of a simple USB/Firewire external drive is plenty for backing up data on 99% of the jobs a normal tech bench will see. Get two for a large bench with a couple people. A USB network adaptor - can be a real time saver, again. Voltmeter. And one thing that I found terribly useful and so cheap I'm surprised I don't see them more - Ice cube racks. When you're dismantling a system, you can go clockwise around the ice tray placing scres from each layer in a new mini-bin. THen when you are putting things back together you just work back through the bins/layers and make sure you get every screw back. This little trick makes it VERY easy to verify that you aren't missing pieces, or that you accidentally put another piece back in that blocks another screw and so on. (Things like that can totaly kill productivity on a bench) Also a good information workstation per engineer at the bench can make things run much smoother. Access to repair PDFs and online information possibly not from the manufacturer can help to save time.
the interweb is written in english. Thank you, that is all.
I don't know how this got modded up without being checked against at least a dictionary.. You, sir, seem to have a great grasp of the words root but please.. Dialogue can defintely be used to describe a group of more than two people conversing. I think this stems from the idea that Dialogue, (possibly more so than a 'meeting') implies an even exchange of two actions, speaking and listening. Dictionary.com - Dialogue: 1 - A conversation between two or more people
It seems like 'Hollywood' will win in court, but what that means, I don't know.
This is exactly the problem with our current system of laws.. We have laws that people just expect to be broken, and all it does is give unjust power to the government over all of our lives.
I don't cause any harm to others, I am not a drain on society. I feel that I am a contributor. Yet I still break many laws nearly every day. If I were to be observed by law enforcement for a week, and they had reson to want to, I could get screwed.
I speed to work (70 on the highway is speeding), listen to a burned CDs that contain tracks I didn't pay for. The weekends might include some pot or designer drugs here and there. The last thing that I need is to have the possibility of more fines and jail time for having my favorite shows trimmed of commercials and time shifted to when I'm actually home and want to watch them.
That may not be the best set of examples right there, but I think we can all see how this kind of technology does have legitimate uses and shouldn't be this restricted. If nothing is done to prevent this legislation from going through the Hollywood Gestapo could bust down your door in 10 years for having a couple episodes of the Brak show saved on your personal hard drive.
-Qaz
I picked up a DVD set of the TV series, (6 discs, great quality, found on ebay, less than $70) both english and origional sound tracks, subtitled (non-macrovision encoded), and it came with the soundtrack!
Anyway, when I was looking for that I did see many listings for the movie on DVD, don't recall if it was an english dubbed version though. Great series, excellent quality animation, cool action, interesting charachters, and a story that builds and keeps the watcher interested. If you really want to get into it, the subtitled japanese does have some different dialog than the dub version.
I love the differences that pop up because of the Japanese vs. American culture. Some people don't get it, but I love the stuff.
I believe AAA also sells an emergency cellphone which can contact police/911/AAA.
Actually, you can just use any old cell phone that isn't being used anymore. I think I read it first on slashdot, and in trying to find the article to link to found a couple other sources confirming that you can use any cell phone to call 911 even if you have no active service!
Now all they need to do is come up with a battery that doesn't require constant reconditioning and can be left in standby (or even off) for more than a week without needing a charge.
Richard, you are brave... I saw your number, and I can't even think how many other people see this as well. Does make me feel more like this post was a hoax as well.
I nearly called you myself to ask how hackable this hardware is.. 800mhz Celeron, but can I install a video card or possibly plop a second 80gb ide drive in?
-Not expecting a response.
If someone isn't updating their software, it's because they are either lazy, or they don't care. If the software expires at a given date, these two types of people, I feel would be inclined to simply set back their system clock. If this causes the creation of a mobius, and we're all forced to relive the 80s I don't think open source software will ever hear the end of it.
Everyone seems to be missing the point that I was left thinkging about when I read this article.
The government is trying to do something that has been proven to fail due mostly to the amount of information exceeding the ability of the technique designed to filter it. On top of this, they are proposing it be done with a vastly larger base of information.
How does the government propose it read every e-mail, website, IM (IRC, ICQ, whatever your flavor)and file transfer, pick out the child pornographers, "terrorists", and whatever other evil dooers are the pick of the year, and do so with any accuracy?
The article very clearly paints a picture that indicates the government will either have to develop an AI, or approve human cloning so they can staff an extra 10 billion CIA secretaries to read every word the rest of the world types. I don't even want to try and think of the funding needs a project like this would need to begin being useful in any way.
They don't try to record each phone call that every person makes, why should their e-mail be any different?
I was running Morpheus and waiting for some very large downloads to complete
very large downloads n.
1. pr0n.
-Q
.. And they are ugly.
Tom's seems to think that microsoft has done some amazing things with their controllers but it doesn't look so new to me. I'd like to examine this claim by claim.
They[Analog sticks] can be easily operated with the two thumbs, and their excellent progressiveness proved to be better than on the PS2 pad.
Mmmm.. Progressiveness, this is always what I look for in an analog stick. I've used XBox and DualShock2 controllers and they do have a different feel to them, although I don't have a progressamomater to measure which is superior. I find that individual games are more resposible for the movement and response than the actual controller. To be honest, both feel to be a high quality, but I'd still give the edge to teh Dual Shock for it's smaller size and also because the controller is almost totally symetrical, and it makes good use of extra fingers with the R + L 1-3 buttons.
The digital direction pad with its cavities and its bumps is as good.
Here, I would have to agree. I don't much care for the "d-pad" design. But it's still needed for tekken anyway.
The two triggers are also analog, which will be a plus for all the automotive games. There too, the superiority over the PS2 pad is obvious.
Right, because having two triggers w/ analog capability is far superior to ALL of the buttons on the dual shock w/ 255 levels of sensitivity. How many levels does the XBox have again? Where's that obvious superiority?
I'll tell you what superiority I can see for automotive games.. It's called Gran Turismo. It was the best on PS1, now it's better. More cars, higher res models, great physics, better interface and oh yeah, it's owned by SCEA. Don't think it'll be coming to XBox anytime soon, and Project Gotham sucks.
I'm pretty dissapointed in Tom's w/ this review. It seems obvious that these people are not real gamers. From the reading it also seemed to be pretty much written from a microsoft marketing package that probably came with the demo unit. Stephane, Stephane, Jerome and Roland shouldn't be writing about things they have little or no experience with.
If people are looking for good reviews on the systems, check them out for yourself. Coconuts and wal-mart have xbox and ps2 systems up and running all over the place. Or if you must rely on others, at least look to peer reviews. Epinions.com has over 300 reviews for both and you'll be likely to get an honest review when you listen to someone who will never be getting a free lunch, demo unit, or any other kind of perk for giving a good review.
That's a bit like saying a car company shouldn't be held responsible for putting faulty brakes on a car, since after all, the car owner could have replaced the brakes with something that worked.
Say I buy a Micrsoft car.. I can't change the brakes, also can't find a munal to even see how they work so that I could maybe fix them myself.. My only options are to A) stop using the car or B) use the car, possibly kill myself on every hill and hope that they don't show up on my driving route.
In this situation, should Microsoft be liable(Or at the least owe me my money back if I live on a steep hill)?
Hell yes.
Now would I still think that Microsoft should be liable for for this fault if they had given me a choise of three different bakes and told me of the known problems with each including ones' problem with steep hills? What if they went further and made full documentation of the brakes available for free, and let me modify my brakes if I liked. What if they went even further and their engineers acutally would use my (or someone elses) fix for the problem in the next version, made it available to all service stations and let everyone know that the fix was there for free?
What if they went even further and just made it an open source car?
I work at an ISP that offers web hosting along with pretty much anything else a company would need to get online, including use of our SSL cert. We recomment that most companies get their own, but because of the cost, many smaller companies just use ours. The only real drawback is that the address does not use their domain name, but it works great for submitting forms and such in a secure manner. I have always thought that this kind of service would be pretty popular with all hosting companies. Possibly one could setup a secure hosting service that would specifically offer this kind of setup for lower budget companies that want to have secure access to their site.
Swami says: 2001-03-17 04:15:00 If I get one more notice about useing caps with this I'm going to bring Mir down on someones head.