I wonder if as an advertiser, one should have the option of specifically disallowing the showing of the ad to a specific IP or group of IPs. If the competitor and his army/bots of clickers can't see the ad, they can't click-fraud.
You hire an accountant and you hire a lawyer. If you hire one person to do both, eith the legal stuff will be done wrong, the accounting will be done wrong, or, most likely, both will be done wrong.
This is why they remain small businesses; because they can't rise above mediocrity.
If your site is expensive, then it's your fault, not mine. Pick a better vendor, or diy.
If your bandwidth is expensive, same as above. Redesing your site. write it well.
If your site is used by millions of people and they don't want to pay, turn it off. Why are you doing it anyway? Do you enjoy losing money? Again, not my fault.
If your site has great content and needs to pay for its writers, that's a business decision on your part, not mine. You figure out how to make money. If your content was so great, people would be willing to pay for it. That they not means your content is not. Get over it.
As far as google is concerned, well, I am yet to see a popup or a flash animation in connection with them. Yet they are worth what, $80B? Larger than Time Warner. So don't tell me you can't make money if you don't have popups and large ads.
1998 called and they want their marketing campains back.
Yes, because good xhtml+css is harder (meaning pay more for the experienced devs) than dreamweavering a photoshopped layout.
Of course, that's short term. really well designed web sites cost a lot less long term. So you spend more up front, and you spend less overall long-term.
On the "85% so it must be good" argument: The #1 selling car in the world is the Ford Escort.
Mail backup tapes offsite? wtf? No, automate everything with python and send everything encrypted to the electonic vault. (see recent UPS/CITIBANK fiasco).
Printers are maintained by the Canon people. The desktops are relpaced by mindless drones. The day-to-day system issues, well, buy good hardware and limit yourself there. You can buy a lot of hardware for each employee you don't need in IT.
Document, document, document. And Python/Perl script everything else.
You don't have to register every possible domain: remember, you have a time machine.
If I had a time machine, I'd go in the future to get earthquake data and come back and sell it to insurance companies. That would make me a pretty penny.
Yes. Tanks should be much harder to kill, and fewer.
Helicopers should be much faster (they go 240 mph in real life)
jetfighters too
The bodies should stay for the entire round, and should be able to be used as protection.
As far as artillery, it should work much better, and one should go based on coordinates: like: lay 16 rounds of 155 at 78-44. Then the arty guy should be able to calibrate his guns, and fire away.
It should be possible to hide a mine by diggin it in.
Barbed wire should actually stop the soldiers, not just hurt them. They should be able to cut them or grenade them out.
Just to add on the many different versions of linux: I see push from Novell to lower RHEL pricing with their SUSE offering, and maybe IBM offering SUSE on their boxes as well.
As far as the different versions of linux: indeed, but it's still better than having some solaris (there are a few versions floating around), windows (same, with funky service pack issues), OS/400, and then Linux (I personally like Debian, but I can work with the others no problem).
So yes, it's complicated, expensive, and time-consuming.
Microsoft would not team up with AMD. Different philosophies.
The big iron Sun customers will go to Microsoft? They'd rather roll their own or call IBM Global Services (which supports RHEL on their mainfraimes and midrange servers).
Sun is dead, they know it. They are positioning themselves for purchase. They at one point hoped their relationship with Fujitsu would develop into a substantial cash infusion. Fujitsu is a Japanses company and Japanese companies are very careful in their US investments since Matsushita's $5 billion loss over Universal Studios. So Fujitsu probably gave them the "don't call us we'll call you". As far as Fujitsu, they want to learn from Sun engineers. It's a simple technology aquisition through collaboration. It means nothing to Sun financially, because, remember: Sun is dead and they know it.
The reason nobody else will buy Sun: Their deal with MS over java and the $1B that changed hands is not public and must contain some interesting wording. This is probably why java can't be open sourced, because MS would ask for some of that money back, and if not available, probably has a lien on the copyright and patents associated with java and its sun proprietory classes.
Lawsuits are not lost on what motives were, lawsuits are lost on what proof was shown in court. Besides, Sun shareholders would just love MS to buy Sun, because MS shares are actually worth something (for now).
The problem with Sun is that the investors have resigned themselves to just cutting their losses: They realize that Sun management is not about "profit" but about the "legacy of Sun" and therefore have lost the competitive edge. Companies that lose money every quarter (for 19 quarters in a row I think) eventually run out of money completely and the stock gets delisted. There are 2.6 billion (or so) Sun shares out there. They will be completely worthless unless something changes dramatically, and that means MS buys Sun. Investors know this. Better $2/share with MS than $0.001/share in BK7 in 3 years after the best of StorageTek have gone on to greener pastures.
Sun will be purchased by Microsoft for around $2/share, or about $5billion, in about 8-9 months, after another 2 quarters of abysmal sales. The deal is already on, and SUN will be a microsoft division, so MS gets java and a real unix to compete against IBM.
The reason why Sun bought Storagetek is that Sun needed to convert its cash reserves into company stock, because that can be depressed below actual value, and cash can't. Microsoft might also have wanted to acquire Storagetek tech, because while it sells hardware, the magic of the company is in the software, and that's up MS's alley (imagine real one-button disaster recovery built into Office).
Sun has already abandoned SPARC. They don't have the cash to hire the engineers they need to make it a go. MS will promise to do that, but won't.
Apple and Sun? Yes. Where does that leave AMD? with Nvidia, catering to the very high end gamers, and the e-machines of the world, and linux boxes (lots of them really).
Apple + Intel means software and hardware in proprietary tandem. This will make AMD much less competitive, edged out like alpha and sparc to a fringe, then to nothing, IF apple and intel successfully market their new Apple OSX Intel Inside laptops. If not, then AMD takes the cake and Intel gets edged out long term (which is my prediction).
Sun customers are either moving to linux / z/OS on IBM mainframes or Linux on Dell servers. If Sun does not get acquired, it will end up like SCO.
There are enough forward-looking statements in my post that you should bring your salt shaker.
Small company, 30 employees, systems grew to way too many servers (exchange - fax - file - app (MSSQL) - websense - terminal service - mail-filtering (barracuda?) - webserver - nas - and now 2 RH+PHP+ora app server)
in addition to: firewall, vpn, voip (nortel).
All in all great systems, and employees are very productive, and company is very profitable.
Except the Director of IT wanted me to program (internal reports, website, scripting of backup jobs, config, etc) (which I like) and also do tech support for the users (install os, drivers, apps, setup users on AD, etc), as well as do server admin (patch, upgrades, hardware failure troubleshooting/fixing, backup tapes, etc).
So I got another job at another company and still do consulting for them, since, in the past 1 1/2 year since I'm not there full time, their backup strategy is exactly all the scripts I wrote and hoping the nas does not go down, and tech support was relegated to a slow-as-molasses $15/hr tech who barely can setup PCs.
Oh, the disaster in fall 2004 that took down the mailserver (2 out of 5 raid 5 drives went down together (the dell onsite support guy said it's rare, but does happen) and the backup was corrupt, but my scripted exmerge->pst->nas saved most emails, except those of the senior partner, along with all his contacts. He was very very pissed, but being the mellow guy, didn't have anybody's head on a platter. But I could tell.
Oh, on an aside, and from bitter personal experience: If you websense the hell out of internet access, people will send porn to each other on email systems and clog up your backups so fast you *might* lose data:) Word to the wise.
Well, you could "try" to catch them, but who's got the time to run scripts on the exchange store with exmerge?
The other moral to the story is that you might consider splitting your contacts storage from your email.
I know how to admin a network, I just don't want to. Programming is my passion, and while scripting admin functions might be fun, keeping the DAT4 tape log isn't.
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Speaking of Graham, read http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html.
Python is a lot more open than Java, and by Paul Graham, a better language.
Anyway, don't mean to start a flame. I read Graham too.
Not so fast.
Java is proprietary.
I wonder if as an advertiser, one should have the option of specifically disallowing the showing of the ad to a specific IP or group of IPs. If the competitor and his army/bots of clickers can't see the ad, they can't click-fraud.
I would like to add jedit to that.
Yes, it is slow at times, but it's a text editor, and I type even slower.
Yeah, well, they get what they pay for.
You hire an accountant and you hire a lawyer. If you hire one person to do both, eith the legal stuff will be done wrong, the accounting will be done wrong, or, most likely, both will be done wrong.
This is why they remain small businesses; because they can't rise above mediocrity.
Exactly. The government if the citizenry's advocate.
no no no!
Companies are in business for one thing only: To yield the highest amount of profit to its investors.
That is the _only_ thing companies do and should do. People who think companies have a moral duty to anything are misguided.
This is called capitalism. Deal with it.
And if the road to the highest return on investor investment leads through paying management insane amounts, so be it.
If your site is expensive, then it's your fault, not mine. Pick a better vendor, or diy.
If your bandwidth is expensive, same as above. Redesing your site. write it well.
If your site is used by millions of people and they don't want to pay, turn it off. Why are you doing it anyway? Do you enjoy losing money? Again, not my fault.
If your site has great content and needs to pay for its writers, that's a business decision on your part, not mine. You figure out how to make money. If your content was so great, people would be willing to pay for it. That they not means your content is not. Get over it.
As far as google is concerned, well, I am yet to see a popup or a flash animation in connection with them. Yet they are worth what, $80B? Larger than Time Warner. So don't tell me you can't make money if you don't have popups and large ads.
1998 called and they want their marketing campains back.
Yes, because good xhtml+css is harder (meaning pay more for the experienced devs) than dreamweavering a photoshopped layout.
Of course, that's short term. really well designed web sites cost a lot less long term. So you spend more up front, and you spend less overall long-term.
On the "85% so it must be good" argument: The #1 selling car in the world is the Ford Escort.
Mail backup tapes offsite? wtf? No, automate everything with python and send everything encrypted to the electonic vault. (see recent UPS/CITIBANK fiasco).
Printers are maintained by the Canon people. The desktops are relpaced by mindless drones. The day-to-day system issues, well, buy good hardware and limit yourself there. You can buy a lot of hardware for each employee you don't need in IT.
Document, document, document. And Python/Perl script everything else.
Haw shucks.
What ya'll should say is:
"Wull, d'em foks ain't nuthin but terrists and awdabee shot... BLAM!"
You don't have to register every possible domain: remember, you have a time machine.
If I had a time machine, I'd go in the future to get earthquake data and come back and sell it to insurance companies. That would make me a pretty penny.
Yes. Tanks should be much harder to kill, and fewer.
Helicopers should be much faster (they go 240 mph in real life)
jetfighters too
The bodies should stay for the entire round, and should be able to be used as protection.
As far as artillery, it should work much better, and one should go based on coordinates: like: lay 16 rounds of 155 at 78-44. Then the arty guy should be able to calibrate his guns, and fire away.
It should be possible to hide a mine by diggin it in.
Barbed wire should actually stop the soldiers, not just hurt them. They should be able to cut them or grenade them out.
A few annoyances.
Answer: The bush administration
Just to add on the many different versions of linux: I see push from Novell to lower RHEL pricing with their SUSE offering, and maybe IBM offering SUSE on their boxes as well.
As far as the different versions of linux: indeed, but it's still better than having some solaris (there are a few versions floating around), windows (same, with funky service pack issues), OS/400, and then Linux (I personally like Debian, but I can work with the others no problem).
So yes, it's complicated, expensive, and time-consuming.
Microsoft would not team up with AMD. Different philosophies.
The big iron Sun customers will go to Microsoft? They'd rather roll their own or call IBM Global Services (which supports RHEL on their mainfraimes and midrange servers).
Sun is dead, they know it. They are positioning themselves for purchase. They at one point hoped their relationship with Fujitsu would develop into a substantial cash infusion. Fujitsu is a Japanses company and Japanese companies are very careful in their US investments since Matsushita's $5 billion loss over Universal Studios. So Fujitsu probably gave them the "don't call us we'll call you". As far as Fujitsu, they want to learn from Sun engineers. It's a simple technology aquisition through collaboration. It means nothing to Sun financially, because, remember: Sun is dead and they know it.
The reason nobody else will buy Sun: Their deal with MS over java and the $1B that changed hands is not public and must contain some interesting wording. This is probably why java can't be open sourced, because MS would ask for some of that money back, and if not available, probably has a lien on the copyright and patents associated with java and its sun proprietory classes.
Lawsuits are not lost on what motives were, lawsuits are lost on what proof was shown in court. Besides, Sun shareholders would just love MS to buy Sun, because MS shares are actually worth something (for now).
The problem with Sun is that the investors have resigned themselves to just cutting their losses: They realize that Sun management is not about "profit" but about the "legacy of Sun" and therefore have lost the competitive edge. Companies that lose money every quarter (for 19 quarters in a row I think) eventually run out of money completely and the stock gets delisted. There are 2.6 billion (or so) Sun shares out there. They will be completely worthless unless something changes dramatically, and that means MS buys Sun. Investors know this. Better $2/share with MS than $0.001/share in BK7 in 3 years after the best of StorageTek have gone on to greener pastures.
Sun will be purchased by Microsoft for around $2/share, or about $5billion, in about 8-9 months, after another 2 quarters of abysmal sales. The deal is already on, and SUN will be a microsoft division, so MS gets java and a real unix to compete against IBM.
The reason why Sun bought Storagetek is that Sun needed to convert its cash reserves into company stock, because that can be depressed below actual value, and cash can't. Microsoft might also have wanted to acquire Storagetek tech, because while it sells hardware, the magic of the company is in the software, and that's up MS's alley (imagine real one-button disaster recovery built into Office).
Sun has already abandoned SPARC. They don't have the cash to hire the engineers they need to make it a go. MS will promise to do that, but won't.
Apple and Sun? Yes. Where does that leave AMD? with Nvidia, catering to the very high end gamers, and the e-machines of the world, and linux boxes (lots of them really).
Apple + Intel means software and hardware in proprietary tandem. This will make AMD much less competitive, edged out like alpha and sparc to a fringe, then to nothing, IF apple and intel successfully market their new Apple OSX Intel Inside laptops. If not, then AMD takes the cake and Intel gets edged out long term (which is my prediction).
Sun customers are either moving to linux / z/OS on IBM mainframes or Linux on Dell servers. If Sun does not get acquired, it will end up like SCO.
There are enough forward-looking statements in my post that you should bring your salt shaker.
Amen.
:) Word to the wise.
I was in the same situation.
Small company, 30 employees, systems grew to way too many servers
(exchange - fax - file - app (MSSQL) - websense - terminal service - mail-filtering (barracuda?) - webserver - nas - and now 2 RH+PHP+ora app server)
in addition to: firewall, vpn, voip (nortel).
All in all great systems, and employees are very productive, and company is very profitable.
Except the Director of IT wanted me to program (internal reports, website, scripting of backup jobs, config, etc) (which I like) and also do tech support for the users (install os, drivers, apps, setup users on AD, etc), as well as do server admin (patch, upgrades, hardware failure troubleshooting/fixing, backup tapes, etc).
So I got another job at another company and still do consulting for them, since, in the past 1 1/2 year since I'm not there full time, their backup strategy is exactly all the scripts I wrote and hoping the nas does not go down, and tech support was relegated to a slow-as-molasses $15/hr tech who barely can setup PCs.
Oh, the disaster in fall 2004 that took down the mailserver (2 out of 5 raid 5 drives went down together (the dell onsite support guy said it's rare, but does happen) and the backup was corrupt, but my scripted exmerge->pst->nas saved most emails, except those of the senior partner, along with all his contacts. He was very very pissed, but being the mellow guy, didn't have anybody's head on a platter. But I could tell.
Oh, on an aside, and from bitter personal experience: If you websense the hell out of internet access, people will send porn to each other on email systems and clog up your backups so fast you *might* lose data
Well, you could "try" to catch them, but who's got the time to run scripts on the exchange store with exmerge?
The other moral to the story is that you might consider splitting your contacts storage from your email.
I know how to admin a network, I just don't want to. Programming is my passion, and while scripting admin functions might be fun, keeping the DAT4 tape log isn't.
How much insight will I get from reading this outstandingly-titled rag that I can't get from the bogosphere/slashdot/mailinglists?
Ah yes, the puzzled look on my phb's face as he scans the mag.
On the other hand, I get to see that look often enough as it is...
I'll have you know crystal reports are a rpita.
Better would be: Create Excel Pivot Tables from Microsoft SQL 2000 Data Source (All TM)
I've set up people to do all-day sessions to terminal server, several days in a row. They did not know they ran unix, since it was auto-launching.
Rdesktop works fine. Just be aware you're still going to have to pay for terminal server connection licences.
Dude,
PyWiz as a nick shows you consider yourself gifted with Python.
Unless you're in college or under 18, you ought to be able to find a job easily enough.
Where's your resume anyway?