Just thought i would add my input. I have been to allconet. I was a co-owner of a wireless isp in pa. DDG Wireless and we got to go down and spend a day with the guy who designed and maintains the system, Jeffry Blank. He was very nice and showed around the whole town, showed up all the network stuff.
Basically this all started because in maryland libraries can recieve a free T-1 i think it is. Basically Jeff started by hooking up some of the schools and stuff. Only charges for equipment, and like 10 bucks a year for maintenence..
Anyway. its a great system..Check out Allconet monitoring. they do not use custom software to monitor the network. They use Netsaint. Although Jeff is an avid contributor to the plugins for that. I use his check_breeze.pl and some others that he wrote.
All in all. if you get a chance go by and take a look. Its beautiful country and they Jeff is doing some amazing things with wireless.
Just goes to show what can be accomplished by not being a totaly money grubber.. heh.. some things that are cheap are good.
""We welcome Napster's commitment to protect the interests of artists, songwriters and other rights holders through their new business model, and we will support any activity that provides for fair compensation for everyone involved. "
Translates to "We understand that Napster and other sharing utilities are not going to go away and if we don't accept them we are basically going to be left by the wayside".
Finally a company willing to take a chance on actually using this service instead of just complaining about it. Albeit they may not be in the best of financial standing but maybe that is what it took to get them to realize that here is the bandwagon now get on.
Don't know about the rest of you but if I was a musician or a record company and I could get the music out to 50 million people relativly cheaply should there even be any thought.
Just my opinion
Go for the internship. As someone who has worked in this industry for quite awhile experience is so important. Unless you get lucky that experience you will gain by doing an internship will help you immensly.
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Just thought i would add my input. I have been to allconet. I was a co-owner of a wireless isp in pa. DDG Wireless and we got to go down and spend a day with the guy who designed and maintains the system, Jeffry Blank. He was very nice and showed around the whole town, showed up all the network stuff.
Basically this all started because in maryland libraries can recieve a free T-1 i think it is. Basically Jeff started by hooking up some of the schools and stuff. Only charges for equipment, and like 10 bucks a year for maintenence..
Anyway. its a great system..Check out Allconet monitoring. they do not use custom software to monitor the network. They use Netsaint. Although Jeff is an avid contributor to the plugins for that. I use his check_breeze.pl and some others that he wrote.
All in all. if you get a chance go by and take a look. Its beautiful country and they Jeff is doing some amazing things with wireless.
Just goes to show what can be accomplished by not being a totaly money grubber.. heh.. some things that are cheap are good.
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""We welcome Napster's commitment to protect the interests of artists, songwriters and other rights holders through their new business model, and we will support any activity that provides for fair compensation for everyone involved. " Translates to "We understand that Napster and other sharing utilities are not going to go away and if we don't accept them we are basically going to be left by the wayside". Finally a company willing to take a chance on actually using this service instead of just complaining about it. Albeit they may not be in the best of financial standing but maybe that is what it took to get them to realize that here is the bandwagon now get on. Don't know about the rest of you but if I was a musician or a record company and I could get the music out to 50 million people relativly cheaply should there even be any thought. Just my opinion
Go for the internship. As someone who has worked in this industry for quite awhile experience is so important. Unless you get lucky that experience you will gain by doing an internship will help you immensly.