the moving parts start to inevitably wear out you'll get cars with partial facial paralysis... cars that won't stop winking, or can only smile with half a face, or have a floating eye
What amazes me is that there is so much discussion about DRM on music CDs, when ALL audio DRM can be circumvented by a monkey with a standard CD player and a prosumer level sound card.
When I lived outside of Boston and worked in Cambridge, I used to commute by bike. There was no need to own a car because of the availabilty of alternative (although slower) public transportation. I sank over a thousand into it, and if I'd had the money, I would have upgraded to lighter tires, a better frame, etc. and could have easily spent several thousand doing so. If this is your primary and only mode of transportation, those numbers aren't unrealistic. After all, how much is gas, registration, parking, maintenance, insurance, tolls and the occasional ticket for even a second-rate used car?
My company uses an Exodus facility (Boston 2) to host its web servers. By the way, their lounge has a really cool coffee/tea/cocoa machine, that I still get a kick of whenever I need to visit the IDC.
When we moved our equipment in to the facility last year, it was completely full, and they were in the process of opening a new IDC in the Boston area and had sold out all its real estate before it was completed. It was my impression at the time that they couldn't build data centers fast enough to keep up with the demand -- and this was after the March 2000 stock correction in the tech sector. At the time, their prospects looked terrific, as they were still expanding as the general industry trend was in decline. When I was back in our company's cage last month, there was a stark difference in IDC population, although there was a greatly expanded Storage Networks implementation, and new tenants were still moving in.
At any rate, one major issue that I heard about regarding Exodus was that the interest on their debt was larger than their income. One component of their strategy seemed to be 'build out as fast as you can regardless of the cost'. As a result, they now own and run the majority of the data centers in the world, and also have a tremendous debt. Chapter 11 forgives a large portion of that debt (if the proceedings go smoothly, granted, they might not).
Given that Exodus actually has a non-trivial number of customers, is still gaining customers more quickly than it loses them, could realize relief from a significant portion of their debt, has tangible physical assets (more than a failing.com), and has new leadership (L. William Krause, with an excellent track record of bringing companies to profitability), I'm not so sure that they're going to bottom out yet. I do like the company; even through their recent layoffs and restructuring our service through them has continued to be excellent.
Hey, some of our machines are running IIS. I keep them patched, too -- in fact, I'd applied the patch when it was released. Our systems were still compromised.
When I re-applied the patch I noticed this caveat in the dialog box after applying the patch:
"If you change or add any components to your system, you will need to reapply the hotfix."
Hmmm, so if I rebuild the TCP/IP stack, or make any other system changes, I have to remember to apply the patch again...
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the moving parts start to inevitably wear out you'll get cars with partial facial paralysis... cars that won't stop winking, or can only smile with half a face, or have a floating eye
This assumes that wealth is a finite resource...
What amazes me is that there is so much discussion about DRM on music CDs, when ALL audio DRM can be circumvented by a monkey with a standard CD player and a prosumer level sound card.
When I lived outside of Boston and worked in Cambridge, I used to commute by bike. There was no need to own a car because of the availabilty of alternative (although slower) public transportation. I sank over a thousand into it, and if I'd had the money, I would have upgraded to lighter tires, a better frame, etc. and could have easily spent several thousand doing so. If this is your primary and only mode of transportation, those numbers aren't unrealistic. After all, how much is gas, registration, parking, maintenance, insurance, tolls and the occasional ticket for even a second-rate used car?
My company uses an Exodus facility (Boston 2) to host its web servers. By the way, their lounge has a really cool coffee/tea/cocoa machine, that I still get a kick of whenever I need to visit the IDC.
.com), and has new leadership (L. William Krause, with an excellent track record of bringing companies to profitability), I'm not so sure that they're going to bottom out yet. I do like the company; even through their recent layoffs and restructuring our service through them has continued to be excellent.
When we moved our equipment in to the facility last year, it was completely full, and they were in the process of opening a new IDC in the Boston area and had sold out all its real estate before it was completed. It was my impression at the time that they couldn't build data centers fast enough to keep up with the demand -- and this was after the March 2000 stock correction in the tech sector. At the time, their prospects looked terrific, as they were still expanding as the general industry trend was in decline. When I was back in our company's cage last month, there was a stark difference in IDC population, although there was a greatly expanded Storage Networks implementation, and new tenants were still moving in.
At any rate, one major issue that I heard about regarding Exodus was that the interest on their debt was larger than their income. One component of their strategy seemed to be 'build out as fast as you can regardless of the cost'. As a result, they now own and run the majority of the data centers in the world, and also have a tremendous debt. Chapter 11 forgives a large portion of that debt (if the proceedings go smoothly, granted, they might not).
Given that Exodus actually has a non-trivial number of customers, is still gaining customers more quickly than it loses them, could realize relief from a significant portion of their debt, has tangible physical assets (more than a failing
Stuff to think about.
There is a DivX video of the first plane crash on KaZaA. The AVI is titled "CNN exclusive WTC crash 1 and 2".
Hey, some of our machines are running IIS. I keep them patched, too -- in fact, I'd applied the patch when it was released. Our systems were still compromised. When I re-applied the patch I noticed this caveat in the dialog box after applying the patch: "If you change or add any components to your system, you will need to reapply the hotfix." Hmmm, so if I rebuild the TCP/IP stack, or make any other system changes, I have to remember to apply the patch again...