Nothing like saying thanks to a sysadmin, by sending him a 123 card
- that is not visible in his browser
- and subscribing his email address to spam houses (how do you think the greetings site make money? they sell emails to their 'partners'):-)
I have RCN at home (zip : 94401, San Mateo, CA - aka San Francisco Bay area). They give me the combo package with phone + cable TV + broadband.
The most impressed part gotta be their broadband. here are some stats
- mozilla dowload speed : 324 kB/s ( ~= 2.5 Mbps!!)
- people dowload from me on Limewire around 120 KB/s ( ~= 1Mbps)
Now that is just leaps better compared to any DSL or cable here. Eat that AT & Pacbell:-)
My new found obsession is Furthur (furthernet.com). And right now people are downloading from me @ 50KB/s. A buddy of mine is also on Furthur, but his upstream is capped at 15KB/s (~= 128 kbps). I told him about RCN and he is *seriously* thinking about moving to a place where he can get RCN:-)
So people, please, if you are San Francisco Bay area give these guys a try. I have nothing but good things to say about RCN.
IF you need further info see my website or drop me an email./LinuxLover
Here in Silicon Valley (well Peninsula really, San Mateo - zip 94401) I have RCN fiber and I have
- phone
- cable tv
- broadband for about $80/month (no contracts).
There is no caps of anysort on downstream/upstream. I hope it stays that way!
I live in San Mateo (zip 94401) and I have RCN (http://www.rcn.com)
- cable tv
- broadband
- phone line for about $80/month. No contracts!
All services are _great_. Trust me I know. I have been with AT&T and other DSL providers. By far RCN is far better. I only had to contact their customer service a couple of times at start and they were very knowledgeble. The average service rep knew about/sbin/ipconfig parameters! I was impressed. I had dealt with too many tech morons who would say 'sir we dont support Linux, or broadband will not work with Linux':-)
Their upstream cap is around 700kbps (that cool compared to the 128kbps by AT&T and all other DSL providers). I get about 700-1500 kpbs downstream. I just use SSH but even if I ran a small FTP/webserver they are not that anal. I have LimeWire running and people have been downloading stuff off me @ crazy speeds (e.g 100 kBps, yes with a capital B). I don't share any illegal crap, just typical opensource programs and some copylefted MP3s.
If you are in the same area, please consider these guys.
Look at what happened at University of Illinois. All Mosaic hackers are from university and the university claimed that the software they did belonged to uni. Students in disgust left and rewrote another browser --> Netscape. The rest, as we all know it, is history.
Even before the release of Netscape, university tried to sue them for copyright infringement. But finally they saw the light and settled.
Jim Clarke says all this in his book 'Netscape Time'. He also contrasts how Stanford and Illinois operate. Stanford EE and CS departments get their 'investment back' in donations (often in millions worth of shares of startup companies). Illinois, tried to cash in on students' work and ended up with a creamed face.
you filter your mailing list messages first (you can move the rules up/down in evolution), then spam. So your COLA goes to your mymail/mailinglists/cola folder while 'improve your credit' goes to/dev/null.
You have to be careful to put a 'stop processing' filter directive to those mailing list filter rules.
To report spam, the _easiest_ way is through spamcop.net. You signup (free) and they will send you an email address to forward your emails. So all you do is forward the email as an attachment which preserves all the headers. Spamcop will do the tedious work of hunging down the headers adn open relays abused and send a report to those automatically.
I have been using it for a week now, and absolutely love it. Give it a try. You'll be glad you did.
I personally prefer electronic format. Much easy to sort & grep. Did any one worked on IBM SP2, quick
grep -il SP2 resumes/*.txt resumes/*.html
is all I need.
Paper is easy on eyes, but a nightmare to quickly find the infor you need (specially when you have 200 resumes for a job opening).
I have a.txt &.html resumes off mine. When at a job interview the only thing I had was a
a2ps resume.txt
output of mine, and the interviewers _loved_ it. I was told it is the quality of the work you did that matter, not how pretty you can format your resume.
If I get a resume in a folder printed on colored paoper, I'd be suspicious about it. We all know how we look for jobs. WE apply to about 50 jobs a day. If yoru resume is a close match, then you 'stand-out' in your interview. That is what they are there for. I never judge how serious some one about a job just b/c they handed me a laminated resume. I wait till I talk to the guy.
And hell yes, when I ask please only send txt/html resumes, everything else is tossed out (another reason why I love electronic format:-). That is the first sign, that you can not follow instructions.
You'd think,
- give away the software (abiword)
- then make money by running a support center (bugs / hand holding)
well, we have seen all the 'services' companies with LInux go down the drain. why? b/c people who use Linux are already clueful. They know if something doesn't work
- fix it themsleves (this hardly happens)
- wait for the next release / rpm (this is where 90 % of the people are)
I don't think any one is converted to Linux just becaseu they saw a shiny 19.95 box on Best Buys.
There are however successfull LInux desktop deplyoment stories within Slashdot. Just do a search.
SO how do you make an IT dept adopt Linux? have an IT manager who is clueful. It is like when you choose an ISP, should you go for AOL or some niche isp who would let you run your own sendmail. We are talking about the AOL crowd here. Sure it is easy choice. But you grow out of it soon.
how do you make money off by offering value-add services to freesoftware? I haven't figured that out yet. If I did, I wouldn't be writing this from my office computer!
Right now I _encrypt_ my files and put them on a CDR. So if I loose the CDR, I can be sure no one is readking my journal:-)
NOw, I always wanted a
- reliable
- cheap
- plenty of
- unix friendly
online backup. I tinkered with myspace.com and virtual hard drive and they are not worth while
- for the amount of spam you get
- the tiny space (10Meg, yeah right!)
- most of them want to install clients (win xx only)
Does anyone know any good alternatives? I think this is a lucrative business. Can not understand that no good service is available!
I was expecting this sort of reply along the lines of 'LInux is GPL, I like it that way, so don't use it for your evil corporate profit...blah...blah'. Congratulations, you made the list.
For the record,
- I do earn my living (a comfortable one I might add) working for a small proprietary software company...so boo me! (so does Linus and countless other contributers)
- I love & use free software. I have contributed back aswell
I _DIDNOT_ criticize Linux for being GPL. I was looking for a system where
- developers who contributed get something back (in code form or other)
- if code contribution is not possible, then contributes get compensated in some way.
I was looking for first hand experience of any license or any organization like the above existed.
Right now I can use Linux as a development platform. But it is not suited as a 'delivery platform' b/c of GPL (assuming my project involves modifying kernel heavily).
SOme one poited out about binary only modules. That may be a good compromise. But I thought under GPL
"if your software (say the module) would not function without a GPL component (linux kernel) then the source code for the software should be distributed aswell"
did I read that wrong?
Again please don't flame me about GPL and 'free as in beer' concepts. I know them all, and I respect them. I am looking for suggestions, not whinings.
This is exactly the issue I am considering aswell.
Lets say our company invents a device and plans to sell the device with Linux loaded terminal with Linux device driver. The hardware+software is our IP and we can't give it away. please don't lecture me of how everything should be free...etc. I know that, and I also like a roof above my head. Letting people download my driver for free from a FTP server doesn't quite pay my bills.
So the solution:
we need to have something like FSF or Linux Fund. If I want to keep my driver closed source say for 1 year then I pay a license fee for them (it can be a one time thing or royality based). The 'foundation' distributes the money as it see fit, funding developers, funding new projects..etc. After a year, I have 2 options
- release the source to kernel main tree and make it open. Now it doesn't matter as competitors can't abuse my work to overtake me.
- continue with closed source for another year and keep paying (may be revised) licese fee / royality.
This has best of both worlds
- I get to use a stable well maintained software (in this case Kernel). so I don't have to re-invent the wheel inhouse everytime.
- I keep my IP intact for a short period and at the same tiem paying for other developers efforts.
You clearly haven't been to circuitcity or bestbuy in San Francisco bay area region. I just can't imagine the level of incompetenace of the sales force.
The only store I found floor people who are knowledgeable / friendly / not pushy is REI.
This is the reason I don't buy anything from those braindead stores (circuitcity / bestbuy). I mostly buy online!
It makes me sick to hear all those 'open source' fanatics cringe & boo at a company trying to make some cash. Lets face it no one starts companies to make humankind better. It is all about the money.
Open Source originated from people working on 'side' projects aside from their 'job'. You know a job that sends you a paycheck that helps pay your bills and morgage. So most of the open source people were/are working on some proprietary company full time. Just because some lucky ones are paid to work in open source (Larry Wall comes to mind & GNU core people) doesn't mean everyone should make everything open and free.
Am I against open source? hell no. I love it. I use it everyday. I even contributed something back (nothing significant like Linux kernel, but tiny stuff). But at the same time, I understand economics 101. People have to earn a living (I am not talking about filthy rich here, just enough to make a decent living).
So get over this 'ooooh evil proprietary' mentality and thank them for their contributions. I for one am glad SourceForge exists. I have 2 projects hosted there.
Slashdot Mirror
Dear Mr Perens, .
if you don't like a law, work to *CHANGE IT*, NOT to *BREAKE IT*
yours
a sensible guy!
Nothing like saying thanks to a sysadmin, by sending him a 123 card :-)
- that is not visible in his browser
- and subscribing his email address to spam houses (how do you think the greetings site make money? they sell emails to their 'partners')
arrg, not again. We just got Sklyarov(sp?) freed. I am still tired from the demonstrations and collecting money ..*sigh*
furthurnet.com
ALl the LEGAL, ONLINE, LIVE music you can have. check it out now...
a little sense of humour please! :-)
I have RCN at home (zip : 94401, San Mateo, CA - aka San Francisco Bay area). They give me the combo package with phone + cable TV + broadband.
:-)
:-)
/LinuxLover
The most impressed part gotta be their broadband. here are some stats
- mozilla dowload speed : 324 kB/s ( ~= 2.5 Mbps!!)
- people dowload from me on Limewire around 120 KB/s ( ~= 1Mbps)
Now that is just leaps better compared to any DSL or cable here. Eat that AT & Pacbell
My new found obsession is Furthur (furthernet.com). And right now people are downloading from me @ 50KB/s. A buddy of mine is also on Furthur, but his upstream is capped at 15KB/s (~= 128 kbps). I told him about RCN and he is *seriously* thinking about moving to a place where he can get RCN
So people, please, if you are San Francisco Bay area give these guys a try. I have nothing but good things to say about RCN.
IF you need further info see my website or drop me an email.
I got my smartphone for $350. Sweet phone. I couldn't live without it.
Only gripe, it is a tad bigger! Hopefully the new one will be smaller and when it comes down in price, I might get one.
yep, played this in a movie theater while waiting for my friends to show up. I have been playing for about 15 mins, when I ran out of quarters.
:-)
:-)
Then when I walked upto my friends, I was still dripping sweat. They couldn't believe that I was tired from playing an arcade game
If my gym had a few of these, I am sure I will be looking forward to going to gym
Here in Silicon Valley (well Peninsula really, San Mateo - zip 94401) I have RCN fiber and I have
- phone
- cable tv
- broadband
for about $80/month (no contracts).
There is no caps of anysort on downstream/upstream. I hope it stays that way!
I live in San Mateo (zip 94401) and I have RCN (http://www.rcn.com)
/sbin/ipconfig parameters! I was impressed. I had dealt with too many tech morons who would say 'sir we dont support Linux, or broadband will not work with Linux' :-)
- cable tv
- broadband
- phone line
for about $80/month. No contracts!
All services are _great_. Trust me I know. I have been with AT&T and other DSL providers. By far RCN is far better. I only had to contact their customer service a couple of times at start and they were very knowledgeble. The average service rep knew about
Their upstream cap is around 700kbps (that cool compared to the 128kbps by AT&T and all other DSL providers). I get about 700-1500 kpbs downstream. I just use SSH but even if I ran a small FTP/webserver they are not that anal. I have LimeWire running and people have been downloading stuff off me @ crazy speeds (e.g 100 kBps, yes with a capital B). I don't share any illegal crap, just typical opensource programs and some copylefted MP3s.
If you are in the same area, please consider these guys.
so are you willing to 'subscribe' (as in paying real money) to Slashdot?
Anytime I need to read about book / dvd reviews, I head on to Amazon site.
Sure they are not darling red-hat (one click patent and all), but they run a decent web site.
Look at what happened at University of Illinois. All Mosaic hackers are from university and the university claimed that the software they did belonged to uni. Students in disgust left and rewrote another browser --> Netscape. The rest, as we all know it, is history.
Even before the release of Netscape, university tried to sue them for copyright infringement. But finally they saw the light and settled.
Jim Clarke says all this in his book 'Netscape Time'. He also contrasts how Stanford and Illinois operate. Stanford EE and CS departments get their 'investment back' in donations (often in millions worth of shares of startup companies). Illinois, tried to cash in on students' work and ended up with a creamed face.
and most of the NEW IMMIGRANTS. because it is double pay during holidays :-))))))))
I'd buy evolution ($60 bucks orsomething). And Ximian should honour that barcode for upgrades & stuff.
:-)
I'd pay for use. I refuse to pay any 'monthly subscription', it just reminds me of porn sites
you filter your mailing list messages first (you can move the rules up/down in evolution), then spam. So your COLA goes to your mymail/mailinglists/cola folder while 'improve your credit' goes to /dev/null.
You have to be careful to put a 'stop processing' filter directive to those mailing list filter rules.
LinuxLover
To report spam, the _easiest_ way is through spamcop.net. You signup (free) and they will send you an email address to forward your emails. So all you do is forward the email as an attachment which preserves all the headers. Spamcop will do the tedious work of hunging down the headers adn open relays abused and send a report to those automatically.
I have been using it for a week now, and absolutely love it. Give it a try. You'll be glad you did.
LinuxLover
I personally prefer electronic format. Much easy to sort & grep. Did any one worked on IBM SP2, quick
.txt & .html resumes off mine. When at a job interview the only thing I had was a
:-). That is the first sign, that you can not follow instructions.
grep -il SP2 resumes/*.txt resumes/*.html
is all I need.
Paper is easy on eyes, but a nightmare to quickly find the infor you need (specially when you have 200 resumes for a job opening).
I have a
a2ps resume.txt
output of mine, and the interviewers _loved_ it. I was told it is the quality of the work you did that matter, not how pretty you can format your resume.
If I get a resume in a folder printed on colored paoper, I'd be suspicious about it. We all know how we look for jobs. WE apply to about 50 jobs a day. If yoru resume is a close match, then you 'stand-out' in your interview. That is what they are there for. I never judge how serious some one about a job just b/c they handed me a laminated resume. I wait till I talk to the guy.
And hell yes, when I ask please only send txt/html resumes, everything else is tossed out (another reason why I love electronic format
You'd think,
- give away the software (abiword)
- then make money by running a support center (bugs / hand holding)
well, we have seen all the 'services' companies with LInux go down the drain. why? b/c people who use Linux are already clueful. They know if something doesn't work
- fix it themsleves (this hardly happens)
- wait for the next release / rpm (this is where 90 % of the people are)
I don't think any one is converted to Linux just becaseu they saw a shiny 19.95 box on Best Buys.
There are however successfull LInux desktop deplyoment stories within Slashdot. Just do a search.
SO how do you make an IT dept adopt Linux? have an IT manager who is clueful. It is like when you choose an ISP, should you go for AOL or some niche isp who would let you run your own sendmail. We are talking about the AOL crowd here. Sure it is easy choice. But you grow out of it soon.
how do you make money off by offering value-add services to freesoftware? I haven't figured that out yet. If I did, I wouldn't be writing this from my office computer!
LinuxLover
Right now I _encrypt_ my files and put them on a CDR. So if I loose the CDR, I can be sure no one is readking my journal :-)
NOw, I always wanted a
- reliable
- cheap
- plenty of
- unix friendly
online backup. I tinkered with myspace.com and virtual hard drive and they are not worth while
- for the amount of spam you get
- the tiny space (10Meg, yeah right!)
- most of them want to install clients (win xx only)
Does anyone know any good alternatives? I think this is a lucrative business. Can not understand that no good service is available!
thanks
LInuxLover
Dear Santa
I want to be an AIBO in Japan in my next life.
I was expecting this sort of reply along the lines of 'LInux is GPL, I like it that way, so don't use it for your evil corporate profit...blah...blah'. Congratulations, you made the list.
For the record,
- I do earn my living (a comfortable one I might add) working for a small proprietary software company...so boo me! (so does Linus and countless other contributers)
- I love & use free software. I have contributed back aswell
I _DIDNOT_ criticize Linux for being GPL. I was looking for a system where
- developers who contributed get something back (in code form or other)
- if code contribution is not possible, then contributes get compensated in some way.
I was looking for first hand experience of any license or any organization like the above existed.
Right now I can use Linux as a development platform. But it is not suited as a 'delivery platform' b/c of GPL (assuming my project involves modifying kernel heavily).
SOme one poited out about binary only modules. That may be a good compromise. But I thought under GPL
"if your software (say the module) would not function without a GPL component (linux kernel) then the source code for the software should be distributed aswell"
did I read that wrong?
Again please don't flame me about GPL and 'free as in beer' concepts. I know them all, and I respect them. I am looking for suggestions, not whinings.
thanks
LinuxLover
This is exactly the issue I am considering aswell.
Lets say our company invents a device and plans to sell the device with Linux loaded terminal with Linux device driver. The hardware+software is our IP and we can't give it away. please don't lecture me of how everything should be free...etc. I know that, and I also like a roof above my head. Letting people download my driver for free from a FTP server doesn't quite pay my bills.
So the solution:
we need to have something like FSF or Linux Fund. If I want to keep my driver closed source say for 1 year then I pay a license fee for them (it can be a one time thing or royality based). The 'foundation' distributes the money as it see fit, funding developers, funding new projects..etc. After a year, I have 2 options
- release the source to kernel main tree and make it open. Now it doesn't matter as competitors can't abuse my work to overtake me.
- continue with closed source for another year and keep paying (may be revised) licese fee / royality.
This has best of both worlds
- I get to use a stable well maintained software (in this case Kernel). so I don't have to re-invent the wheel inhouse everytime.
- I keep my IP intact for a short period and at the same tiem paying for other developers efforts.
any one know any similar licences like this?
LinuxLover
You clearly haven't been to circuitcity or bestbuy in San Francisco bay area region. I just can't imagine the level of incompetenace of the sales force.
The only store I found floor people who are knowledgeable / friendly / not pushy is REI.
This is the reason I don't buy anything from those braindead stores (circuitcity / bestbuy). I mostly buy online!
Righto.
It makes me sick to hear all those 'open source' fanatics cringe & boo at a company trying to make some cash. Lets face it no one starts companies to make humankind better. It is all about the money.
Open Source originated from people working on 'side' projects aside from their 'job'. You know a job that sends you a paycheck that helps pay your bills and morgage. So most of the open source people were/are working on some proprietary company full time. Just because some lucky ones are paid to work in open source (Larry Wall comes to mind & GNU core people) doesn't mean everyone should make everything open and free.
Am I against open source? hell no. I love it. I use it everyday. I even contributed something back (nothing significant like Linux kernel, but tiny stuff). But at the same time, I understand economics 101. People have to earn a living (I am not talking about filthy rich here, just enough to make a decent living).
So get over this 'ooooh evil proprietary' mentality and thank them for their contributions. I for one am glad SourceForge exists. I have 2 projects hosted there.
Sorry, just had to get it out of the system.
LinuxLover