When they mention the amount of disk space available, that may or may not include the virtual server itself. For example, looking at the linode page, the free space is the space left after the distribution is installed.
2. Uptime. Providers that claim 99.999% or whatever uptime are simply lying. It's probably the uptime of their network connection, but not individual server - I've had 3 different VPS's over the past two years (Verio, JVDS and Spry), and every one of them has at least once experienced a server problem where it was down for several hours.
3. Proprietary things. Whatch out for provider trying to lock you into their way of doing things. This may be a complicated xinetd/qmail setup that works well with their GUI panel (which you may not care about). Once you get used to their way of doing things, it would be hard to move to another provider who will probably have a different setup.
4. Watch out for the price. The vast majority of the hosting companies out there operate as Ponzi schemes - their main source of revenue is the setup and pre-payment fees, but the monthly fee alone isn't enough to sustain their costs. This makes them very eager to keep signing up new customers and not to work hard on retaining them.
5. Few hosting providers will upgrade their servers, it's just too much trouble. So if you got a FreeBSD 4.3 or RedHat 7.2, it will probably stay this way despite of what the sales guy may tell you.
6. You don't know what hardware they are using. It is trivial to patch the kernel so that dmesg always reports it's a 2.4GHz Xeon whereas it's really a PII.
7. Most hosting companies don't like to reveal their inner workings. You can most of the time guess whether it is a FreeBSD jail, a Linux UML (those usually list memory limits as part of the price), a Linux VServer (not a lot of those yet, but it's the future most likely) or a proprietary solution like the ViaVerio crap. What this means is that you don't know what security and reliability measures they have in place, don't ever assume anything.
8. AUP. A more restrictive AUP is a good thing IMHO. Providers with liberal AUP's are usually winking that they like to host porn. You probably don't want to be on the same machine with a porn site because they will eat all your CPU. Some providers prefer porn customers because they are easy to deal with, always pay on time and don't like to draw attention. Then other providers don't host porn because they consider it immoral.
9. Make sure that the IP's you get have not been previously spoiled by a spammer. You will find out sooner or later when your e-mails sent from the VPS bounce.
My prediction is that the biggest thing in 2004 will be the beginnings of wide spread adoption of VOIP along with emergence of new gadgets such as IP aware answering machines.
Hopefully the laid off guys will start their own companies that will give us something more exciting to talk about than AOL.
I think it's clear that the techies shouldn't have trusted the business types in the mid nineties and retained control rather than relinquish it for venture capital. We would have all been better off.
But I think the year 2004 is going to be the revenge of the techie - there will be new small innovative companies popping up, and they will not be for sale to AOL's of this world this time.
AFAIK Kermit protocol and Kermit the program are unrelated. Kermit the program supports Kermit the protocol, but I don't know that the two originated in the same place.
FreeBSD has the best ifconfig of all Unices I've used. My favorite part is being albe to use the slash notation for the netmask, e.g. to add a secondary IP to fxp0, you can do:
Wouldn't you think that a company like Cisco or Juniper, etc. who make hardware, network operating systems, implementations of routing protocols like BGP, etc, don't build models and try to wreck them on routine basis? And their test labs are probably way more advanced than anything professors can come up with on a 5.5mil budget.
I work for a large WebHosting Company. [snip] We have thousands of servers, hundreds of them are RedHat Linux. [snip] Customers come to us for our excellence of service
I hope you do not work at Verio, because it cannot tell its ass from its elbow, even when it comes to web hosting. Trust me, I know.:-)
Of the Free Unices, GNU/Linux has the most commercial interest, the most users, and the most developers. This is fact. So any theoretical arguments about BSD creating a more productive atmosphere, are automatically incorrect.
And of all operating systems, Microsoft Windows has the most commercial interest, the most users and the most developers. This is fact. So any theoretical arguments about GNU/Linux creating a more productive atmosphere, are automatically incorrect.
This may be purely coincidental, but I see myself and others around me acting much wackier than normal since friday. Included are a couple of meetings that just were completely bizzare because we couldn't focus on the subject, a strange car accident in the parking lot where an SUV drove over three other cars for whatever reason...
Check out this link (Not sure where the original article is, there is probably better articles on the subject, this is just one I found).
The point is that the assertion that fossil fuels come from plants is just a theory, there may well be a lot more oil undergroung than we ever thought there was, and it may be something that existed prior to any plants.
If the powerlines run over that property, then most likely the power company has an easement, which roughly (I'm no lawyer) means that should something happen, they can wheel a crane into your backyard to do work, and you will have to live with it. And if they have to take the fence down, or nock out part of your house to get there, they will. (Though they will fix it later). You will really have to check this out with the local government, and it may not be that simple.
Another thing is that power lines make noise. It may not seem like much during the day, but it may drive you nuts at night.
- It's eight five six charlie zero fox alpha three niner zero six file nine charlie fox fox nine charlie zero six three two zero one one zero zero one alpha one two four eight five six charlie...
- I am sorry, can you start over?
- IT's eight five six charlie zero fox alpha three niner zero six file nine charlie fox fox nine charlie zero six three two zero one one zero zero one alpha one two four eight five six charlie zero fox alpha three niner zero six file nine charlie fox fox nine charlie zero six three two zero one one zero zero one alpha one two four.
- Sorry, I didn't get the part after "zero zero one"?
Once we see the first "personal server" come out, there will be no need for the phones to be smart.
What I'm not sure is how the interface to the personal server and the phones will shake out. Ideally, the phones could bluetooth to the server to retreive phone books, etc, but something tells me the phone makers may not want to go this route - though who knows...
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Guido
When you interviewed at Google - did they ask you brainteaser or hard algorithmic questions, and if so, what did you think of it?
Cheers!
When they mention the amount of disk space available, that may or may not include the virtual server itself. For example, looking at the linode page, the free space is the space left after the distribution is installed.
2. Uptime. Providers that claim 99.999% or whatever uptime are simply lying. It's probably the uptime of their network connection, but not individual server - I've had 3 different VPS's over the past two years (Verio, JVDS and Spry), and every one of them has at least once experienced a server problem where it was down for several hours.
3. Proprietary things. Whatch out for provider trying to lock you into their way of doing things. This may be a complicated xinetd/qmail setup that works well with their GUI panel (which you may not care about). Once you get used to their way of doing things, it would be hard to move to another provider who will probably have a different setup.
4. Watch out for the price. The vast majority of the hosting companies out there operate as Ponzi schemes - their main source of revenue is the setup and pre-payment fees, but the monthly fee alone isn't enough to sustain their costs. This makes them very eager to keep signing up new customers and not to work hard on retaining them.
5. Few hosting providers will upgrade their servers, it's just too much trouble. So if you got a FreeBSD 4.3 or RedHat 7.2, it will probably stay this way despite of what the sales guy may tell you.
6. You don't know what hardware they are using. It is trivial to patch the kernel so that dmesg always reports it's a 2.4GHz Xeon whereas it's really a PII.
7. Most hosting companies don't like to reveal their inner workings. You can most of the time guess whether it is a FreeBSD jail, a Linux UML (those usually list memory limits as part of the price), a Linux VServer (not a lot of those yet, but it's the future most likely) or a proprietary solution like the ViaVerio crap. What this means is that you don't know what security and reliability measures they have in place, don't ever assume anything.
8. AUP. A more restrictive AUP is a good thing IMHO. Providers with liberal AUP's are usually winking that they like to host porn. You probably don't want to be on the same machine with a porn site because they will eat all your CPU. Some providers prefer porn customers because they are easy to deal with, always pay on time and don't like to draw attention. Then other providers don't host porn because they consider it immoral.
9. Make sure that the IP's you get have not been previously spoiled by a spammer. You will find out sooner or later when your e-mails sent from the VPS bounce.
Well that's about all I can think of right now...
The problem is really getting a copy of the BREW SDK; that would be the illegal part, unless you have really deep pockets.
Isn't the BREW SDK is free?
My prediction is that the biggest thing in 2004 will be the beginnings of wide spread adoption of VOIP along with emergence of new gadgets such as IP aware answering machines.
"I" in IPX stands for "Internet" too...
Hopefully the laid off guys will start their own companies that will give us something more exciting to talk about than AOL.
I think it's clear that the techies shouldn't have trusted the business types in the mid nineties and retained control rather than relinquish it for venture capital. We would have all been better off.
But I think the year 2004 is going to be the revenge of the techie - there will be new small innovative companies popping up, and they will not be for sale to AOL's of this world this time.
AFAIK Kermit protocol and Kermit the program are unrelated. Kermit the program supports Kermit the protocol, but I don't know that the two originated in the same place.
IMHO
Keep me updated, I'll buy stock in your company!
>> you can do:
... but do you still need eth:0, eth:1, etc for every secondary address?
>> # ifconfig fxp0 192.168.1.12/32 alias
> Woah, impressive!
> Have you ever used Linux?
ok, ok, so apparently you can do it on Linux too....
The GNU version takes different arguments anyway - like for example none at all, which the FreeBSD version doesn't allow
> mtu 1500
When was the last time you used FreeBSD?
$ uname
FreeBSD
$ ifconfig
rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST
inet 192.168.1.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
[snip]
FreeBSD has the best ifconfig of all Unices I've used. My favorite part is being albe to use the slash notation for the netmask, e.g. to add a secondary IP to fxp0, you can do:
# ifconfig fxp0 192.168.1.12/32 alias
As an executive [snip] I can tell you [snip] Just today (yes, today), I had a major schedule slip that could cost the company millions
/. and get some work done then!
May be you should quit sitting on
(sorry, couldn't resist!)
Wouldn't you think that a company like Cisco or Juniper, etc. who make hardware, network operating systems, implementations of routing protocols like BGP, etc, don't build models and try to wreck them on routine basis? And their test labs are probably way more advanced than anything professors can come up with on a 5.5mil budget.
I work for a large WebHosting Company.
:-)
[snip]
We have thousands of servers, hundreds of them are RedHat Linux.
[snip]
Customers come to us for our excellence of service
I hope you do not work at Verio, because it cannot tell its ass from its elbow, even when it comes to web hosting. Trust me, I know.
Of the Free Unices, GNU/Linux has the most commercial interest, the most users, and the most developers. This is fact. So any theoretical arguments about BSD creating a more productive atmosphere, are automatically incorrect.
And of all operating systems, Microsoft Windows has the most commercial interest, the most users and the most developers. This is fact. So any theoretical arguments about GNU/Linux creating a more productive atmosphere, are automatically incorrect.
This may be purely coincidental, but I see myself and others around me acting much wackier than normal since friday. Included are a couple of meetings that just were completely bizzare because we couldn't focus on the subject, a strange car accident in the parking lot where an SUV drove over three other cars for whatever reason...
Anyone else notice an elevated wackiness level?
Why whould they pick Vienna of all places?
Check out this link (Not sure where the original article is, there is probably better articles on the subject, this is just one I found).
The point is that the assertion that fossil fuels come from plants is just a theory, there may well be a lot more oil undergroung than we ever thought there was, and it may be something that existed prior to any plants.
the innovative ideas that have made google so successful will give way
Well, but these guys have to cash out on their hard work sooner or later.
Innovation -> IPO -> Stagnation
is a natural cycle that gives an opportunity for others to succeed. On the other hand
Innovation -> IPO -> Stagnation -> Chapter 11 -> Govt Help -> Reimergence
(think worldcom) is a terribly unnatural cycle, one where everyone loses.
If the powerlines run over that property, then most likely the power company has an easement, which roughly (I'm no lawyer) means that should something happen, they can wheel a crane into your backyard to do work, and you will have to live with it. And if they have to take the fence down, or nock out part of your house to get there, they will. (Though they will fix it later). You will really have to check this out with the local government, and it may not be that simple.
Another thing is that power lines make noise. It may not seem like much during the day, but it may drive you nuts at night.
I'd stay away from it for just those two reasons.
- Sir, what is your IP adress?
- It's eight five six charlie zero fox alpha three niner zero six file nine charlie fox fox nine charlie zero six three two zero one one zero zero one alpha one two four eight five six charlie...
- I am sorry, can you start over?
- IT's eight five six charlie zero fox alpha three niner zero six file nine charlie fox fox nine charlie zero six three two zero one one zero zero one alpha one two four eight five six charlie zero fox alpha three niner zero six file nine charlie fox fox nine charlie zero six three two zero one one zero zero one alpha one two four.
- Sorry, I didn't get the part after "zero zero one"?
- ONE ONE THREE CHARLIE FOX SIX THREE
- Three?
- @#$^%$#$%!!!
Because ssh is all I need.
Once we see the first "personal server" come out, there will be no need for the phones to be smart.
What I'm not sure is how the interface to the personal server and the phones will shake out. Ideally, the phones could bluetooth to the server to retreive phone books, etc, but something tells me the phone makers may not want to go this route - though who knows...
If you use password based authentication, your password is only protected by the cipher, so with "none", your password will be sent plaintext.
Good point! Shows how assumption is the mother of all problems, I stand corrected, cipher none is not such a good idea.