No, a company like Roto-Rooter will have enough staff and common sense to setup shifts to cover calls over a 24-hour period, 7 days a week. His company has not made provisions for this and to expect that one person will be on-call and available 24/7 is ludicrous.
With AJAX, caching, and sensible timeouts, this is a non-issue. The problem lies in the fact that instead of optimizing performance, they've focused on simplicity, allowing you the webmaster to embed their advertisements into your site by copy/pasting a few short lines of code vs. implementing something more robust that doesn't bog down the rendering of your pages.
Does JungleDisk provide SSH access to your data? ExpanDrive easily mounts S/FTP, SSH, etc. in Windows (as a mapped drive) and Mac (as a mount point in Finder).
I'll second that: built a pfSense firewall for a client based on the 3D3; setup a very simple (and bullet-proof) Snort sensor for ~$125 bucks. Both are running like champs. Excellent build quality, very expandable, ordered one myself for my home server.
I'll add that editing the template -- which is customization job #1 for the most part -- is a serious pain in the ass. I'm not talking about switching the themes, I'm talking about modifying the theme with a text editor.
I'm in the same boat: I think for most of our SBS clients (~20-50 users), their companies are small and centralized enough that if they need to find out where the HR manual is, they can usually find it for themselves on their one, small, shared directory, or a quick walk down the hall can fulfill any "collaboration" needs.
BitWeaver picked up where Tikiwiki left off and... promptly dropped the ball. I invested a significant portion of time converting the MySQL-based install to Postgres to gain a slight edge in performance, it ran so poorly. I counted 56 join-heavy queries executed just to render the homepage. The code-base is still god-awful -- a mutant hybrid of OOP/procedural, piss-poor documentation and code commenting, etc.
Teredo scares the shit out of me.
Here's a great way to endear yourself with the legions of IT professionals who have to manage your products, MS: let's name a feature that attempts to circumvent a managed IP4 network after the Teredo Worm, "the termite of the sea,".
For a/. geek, what does Windows 7 have that's *really* useful/desired/cool vs. Windows XP? Not trolling, just haven't had the time to install it/play with it yet.
Yeah, I can see for hosting that staying away from Windows Server licenses would save you a bundle, but only if it's solid enough to offer as a.NET web hosting plan for your customers; I'm thinking not.
until you read the referenced Nissan article, and realise that maybe the "good relationship with Microsoft that we leverage and utilize" was worth more to them than filling the feature gaps in Hyper-V vs. VMWare/XenServer. It's even possible that the MS "good relationship" discounts they're most likely enjoying are what allowed them to move forward with the project in the first place. If either of those are the case, then how can you fault the CIO on this decision?
1,2,3: This sounds like a laundry list of complaints for any software.
4: how is this an issue of open source? The fact that anyone can pick up and run with a project is a bonus; try doing that with proprietary. If nobody has picked up something, then perhaps it wasn't worth saving in the first place?
5. Agreed, but some people like choice, and you can't go wrong with any of the major distros either.
6. You're kidding, right? So on Windows, you've got opaque, "blackbox" wizards,.ini files,.cfg files, registry hives, binary files galore, none of which are even close to being standardized. In the *nix world, you can feel at ease knowing you can always vi some/file over a console session if you really fuck things up.
7. I stopped reading after this, assuming you're just flaming or have no fucking clue what you're talking about.
Slightly off-topic, but we promptly cancelled our Mosso hosting once we found out that their "cloud" (whatever) MySQL servers were set to listen on the default port, accepting root logins from *any* IP address: they're claim was that this enabled users to use whatever SQL tools they wanted remotely (umm, ssh tunneling ftw?). I guess those "tools" also include brute force password attacking utilities and the like?
I can see this working in a modernized market like the UK (see, "those with accounts"), but how does this help those in emerging countries with no bank accounts? Credit cards? Don't you need an account for a legitimate credit card? It's been so long since I've had mine, I can't remember.
Seriously, I'm not "getting" how they plan on converting analog currency into a digital transaction with the phone and nothing else.
I fail to see how/why the TFA is lumping everything under one problem called the "Internet". Break it up into little bits, and you'll see that there *are* mostly effective working groups and vendor coalitions solving issues, up and down the stack, every day.
Umm, or you could use an email address (or phone number or both) coupled with a match on first/lastname and as third factor you could use an address or ZIP code.
Sounds like a lame system; there's a myriad of ways to determine uniqueness for your customers.
And they thank me for it when they get the bill because we don't charge an on-site hourly minimum and we bill in 15-minute increments. As for security, a guy on-site could just as easily be pushing your data to some remote host just as easily as he could pull it while connected remotely, off-site, and chances are, you'd have know idea either way.
Have him sign a NDA, encrypt your important data with EFS (built-in) and get on with running your startup.
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when someone figures out a way to create a swarm of zombie phones using this technology.
No, a company like Roto-Rooter will have enough staff and common sense to setup shifts to cover calls over a 24-hour period, 7 days a week. His company has not made provisions for this and to expect that one person will be on-call and available 24/7 is ludicrous.
With AJAX, caching, and sensible timeouts, this is a non-issue. The problem lies in the fact that instead of optimizing performance, they've focused on simplicity, allowing you the webmaster to embed their advertisements into your site by copy/pasting a few short lines of code vs. implementing something more robust that doesn't bog down the rendering of your pages.
You can tell WSUS to queue up and wait for approval before rolling any patches out -- the rest of us can get our patches when they're ready.
Does JungleDisk provide SSH access to your data? ExpanDrive easily mounts S/FTP, SSH, etc. in Windows (as a mapped drive) and Mac (as a mount point in Finder).
I have a newsflash for you Walter Cronkite: users wouldn't know the difference between ebay.com and ebay.ha.ha.pwned.com if it had an eBay logo on it.
I'll second that: built a pfSense firewall for a client based on the 3D3; setup a very simple (and bullet-proof) Snort sensor for ~$125 bucks. Both are running like champs. Excellent build quality, very expandable, ordered one myself for my home server.
I'll add that editing the template -- which is customization job #1 for the most part -- is a serious pain in the ass. I'm not talking about switching the themes, I'm talking about modifying the theme with a text editor.
I'm in the same boat: I think for most of our SBS clients (~20-50 users), their companies are small and centralized enough that if they need to find out where the HR manual is, they can usually find it for themselves on their one, small, shared directory, or a quick walk down the hall can fulfill any "collaboration" needs.
it's included (and installed) by default. It's SharePoint Services, but I doubt MS makes that distinction.
BitWeaver picked up where Tikiwiki left off and... promptly dropped the ball. I invested a significant portion of time converting the MySQL-based install to Postgres to gain a slight edge in performance, it ran so poorly. I counted 56 join-heavy queries executed just to render the homepage. The code-base is still god-awful -- a mutant hybrid of OOP/procedural, piss-poor documentation and code commenting, etc.
Teredo scares the shit out of me. Here's a great way to endear yourself with the legions of IT professionals who have to manage your products, MS: let's name a feature that attempts to circumvent a managed IP4 network after the Teredo Worm, "the termite of the sea,".
For a /. geek, what does Windows 7 have that's *really* useful/desired/cool vs. Windows XP? Not trolling, just haven't had the time to install it/play with it yet.
cannot be taken lightly, but I think his best strategy yet might be to decline the Nobel.
Yeah, I can see for hosting that staying away from Windows Server licenses would save you a bundle, but only if it's solid enough to offer as a .NET web hosting plan for your customers; I'm thinking not.
but was/is there a real need for Mono? Anyone actually using it in a production environment? If so, why?
until you read the referenced Nissan article, and realise that maybe the "good relationship with Microsoft that we leverage and utilize" was worth more to them than filling the feature gaps in Hyper-V vs. VMWare/XenServer. It's even possible that the MS "good relationship" discounts they're most likely enjoying are what allowed them to move forward with the project in the first place. If either of those are the case, then how can you fault the CIO on this decision?
1,2,3: This sounds like a laundry list of complaints for any software.
4: how is this an issue of open source? The fact that anyone can pick up and run with a project is a bonus; try doing that with proprietary. If nobody has picked up something, then perhaps it wasn't worth saving in the first place?
5. Agreed, but some people like choice, and you can't go wrong with any of the major distros either.
6. You're kidding, right? So on Windows, you've got opaque, "blackbox" wizards,
7. I stopped reading after this, assuming you're just flaming or have no fucking clue what you're talking about.
Not tested, but Petri is a pretty solid resource: http://www.petri.co.il/how-to-disable-smb-2-on-windows-vista-or-server-2008.htm
Slightly off-topic, but we promptly cancelled our Mosso hosting once we found out that their "cloud" (whatever) MySQL servers were set to listen on the default port, accepting root logins from *any* IP address: they're claim was that this enabled users to use whatever SQL tools they wanted remotely (umm, ssh tunneling ftw?). I guess those "tools" also include brute force password attacking utilities and the like?
I can see this working in a modernized market like the UK (see, "those with accounts"), but how does this help those in emerging countries with no bank accounts? Credit cards? Don't you need an account for a legitimate credit card? It's been so long since I've had mine, I can't remember. Seriously, I'm not "getting" how they plan on converting analog currency into a digital transaction with the phone and nothing else.
I fail to see how/why the TFA is lumping everything under one problem called the "Internet". Break it up into little bits, and you'll see that there *are* mostly effective working groups and vendor coalitions solving issues, up and down the stack, every day.
- everything on your site is pwned
Umm, or you could use an email address (or phone number or both) coupled with a match on first/lastname and as third factor you could use an address or ZIP code. Sounds like a lame system; there's a myriad of ways to determine uniqueness for your customers.
And they thank me for it when they get the bill because we don't charge an on-site hourly minimum and we bill in 15-minute increments. As for security, a guy on-site could just as easily be pushing your data to some remote host just as easily as he could pull it while connected remotely, off-site, and chances are, you'd have know idea either way.
Have him sign a NDA, encrypt your important data with EFS (built-in) and get on with running your startup.