What I was talking about is business DSL.
This means the offering of static IP addesses amd a quality of service for down time.
Even for your home dsl you can buy static IP addresses.
Business DSL allows a company to start with 5 static IP addresses on a 384k SDSL line for $120 per month. As the business needs grow, it can be upgraded to better than a standard T1.
Standard T1 is a 1.5kbps connection, and a SDSL T1 is 1.5kps up and then same speed down. i.e. 3kbps combined.
With vendors offering QOS on DSL lines, many companies are picking up on DSL as an alternative to leased lines. It is cheaper and they can add bandwidth as they grow and can afford it.
This will prevent legitimate businesses from conducting business.
How does AOL know? What if an IP range is moved from DSL to a leased line?
Is there something in the ARIN records that shows this?
Impeding commerce.
One way around this is that I use Yahoo Mail plus. They'll masquerade as an email address you can prove you use. Only $30/year.
I've haven't kept a physical checkbook in years.
I've trusted Quicken up until 2002. The new reconciliation feature was done is a really piss poor manor.
I changed to MoneyDance because I just wanted a check registry. Something that read QIF files that i downloaded from my bank.
It has worked great and has been around for years.
The parent company does a full bookkeeping application.
Be happy that there is company out there doing quality financial software that does not require you pay the Microsoft Tax on the OS.
Good comment: Nagios looks good. I wish it was cross platform. I have always been places with mixed environments.
Troll comment: We posting singles ads? Let me know if you have luck.
Take a look at big brother. http://bb4.com. Big brother is cross platform and has many hooks. It will monitor all unix and win machines. I do suggest using a UNIX machine as the server. BB has both email and pager support.
The extensions for BB are at http://www.deadcat.net/
I also like tripwire. Checksums of files on the system to know if important files have been changed. last time I used TripWire it has email alerts. The paid for version has an enterprise monitor.
LogWatch is another. Generates email.
Go through your linux and bsd daily, hourly and weekly scripts to see all the tools they run by default. These can be moved to most Unixs. Since most of these are shell and perl rpograms, some might be adaptable under windows using activeXPerl or Cygwin.
The hardest part is fine tuning the emails and alerts to those things you really care about.
MTRG and agreat snmp tool and tied in with BigBrother.
I've has to set these up for security purposes at one site. For monitoring a server fam at another site. A compile farm for doing builds at my current job.
If you can get a 1099 out of the "shell", do that. One of the advantages of being a 1099 contractor is deducting that new laoptop. Almost not worth the deduction as a w-2 employee.
If you are bring in the contract, and have the rate set, they should be getting no more than 25%. Remember, as a w-2, they have the costs of social security, worker comp, libabilty and their staff.
On a 1099, no more than 10%.
If you feel you will be getting more of these, put together a LLC if you have one other friend also contracting. Two employee make for a group health plan under California law.
Do not let your health insirance lapse for more than 59 days. Otherwise under federal law the health insurance companies can absolutely screw you. Can we all say Pre-existing Conditions.
I can write several pages on this. Anybody want advice, read all the postings and contact me.
I've been a indepentant contractor, gone through agancies, been a salaried employee of several body shops, worked for beltway bandits. 21 years of this.
Bottom line, do a 1099 if you can. Do not under any circumstance let your health insurance lapse for more than 59 days.
I keep the campfire white LED on the keychain.
Itwas about $10 and has an on/off switch. Good for when you don' have a third had to squeeze it to turn it on.
I have a "Torch" 3 white led / 3AAA battery for around the house. It was about $15.
I'm waiting to replace my quartz halogen Torchars with a white led lamp.
I'm not a racist, but there are a lot of Americans out of work. Give them the work. I know for a fact they are working for less money.
The H1 is meant is supplant a short fall of US Labor, not replace it. Unfortately the INS does not control the levels of H1 Visas. It is controled by law. The last law upping the limits was enacted a few months before the bust. The economy is in the dumpers and the law is not being repealed.
Sun would have been smarter to just offshore the project instead of hiring H1 visa employees.
That they can do. Replacing US Citizens with H1 employees is not legal. Of course a change in the job description and wala, a layoff and a rehire at a 35% savings.
You are right. I am wasting my salary. On savings incase I get laid off again. Oh yeah, $1100 a month to rent a dump.
I was not away that this was in 5.0. I spend my time in Linux. I need to make a bigger commitment to BSD. It seem to be a jump ahead of linux most of the time.
Dump isn't the problem. It is the fact that you are bakcup of a live system. Short of running everyone on a raid 1, cutting the mirrors, backing up the mirror,and reconnecting, UNIX file systems are not meant to be backed up while in use.
Companies with money can get a netapp box for critical data. Here you can absolutly use dump, tar or cpio. They create a "snapshot" of a file before backing it up.
Unfortunately we are talking a minimum of $40k for this type of solution.
If the snapshot comcept could be written into ext4, then dumps would be great.
I always put a caveat into my backup policies to cover this issue.
I wrote my response to doing this in a business environment.
Second OEM for the same machine. Illegal, welcome to club fed. Your a felon. Can you spell Butt Buddy.
As for using linux, I try once a year. I take a linux machine and use it.
OpenOffice - Give it another 2-3 years.
Visio replacements - not bad for normal flow charting. Falls apart for UML.
Outlook - The Ximian Evolution connector is a peice of junk. Even small companies use Exchange. POP does not do meetings.
Project managment: Mr Manager falls apart once you get multiple levels.
Accounting: even the small company using QuickBooks can't use GnuCash.
WINE - still too buggy.
VMWare - my work around. But this is for one person. You still need the Full legal retail copy per person of all your software.
Believe me, I try. In the real world of most companies, you need office, you need windows.
A big rule of IT, search for the software that does what you need, then buy the computer for it. Unfortunately, this means windows.
If there was a meeting manager that tied in with an LDAP address DB, and worked under linux and windows, I'd do a happy dance. I'd have a real solution to purge the world of exchange.
The way microsoft works, for each person on the computer:
XP: $300
Office XP std: $480
Monitor, KB, mouse: $200
Cost of HW for extra kb, mouse and monitor?
Plus the convienance of something freezing for one person and then having more than one person wait on a reboot.
That is $980. A new PC is $1000. Where are your savings? The $1000 is a new dell with a refurb monitor with XP pro and Office Standard. Plus 256MB of mem.
Microsoft Markup Language.
I constantly have users that send me html from office or frontpage and make them go back and use netscape composer or somthing that actually writes HTML or XML.
I sometimes wonder if this is real or an accident.
Ever read MicroSerfs? A company of fresh out of school engineers that work in their own words until they burn out.
I just had to figure out how to use the locale routines. In US enclish computers the ISO 639 abreviation is "en". Microsoft returns "enu". No such thing!
I was the example.
Do you expect everyone in the company to learn how to program?
Or maybe expect IT to have someone who job is to code each persons custom view?
Think about the big picture. I stand by my original premise, OWA is not really there yet.
I have access to both outlook via vpn and OWA.
For the normal user, OWA is fine.
But if you have custom views, OWA is not an option.
My task list is grouped by a numeric priority and by project. You can't do this with OWA.
Maybe owa.net will have the functionality. Ever notice that nets are use to capture things?
I think.NET is Microsoft being honest.
Isn't there one person at Microsoft that sees how Dynamic libraries have been done in UNIX?
Put the version in the name of the DLL file name. We do not need another level of untracible indirection in the registry.
Have each file have the correct phsical name. i.e. lib-1.2.dll
Let the program decided latest or specific version. And have the system support this. If I want the latest lib-1.x.dll get it. Latest lib-x.x.dll get it. But directly, not by another dereferencing "ID" in the registry. These clowns love their obscurity.
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Even for your home dsl you can buy static IP addresses.
Business DSL allows a company to start with 5 static IP addresses on a 384k SDSL line for $120 per month. As the business needs grow, it can be upgraded to better than a standard T1.
Standard T1 is a 1.5kbps connection, and a SDSL T1 is 1.5kps up and then same speed down. i.e. 3kbps combined.
This will prevent legitimate businesses from conducting business.
How does AOL know? What if an IP range is moved from DSL to a leased line?
Is there something in the ARIN records that shows this?
Impeding commerce.
One way around this is that I use Yahoo Mail plus. They'll masquerade as an email address you can prove you use. Only $30/year.
AOL just did not think about this very clearly.
My first inject a cannon 200 is on its third owner. A family frinds kid in college.
My friend has had a epson color inkjet printer for 5 years. It still prints photos well.
By junk, deal with it. By quality, ehoy it.
I prefer God or Sir personally. But as long as I'm paid well, A.H. will do. For my business card, "Infrastructure Facilitator"
I've haven't kept a physical checkbook in years. I've trusted Quicken up until 2002. The new reconciliation feature was done is a really piss poor manor.
I changed to MoneyDance because I just wanted a check registry. Something that read QIF files that i downloaded from my bank.
It has worked great and has been around for years.
The parent company does a full bookkeeping application.
Be happy that there is company out there doing quality financial software that does not require you pay the Microsoft Tax on the OS.
I have been efiling for as long as it has been around.
The last 4 years have been easy. Turbo tax makes sure all is OK and 10 days later, pop, money in the bank.
This year the IRS finally has their act together for getting your status online accurately.
Turbo tax has rebates for all the filing fees.
At this time I don't think it breaks any laws, but then again I'm not a lawyer.
If his usage caused a blip on the radar he could loose his account if he let people use the AP. They want the $40-$60 from those other people.
If it is accidental, they would talk him through setting up WEP or Mac address filtering.
Good comment: Nagios looks good. I wish it was cross platform. I have always been places with mixed environments. Troll comment: We posting singles ads? Let me know if you have luck.
I use a sh derivitive on Unix/Linux machines. I prefer in order of preference bash, then korn, then tcsh, csh, sh
Command line editing and history is important during normal use. After than it is the programming structures you prefer.
Being someone who was weaned on a Altos running System 7 back in 1984, I prefer bourne shell dirivitives.
The extensions for BB are at http://www.deadcat.net/
I also like tripwire. Checksums of files on the system to know if important files have been changed. last time I used TripWire it has email alerts. The paid for version has an enterprise monitor.
LogWatch is another. Generates email.
Go through your linux and bsd daily, hourly and weekly scripts to see all the tools they run by default. These can be moved to most Unixs. Since most of these are shell and perl rpograms, some might be adaptable under windows using activeXPerl or Cygwin.
The hardest part is fine tuning the emails and alerts to those things you really care about.
MTRG and agreat snmp tool and tied in with BigBrother.
I've has to set these up for security purposes at one site. For monitoring a server fam at another site. A compile farm for doing builds at my current job.
Yes, but if you have your own shell, you can get a 1099 from the shell. Again, makes this trips to Fry's or buying tech books deductable.
If you are bring in the contract, and have the rate set, they should be getting no more than 25%. Remember, as a w-2, they have the costs of social security, worker comp, libabilty and their staff.
On a 1099, no more than 10%.
If you feel you will be getting more of these, put together a LLC if you have one other friend also contracting. Two employee make for a group health plan under California law.
Do not let your health insirance lapse for more than 59 days. Otherwise under federal law the health insurance companies can absolutely screw you. Can we all say Pre-existing Conditions.
I can write several pages on this. Anybody want advice, read all the postings and contact me.
I've been a indepentant contractor, gone through agancies, been a salaried employee of several body shops, worked for beltway bandits. 21 years of this.
Bottom line, do a 1099 if you can. Do not under any circumstance let your health insurance lapse for more than 59 days.
People from the JBoss team will be present.
It will be the same test BEA and IBM has to pass.
If this wasn't the case, we'd all be paying for JRun licenses instead fo using TomCat.
I keep the campfire white LED on the keychain. Itwas about $10 and has an on/off switch. Good for when you don' have a third had to squeeze it to turn it on. I have a "Torch" 3 white led / 3AAA battery for around the house. It was about $15. I'm waiting to replace my quartz halogen Torchars with a white led lamp.
I'm not a racist, but there are a lot of Americans out of work. Give them the work. I know for a fact they are working for less money. The H1 is meant is supplant a short fall of US Labor, not replace it. Unfortately the INS does not control the levels of H1 Visas. It is controled by law. The last law upping the limits was enacted a few months before the bust. The economy is in the dumpers and the law is not being repealed. Sun would have been smarter to just offshore the project instead of hiring H1 visa employees. That they can do. Replacing US Citizens with H1 employees is not legal. Of course a change in the job description and wala, a layoff and a rehire at a 35% savings. You are right. I am wasting my salary. On savings incase I get laid off again. Oh yeah, $1100 a month to rent a dump.
I was not away that this was in 5.0. I spend my time in Linux. I need to make a bigger commitment to BSD. It seem to be a jump ahead of linux most of the time.
Companies with money can get a netapp box for critical data. Here you can absolutly use dump, tar or cpio. They create a "snapshot" of a file before backing it up.
Unfortunately we are talking a minimum of $40k for this type of solution.
If the snapshot comcept could be written into ext4, then dumps would be great.
I always put a caveat into my backup policies to cover this issue.
Anybody out there know if Bru does any better?
Veritas have a work arund to this?
Amanda is just a wrapper around dump.
I wrote my response to doing this in a business environment. Second OEM for the same machine. Illegal, welcome to club fed. Your a felon. Can you spell Butt Buddy. As for using linux, I try once a year. I take a linux machine and use it. OpenOffice - Give it another 2-3 years. Visio replacements - not bad for normal flow charting. Falls apart for UML. Outlook - The Ximian Evolution connector is a peice of junk. Even small companies use Exchange. POP does not do meetings. Project managment: Mr Manager falls apart once you get multiple levels. Accounting: even the small company using QuickBooks can't use GnuCash. WINE - still too buggy. VMWare - my work around. But this is for one person. You still need the Full legal retail copy per person of all your software. Believe me, I try. In the real world of most companies, you need office, you need windows. A big rule of IT, search for the software that does what you need, then buy the computer for it. Unfortunately, this means windows. If there was a meeting manager that tied in with an LDAP address DB, and worked under linux and windows, I'd do a happy dance. I'd have a real solution to purge the world of exchange.
OMG Billy boy didn't like my comment. I'm hurt.
Paid for a nice dinner anyway.
XP: $300
Office XP std: $480
Monitor, KB, mouse: $200
Cost of HW for extra kb, mouse and monitor?
Plus the convienance of something freezing for one person and then having more than one person wait on a reboot.
That is $980. A new PC is $1000. Where are your savings? The $1000 is a new dell with a refurb monitor with XP pro and Office Standard. Plus 256MB of mem.
Microsoft Markup Language. I constantly have users that send me html from office or frontpage and make them go back and use netscape composer or somthing that actually writes HTML or XML. I sometimes wonder if this is real or an accident. Ever read MicroSerfs? A company of fresh out of school engineers that work in their own words until they burn out. I just had to figure out how to use the locale routines. In US enclish computers the ISO 639 abreviation is "en". Microsoft returns "enu". No such thing!
I was the example. Do you expect everyone in the company to learn how to program? Or maybe expect IT to have someone who job is to code each persons custom view? Think about the big picture. I stand by my original premise, OWA is not really there yet.
I have access to both outlook via vpn and OWA. For the normal user, OWA is fine. But if you have custom views, OWA is not an option. My task list is grouped by a numeric priority and by project. You can't do this with OWA. Maybe owa.net will have the functionality. Ever notice that nets are use to capture things? I think .NET is Microsoft being honest.
Isn't there one person at Microsoft that sees how Dynamic libraries have been done in UNIX?
Put the version in the name of the DLL file name.
We do not need another level of untracible indirection in the registry.
Have each file have the correct phsical name.
i.e. lib-1.2.dll
Let the program decided latest or specific version. And have the system support this. If I want the latest lib-1.x.dll get it. Latest lib-x.x.dll get it. But directly, not by another dereferencing "ID" in the registry. These clowns love their obscurity.