Exactly. Check this out, it's a job request posted to Guru.com:
I am looking for a dedicated server provider that will host my business domains and provide POP3 emails for each domain.
I might be open to a relationship where you do not provider the actual server, but you know of a reliable server provider and want to be my technical support person for the server and you will help me reach my hosting and email marketing goals. To be my technical support person you must already have a relationship with a reputable server provider who can help me achieve the goals I have set.
My goal is to send out a minimum of 10 million emails a day using the server I rent from you, so I also need the server and software that will allow me to set up email sampaigns to promote and sell educational and consulting business services to more than 10 million email addresses per day without the limitation of bandwidth or the ISP hassle of being shut down.
My last server provider's server crashed every other day and I was unable to get my email marketing campaign off the ground, so reputation, reliability, and stability are important to me.
I will need technical assistance to help set up all the web sites and help with POP3 email setup for each web site, as well as assistance with the email marketing software. I have purchased the @engine email software from BulkISP but have yet to test it at its capacity on a server that works. The limitation of this software is that you are only allowed to use one message per campaign, but I am interested in sending out alternating messages per campaign if possible. Please recommend an email marketing software if you know one.
I need you to provide me a server and need the server provider with the ability to do the following:
1. Provide customer references that I can speak with 2. Setup within 48 hours 3. 24/7 customer support and live technical support 4. Windows 2000 server that supports Linux 5. Unlimited bandwidth 6. Unlimited email accounts 7. PHP, ASP, CGI 8. SSL/SSI 9. DNS hosting with the ability to host 10-15 different web sites 10. Sites that won't be shut down 11. Ability to send out unlimited emails of at least 10 million or more emails a day 12. Ability to set up email addresses for each site, including catch-all emails 13. FTP ability to each web site directly 14. Email software that will give me the ability to do the following: a. Can send out unlimited emails of at least 10 million emails per day b. Generate alternate messages for each campaign c. Alternate Subject matter d. Send to 1 recipient at a time e. Alternate "From" message f. Get around port 25 g. Wash emails h. Give email mailing reports 15. Remote access to server from anywhere using Terminal Services, VNC, or PcAnywhere 16. Email washer service to comply with do not send recipients (like 65.241.16.254) 17. Easy to understand instructions to operate email software and server 18. Customer references that I can speak with
Thank you.
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I was thinking about responding with a bid, $1.00 per e-mail sent and I'll get him set up.
Now the virus writers can check for the existance of the lycos screensaver and modify the site to be whacked. And the folks who run them won't deinstall because they put it in in the first place and trust Lycos to give them the correct information. A little hosts mod and I can provide world wide sites to be pseudo-DDOSed. And with a tiny nudge from the other minions, the site will go down.
Just like EDS did, you'd have to start off with an idea of what you're doing and why.
Step one, evaluate the machines to see what special requirements are necessary for the systems to continue to operate in the same mode. That they have different hardware isn't really much of a requirement since virtually all distros handle hardware requirements pretty well.
Step two, break the systems in to catagories. A majority will probably be simple with office and web browsing requirements.
Step three, set up 50 laptops (WAG) with the distro chosen set up for "jumpstart" (or whatever it's called on the linux side) to install the distro including office and firefox.
Step four, set up a department by department schedule. Have a team stop by each of the systems, to ensure the data that needs to be moved has been backed up to a dedicated file server.
Step five, the night of the move, burn a backup image of the target system to a second dedicated server properly identified. Jumpstart the box. Move the data back, converting bookmarks and e-mail, moving documents back to a document folder. Leave a 1 or 2 page document instructing the user on how to get started. Have the browser start up to a more inclusive set of documentation showing how to start the new tools.
Step six, once the majority of the users are converted, set up a second schedule to address the specialized users who might need access to a mainframe or specialized application. They may need a windows box to continue to function, at least until their specialized needs are met.
Step seven, profit
For 20,000 users, this'd be a year long project with several levels of management, lots of interaction and training for the support staff. You can't just say, "here's 20,000 machines. Fix them."
There'd be weekly meetings charting the progress including the problem folks that need upper management motivation and where we were in the schedule.
By the way, these are the same steps you'd need to convert 20,000 users on Windows 98SE to Windows 2000.
And if you need something like that, drop me a line. I'd be happy to get further in to this. Sounds like fun:-)
They've been bought over the past 7 or so years when I first begin as a Unix admin. The team lead pointed me to Essential System Administration. I had a small handful prior to that introduction, mostly programming books.
1. No power requirements. I can sit out back or take a ride into the mountains and read. 2. No computer distractions. When I'm on the computer, I'm doing computer stuff. Not reading. 3. Ergonomically better. I can "curl up and read a good book". Tough to do with a computer (note I said "Tough", not impossible). 4. Search = Table of Contents or Index and I might find something else helpful while looking. 5. I can bring it with me to work and not have to worry about losing a multi-hundred or even thousand dollar e-book because of some light fingered stooge. 6. I can carry it on my motorcycle and if it gets wet it'll dry out with minimal ill effects. 7. I can leave it in the car and not worry about the screen freezing or the system getting overheated and frying. 8. I like the feel of a good book. 9. O'Reilly rocks.
Yea, I've got a few books at home. http://www.schelin.org/stuff/computer/index.html [John]
I dunno, which one used speed, stamina, strength, beauty, intelligence and wisdom?
Strength, intelligence, wisdom, dexterity, constitution and charisma yea. Speed might be a subtable of strength, dexterity and constitution. Beauty is but one aspect of charisma. Stamina might derive from constitution.
[John] "Chaotic Dungeon Master and the Laws are Random"
The appropriate term would be red-headed child. It alludes to a child being born that isn't the result of the parents marriage. Father and mother are brunettes and have a red headed son and eyebrows are raised. Pre-boomers phrase I believe.
Their corporate offices are in Waltham Massachusetts now. That's where their press releases are being posted from. I don't know how long ago it happened but another post mentioned it not long ago.
It won't last. As someone else pointed out. Hollywood used Canada for a while until the locals wised up and prices went up.
The difference is that Canada has a significantly better quality of life than the average Indian. So the Indian company can pay an Indian call center employee 8,000 a year, he'd still have to pay a Canadian call centre employee 30,000 or 40,000 a year. This is vs a call center employee here making 40,000 to 50,000 a year. (All WAG's, recent tech support position advertised on dice.com was for 55 an hour).
When India starts fining the companies dumping waste into the Ganges, the companies will pass on the costs to the citizens which will then require raises in order to be able to afford the goods these companies sell. When the wages get too high, they'll outsource to China. Then China will start fining the mining companies (chinese dieing in unsafe mines because it's either work the mine or starve) or waste management folks (chinese exposed to toxic waste from computer salvaging) and the cycle starts again.
I think my salary (currently non-existant) is globally balanced. When you consider all aspects, I was getting paid the same amount, adjusted for living conditions, as the guy in India who got $10,000 and pays.50 for lunch. Once India starts cleaning up, the rates will rise and they'll outsource again.
It's been a long time, but if I recall correctly, one of the problems I always had was the minimum requirement to play in space. 12th level or 15th level.
I had created a few cloud castles which were aloof from the "lower realm" so little contact was made. The Spelljammers had relationships with the folks in the cloud castles which was how I was going to introduce my parties to space.
It never worked out. The groups I had never had any party loyalty and kept killing each other off. That's what finally caused me to move away from board games. Most of my friends who were smarter had already moved to computer gaming.
1) (0.134%) 10 songs from Napster (Americans, Hit The Road Jack, Insensitive, Discovery Channel, Too Fat Polka, Suddenly Last Summer, Cigarettes and Whusky and Wild, Wild Woman, Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette), Boyz In The Hood, I'm Gonna Take Care Of Everything) My wife downloaded half of them. I just saved them to my Mac:-)
2) (0%) None
3) (0%) None
4) (98.278%) 7306 are from my collection of CDs.
5) (0.874%) 31 songs (2 cds: Giorgos Ntalaras and Giannis Kotsiras) from when I was in Greece, 12 songs (1 cd: Arc Angels) from a cousin in law while on a recent motorcycle trip, 22 songs from my ex-wife's collection (she wanted me to burn a compilation cd).
6) (0.242%) 18 songs ripped from 45's
7) (0.147%) 11 songs ripped from 1 album (Jim Stafford, Not Just Another Pretty Foot)
8) (0.309%) 9 songs ripped from 1 cassette (Starbuck, Moonlight Feels Right), 14 songs ripped from various cassettes in order to transfer the collection to CD (in other words, I had 13 of the 16 songs and couldn't find the last 3 so I ripped them from the tape).
9) (0.013%) 1 song captured from the archives of an internet radio station (A Message to Khomeini) which I had originally captured while sitting in a cafeteria in Germany.
I actually think I have more ripped from 45/album/cassette but I've reidentified them with their original collection and there aren't any other tags that identify the source.
I received mine as a gift. I was interested in buying one but the price was the killer for me. Same with the PowerBook G4 1.25Ghz I recently bought. I needed a new laptop and wanted to play with the new system but the price was higher than I wanted to pay. Fortunately it costs me about $100.
Having only used a couple of mp3 players, I think the thing I like most is that I don't have to have a CD wallet along with the device. Since most of my music is located on it (only the ones with 4 or 5 stars to keep it to the 20Gig limit), letting it randomly play music surprises me with songs I may not have heard in a while.
On a recent trip to Athens, I only needed my laptop and ipod and had all my tunes and tools with me.
Not only that, I find that many of the albums I like best take several plays for me to get my head around it.
Back when I actually listened to the radio, if I heard three songs from an album, I'd buy it and most of the time the whole album'd be really good (in my opinion of course).
There were times that I heard a song I _really_ liked and bought the album and found the rest wasn't that good.
Aerosmith Permanent Vacation and Pump are excellent examples. I liked several of the songs and got PV. I wasn't so sure about Pump but received it as a gift and still, it's a really good album. But they both took several plays to get my head around and really enjoy them. Hell, I got Goodbye Yellow Brick Road on tape as a kid and didn't listen to side 2. I'd play side one, rewind it and play it again. A friend had me turn it over and I found several songs I immediately liked.
Could be. That does sound familiar. I'll have to check my collection. I think what throws me off is that, if I recall correctly, Gwen fell off a bridge and died when Spidy tried to catch her and broke her back. In the movie it shows MJ falling from a bridge.
Could be that it's just been a long time since I read the comics.
Thanks. I'll see if I can find the comic/read the history.
Well, it's for CCNA which is an ok beginning. Downloading now to see if it'll help with my CCNP recert.
I got my CCNA simply to understand networking better and the environment at work. The company paid for a CCNP class so I felt I had to give it a shot and got my CCNP 5 months after the class ended. Now that I have to recert, I'm studying the Switch/Router books and, even though I didn't work as a network engineer, much of the material is familiar.
Do you know what they call someone who received the lowest passing scores on the tests? "Cisco Certified":-)
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Exactly. Check this out, it's a job request posted to Guru.com:
I am looking for a dedicated server provider that will host my business domains and provide POP3 emails for each domain.
I might be open to a relationship where you do not provider the actual server, but you know of a reliable server provider and want to be my technical support person for the server and you will help me reach my hosting and email marketing goals. To be my technical support person you must already have a relationship with a reputable server provider who can help me achieve the goals I have set.
My goal is to send out a minimum of 10 million emails a day using the server I rent from you, so I also need the server and software that will allow me to set up email sampaigns to promote and sell educational and consulting business services to more than 10 million email addresses per day without the limitation of bandwidth or the ISP hassle of being shut down.
My last server provider's server crashed every other day and I was unable to get my email marketing campaign off the ground, so reputation, reliability, and stability are important to me.
I will need technical assistance to help set up all the web sites and help with POP3 email setup for each web site, as well as assistance with the email marketing software. I have purchased the @engine email software from BulkISP but have yet to test it at its capacity on a server that works. The limitation of this software is that you are only allowed to use one message per campaign, but I am interested in sending out alternating messages per campaign if possible. Please recommend an email marketing software if you know one.
I need you to provide me a server and need the server provider with the ability to do the following:
1. Provide customer references that I can speak with
2. Setup within 48 hours
3. 24/7 customer support and live technical support
4. Windows 2000 server that supports Linux
5. Unlimited bandwidth
6. Unlimited email accounts
7. PHP, ASP, CGI
8. SSL/SSI
9. DNS hosting with the ability to host 10-15 different web sites
10. Sites that won't be shut down
11. Ability to send out unlimited emails of at least 10 million or more emails a day
12. Ability to set up email addresses for each site, including catch-all emails
13. FTP ability to each web site directly
14. Email software that will give me the ability to do the following:
a. Can send out unlimited emails of at least 10 million emails per day
b. Generate alternate messages for each campaign
c. Alternate Subject matter
d. Send to 1 recipient at a time
e. Alternate "From" message
f. Get around port 25
g. Wash emails
h. Give email mailing reports
15. Remote access to server from anywhere using Terminal Services, VNC, or PcAnywhere
16. Email washer service to comply with do not send recipients (like 65.241.16.254)
17. Easy to understand instructions to operate email software and server
18. Customer references that I can speak with
Thank you.
=====
I was thinking about responding with a bid, $1.00 per e-mail sent and I'll get him set up.
[John]
Now the virus writers can check for the existance of the lycos screensaver and modify the site to be whacked. And the folks who run them won't deinstall because they put it in in the first place and trust Lycos to give them the correct information. A little hosts mod and I can provide world wide sites to be pseudo-DDOSed. And with a tiny nudge from the other minions, the site will go down.
Brilliant!
[John]
Ok :-)
:-)
Just like EDS did, you'd have to start off with an idea of what you're doing and why.
Step one, evaluate the machines to see what special requirements are necessary for the systems to continue to operate in the same mode. That they have different hardware isn't really much of a requirement since virtually all distros handle hardware requirements pretty well.
Step two, break the systems in to catagories. A majority will probably be simple with office and web browsing requirements.
Step three, set up 50 laptops (WAG) with the distro chosen set up for "jumpstart" (or whatever it's called on the linux side) to install the distro including office and firefox.
Step four, set up a department by department schedule. Have a team stop by each of the systems, to ensure the data that needs to be moved has been backed up to a dedicated file server.
Step five, the night of the move, burn a backup image of the target system to a second dedicated server properly identified. Jumpstart the box. Move the data back, converting bookmarks and e-mail, moving documents back to a document folder. Leave a 1 or 2 page document instructing the user on how to get started. Have the browser start up to a more inclusive set of documentation showing how to start the new tools.
Step six, once the majority of the users are converted, set up a second schedule to address the specialized users who might need access to a mainframe or specialized application. They may need a windows box to continue to function, at least until their specialized needs are met.
Step seven, profit
For 20,000 users, this'd be a year long project with several levels of management, lots of interaction and training for the support staff. You can't just say, "here's 20,000 machines. Fix them."
There'd be weekly meetings charting the progress including the problem folks that need upper management motivation and where we were in the schedule.
By the way, these are the same steps you'd need to convert 20,000 users on Windows 98SE to Windows 2000.
And if you need something like that, drop me a line. I'd be happy to get further in to this. Sounds like fun
[John]
They've been bought over the past 7 or so years when I first begin as a Unix admin. The team lead pointed me to Essential System Administration. I had a small handful prior to that introduction, mostly programming books.
I do.
1. No power requirements. I can sit out back or take a ride into the mountains and read.
2. No computer distractions. When I'm on the computer, I'm doing computer stuff. Not reading.
3. Ergonomically better. I can "curl up and read a good book". Tough to do with a computer (note I said "Tough", not impossible).
4. Search = Table of Contents or Index and I might find something else helpful while looking.
5. I can bring it with me to work and not have to worry about losing a multi-hundred or even thousand dollar e-book because of some light fingered stooge.
6. I can carry it on my motorcycle and if it gets wet it'll dry out with minimal ill effects.
7. I can leave it in the car and not worry about the screen freezing or the system getting overheated and frying.
8. I like the feel of a good book.
9. O'Reilly rocks.
Yea, I've got a few books at home. http://www.schelin.org/stuff/computer/index.html
[John]
I dunno, which one used speed, stamina, strength, beauty, intelligence and wisdom?
Strength, intelligence, wisdom, dexterity, constitution and charisma yea. Speed might be a subtable of strength, dexterity and constitution. Beauty is but one aspect of charisma. Stamina might derive from constitution.
[John]
"Chaotic Dungeon Master and the Laws are Random"
red-headed stepchild
I don't think that means what you think it means.
The appropriate term would be red-headed child. It alludes to a child being born that isn't the result of the parents marriage. Father and mother are brunettes and have a red headed son and eyebrows are raised. Pre-boomers phrase I believe.
Just being anal.
[John]
Their corporate offices are in Waltham Massachusetts now. That's where their press releases are being posted from. I don't know how long ago it happened but another post mentioned it not long ago.
[John]
i'm kinda jealous
Reminds me of people who say they would have liked to live in the dark ages with the famous artists and musicians, great castles and famous writers.
My response was always that you'd most likely be a peasant or slave considering there wasn't much, if any middle class.
It won't last. As someone else pointed out. Hollywood used Canada for a while until the locals wised up and prices went up.
.50 for lunch. Once India starts cleaning up, the rates will rise and they'll outsource again.
The difference is that Canada has a significantly better quality of life than the average Indian. So the Indian company can pay an Indian call center employee 8,000 a year, he'd still have to pay a Canadian call centre employee 30,000 or 40,000 a year. This is vs a call center employee here making 40,000 to 50,000 a year. (All WAG's, recent tech support position advertised on dice.com was for 55 an hour).
When India starts fining the companies dumping waste into the Ganges, the companies will pass on the costs to the citizens which will then require raises in order to be able to afford the goods these companies sell. When the wages get too high, they'll outsource to China. Then China will start fining the mining companies (chinese dieing in unsafe mines because it's either work the mine or starve) or waste management folks (chinese exposed to toxic waste from computer salvaging) and the cycle starts again.
I think my salary (currently non-existant) is globally balanced. When you consider all aspects, I was getting paid the same amount, adjusted for living conditions, as the guy in India who got $10,000 and pays
I dunno. I get 45mpg on the highway and about 38 in the city and could probably dust you off on that on ramp (not that I'd ever do that).
;-) (yes, even in DC traffic; regularly commuted downtown for almost 13 years until I moved to Colorado a few months back).
Of course I'm on a Hayabusa
Because we want to know who's president now.
Remember, we're baby boomers and are used to getting our way. Credit cards, fast food, big cars (and motorcycles).
In this case, it really is buy now, pay later.
I don't mind getting globally competitive wages as long as I can pay globally competitive prices for goods.
Motorcycles. Just ride a bike. I do it all the time and have spent weeks on the road.
:-)
Of course, our kids are grown and off doing something else so there's no "motorcycle seat" on the back for the kids
It's been a long time, but if I recall correctly, one of the problems I always had was the minimum requirement to play in space. 12th level or 15th level.
I had created a few cloud castles which were aloof from the "lower realm" so little contact was made. The Spelljammers had relationships with the folks in the cloud castles which was how I was going to introduce my parties to space.
It never worked out. The groups I had never had any party loyalty and kept killing each other off. That's what finally caused me to move away from board games. Most of my friends who were smarter had already moved to computer gaming.
Yea, I really enjoyed Spelljammer. Especially the expansion of the Beholder races, always my favorite monster.
What about the iOpener... wait! These guys are the same guys who did the iOpener. It's just remarketed stuff they couldn't sell last time.
What they need to do is combine fear factor with science.
"Tell me Mandy, would you want to eat a heaping helping of periplaneta fuliginosa or oncorhynchus gorbuscha?"
Sam died.
Stats: 7434 songs, 20.5 days, 26.70 GB
:-)
1) (0.134%) 10 songs from Napster (Americans, Hit The Road Jack, Insensitive, Discovery Channel, Too Fat Polka, Suddenly Last Summer, Cigarettes and Whusky and Wild, Wild Woman, Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette), Boyz In The Hood, I'm Gonna Take Care Of Everything) My wife downloaded half of them. I just saved them to my Mac
2) (0%) None
3) (0%) None
4) (98.278%) 7306 are from my collection of CDs.
5) (0.874%) 31 songs (2 cds: Giorgos Ntalaras and Giannis Kotsiras) from when I was in Greece, 12 songs (1 cd: Arc Angels) from a cousin in law while on a recent motorcycle trip, 22 songs from my ex-wife's collection (she wanted me to burn a compilation cd).
6) (0.242%) 18 songs ripped from 45's
7) (0.147%) 11 songs ripped from 1 album (Jim Stafford, Not Just Another Pretty Foot)
8) (0.309%) 9 songs ripped from 1 cassette (Starbuck, Moonlight Feels Right), 14 songs ripped from various cassettes in order to transfer the collection to CD (in other words, I had 13 of the 16 songs and couldn't find the last 3 so I ripped them from the tape).
9) (0.013%) 1 song captured from the archives of an internet radio station (A Message to Khomeini) which I had originally captured while sitting in a cafeteria in Germany.
I actually think I have more ripped from 45/album/cassette but I've reidentified them with their original collection and there aren't any other tags that identify the source.
[John]
I imagine the fun part will be running around in the middle of the night switching the tags around :-)
"Wadda you mean I was driving too fast?! The car said the limit was 65."
"Sir, you are in a residental neighborhood. Weren't you a little suspicious?"
"No officer. I was yaking with my wife and reading the newspaper and had dropped a McCoffee in my lap."
I received mine as a gift. I was interested in buying one but the price was the killer for me. Same with the PowerBook G4 1.25Ghz I recently bought. I needed a new laptop and wanted to play with the new system but the price was higher than I wanted to pay. Fortunately it costs me about $100.
Having only used a couple of mp3 players, I think the thing I like most is that I don't have to have a CD wallet along with the device. Since most of my music is located on it (only the ones with 4 or 5 stars to keep it to the 20Gig limit), letting it randomly play music surprises me with songs I may not have heard in a while.
On a recent trip to Athens, I only needed my laptop and ipod and had all my tunes and tools with me.
you should listen...
Not only that, I find that many of the albums I like best take several plays for me to get my head around it.
Back when I actually listened to the radio, if I heard three songs from an album, I'd buy it and most of the time the whole album'd be really good (in my opinion of course).
There were times that I heard a song I _really_ liked and bought the album and found the rest wasn't that good.
Aerosmith Permanent Vacation and Pump are excellent examples. I liked several of the songs and got PV. I wasn't so sure about Pump but received it as a gift and still, it's a really good album. But they both took several plays to get my head around and really enjoy them. Hell, I got Goodbye Yellow Brick Road on tape as a kid and didn't listen to side 2. I'd play side one, rewind it and play it again. A friend had me turn it over and I found several songs I immediately liked.
Could be. That does sound familiar. I'll have to check my collection. I think what throws me off is that, if I recall correctly, Gwen fell off a bridge and died when Spidy tried to catch her and broke her back. In the movie it shows MJ falling from a bridge.
Could be that it's just been a long time since I read the comics.
Thanks. I'll see if I can find the comic/read the history.
Well, it's for CCNA which is an ok beginning. Downloading now to see if it'll help with my CCNP recert.
:-)
I got my CCNA simply to understand networking better and the environment at work. The company paid for a CCNP class so I felt I had to give it a shot and got my CCNP 5 months after the class ended. Now that I have to recert, I'm studying the Switch/Router books and, even though I didn't work as a network engineer, much of the material is familiar.
Do you know what they call someone who received the lowest passing scores on the tests? "Cisco Certified"