While in high school, I helped start an ISP. My friends father put up the money and away we went. After the SunOS (BSD! not Solaris) machine got to be slow (around 1993), we decided to try a couple cheap Pentium 66/75 machines (~~$2500). We used an SLS distribution w/ kernel 0.99 and we were pretty happy with it. Along the way we upgraded to Slackware and around the time of kernel 1.2.8 we were cracked. Why on earth would someone crack and trash a system? There goes the neighborhood. We switched the machines to Solaris 2.5 x86 (If I recall, it was $700/machine for the license) but you got great stuff including a Windows 3 emulator! Being a BSD fan, the only thing I really liked about Solaris was/usr/ucb (*chuckle*). While Solaris was O.K., I had also become adicted to the Free Software Concept. (Side Note, my favorite computers were Amiga and I loved Fred Fish Disks. The Software Distillary BBS was my favorite BBS:) ) After talking to a few people at a HAM RADIO FEST, I picked up FreeBSD which is what all our machines (save a few linux machines for customers who want to run linux for one reason or another). So, since 1995 we've had two problems, one was that restoring from a QIC tapes on 2.2 series was REALLY SLOW, so the drive upgrade we thought would last an hour, turned into 8. The second problem was insecure file permissions (our fault). FreeBSD has been a champ, I don't really care about FreeBSD vs OpenBSD vs Linux, I care about how it works. up 301+16:24, 0 users, load 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 502+12:47, 2 users, load 0.08, 0.20, 0.17 up 612+23:09, 0 users, load 0.02, 0.03, 0.00 As you can see, I haven't been woken up in the middle of the night w/ THE SERVER IS DOWN for at least a year. Yes, that's what I care about. It works and works and works. FreeBSD makes me look good:)
The ostracize.us project is simply a way to protest SCO and their current abuse of the legal system.
Using rbldns, I'm listing sites known to run any SCO operating system, or companies who directly support SCO.
I am but one person but w/ contributions from others, this project may grow;)
If you'd like to talk shop about running an ISP I'm up for it, contact me via email at my nickname @ yahoo.com
I am in the process of starting one now, I am the sysadmin for an ISP w/ 8k customers. Since you're in CNY you may have heard of A-ZNet, I worked there in 99(?).
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3 or 4 IE windows? Have you tried Avant Browser? It's an IE wrapper than gives it tabs, blocks popups and a few other things IE should be.
I have to use IE for some things @work and this makes it O.K. http://www.avantbrowser.com/
While in high school, I helped start an ISP. My friends father put up the money and away we went. After the SunOS (BSD! not Solaris) machine got to be slow (around 1993), we decided to try a couple cheap Pentium 66/75 machines (~~$2500). We used an SLS distribution w/ kernel 0.99 and we were pretty happy with it. Along the way we upgraded to Slackware and around the time of kernel 1.2.8 we were cracked. /usr/ucb (*chuckle*). :) ) :)
Why on earth would someone crack and trash a system? There goes the neighborhood.
We switched the machines to Solaris 2.5 x86 (If I recall, it was $700/machine for the license) but you got great stuff including a Windows 3 emulator!
Being a BSD fan, the only thing I really liked about Solaris was
While Solaris was O.K., I had also become adicted to the Free Software Concept. (Side Note, my favorite computers were Amiga and I loved Fred Fish Disks. The Software Distillary BBS was my favorite BBS
After talking to a few people at a HAM RADIO FEST, I picked up FreeBSD which is what all our machines (save a few linux machines for customers who want to run linux for one reason or another).
So, since 1995 we've had two problems, one was that restoring from a QIC tapes on 2.2 series was REALLY SLOW, so the drive upgrade we thought would last an hour, turned into 8. The second problem was insecure file permissions (our fault).
FreeBSD has been a champ, I don't really care about FreeBSD vs OpenBSD vs Linux, I care about how it works.
up 301+16:24, 0 users, load 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
up 502+12:47, 2 users, load 0.08, 0.20, 0.17
up 612+23:09, 0 users, load 0.02, 0.03, 0.00
As you can see, I haven't been woken up in the middle of the night w/ THE SERVER IS DOWN for at least a year. Yes, that's what I care about. It works and works and works.
FreeBSD makes me look good
http://www.ostracize.us/
;)
http://www.ostracize.us/
The ostracize.us project is simply a way to protest SCO and their current abuse of the legal system.
Using rbldns, I'm listing sites known to run any SCO operating system, or companies who directly support SCO.
I am but one person but w/ contributions from others, this project may grow
I'm working on just this right now. http://www.ostracize.us/ I've been really busy so not much has progressed. I'll add report functionality today.
It would help if you left contact information :)
If you'd like to talk shop about running an ISP I'm up for it, contact me via email at my nickname @ yahoo.com
I am in the process of starting one now, I am the sysadmin for an ISP w/ 8k customers. Since you're in CNY you may have heard of A-ZNet, I worked there in 99(?).