All personal preferences/arguments aside, when there is competition all products improve, or die. Imagine if Firefox never existed... Would IE be getting it's overhaul? It takes popularity to make a competitive threat and at some point those threatened need to evolve.
I have long been interested in emergent systems. I picked up this book a few months ago, very excited. But one chapter in I was so frustrated I nearly stopped reading. Two chapters in I quit.
The author seems to not be able to stay on topic. The idea is presented, then a long digression into who worked with whom and how they new each other (a needless asside into Turing's life almost did me in). Then the idea is briefly recapped.
To be fair, I didn't finish the book, so my view may very well be unfounded as it pertains to the complete work. But honestly, I felt like I was wasting my time. Ideas were good, execution: poor.
The Tipping Point is a book based on similar ideas that reads like melted butter is smooth. Not as technical by any stretch, but at least comparing writing quality, The Tipping Point is an example of how it should have been done.
No-IP.com has a great monitoring/failover service that I've been using for the past couple months. We set up a cheap colo on the other side of the country and when our primary goes down, it switches over. At very least we can show a page saying things are not normal (can't get to the primary db though).
For the price its not bad (yearly subscription). Check it out here: http://www.no-ip.com/services.php/page/monitor_adv anced
It isn't DIY, but I couldn't find anything that could easily achieve this with only two locations besides No-IP.
I use No-IP.com. Within a few hours of the worm spreading they had turned off bounce notifications of virus messages. I received a total of 10 SoBig worm notifications messages, and none of the actual worm.
I think it's up to the ISP administrators to stay up to date with what is going on and to stop these sort of things in their tracks. That is why I get my email through a third party: so I don't have to deal with the bull. They have a responsiblity to their customers. I think No-IP did a great job living up to that responsibility.
Frisk has been around for a long time, I used f-prot in DOS. But I think the letter he wrote is definitely a marketing ploy. They have recently updated their site to a more modern interface and it seems they are attempting to make some kind of mainstream market pull. I have the f-prot trial on my work windows xp box and honestly, it's pretty good. Fast and stable and less intrusive than Norton AV. So it might be good for it to work out for them.
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All personal preferences/arguments aside, when there is competition all products improve, or die. Imagine if Firefox never existed... Would IE be getting it's overhaul? It takes popularity to make a competitive threat and at some point those threatened need to evolve.
I have long been interested in emergent systems. I picked up this book a few months ago, very excited. But one chapter in I was so frustrated I nearly stopped reading. Two chapters in I quit.
The author seems to not be able to stay on topic. The idea is presented, then a long digression into who worked with whom and how they new each other (a needless asside into Turing's life almost did me in). Then the idea is briefly recapped.
To be fair, I didn't finish the book, so my view may very well be unfounded as it pertains to the complete work. But honestly, I felt like I was wasting my time. Ideas were good, execution: poor.
The Tipping Point is a book based on similar ideas that reads like melted butter is smooth. Not as technical by any stretch, but at least comparing writing quality, The Tipping Point is an example of how it should have been done.
Does anyone know anything about levono? I love my thinkpad and would hate for the new ones over the years to fall off in quality.
No-IP.com has a great monitoring/failover service that I've been using for the past couple months. We set up a cheap colo on the other side of the country and when our primary goes down, it switches over. At very least we can show a page saying things are not normal (can't get to the primary db though).
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For the price its not bad (yearly subscription). Check it out here: http://www.no-ip.com/services.php/page/monitor_ad
It isn't DIY, but I couldn't find anything that could easily achieve this with only two locations besides No-IP.
I use No-IP.com. Within a few hours of the worm spreading they had turned off bounce notifications of virus messages. I received a total of 10 SoBig worm notifications messages, and none of the actual worm.
I think it's up to the ISP administrators to stay up to date with what is going on and to stop these sort of things in their tracks. That is why I get my email through a third party: so I don't have to deal with the bull. They have a responsiblity to their customers. I think No-IP did a great job living up to that responsibility.
Frisk has been around for a long time, I used f-prot in DOS. But I think the letter he wrote is definitely a marketing ploy. They have recently updated their site to a more modern interface and it seems they are attempting to make some kind of mainstream market pull. I have the f-prot trial on my work windows xp box and honestly, it's pretty good. Fast and stable and less intrusive than Norton AV. So it might be good for it to work out for them.