Hi there, I've been self employed for 5 years now. I've also graduated to running a small company which has 4 full time employees. When I started I just went to the bank. They were very helpful at taking my money, but I also got very comprehensive medical cover. The cost was in the order of hundreds of pounds, £, but offset that against peace of mind and a years income. I also went to a financial adviser and got a number of insurance covers: for instance if I'm permanently out of work due most reasons, other than mountain climbing unfortunately, I'll receive a salary until my retirement age, at which point I'll get my pension, another company extense. The short of it is the cover is pretty thick out there and it's really a question of finding the best deal and also making sure you're not over covered, which I was for a while. A good way to do this is through a financial adviser. Cheers,
It occurs to me that whenever a big company designs their next colossus. It produces vast amounts of heat as a byproduct of it's marginally superior computation. It is also inevitably the case that within no more than a few years, it produces mediocre amounts of computation as a byproduct of heating. IT seems to me destined to always be so with current technologies. I look fondly on my 2 670 MP's both with dual 40mhz sparcs and lots and lots of 30 pin simms. I am fond of them because it is cold now, so I switch them on and gain two slowlaris 5 boxs but within 45 min it's a nice comfortable temperature in the room. My first server, spiral a 133mhz pentium with 80Mb and 2 2bg disks, Wow!, was retired from active service last week but can't really cut it in generating as much heat. Shame, will be used for testing though. Does anyone know where I can get hold of a Cray 1 or a pdp 11? An old 360... Cheers
I'm not an Anonymous Coward! If the machine only shows signs of life on port 80 it's not a very interesting prospect. Finding problems with IIS doesn't require cracking a new NT machine. It's really a test of a competent systems administrator. Further emphasis on the PR aspect!
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Hi there,
I've been self employed for 5 years now. I've also graduated to running a small company which has 4 full time employees.
When I started I just went to the bank. They were very helpful at taking my money, but I also got very comprehensive medical cover. The cost was in the order of hundreds of pounds, £, but offset that against peace of mind and a years income. I also went to a financial adviser and got a number of insurance covers: for instance if I'm permanently out of work due most reasons, other than mountain climbing unfortunately, I'll receive a salary until my retirement age, at which point I'll get my pension, another company extense.
The short of it is the cover is pretty thick out there and it's really a question of finding the best deal and also making sure you're not over covered, which I was for a while. A good way to do this is through a financial adviser.
Cheers,
It occurs to me that whenever a big company designs their next colossus. It produces vast amounts of heat as a byproduct of it's marginally superior computation. It is also inevitably the case that within no more than a few years, it produces mediocre amounts of computation as a byproduct of heating. IT seems to me destined to always be so with current technologies.
I look fondly on my 2 670 MP's both with dual 40mhz sparcs and lots and lots of 30 pin simms. I am fond of them because it is cold now, so I switch them on and gain two slowlaris 5 boxs but within 45 min it's a nice comfortable temperature in the room. My first server, spiral a 133mhz pentium with 80Mb and 2 2bg disks, Wow!, was retired from active service last week but can't really cut it in generating as much heat. Shame,
will be used for testing though. Does anyone know
where I can get hold of a Cray 1 or a pdp 11? An old 360...
Cheers
I'm not an Anonymous Coward!
If the machine only shows signs of life on port 80 it's not a very interesting prospect. Finding problems with IIS doesn't require cracking a new NT machine. It's really a test of a competent systems administrator. Further emphasis on the PR aspect!