Summary: Level3 wants to be a CDN but also charge Comcast for the additional traffic it will incur due to Level3 winning the Netflix contract. Unlike other CDNs, notably Akamai, Level3 doesn't want to delivery the content to the customer network without charge. They expect to charge both Netflix for CDN services and Comcast for bandwidth used to delivery content on their CDN.
This combined with the fact that recently Netflix streaming sometimes goes intermittent (and isn't an issue claimed by Netflix as service-wide) makes me really want to dump Comcast. I just signed up though and my options are pathetic for "better speeds than DSL" providers.
Have you tried adding your work address to your credit card account? Call them up and ask to add an address as a valid shipping option. Should work and should get approved via NewEgg without needing to do anything special at NewEgg or other sites once the address is on the account for the credit card.
Actually, I was with EditDNS not DynDNS and EditDNS switched to a paid-only model. I do have an account at DynDNS but I was just using the dynamic features. Apologies to DynDNS. The $5/month fee at EditDNS was too steep for a non-critical playground.
I'm with you... It is hard to get too negative considering it's free however I switched from DynDNS to EveryDNS a couple months ago because staying at DynDNS was going to cost money. Maybe Google DNS will start offering free hosting of zones.
Will the demand for stem cells create an industry of fat cell harvesters based on offering free liposuction? Oh, and to add a proper/. comment to this: Finally, America will no longer be the butt of all fat jokes.
In the USA, whenever one of the two parties in a contract wants to change the terms, the new terms must be agreed to by both parties or the contract can be cancelled. Typically, the verbiage that one can cancel the contract and get out of the terms without loosing the deposit is buried in all the other legalese. But it should be there.
That is asking a bit much for $100. I own one and I just want them to provide the SDK that they have announced but not released. Boxes that can do what you want need hard drives and that means noise. Having a backend computer running MythTV in the basement and a Roku player doing the front end would be great. I'd buy at least 2 more if it could that.
So is it actually for the Roku HD1000 (from 2003) or for the Roku player (current and shown in the photo in the linked article on DeviceGuru). The SDK for the new player isn't released AFAIK. I posted over at the Roku player forum:
Maybe the SDK is almost out? Maybe other people are excited about the addition of Amazon.com and potentially Mediafly but frankly, I could care less. Netflix integration is great but the library is limited. I'd like to watch my own content and if the SDK actually got released one day, maybe it would be possible to add integration with MythTV and other PVR products.
My thoughts exactly -- I suspect this is purely for marketing purposes to convince those not aware of the details to upgrade the home wifi. On the flip side, maybe we'll see better default security.
By "Craigslist Cities custom category" do you mean visits to individual cities on craiglist.org (like chicago.craigslist.org)? Or is there some other feature there? I mean, that seems kind of obvious if that is what you mean because the whole point of Craiglist is localized classifieds.
I also don't think most people are going to use Google to search the local Craigslist site. That would be kind of worthless as the Google hits are often out of date (just try searching for some "odd yet valuable but can sell for less locally due to weight or some other criteria that makes ebay unattractive" type of item).
Then of course I remembered a couple years ago some people didn't even realize one could type in a web address (instead of going to a portal or a search engine for everything). Hasn't that changed?
One aspect I forgot to mention: If you have a highly regarded local community college system that feeds into a four year CS program at the local University you should take a closer look at it. You can knock out a lot of the requirements by taking classes in a smaller setting with maybe 30-45 people at most and often less. This is immensely valuable for returning students as there is more time for one on one interaction with the teachers. Socially, it is not the greatest though as most community colleges are commuter schools.
In Madison, Wisconsin the local community college system is really good compared to Chicago. There is certainly a bias against community colleges in the mindset of many people so I don't think locally many people don't realize how good the programs are compared to other cities. I was particularly surprised by the dedication and skill of most of the instructors.
Caveat: This depends entirely on how well credits transfer. It pays to take a very close look at the transfer guidelines on the University side before making a decision.
I went back and graduated a year ago at 30 with a BS in CS. I think the ageism is more "knowledgism" but slanted towards new technologies. By that, I mean it is important to keep up with new technologies and gain experience with them continuously over your career. Some people gain most of their experience in school and find that they slowly fall behind. There is the kernel of truth though that IT is definitely slanted towards the new even when the older solution/product may work better.
You might also consider going for a Masters on top of your BS. You should be able to do that at most schools within 2-3 semesters if you put all your time into it. I strongly recommend the advanced degree if you know a particular area you want to work in after school. I plan on going back for one within the next few years.
What I liked about going back to school as an older student in a field I was already involved in is that I knew what I wanted to take: compilers, programming languages, databases and networking. All of that has helped me after school. I only had two years to finish all the CS courses when I returned (I got the general classes out of the way earlier) and it was hard to fit it all in. I did 17-18 credit semesters and my last was all CS. That was difficult due to stress and not well developed time management skills but immensely enjoyable (after decompressing for a couple of months).
What do you have experience with that most software developers don't? In other words, what is your domain now? Is software a big part of it? Custom applications? Business knowledge that is unique to the domain?
That is what you should look at. Obviously, some domains are more useful with this approach. As you haven't shared what you do now, you'll need to figure that out.
You could also consider doing a Masters in CS if you're interested in that kind of thing. Another alternative might be some sort of training that would yield a certificate or similar. I know the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has some online offerings (for CS Masters I think but maybe others too). That kind of thing is something most geeks find annoying but it might help you get your foot in the door.
One last thought: Have you contributed to any open source projects? Do you have code samples you can share? Have you recently reviewed common algorithms or common interview questions that are relevant to programming? With connections, maybe these things aren't needed but it doesn't hurt to be over prepared.
How can they possibly become less restrictive with the media when they don't own it? Netflix licenses most if not all of the content as far as I know. No doubt this licensing is heavily negotiated as the license owners are "old media" and Netflix is "new media". The licenses are for a limited term too. You'll notice some entries in your queue may show an expiration date. That is due to the licensed terms.
Netflix has done a good job of putting a wide range of material online via Watch Now. They have done this without charging more for a subscription. After buying a Roku player, I've yet to return my DVD from 3 months ago when I switched to the lowest cost account that had unlimited Watch Now.
The cost of licensing media with the terms of no expiration date and download allowed would be prohibitive. If anything, I'd like Netflix to offer an account that subsidizes the Watch Now program to encourage adding more content. There is certainly room for improvement in the content and that is what I'd like to see.
We use MediaWiki for that purpose. MediaWiki runs WikiPedia so it isn't going anywhere and it works well. It is designed though for that massive site usage so some things are not so convenient when using it on a smaller scale in a company (and I suspect patches that would change this would not be accepted as obviously whatever WikiPedia uses must scale).
One decision before my time was to use one wiki per group. I would strongly recommend looking into namespaces or some other grouping option that will let you keep everything in one wiki. This will avoid duplication of content, having to explain interwiki linking, maintaining interwiki linking tables, maintaining templates across multiple wikis, and lastly having wiki-wide searching. Using a single wiki may not have been so easy as it is now with current versions of MediaWiki when the decision was made here but now it is certainly straight forward.
Finally, lower your administration overhead by allowing everyone to create, edit and delete. The deletions can easily be reverted so there is no need to go overboard on locking features down.
Does it even have a web browser now that can load off the network and not the disk? Seeing references to things like, "got web browsing working loading off disk but libcurl is still being ported" is a bit off putting. Networking is essential.
I tried Haiku a couple days ago as a VM. Interesting but I couldn't figure out web browsing in 20-30 minutes of googling so maybe next year.
This depends on WHERE you are. There have been a number of reports in the Southwest saying this is NOT the case because of the strong separation between the companies handling the speeding camera tickets and the government agencies responsible for traffic enforcement (and presumable vehicle registration).
Interestingly enough, whenever someone mentions this online someone posts exactly what you did. While I do not suspect any one in particular, I do suspect there is a champaign from the companies behind these products to spread FUD. That is the only way they can make their program work in the Southwest because if one is an informed citizen, it is clear that threatening letters from a non-government agency have no footing. Only once one is served is it legally enforceable.
Given the topic of this article, it is indeed chilling to imagine this kind of cruft coming to my home area. I hope our voters here in the Midwest are more sane about these ideas and reject them out of hand. Greed should have no place in law enforcement.
I had the same experience and resolved it with disabling the disk in the GUI too. As you mention, it would be nice if VirtualBox would at least try to boot the VM even if a disk or two went on vacation (especially if it's a CD/DVD).
I've found VirtualBox to be much more pleasant than VMWare Player. Mainly due to:
- not so hard to get it working on 0-day kernels
- really annoying VMWare keyboard bug That keyboard bug might be fixed now but the way VMWare (didn't) handle it is enough to move me on to more pleasant pastures.
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And one last URL for this issue that actually sounds reasonable:
http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2010-November/028387.html
Summary: Level3 wants to be a CDN but also charge Comcast for the additional traffic it will incur due to Level3 winning the Netflix contract. Unlike other CDNs, notably Akamai, Level3 doesn't want to delivery the content to the customer network without charge. They expect to charge both Netflix for CDN services and Comcast for bandwidth used to delivery content on their CDN.
Is that it? Seems reasonable...
And that is manipulation too! Man, turtles all the way down on this issue.
Although now wonder if we're being manipulated:
Level 3 outbid Akamai on Netflix by reselling stolen bandwidth
http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/11/level-3-outbid-akamai-on-netflix-by-reselling-stolen-bandwidth/
This combined with the fact that recently Netflix streaming sometimes goes intermittent (and isn't an issue claimed by Netflix as service-wide) makes me really want to dump Comcast. I just signed up though and my options are pathetic for "better speeds than DSL" providers.
Have you tried adding your work address to your credit card account? Call them up and ask to add an address as a valid shipping option. Should work and should get approved via NewEgg without needing to do anything special at NewEgg or other sites once the address is on the account for the credit card.
Actually, I was with EditDNS not DynDNS and EditDNS switched to a paid-only model. I do have an account at DynDNS but I was just using the dynamic features. Apologies to DynDNS. The $5/month fee at EditDNS was too steep for a non-critical playground.
I'm with you... It is hard to get too negative considering it's free however I switched from DynDNS to EveryDNS a couple months ago because staying at DynDNS was going to cost money. Maybe Google DNS will start offering free hosting of zones.
Here in the US the email offers to buy free beers at a local bar after work.
Will the demand for stem cells create an industry of fat cell harvesters based on offering free liposuction? Oh, and to add a proper /. comment to this: Finally, America will no longer be the butt of all fat jokes.
In the USA, whenever one of the two parties in a contract wants to change the terms, the new terms must be agreed to by both parties or the contract can be cancelled. Typically, the verbiage that one can cancel the contract and get out of the terms without loosing the deposit is buried in all the other legalese. But it should be there.
That is asking a bit much for $100. I own one and I just want them to provide the SDK that they have announced but not released. Boxes that can do what you want need hard drives and that means noise. Having a backend computer running MythTV in the basement and a Roku player doing the front end would be great. I'd buy at least 2 more if it could that.
So is it actually for the Roku HD1000 (from 2003) or for the Roku player (current and shown in the photo in the linked article on DeviceGuru). The SDK for the new player isn't released AFAIK. I posted over at the Roku player forum:
http://forums.rokulabs.com/viewtopic.php?t=21962&start=0
Maybe the SDK is almost out? Maybe other people are excited about the addition of Amazon.com and potentially Mediafly but frankly, I could care less. Netflix integration is great but the library is limited. I'd like to watch my own content and if the SDK actually got released one day, maybe it would be possible to add integration with MythTV and other PVR products.
That was true 2-3 years after you brought it let alone 8 years. God god, man. The trick down from Moore's law waits for no CPU socket.
If there is one thing I like about Dell laptops it is that eBay is littered with parts for them.
My thoughts exactly -- I suspect this is purely for marketing purposes to convince those not aware of the details to upgrade the home wifi. On the flip side, maybe we'll see better default security.
By "Craigslist Cities custom category" do you mean visits to individual cities on craiglist.org (like chicago.craigslist.org)? Or is there some other feature there? I mean, that seems kind of obvious if that is what you mean because the whole point of Craiglist is localized classifieds.
I also don't think most people are going to use Google to search the local Craigslist site. That would be kind of worthless as the Google hits are often out of date (just try searching for some "odd yet valuable but can sell for less locally due to weight or some other criteria that makes ebay unattractive" type of item).
Then of course I remembered a couple years ago some people didn't even realize one could type in a web address (instead of going to a portal or a search engine for everything). Hasn't that changed?
One aspect I forgot to mention: If you have a highly regarded local community college system that feeds into a four year CS program at the local University you should take a closer look at it. You can knock out a lot of the requirements by taking classes in a smaller setting with maybe 30-45 people at most and often less. This is immensely valuable for returning students as there is more time for one on one interaction with the teachers. Socially, it is not the greatest though as most community colleges are commuter schools.
In Madison, Wisconsin the local community college system is really good compared to Chicago. There is certainly a bias against community colleges in the mindset of many people so I don't think locally many people don't realize how good the programs are compared to other cities. I was particularly surprised by the dedication and skill of most of the instructors.
Caveat: This depends entirely on how well credits transfer. It pays to take a very close look at the transfer guidelines on the University side before making a decision.
I went back and graduated a year ago at 30 with a BS in CS. I think the ageism is more "knowledgism" but slanted towards new technologies. By that, I mean it is important to keep up with new technologies and gain experience with them continuously over your career. Some people gain most of their experience in school and find that they slowly fall behind. There is the kernel of truth though that IT is definitely slanted towards the new even when the older solution/product may work better.
You might also consider going for a Masters on top of your BS. You should be able to do that at most schools within 2-3 semesters if you put all your time into it. I strongly recommend the advanced degree if you know a particular area you want to work in after school. I plan on going back for one within the next few years.
What I liked about going back to school as an older student in a field I was already involved in is that I knew what I wanted to take: compilers, programming languages, databases and networking. All of that has helped me after school. I only had two years to finish all the CS courses when I returned (I got the general classes out of the way earlier) and it was hard to fit it all in. I did 17-18 credit semesters and my last was all CS. That was difficult due to stress and not well developed time management skills but immensely enjoyable (after decompressing for a couple of months).
What do you have experience with that most software developers don't? In other words, what is your domain now? Is software a big part of it? Custom applications? Business knowledge that is unique to the domain?
That is what you should look at. Obviously, some domains are more useful with this approach. As you haven't shared what you do now, you'll need to figure that out.
You could also consider doing a Masters in CS if you're interested in that kind of thing. Another alternative might be some sort of training that would yield a certificate or similar. I know the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has some online offerings (for CS Masters I think but maybe others too). That kind of thing is something most geeks find annoying but it might help you get your foot in the door.
One last thought: Have you contributed to any open source projects? Do you have code samples you can share? Have you recently reviewed common algorithms or common interview questions that are relevant to programming? With connections, maybe these things aren't needed but it doesn't hurt to be over prepared.
How can they possibly become less restrictive with the media when they don't own it? Netflix licenses most if not all of the content as far as I know. No doubt this licensing is heavily negotiated as the license owners are "old media" and Netflix is "new media". The licenses are for a limited term too. You'll notice some entries in your queue may show an expiration date. That is due to the licensed terms.
Netflix has done a good job of putting a wide range of material online via Watch Now. They have done this without charging more for a subscription. After buying a Roku player, I've yet to return my DVD from 3 months ago when I switched to the lowest cost account that had unlimited Watch Now.
The cost of licensing media with the terms of no expiration date and download allowed would be prohibitive. If anything, I'd like Netflix to offer an account that subsidizes the Watch Now program to encourage adding more content. There is certainly room for improvement in the content and that is what I'd like to see.
We use MediaWiki for that purpose. MediaWiki runs WikiPedia so it isn't going anywhere and it works well. It is designed though for that massive site usage so some things are not so convenient when using it on a smaller scale in a company (and I suspect patches that would change this would not be accepted as obviously whatever WikiPedia uses must scale).
One decision before my time was to use one wiki per group. I would strongly recommend looking into namespaces or some other grouping option that will let you keep everything in one wiki. This will avoid duplication of content, having to explain interwiki linking, maintaining interwiki linking tables, maintaining templates across multiple wikis, and lastly having wiki-wide searching. Using a single wiki may not have been so easy as it is now with current versions of MediaWiki when the decision was made here but now it is certainly straight forward.
Finally, lower your administration overhead by allowing everyone to create, edit and delete. The deletions can easily be reverted so there is no need to go overboard on locking features down.
Does it even have a web browser now that can load off the network and not the disk? Seeing references to things like, "got web browsing working loading off disk but libcurl is still being ported" is a bit off putting. Networking is essential.
I tried Haiku a couple days ago as a VM. Interesting but I couldn't figure out web browsing in 20-30 minutes of googling so maybe next year.
each time I Haiku
fast computer start for me
but no web browsing
This depends on WHERE you are. There have been a number of reports in the Southwest saying this is NOT the case because of the strong separation between the companies handling the speeding camera tickets and the government agencies responsible for traffic enforcement (and presumable vehicle registration).
Interestingly enough, whenever someone mentions this online someone posts exactly what you did. While I do not suspect any one in particular, I do suspect there is a champaign from the companies behind these products to spread FUD. That is the only way they can make their program work in the Southwest because if one is an informed citizen, it is clear that threatening letters from a non-government agency have no footing. Only once one is served is it legally enforceable.
Given the topic of this article, it is indeed chilling to imagine this kind of cruft coming to my home area. I hope our voters here in the Midwest are more sane about these ideas and reject them out of hand. Greed should have no place in law enforcement.
I had the same experience and resolved it with disabling the disk in the GUI too. As you mention, it would be nice if VirtualBox would at least try to boot the VM even if a disk or two went on vacation (especially if it's a CD/DVD).
I've found VirtualBox to be much more pleasant than VMWare Player. Mainly due to:
- not so hard to get it working on 0-day kernels
- really annoying VMWare keyboard bug
That keyboard bug might be fixed now but the way VMWare (didn't) handle it is enough to move me on to more pleasant pastures.