sad, but true. See, that's why I thought I could compete. And as a
consultant, I can. But my hosting company seems to be doing poorly. considering the competition, well, that's just sad.
Yeah. exactly. Only I want it to be relitively unobtrusive (I imagine there are legal issues with that.... could I counter them with a "I'm recording this" T shirt or something?) I'd just rather not have to wave a mike around in the guy's face.
I know I save all my e-mail, and often refer back to it, especially in my
business life, as I have a horrible memory, and may tasks to track.
However, I know many business people that prefer to talk rather than
write, so it would be really useful for me to record what they tell
me.
Really. when you start working for other people, they start wanting you
to focus on them... this will conflict with your current dayjob.
If you still want to work for other people, see craigslist.org. I pick up
around two new clients a month there.
really, though, especially if you already have enough money, buy a VPS
and write a webapp. If the dayjob needs more time, eh, you can always
delay the webapp. Hosting these days is almost free. Heck, if you have a
good idea, e-mail me and I'll give you hosting in exchange for a hosted on a prgmr.com Xen VPS link.
EMC support is not very good. One place I worked, we had a Clairon NAS.
The NAS worked okay, I mean, for what we paid, it should have been better,
but it pretty much worked. At one point, we had some weird error messages
on the Clarion. We called EMC support, and got nowhere. The front-line
guys, like most front-line guys, know nothing. We finally had to go back
to our sales guy and threaten to leave. Our sales guy got 5 different
techs onto our site to troubleshoot the problem. None of them had any
clue what it was. About 3 months into this farce, one of our junior
network guys figured out what the problem was. We were running 7
different layer 1 broadcast domains into the same unmanaged switch. The
resulting network brokenness was the problem. We removed the bum switch,
and everything worked fine.
My point is that the EMC hardware is decent. It's overpriced, but it
works well. EMC support, though, leaves a lot to be desired.
For my Xen hosting service I use a
SilkWorm 2400 along with various fibre channel arrays and disks bought off
e-bay. I've got 2 14 bay Dell 224F JBOD arrays, and one IBM EXP 500 for
the half-height drives.
Now, you really only need the Brocade if you have multiple computers, but
it really does make things much easier than using the traditional SCSI
reserve and release commands with a shared bus.
Of course, the kids today seem to like IDE. Me, I don't use it for
anything other than near-line backups. For that sort of thing, I use one
of the 14 bay SuperMicro cases. they are pretty nice.
Actually, I've done quite a lot of work for a company that does just that to large appartment complexes. It's not difficult. They use a combination of T1 lines and wireless access points. There is quite a lot of compitition in the last-mile arena. Would you buy DSL from a company that slowed down your access to sites that were busy but did not have a lot of revinue?
If the last-mile providers stop providing a good value, there are thousands of small companies (like mine) who would be happy to eat their lunch. I can't compete with DSL at $14/month, but if that DSL was unable to access MySpace or google, then I could.
My point is that niether the telcos nor the state have your interest at heart. However, the telcos are much easier to fight.
And the government does? come now. Remember who owns the government.
When it is private corporations, I can at least run my own T3s and route around the problem.
I never went to college, and I've never had a labor-type job. Actually, I am the first person in two generations of my family to not go to college. My parents are rather embarrassed by the fact. They wanted me to do well in high school, so they kept telling me I needed to get good grades, else I would not make it into a college worth going to, and I would end up with some back-breaking labor job. Now, apathetic and unmedicated, I pulled a 2.16 GPA. After high school, I went through the motions of going to a community college, but I wasn't really into it. When I was offered the opportunity to move into a programming position by the ISP I was doing tech support for at the time, I abandoned college like the boring waste of time it was.
I fixed windows boxes in high school, and played about with Linux... I got my first programming job around 6 months after I graduated from high school in 1998. by 2000, I was making 50K. Ahh. Those were the days. Of course, I'm not making all that much more than 50K now, but I'm not exactly doing heavy lifting, either. I'm a computer janitor, and I'm fairly good at it. Now, System Administration is not the most glamorous or highest paid technical field, but as I'm fairly good and have a couple years experience, I don't have to work very hard or kiss anyone's ass, and I make enough money to fund my side projects.
I recently cut back to 3 days a week at my day job, and I'm spending the rest of my time and all my money setting up a hosting company.
All I'm saying is be careful with the 'work hard or else' attitude... if you want your kid to go to school. There exists a whole lot of room in the computer industry for those of us who are only moderately intelligent, and who fail it when it comes to advanced math.
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I think the previous poster is trying to say that MySQL should know better than to associate with the likes of SCO.
Awesome, thanks.
sad, but true. See, that's why I thought I could compete. And as a consultant, I can. But my hosting company seems to be doing poorly. considering the competition, well, that's just sad.
Yeah. exactly. Only I want it to be relitively unobtrusive (I imagine there are legal issues with that.... could I counter them with a "I'm recording this" T shirt or something?) I'd just rather not have to wave a mike around in the guy's face.
I know I save all my e-mail, and often refer back to it, especially in my business life, as I have a horrible memory, and may tasks to track. However, I know many business people that prefer to talk rather than write, so it would be really useful for me to record what they tell me.
If you still want to work for other people, see craigslist.org. I pick up around two new clients a month there.
really, though, especially if you already have enough money, buy a VPS and write a webapp. If the dayjob needs more time, eh, you can always delay the webapp. Hosting these days is almost free. Heck, if you have a good idea, e-mail me and I'll give you hosting in exchange for a hosted on a prgmr.com Xen VPS link.
My point is that the EMC hardware is decent. It's overpriced, but it works well. EMC support, though, leaves a lot to be desired.
Now, you really only need the Brocade if you have multiple computers, but it really does make things much easier than using the traditional SCSI reserve and release commands with a shared bus.
Of course, the kids today seem to like IDE. Me, I don't use it for anything other than near-line backups. For that sort of thing, I use one of the 14 bay SuperMicro cases. they are pretty nice.
If the last-mile providers stop providing a good value, there are thousands of small companies (like mine) who would be happy to eat their lunch. I can't compete with DSL at $14/month, but if that DSL was unable to access MySpace or google, then I could.
My point is that niether the telcos nor the state have your interest at heart. However, the telcos are much easier to fight.
And the government does? come now. Remember who owns the government. When it is private corporations, I can at least run my own T3s and route around the problem.
Does anyone really think regulation by the clueless is going to improve things?
are you arguing that an investment in dollars is safe?
I the msnbc article is rather vague.
I never went to college, and I've never had a labor-type job. Actually, I
am the first person in two generations of my family to not go to college.
My parents are rather embarrassed by the fact. They wanted me to do well
in high school, so they kept telling me I needed to get good grades, else I
would not make it into a college worth going to, and I would end up with
some back-breaking labor job. Now, apathetic and unmedicated, I pulled a
2.16 GPA. After high school, I went through the
motions of going to a community college, but I wasn't really into it.
When I was offered the opportunity to move into a programming position by
the ISP I was doing tech support for at the time, I abandoned college like
the boring waste of time it was.
I fixed windows boxes in high school, and played about with Linux... I
got my first programming job around 6 months after I graduated from
high school in 1998. by 2000, I was making 50K. Ahh. Those were the
days. Of course, I'm not making all that much more than 50K now, but
I'm not exactly doing heavy lifting, either. I'm a computer janitor, and
I'm fairly good at it. Now, System Administration is not the most
glamorous or highest paid technical field, but as I'm fairly good and have
a couple years experience, I don't have to work very hard
or kiss anyone's ass, and I make enough money to fund my side projects.
I recently cut back to 3 days a week at my day job, and I'm spending the
rest of my time and all my money setting up a hosting company.
All I'm saying is be careful with the 'work hard or else' attitude...
if you want your kid to go to school. There exists a whole lot of room in the computer industry for those of us who are only moderately intelligent, and who fail it when it comes to advanced math.
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