I haven't looked, but it just occurred to me that they might be publicly traded or gunning to raise revenue, per client count, in preparation for an IPO.
I am still a bit baffled by the price. That's just silly talk.
I kinda want to know whose idea it was to price this service at $33.33/month. I am positive that I can have something up and running, inside of a week, and profit at even 1/3 the price. That's starting out from scratch, too. Profit assuming I had their client base, that is.
That is without the economy of scale, either. That's without being able to negotiate, lease a rack, co-lo, and order my own bandwidth and set my own SLA. That's just throwing something up on E2, and that includes bringing myself up to speed as I've never used E2, Azure, or Cloud Platform. Hell, I can probably even get it started on shared hosting and using Cloudflare.
Done like that, it could even be started as a sole proprietorship and scale out to add new employees as needed - and it shouldn't take much. There are many PHP gallery scripts that support multiple users and payment for features - and they are free and open source. It'd be tit simple to build off me of those and I bet I can find the qualified staff just from posting in my Slashdot journal.
I am baffled by their pricing. If I had access to that many customers, I'd make a killing by retaining more people and making less per client. I have a few bucks and there's no way on hell that I'd pay that much to host images - with or without hotlinking. Other than a slick layout with custom images, I could probably have something working in a day - including a payment processor account, and maybe toss in also allowing virtual currency payment options.
I know, damned well, that I could find any talent for that right here on Slashdot. Hell, someone's bound to even be able to make it into a mobile app and add specific APIs that can be pushed upstream to the original project.
The pricing is bizarre. That's like 1998 web hosting pricing.
It has also been the norm since, well, very early days of networked computers. Today, we have a veritable supercomputer in our pockets but we have reverted to something not entirely unlike dumb terminals and mainframes. For a brief moment, we were slightly less decentralized. We ran our own servers, at home and on our hardware. Our ISPs let traffic through, more or less uninspected. We ran OpenNap hubs, http servers, and our own file servers that could be connected to by IP address or domain name. We even did sharing via our chat applications and direct connections.
In the scope of history, those were just a few scant years. We just use these devices as dumb terminals again, only now we call it the cloud. The costs are lower but the principle is the same. We even offload out computational tasks with hosted apps and services. That which is old, is new again. The concept of ownership and control was actually fairly shortly lived, at least on a more massive scale. About the only mainstream involvement is torrents, though blockchains are a reminder of the days of yore.
It is expected that the Slashdot reader will have a baseline understanding in a wide array of technological subjects, and that a subset will be recognized experts among their peers, with regards to those same subjects.
Example: I expect you to have a fundamental understanding of email, the protocols, the verbiage, and the process. I expect you to know the difference between IMAP & POP3, and even how packets are transferred. I expect you to understand SPF and at least the mechanics of signing and encrypting email, and maybe even being able to run your own email server.
That and a whole lot more is expected baseline understanding for Slashdot. Also, you should know about apps, netcraft, hot grits, Seinfeld, GNAA, and goatse.
If you don't mind Putin reading your email, you can host a domain's email for free (with up to 1000 addresses) via Yandex. You just change your records at your registrar and the propagate almost immediately, and you can configure quite a few things from there - including a fairly robust web interface, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, etc...
They had excellent uptime, when I played with them. They weren't in blacklists or anything. I seem to recall you can do SPF and all that jazz. If you're paranoid, you can encrypt messages. They don't mine them for adverts, so I am not sure what the economical model is - unless they hope that you'll upgrade to a paid service. I guess they could mine them for intelligence, but that seems like a large fishing adventure without a great chance of payback.
Still, 'tis worth looking into - if you're needing to do something like this. It's pretty easy to change your records at the registrar. You can even configure it so that you're able to get your mail at mail.example.tld and more. It's kinda neat.
That is kind of impressive, actually. I retained none of that. I don't have all sorts of things that were once considered valuable, to me at least. I don't even have copies of many of my papers, almost none of my old programs, and very little source code. I don't even have all my old text books, journals, or even copies of stuff I published.
I am impressed that you've managed to keep that stuff. There's a slim chance that I have some of that, but I'm not even sure which drive(s) would be the best place(s) to start.
Good point. They're going to want some acreage, though they can probably rotate their goat(s) and do a sizable portion. Hell, they can put them in the scrubs and have them clean that. I guess some people even rent goats and I believe there's at least one highway department that followed through on the idea of goat rental.
Someone should make this into an app. They can make a goat rental service that is done by cell phone and it can be the next disruptive technology, causing an explosion in goat rental services. You just push a few buttons and order yourself up a goat. This should be able to attract an angel investor and might even go all the way to an IPO and acquisition.
There exists some small chance that the results would have been different, had you had the humility to ask without the idea that you'd need a threat. I do have a few bucks, and I will probably continue to have a few bucks because I don't randomly go around buying people stuff like a house.
I'd probably buy you lunch, but not a house. I'd certainly not bother to buy someone a house who tried to threaten me with something so trivial as their judgment of me. You can think me an ass, a jerk, and even Satan himself. That doesn't actually change who I am. I'm pretty comfortable being who I am - otherwise, I'd change who I am and would be something different.
Your best bet, if you wanted me to finance something, would be to present an idea to me that you demonstrated a capacity to see through to the other end. However, attempting to threaten me with the idea of you judging me harshly is really not a good strategy. I'd suggest that you think too highly of yourself, if you think I'm actually concerned with how you view me - at the level where I'm wiling to invest money in altering that.
No, not really. I mean, I feel bad 'cause you're obviously in need of mental health assistance and I'm pretty sure you'd not listen to me and get help. Seriously, get yourself some help. Then, someday, make the next Facebook - and ask me to invest in that. I might invest in it, even though you're obviously a crazy bastard who smokes too much meth. Well, maybe crack. You might smoke too much crack. It's hard telling. You could just be a lunatic.
They didn't vomit in the vomitorium. Vomitorium just means an exit, they exited into the vomitorium which was like a foyer and no longer in the central room. Sometimes, this was directional - as in, you'd enter on one side of the building and exit on the other side. It's not entirely dissimilar to the idea of a outer space that people can spill over and into.
They didn't actually vomit in the vomitoriums, as a general rule.
Sheesh....
Also, if it matters to you, you should know that I give away a lot. What also may matter is that my children are pretty good. One works in a grocery story. His girlfriend's parents own it. He doesn't make much money. My daughter is a medical doctor. She works on a pediatric trauma unit. She doesn't make a whole lot of money, either.
That said, you're entitled to judge me as you wish. I'm entitled to not care about your judgment. However, I kind of do, but that's because I feel a bit sorry for you. I have to wonder how much strife you must have - just to lash out as you do. You don't even lash out accurately. Your posts are full of ignorance. I do my best to assume it's not willful ignorance.
Either way, if your life is so difficult that you feel as if I'm some sort of enemy to you, you are entirely too paranoid and truly don't understand who I am. Granted, I am an asshole - but I do strive to do some good. I do accept that I'm an asshole, at least sometimes. I'm also not always correct. Sometimes, I'm not correct AND I'm an asshole at the same time. But, at the other end of the spectrum, I do stuff like donate to the ACLU, even though donations to them are not tax deductible.
Why the ACLU, you might ask? One of the many reasons I support the ACLU is that they often come down on the correct side of firearm legislation and will fight for the rights to continue to own them. They're not just a question of liberal politics. They're about the individual's liberties, and that includes the right to bear arms.
You might want to revisit your idea of hating those who are on the left of the political spectrum. We have far more in common than many people think.
But, see? You even got some of my time. I'll give you that, AC. You can freely have some of my time. You're welcome.
It looks like convention, more than a default rule.
Stuff like chown will run with the UID or username. So, if you had username of 1001, with a real UID of 1000, and a second user as 1001, then stuff like that would get confused. That's one such example.
I'm not sure that it's so much a standard, it's just that that's what people have been doing. Some further reading said it goes way back to early POSIX?
I am, by no means, asserting any skill or authority on the subject. That's just what I read. It does seem strange that it's not actually a formal statement OR that usernames aren't just automatically processed - so that (in the above example) 1001 would be processed via UID and appear as 1000 to the system. That later seems like it shouldn't be too hard to do - check against some API, or something, and interpreted usernames would be the solution? Maybe?
Tools like chown can use either a UID or name. If I am reading correctly, this stems from that. It isn't specific to a starting digit, but is meant to prevent usernames being made up entirely of digits. It looks like this does go back to POSIX.
Some quick searching indicates this is the standard, for a few reasons. I am on a tablet, but Google that statement. There are a bunch of hits to wade through.
Umm... I'd have happily told you this, without even needing to shoot somebody. Hell, if you know what the book was, a friend has the AE model and we can recreate it without even shooting anybody.
It's gonna take a whole lot of books to stop a.50...
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When they send us their packets, they're not sending their best and brightest packets...
I haven't looked, but it just occurred to me that they might be publicly traded or gunning to raise revenue, per client count, in preparation for an IPO.
I am still a bit baffled by the price. That's just silly talk.
I kinda want to know whose idea it was to price this service at $33.33/month. I am positive that I can have something up and running, inside of a week, and profit at even 1/3 the price. That's starting out from scratch, too. Profit assuming I had their client base, that is.
That is without the economy of scale, either. That's without being able to negotiate, lease a rack, co-lo, and order my own bandwidth and set my own SLA. That's just throwing something up on E2, and that includes bringing myself up to speed as I've never used E2, Azure, or Cloud Platform. Hell, I can probably even get it started on shared hosting and using Cloudflare.
Done like that, it could even be started as a sole proprietorship and scale out to add new employees as needed - and it shouldn't take much. There are many PHP gallery scripts that support multiple users and payment for features - and they are free and open source. It'd be tit simple to build off me of those and I bet I can find the qualified staff just from posting in my Slashdot journal.
I am baffled by their pricing. If I had access to that many customers, I'd make a killing by retaining more people and making less per client. I have a few bucks and there's no way on hell that I'd pay that much to host images - with or without hotlinking. Other than a slick layout with custom images, I could probably have something working in a day - including a payment processor account, and maybe toss in also allowing virtual currency payment options.
I know, damned well, that I could find any talent for that right here on Slashdot. Hell, someone's bound to even be able to make it into a mobile app and add specific APIs that can be pushed upstream to the original project.
The pricing is bizarre. That's like 1998 web hosting pricing.
It has also been the norm since, well, very early days of networked computers. Today, we have a veritable supercomputer in our pockets but we have reverted to something not entirely unlike dumb terminals and mainframes. For a brief moment, we were slightly less decentralized. We ran our own servers, at home and on our hardware. Our ISPs let traffic through, more or less uninspected. We ran OpenNap hubs, http servers, and our own file servers that could be connected to by IP address or domain name. We even did sharing via our chat applications and direct connections.
In the scope of history, those were just a few scant years. We just use these devices as dumb terminals again, only now we call it the cloud. The costs are lower but the principle is the same. We even offload out computational tasks with hosted apps and services. That which is old, is new again. The concept of ownership and control was actually fairly shortly lived, at least on a more massive scale. About the only mainstream involvement is torrents, though blockchains are a reminder of the days of yore.
There are a gajillion free photo hosting sites, with many varied feature combinations. If you add in inexpensive, there are many more.
It is expected that the Slashdot reader will have a baseline understanding in a wide array of technological subjects, and that a subset will be recognized experts among their peers, with regards to those same subjects.
Example: I expect you to have a fundamental understanding of email, the protocols, the verbiage, and the process. I expect you to know the difference between IMAP & POP3, and even how packets are transferred. I expect you to understand SPF and at least the mechanics of signing and encrypting email, and maybe even being able to run your own email server.
That and a whole lot more is expected baseline understanding for Slashdot. Also, you should know about apps, netcraft, hot grits, Seinfeld, GNAA, and goatse.
They might be my favorite Slashdot poster.
They hate us, and want us to die. They must be Republicans, because only they hate so much. They hate everything, and want us to die. To die!
If you don't mind Putin reading your email, you can host a domain's email for free (with up to 1000 addresses) via Yandex. You just change your records at your registrar and the propagate almost immediately, and you can configure quite a few things from there - including a fairly robust web interface, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, etc...
They had excellent uptime, when I played with them. They weren't in blacklists or anything. I seem to recall you can do SPF and all that jazz. If you're paranoid, you can encrypt messages. They don't mine them for adverts, so I am not sure what the economical model is - unless they hope that you'll upgrade to a paid service. I guess they could mine them for intelligence, but that seems like a large fishing adventure without a great chance of payback.
Still, 'tis worth looking into - if you're needing to do something like this. It's pretty easy to change your records at the registrar. You can even configure it so that you're able to get your mail at mail.example.tld and more. It's kinda neat.
Come to think of it, I bet there's a way to do it from the terminal - maybe even in Vi. ;-)
That is kind of impressive, actually. I retained none of that. I don't have all sorts of things that were once considered valuable, to me at least. I don't even have copies of many of my papers, almost none of my old programs, and very little source code. I don't even have all my old text books, journals, or even copies of stuff I published.
I am impressed that you've managed to keep that stuff. There's a slim chance that I have some of that, but I'm not even sure which drive(s) would be the best place(s) to start.
Good point. They're going to want some acreage, though they can probably rotate their goat(s) and do a sizable portion. Hell, they can put them in the scrubs and have them clean that. I guess some people even rent goats and I believe there's at least one highway department that followed through on the idea of goat rental.
Someone should make this into an app. They can make a goat rental service that is done by cell phone and it can be the next disruptive technology, causing an explosion in goat rental services. You just push a few buttons and order yourself up a goat. This should be able to attract an angel investor and might even go all the way to an IPO and acquisition.
Also, I'm pretty stoned.
There exists some small chance that the results would have been different, had you had the humility to ask without the idea that you'd need a threat. I do have a few bucks, and I will probably continue to have a few bucks because I don't randomly go around buying people stuff like a house.
I'd probably buy you lunch, but not a house. I'd certainly not bother to buy someone a house who tried to threaten me with something so trivial as their judgment of me. You can think me an ass, a jerk, and even Satan himself. That doesn't actually change who I am. I'm pretty comfortable being who I am - otherwise, I'd change who I am and would be something different.
Your best bet, if you wanted me to finance something, would be to present an idea to me that you demonstrated a capacity to see through to the other end. However, attempting to threaten me with the idea of you judging me harshly is really not a good strategy. I'd suggest that you think too highly of yourself, if you think I'm actually concerned with how you view me - at the level where I'm wiling to invest money in altering that.
No, not really. I mean, I feel bad 'cause you're obviously in need of mental health assistance and I'm pretty sure you'd not listen to me and get help. Seriously, get yourself some help. Then, someday, make the next Facebook - and ask me to invest in that. I might invest in it, even though you're obviously a crazy bastard who smokes too much meth. Well, maybe crack. You might smoke too much crack. It's hard telling. You could just be a lunatic.
I suppose I'll do you a favor.
They didn't vomit in the vomitorium. Vomitorium just means an exit, they exited into the vomitorium which was like a foyer and no longer in the central room. Sometimes, this was directional - as in, you'd enter on one side of the building and exit on the other side. It's not entirely dissimilar to the idea of a outer space that people can spill over and into.
They didn't actually vomit in the vomitoriums, as a general rule.
Sheesh....
Also, if it matters to you, you should know that I give away a lot. What also may matter is that my children are pretty good. One works in a grocery story. His girlfriend's parents own it. He doesn't make much money. My daughter is a medical doctor. She works on a pediatric trauma unit. She doesn't make a whole lot of money, either.
That said, you're entitled to judge me as you wish. I'm entitled to not care about your judgment. However, I kind of do, but that's because I feel a bit sorry for you. I have to wonder how much strife you must have - just to lash out as you do. You don't even lash out accurately. Your posts are full of ignorance. I do my best to assume it's not willful ignorance.
Either way, if your life is so difficult that you feel as if I'm some sort of enemy to you, you are entirely too paranoid and truly don't understand who I am. Granted, I am an asshole - but I do strive to do some good. I do accept that I'm an asshole, at least sometimes. I'm also not always correct. Sometimes, I'm not correct AND I'm an asshole at the same time. But, at the other end of the spectrum, I do stuff like donate to the ACLU, even though donations to them are not tax deductible.
Why the ACLU, you might ask? One of the many reasons I support the ACLU is that they often come down on the correct side of firearm legislation and will fight for the rights to continue to own them. They're not just a question of liberal politics. They're about the individual's liberties, and that includes the right to bear arms.
You might want to revisit your idea of hating those who are on the left of the political spectrum. We have far more in common than many people think.
But, see? You even got some of my time. I'll give you that, AC. You can freely have some of my time. You're welcome.
Get a couple of goats. You can even loan them out to neighbors. Also, goats are assholes. I put that in the 'good' column.
Huh... Maybe you should lay down the crack pipe? Weirdo.
It looks like convention, more than a default rule.
Stuff like chown will run with the UID or username. So, if you had username of 1001, with a real UID of 1000, and a second user as 1001, then stuff like that would get confused. That's one such example.
I'm not sure that it's so much a standard, it's just that that's what people have been doing. Some further reading said it goes way back to early POSIX?
I am, by no means, asserting any skill or authority on the subject. That's just what I read. It does seem strange that it's not actually a formal statement OR that usernames aren't just automatically processed - so that (in the above example) 1001 would be processed via UID and appear as 1000 to the system. That later seems like it shouldn't be too hard to do - check against some API, or something, and interpreted usernames would be the solution? Maybe?
Again, I am absolutely not an authority.
I am not sure if that's much of a question. It is Slashdot, after all.
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But, I am just a fairly typical user and have just a small network. I kinda like systemd.
Tools like chown can use either a UID or name. If I am reading correctly, this stems from that. It isn't specific to a starting digit, but is meant to prevent usernames being made up entirely of digits. It looks like this does go back to POSIX.
Hmm...
Some quick searching indicates this is the standard, for a few reasons. I am on a tablet, but Google that statement. There are a bunch of hits to wade through.
I've gotta stop posting while stoned. Sadly, I knew that.
It is a beautiful thing...
Umm... I'd have happily told you this, without even needing to shoot somebody. Hell, if you know what the book was, a friend has the AE model and we can recreate it without even shooting anybody.
It's gonna take a whole lot of books to stop a .50...
Do you mean axis?
Tandy?