I have had my Asus Eee for almost a week now, and it's already paid for itself. I develop web apps for a living, and do other web projects that might come my way now and again. Not too long ago, I upgraded my laptop to a Mac Book Pro. While, yes, it's a great laptop, it was soon obvious that it was not ideal to tote it around to different locations.
Enter the Asus Eee.
After talking to one of my coder associates, and getting his input on the system, I went ahead and ordered the Asus Eee 8G. Even before booting it up for the first time, I upgraded the memory to 2 gigs. Just cuz.
After a couple days of twinking around with it, I settled on the EeeDora distro, primarily because it works with my EVDO card.
Now when I go places, I don't have to lug the mac book pro around with me. I just take the Asus Eee. (even though at BadAss Coffee the other morning, someone thought it was a Mac Air;-) )
My reasons for choosing it are simple: Ease of use, portability, connectivity. I don't need much more than an FTP client, SSH client, nice text editor, and the gimp. Everything else can wait until I get home.
I have found a little niche in the Asus Eee world, and put up a little blog about it here: http://eeegeek.wordpress.com/ . Give it a visit if you'd like to know a little more about the Asus Eee.
Running an online video encoding service (http://www.videopaste.com/), I think the number of users putting videos online in a professional (not a "video for video's sake") method is increasing every day. Maybe it's just a biased view that I have, or maybe it's the niche market we serve, but we're continually seeing a rise in userbase and quality of videos that are uploaded.
While it's nice to upload a video and share it with your friends and family, there are already many services doing this. I guess it would be nice not to have to remember yet another login (I can't recall my flickr login at the moment)... but... makes me wonder who will be in the video game next? SlashVideo.org?
The same deal happened to my little company once. A buddy of mine was the middleman, and he stopped paying his colo fees. While we were paying him ontime, it wasnt being passed thru. So, one Saturday morning, I wake to find two of my servers unresponsive. Through a small loophole - I had done some tech work for my buddy, so I was on his list of approved callers - I was able to get to the bottom of it real quick.
The only thing I didn't like about the situation was we had to pay for all of his boxes to get our two back online. However, it was worth it, as we had customers on our boxes who would be calling shortly...
In the end, we paid the bill, got the boxes back online, got our own account with the colo provider, and spent 3 months trying to get our money back from my "buddy".
Wouldn't it somewhat prevent other people from creating the same sort of Adware? If it gets approved, would MS send a floor of lawyers over to some Adware company and demand payments for infrigement? Would lawsuits or potential lawsuits scare enough of these scumbags (not the MS Scumbags) away from the business?
I've visited some Elementary and High Schools in my area. I personally know some of the people who work in the IT department of these schools. Most of them have their A+ and N+ certs and that's about it. The majority of the ones I've seen or had to deal with are in over their heads.
This principal provided the inept IT staff with the perfect reason for not getting to Mrs. Smith's computer problem in her classroom.
If this principal is having the IT department work on such tasks during school hours, I'm sure he didn't get his raises based on a plethora of other reasons.
And the IT Staffers.... well, one could argue they were "following orders"... but even so, people should know not to follow orders when those orders conflict with their primary job duties as described by their contracts.
While I agree with you, what comes next? If this goes through, and Blizzard gets their way, they could prohibit any/all 3rd party applications from interacting with their program. Game timers, profile/stat pushers, anything. Of course, it all depends on two things: 1. If the court rules in their favor, and 2. how the final verdict is written.
There are many programs that (programatically) do what the glidebot does. Like Spyware protection, antivirus, etc. There are "add-ons" to popular programs that make them more userfriendly by interacting with them.
I think Blizzard is approaching this case wrong. The bottom line is that they consider people using the glidebot to be cheating the system. Personally, I don't use it mainly for fear of having my account canceled. I'd much rather have something else go thru the grind for me than have me sitting in front of the game for hours on end. While such programs are prohibited by their AUP, I think they're going too far on this one.
Very interesting. I've got access to servers in the UK and DE...
but, reading some of the other comments regarding this, one could argue that the website owner did not use sufficient common place things like meta tags or robots.txt. The flip side of that is "respectful spidering", whereby if robots.txt is not found, or meta tags not found, then don't spider the site.
I'm willing to bet the thing gets thrown out though.
Beer anyone?
In the early fight against spam, there were a number of automatic replies that stated if the sender continued to send email messages to the address, that they are agreeing to a "Handling and Reading Fee" of some amount. I still occasionally see it.
I think the bigger question that needs to be asked is how will someone prove they own the site? An email confirmation with an opt-in button won't do it. I could submit someone else's site. They can't force it to webmaster@example.com because not everyone uses a webmaster@ account, nor do people always use the same domain name for email and web.
I've got my own little spider project http://www.linkplan.net/ in the works, and something like this tends to make me want to rethink that whole little project...
4 years ago, I was working for myself as a field technician. I had basically farmed myself out to about 6 different companies, and was supporting their IT needs.
It became very obvious to me that I needed Internet Access anywhere I was. I found the Merlin PCS card (EVDO), and a PCMCIA sleeve for my iPAQ. I added "mobile professional" to my list of qualifications, and immediately cut down my response times to my customers. Now I could be stuck in traffic, and be remoted into their system. Often times, the problems they had could be resolved without the need for me to show up at their location. This, in turn, allowed me to add more customers to my base. At the high point, I was supporting 12 different customers. Each signed an agreement that provided me with desk space and Internet Access at their location, and an acknowledgment that at times, I would be physically at their locations while supporting one of my other customers.
I ended up selling my business model and customer base off for a nice profit. I now code full time, and have added the Kyocera KR1 to the mix of hardware I take with me. I just got back from a trip to Washington DC, and people had no idea I wasn't sitting here in my office. BTW, a real cheesy video of the KR1 can be found here: http://www.keything.com/tv . I highly recommend it. During my trip to washington, it didn't miss a beat.
A UK company, Oceanworks Ltd., already has a web based OS in place.... and even a freebie version... perhaps google should look at that company and buy them out.
And yet another domain to add to my list of blocked domains... that much is appreciated.
If people are so concerned with their emails "getting out", then use a 1/2 way acceptable disposable email service (gmail comes to mind) and just use it to subscribe to things.
There are too many applications out there for email protection. My favorite is Hide My Email. It's simple, fast, and free. If someone REALLY wants to get your email, they can. To me, that's the valid part... I'm not preventing anyone from contacting me... I'm just making them prove that the contact is worth the effort.
They're already starting out behind the gates because of the Kazaa disaster. They've been running a limited beta test for a while, but there are many other options available out there like GD for web based tv, or VideoPaste for adding video to your site.
Also, from TFA, the line I don't care for is: "The Venice Project is designed as a vehicle for high-quality video-based ads."... so, they go back to Kazaa, and are going to try a more "legit" way of advertising? One of the things I prefer about watching Internet Based shows is not having to sit through advertising. That's why I run a mythTV box...
I just don't see this project getting too high off the ground.
IMHO, the whole deal falls back to people in "power" not fully understanding how things work, thusly fearing them. First VOIP. They feared is, as they did not understand it, and did not know how they would "control" it. They initially thought every kid who could run a linux box at their house would end up being their own telecom. (Not too far from the truth, but hey). Now VOIP has matured, and they're regulated (for the most part).
Enter (so to speak, it's been around a while) Video "over IP" (man, we can't call it VOIP, and MOIP just sounds weird)... they freak out. They fear people will be broadcasting their own TV shows (lonelygirl?) to the world. Fear of loss of control enters. So, they pull out the big guns. Namely the "child porn" gun.
The issue is they don't understand how Streaming media works. They don't understand how they can regulate it. They don't understand how they can make money off of it.
So, *FUD*, they pull out the kiddie porn gun.
Education before legislation. That's the key. That's what they're missing.
As a person who is making a decent living off of Video on the web, I can tell you, I don't feel that much will come of this. I don't think I'll open my mail one day to a C&D Order from the government, nor some big bill from the IRS. I think this one will just blow on over.
You're exactly correct. The cross platform compatibility of flash, and no need to download different codecs, or have the video pop up in another window... that's what makes it worth it.
Pretty much the same thing I'm doing in my small business. And, hey, I wouldn't mind a 65mil buyout.;-)
I own a small business as well. I'm listed as a member, and also as an employee. Since I'm an employee of my own company, I have signed NDA's with the board. So, when it comes to disclosure, I simply refer to prior NDA's I have, and let it rest at that. I have not had a single issue with any contract I've signed because of it.
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And, yet, they can't seem to find those people on "Lost"...
I have had my Asus Eee for almost a week now, and it's already paid for itself. I develop web apps for a living, and do other web projects that might come my way now and again. Not too long ago, I upgraded my laptop to a Mac Book Pro. While, yes, it's a great laptop, it was soon obvious that it was not ideal to tote it around to different locations.
;-) )
Enter the Asus Eee.
After talking to one of my coder associates, and getting his input on the system, I went ahead and ordered the Asus Eee 8G. Even before booting it up for the first time, I upgraded the memory to 2 gigs. Just cuz.
After a couple days of twinking around with it, I settled on the EeeDora distro, primarily because it works with my EVDO card.
Now when I go places, I don't have to lug the mac book pro around with me. I just take the Asus Eee. (even though at BadAss Coffee the other morning, someone thought it was a Mac Air
My reasons for choosing it are simple: Ease of use, portability, connectivity. I don't need much more than an FTP client, SSH client, nice text editor, and the gimp. Everything else can wait until I get home.
I have found a little niche in the Asus Eee world, and put up a little blog about it here: http://eeegeek.wordpress.com/ . Give it a visit if you'd like to know a little more about the Asus Eee.
Running an online video encoding service (http://www.videopaste.com/), I think the number of users putting videos online in a professional (not a "video for video's sake") method is increasing every day. Maybe it's just a biased view that I have, or maybe it's the niche market we serve, but we're continually seeing a rise in userbase and quality of videos that are uploaded.
While it's nice to upload a video and share it with your friends and family, there are already many services doing this. I guess it would be nice not to have to remember yet another login (I can't recall my flickr login at the moment)... but... makes me wonder who will be in the video game next? SlashVideo.org?
The same deal happened to my little company once. A buddy of mine was the middleman, and he stopped paying his colo fees. While we were paying him ontime, it wasnt being passed thru. So, one Saturday morning, I wake to find two of my servers unresponsive. Through a small loophole - I had done some tech work for my buddy, so I was on his list of approved callers - I was able to get to the bottom of it real quick.
The only thing I didn't like about the situation was we had to pay for all of his boxes to get our two back online. However, it was worth it, as we had customers on our boxes who would be calling shortly...
In the end, we paid the bill, got the boxes back online, got our own account with the colo provider, and spent 3 months trying to get our money back from my "buddy".
Wouldn't it somewhat prevent other people from creating the same sort of Adware? If it gets approved, would MS send a floor of lawyers over to some Adware company and demand payments for infrigement? Would lawsuits or potential lawsuits scare enough of these scumbags (not the MS Scumbags) away from the business?
This shall be an interesting one to follow.
I've visited some Elementary and High Schools in my area. I personally know some of the people who work in the IT department of these schools. Most of them have their A+ and N+ certs and that's about it. The majority of the ones I've seen or had to deal with are in over their heads.
This principal provided the inept IT staff with the perfect reason for not getting to Mrs. Smith's computer problem in her classroom.
If this principal is having the IT department work on such tasks during school hours, I'm sure he didn't get his raises based on a plethora of other reasons.
And the IT Staffers.... well, one could argue they were "following orders"... but even so, people should know not to follow orders when those orders conflict with their primary job duties as described by their contracts.
*sigh*
While I agree with you, what comes next? If this goes through, and Blizzard gets their way, they could prohibit any/all 3rd party applications from interacting with their program. Game timers, profile/stat pushers, anything. Of course, it all depends on two things: 1. If the court rules in their favor, and 2. how the final verdict is written.
There are many programs that (programatically) do what the glidebot does. Like Spyware protection, antivirus, etc. There are "add-ons" to popular programs that make them more userfriendly by interacting with them.
I think Blizzard is approaching this case wrong. The bottom line is that they consider people using the glidebot to be cheating the system. Personally, I don't use it mainly for fear of having my account canceled. I'd much rather have something else go thru the grind for me than have me sitting in front of the game for hours on end. While such programs are prohibited by their AUP, I think they're going too far on this one.
Very interesting. I've got access to servers in the UK and DE... but, reading some of the other comments regarding this, one could argue that the website owner did not use sufficient common place things like meta tags or robots.txt. The flip side of that is "respectful spidering", whereby if robots.txt is not found, or meta tags not found, then don't spider the site. I'm willing to bet the thing gets thrown out though. Beer anyone?
In the early fight against spam, there were a number of automatic replies that stated if the sender continued to send email messages to the address, that they are agreeing to a "Handling and Reading Fee" of some amount. I still occasionally see it.
I think the bigger question that needs to be asked is how will someone prove they own the site? An email confirmation with an opt-in button won't do it. I could submit someone else's site. They can't force it to webmaster@example.com because not everyone uses a webmaster@ account, nor do people always use the same domain name for email and web.
I've got my own little spider project http://www.linkplan.net/ in the works, and something like this tends to make me want to rethink that whole little project...
Guess this is one I'll have to watch closely.
4 years ago, I was working for myself as a field technician. I had basically farmed myself out to about 6 different companies, and was supporting their IT needs.
It became very obvious to me that I needed Internet Access anywhere I was. I found the Merlin PCS card (EVDO), and a PCMCIA sleeve for my iPAQ. I added "mobile professional" to my list of qualifications, and immediately cut down my response times to my customers. Now I could be stuck in traffic, and be remoted into their system. Often times, the problems they had could be resolved without the need for me to show up at their location. This, in turn, allowed me to add more customers to my base. At the high point, I was supporting 12 different customers. Each signed an agreement that provided me with desk space and Internet Access at their location, and an acknowledgment that at times, I would be physically at their locations while supporting one of my other customers.
I ended up selling my business model and customer base off for a nice profit. I now code full time, and have added the Kyocera KR1 to the mix of hardware I take with me. I just got back from a trip to Washington DC, and people had no idea I wasn't sitting here in my office. BTW, a real cheesy video of the KR1 can be found here: http://www.keything.com/tv . I highly recommend it. During my trip to washington, it didn't miss a beat.
A UK company, Oceanworks Ltd., already has a web based OS in place.... and even a freebie version... perhaps google should look at that company and buy them out.
Here's a link to their freebie one.
http://affinitygofree.com/
Looks just like AdBrite.com with a different skin to me... nothing to see here... move along.
And yet another domain to add to my list of blocked domains... that much is appreciated.
.02 cents...
If people are so concerned with their emails "getting out", then use a 1/2 way acceptable disposable email service (gmail comes to mind) and just use it to subscribe to things.
There are too many applications out there for email protection. My favorite is Hide My Email. It's simple, fast, and free. If someone REALLY wants to get your email, they can. To me, that's the valid part... I'm not preventing anyone from contacting me... I'm just making them prove that the contact is worth the effort.
Just my
They're already starting out behind the gates because of the Kazaa disaster. They've been running a limited beta test for a while, but there are many other options available out there like GD for web based tv, or VideoPaste for adding video to your site. Also, from TFA, the line I don't care for is: "The Venice Project is designed as a vehicle for high-quality video-based ads." ... so, they go back to Kazaa, and are going to try a more "legit" way of advertising? One of the things I prefer about watching Internet Based shows is not having to sit through advertising. That's why I run a mythTV box...
I just don't see this project getting too high off the ground.
IMHO, the whole deal falls back to people in "power" not fully understanding how things work, thusly fearing them. First VOIP. They feared is, as they did not understand it, and did not know how they would "control" it. They initially thought every kid who could run a linux box at their house would end up being their own telecom. (Not too far from the truth, but hey). Now VOIP has matured, and they're regulated (for the most part).
Enter (so to speak, it's been around a while) Video "over IP" (man, we can't call it VOIP, and MOIP just sounds weird)... they freak out. They fear people will be broadcasting their own TV shows (lonelygirl?) to the world. Fear of loss of control enters. So, they pull out the big guns. Namely the "child porn" gun.
Yes. Child porn is illegal. It's wrong. It's bad. It's horrible.
But Child porn isn't the issue.
The issue is they don't understand how Streaming media works. They don't understand how they can regulate it. They don't understand how they can make money off of it.
So, *FUD*, they pull out the kiddie porn gun.
Education before legislation. That's the key. That's what they're missing.
As a person who is making a decent living off of Video on the web, I can tell you, I don't feel that much will come of this. I don't think I'll open my mail one day to a C&D Order from the government, nor some big bill from the IRS. I think this one will just blow on over.
You're exactly correct. The cross platform compatibility of flash, and no need to download different codecs, or have the video pop up in another window... that's what makes it worth it. Pretty much the same thing I'm doing in my small business. And, hey, I wouldn't mind a 65mil buyout. ;-)
I own a small business as well. I'm listed as a member, and also as an employee. Since I'm an employee of my own company, I have signed NDA's with the board. So, when it comes to disclosure, I simply refer to prior NDA's I have, and let it rest at that. I have not had a single issue with any contract I've signed because of it.