RobGR

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by RobGR 18y ago
A lot of the suggestions here seem to follow the philosophical advice from generals meme, like the people who read Sun Tzu to learn how to better manage their sales team and etc. The best book I know of in the "detailed stuff, like how to u
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by RobGR 18y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "visible on a Mac network" and why that is necessary . . . won't an IP address and maybe a domain name do ? If you were doing this with Linux, you should install a common linux distribution (to make sure it wo
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by RobGR 18y ago
So suppose the cops arrest him. He is unlikely (statistically speaking) to be held without bail, so he's out in a day or two. Then you have a trial. Suppose you have people like me on the jury -- I know that morons threaten to kill each
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by RobGR 18y ago
The most reliable general solution on linux is 3Ware RAID cards, but linux software RAID generally works, as other posters have noted. If you are having persistent problems, you should search carefully for a flaky hardware cause. Are the d
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by RobGR 18y ago
Is the LaTeX source posted somewhere ? Or at least the final output, so I can check out these sexy features ?
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by RobGR 18y ago
The power of the web is a known solution in such situations, and I can see how you would lean that way. It's a good idea to cast a wide net, to learn things from people so far away that before the internet you would not have had that oppor
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by RobGR 18y ago
If working space is not going to make money, but is useful to you, perhaps you should consider some type of co-operative arrangement. If it were structured as a joint ownership, and all customers had to be members, you might also avoid cert
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by RobGR 18y ago
That doesn't really make sense, why doesn't Circuit City do what the trading companies are doing but cut out the middle man ? After all Circuit City's stores should be a fine "established channel". And why would the trading companies by f
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by RobGR 18y ago
Real world meetups for joint hacking are better than online collaboration. If the goal is to learn from other programmers, you learn a lot more by sitting next to them. A lot of it is incidental stuff you would not have thought to ask, li
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by RobGR 18y ago
My ads are running through the site, and it doesn't appear that my credit card has been charged yet. Apparently all the coupon codes are expired now, if you follow the directions the only part that works is joining the VISA small business g
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by RobGR 18y ago
I used nagios (still do) but I found it frustrating and complecated to set up. I started writing little one-off perl scripts that send an email for the alert. However, managing and monitoring the email folders is tedious and taking up too m
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by RobGR 18y ago
I followed the instructions and tried it. I had to enter my credit card number, but supposedly it won't be charged. I also will have to figure out if my ads are really running or not by tracking my traffic. I will post here again if it i
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by RobGR 18y ago
Here is the highest complement I can give to any computing science paper: it reminds me of certain Edsgar Djiksta's writing. Here are some of the particular lines that catch my attention each time I read this (I end up seeing this presentat
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by RobGR 18y ago
I don't think Apple's comeback (the OS-X based one) was miraculous. They took a basic Unix that the Plan 9 guys would have turned their noses up at, and put a reasonable user interface on it and worked their way through all the tedious par
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by RobGR 18y ago
I think it is an advantage to application developers. A lot of good ideas die because the programmer has to write 900 lines of cruft wrapper code to experiment with a 100 line cool idea, and the programmer never makes it through the 900 li
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by RobGR 18y ago
Thanks for your insights. I agree that from the point of view of a developer writing complex applications simply, Plan 9 is on the right path. What I read of the cleaner operating system interface is what attracted me to Plan 9 at the sta
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by RobGR 18y ago
I used Plan9 for a while, I had a project going with some other people that involved a lot of distributed access, and Plan9 was pitched as solving a lot of our problems from the start, that we would have to hack around if we used anything e
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by RobGR 18y ago
Wildflower propagators make small golf-ball sized balls of dirt with native flower seeds in them, to be tossed into empty lots and other likely places. The idea is that the seed is protected until rain melts the dirtball, and then it can s
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by RobGR 18y ago
1.5 billion devided by 5,000 people is $300,000 saved per person let go, unless I miscounted zeros in doing that calculation. That seems high, I think usually companies claim savings of around twice the employees salary when they fire peopl
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by RobGR 18y ago
I think you could design something that could communicate that weighed less than a pound. You have line-of-sight, and at the earth end you can build (or just rent) a huge antennea and use huge amounts of energy to send the signal. Think ab
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by RobGR 18y ago
Could you make it less "push", so that when someone sent a special message to http://www.textmarks.com/ service, then textmark was configured to fetch the info from your URL, and respond ? Are you sure that in West Africa receiving text m
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by RobGR 18y ago
I would do the idea that has the shortest time to producing money. I suspect that's number two, the overseas buyer system. I would avoid the security analysis tool. The customers sound troublesome, and the competition is likely to be on g
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by RobGR 18y ago
I'm surprised no one threw out some crap about the Four Hour Work Week. I have at various times applied for work at movie theaters, Kinko's, video rental places, etc. I have not yet ended up working a side job, but I have done contracting
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by RobGR 18y ago
I am not the best person to give advice on this, because I have had only a few customers that were big companies. However, the standard for payment is still a check via US Mail. If you anticipate slow payment, bill early and include some s
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by RobGR 18y ago
I was reminded of this old essay: http://philip.greenspun.com/school/tuition-free-mit.html I think education is one of the two biggest bubbles in the economy right now. It has become a bigger and bigger part of the economy, and more and
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by RobGR 18y ago
I don't think you can use just one. A lot of people like myself block the analytics cookies. I have had problems with AWStats too -- recently some log entries have caused it to barf and quit parsing the file (they have no referrer or user
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by RobGR 18y ago
First, before I suggest anything else, I feel obligated to tell you what my real advice is -- sell every piece of sports and computer ware you are not going to use in the next three months, and if that is still not enough, get a part time j
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by RobGR 18y ago
I don't know if this would make money as a web service, but I think you are right to try it -- it could work. Personally, as a developer, I would be more interested in licensing the algorithm or code from you. In my case the potential use
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by RobGR 18y ago
If you don't already have a redundant computer as a backup, consider making the spare share it's disk and using one of the rsync snapshot scripts out there to backup your important stuff regularly. Putting a comprehensive script on it that
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by RobGR 18y ago
I have set up BackupPC before. It is not quite the same as dropbox and probably won't fill the client file-sharing and change tracking need; it is a backup system, that you can retrieve files and directories via a browser. It is more like

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