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iSloth
12y ago
It's an old post with old pricing, I simply don't see vendors pricing close to there system ( assuming your looking at the fourth iteration ) especially not including support.
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iSloth
12y ago
If only this was in England :(
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iSloth
12y ago
Do you really need to have eMail verification before the user is allowed to do anything? In my application I let the user use the service for a week before actually doing any kind of blocking, simply displaying a bright red banner at the to
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iSloth
12y ago
Currently I make around $500 a month from my passive projects and websites, all of this revenue is from either Google adsense or amazon affiliate sales. In their prime the monthly revenue was just over $1000, however I've basically don
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iSloth
12y ago
Was completely expecting a rickroll there, linking to a YouTube video without description
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iSloth
12y ago
I'd say very slim - The boards within eNodeB/NodeB's that process RF traffic typically do not run a Linux base on them (in my experience) FPGA's and dedicated ASICS are far more likely. You'll typically find it'
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iSloth
12y ago
It depends on the type of umbrella company, for example mosaicisland which is telecom based will actually find you jobs/clients, however they take a higher percentage. They call you an 'associate' engineer.
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iSloth
12y ago
Also in the UK, from experience most people seem to go through umbrella companies as they will also help find clients, then when you've got some contacts start to go off by yourself and get a Ltd company setup to save on the 20-30% tha
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iSloth
12y ago
I'm basically a mirror of your experience and age but in a different technical area, out of interest where are you planning on getting the contracting customers/clients from? contacts that you've made over the years?
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iSloth
12y ago
I work for an ISP in the UK and we actually still have some of the old dial up internet kit running in our exchange, 99% of customers are now on xDSL based services, however a few are still belligerent and don't want to move into the m
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iSloth
12y ago
Were they all purchased at the same time? Sounds more like a faulty batch or issue with the environment for a rate that high.
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Cloud Software Company OnApp buys SolusVM
(onapp.com)
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iSloth
12y ago
I've been in a very similar position to what you're in now, at university in England and a side project went viral and was making a decent amount of money. In the end I sold it onto someone that gave me a decent offer. Has to be o
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12y ago
Then you can have them bobbing up and down for days or weeks because of the weather, very frustrating ;)
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iSloth
12y ago
At the end of the day these submarine cables are just optical cables, that is a really long strand of glass that you can send optical light (laser) down, and it'll pop out at the other end. So the capacity is really based on the equipm
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12y ago
Also have the privilege of still working on these types of networks; one of the things that fascinated me was the money and effort that telecoms companies are spending these days on tracking boats/ships/fishermen by their transpon
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iSloth
12y ago
A failure of a transatlantic cable is just going to cause providers (in most cases) to switch their traffic to another transatlantic cable.
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Gmail SMTP Down
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iSloth
12y ago
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iSloth
12y ago
Yup broken here!
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Aereo shows off their rooftop antenna farm
(techcrunch.com)
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iSloth
13y ago
So do Google :)
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iSloth
13y ago
Why go for a VPS when you can get dedicated hardware for a similar and sometimes better price - http://www.kimsufi.com/uk/
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iSloth
13y ago
Personally I'd ask for the contact details of the other remotely working team members so you can have a chat with them, you'll probably find that they had the same worries and thoughts as you did before they joined. Also these are
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iSloth
13y ago
Linux High Availability is certainly still used a lot within application infrastructures, especially in some of the smaller ones. However what I find more interesting are the architectures that are performing all of the availability functio
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13y ago
However be careful, catering for every customer feature request, change etc... can be a vicious cycle that does more damage than good.
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iSloth
13y ago
It would be great to see more detail on how they actually got caught after going undetected for so long.
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iSloth
13y ago
Starting to think I should have gone into programming, not networking :)
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Few comments on here suggesting that it might be over priced, and yes it probably is, however some people like my self just want something simple to play around with, without buying loads of different parts when you don't really know w
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13y ago
Don't forget one of Patio11's products is almost entirely leveraging telecom services for it's functionality: https://www.appointmentreminder.org/ So I doubt he is just talking about a generic office phone wh
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13y ago
Two servers from OVH is my only expense for side projects, total is around $30/pm Using quite a few free services like Pingdom, Cloudflare, Analytics etc...
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