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by smountcastle 16y ago
If you have the money, pay someone else to deal with it. e.g. VeriSign's offering: http://www.verisign.com/ddos-protection/index.html
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by smountcastle 16y ago
They're probably using an open source authoritative DNS server which doesn't yet support DNSSEC. If they upgrade to BIND 9.7 or NSD they'll get DNSSEC support for free.
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by smountcastle 16y ago
Based on the web interfaces available for the other AWS services, I'm sure it won't be long before someone cooks up a simple CRUD web front-end. EDIT: I forgot to ask, what kind of overages are you seeing? With Route 53 you'll be charged $5
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by smountcastle 16y ago
At these rates, it looks like the minimum cost per year per zone is $18 ($1.50/month, $1.00 for the zone and $.50 for the first million queries). This is extremely competitive for folks who only need to manage a very small number of zones.
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by smountcastle 16y ago
Did you use fpdns ( http://code.google.com/p/fpdns/ ) to finger-print Amazon's service? If so, I've never heard good things about djbdns :( NSD ( http://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/nsd/ ) seems to be the new hotness as far as authoritative DNS s
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by smountcastle 16y ago
From the article, "At least two airports are opting out of the TSA entirely. I hadn't known you could do that." Does anyone know if an airport opts out if it still has to comply with DHS (or other) regulations? For example, even if they kic
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by smountcastle 16y ago
Does anyone know if pregnant women can go through these machines? I wonder how many women go through who are pregnant but don't know it. We certainly don't know the long-term effects of this on children but I would think a fetus is substant
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by smountcastle 16y ago
searchyc.com found this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=975917
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by smountcastle 16y ago
Wasn't this posted to HN almost a year ago? Is there something that makes this relevant again?
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by smountcastle 16y ago
I worked at Cisco from 1999-2006 and 2001 was very scary. John seemed visibly shaken when he addressed the company in January 2001. The folks who didn't lose their jobs worried they would be next and many of us had most of our net worth tie
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by smountcastle 16y ago
Developers should all be well aware of the annual holiday closing and plan accordingly. App store sales on Christmas Day have been very high. Here's Flurry's report from last year as an example: http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/12/28/flurr
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by smountcastle 16y ago
What happens when a parent has their children opt-out of the full-body scanner? Can the TSA be sued for child abuse or can the parent press for criminal charges for touching?
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by smountcastle 16y ago
Please do.
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by smountcastle 16y ago
"At the end of Demo Day what the startups usually have is a bunch of potential leads. Our default advice is to do a breadth first search, weighted by expected value. ... There are a few investors for whom it should be zero, and we can tell
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by smountcastle 16y ago
What happened to that spreadsheet? It's been completely cut down (and not even to the top-N as there are many other tech companies with better numbers that were removed). Folks added many more companies than are currently showing and we had
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by smountcastle 17y ago
Clicking on the left side of the header (not the Login/Register portion) doesn't bring me to the homepage. It wasn't immediately clear to me that the Popular link brings me there. This is important if folks arrive at your site via a link di
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by smountcastle 17y ago
So how'd you find your niche?
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by smountcastle 17y ago
From the article, "One of the things we need to do is find really cool products. We're building some but we'd also like to broaden out our offering and buy a cool product with a good development team and add it into the service." So what ki
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by smountcastle 17y ago
If you're interested in all of the different classifications that Acxiom came up with, I documented them last year in a blog post: http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/01/01/whats-your-segment/
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Voting by Mobile Devices Could Be Available in United States by 2012(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by smountcastle 18y ago|0 comments
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Screw Art (Or, Passion & Indie Game Dev)(macguffingames.com)
3 points by smountcastle 18y ago|0 comments
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A gentle introduction to video encoding(diveintomark.org)
9 points by smountcastle 18y ago|1 comments
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by smountcastle 18y ago
A portion of it is funded by tax payers, the remainder must be raised by Obama's team: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/18/obama.fundraising.tra...
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by smountcastle 18y ago
Care to recommend a good USB mic?
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Lifeline for Renewable Power(technologyreview.com)
2 points by smountcastle 18y ago|0 comments
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by smountcastle 18y ago
I use MarsEdit ( http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/ ), though I'm probably not a good reference as I haven't updated my blog in awhile and I have over 20 draft blog posts (some have been sitting around for more than 10 months).
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by smountcastle 18y ago
Nolo Press ( http://www.nolo.com/ ) has some books/kits that walk you through the process. If you not inclined to do it yourself you can always pay someone, such as The Company Corporation ( http://www.incorporate.com/ ) or INCNOW ( http://
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by smountcastle 18y ago
Have you tried Fry's? http://www.frys.com/ IIRC, they don't have any locations in the city, but you could visit one of their silicon valley stores.
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JSConf 2009(jsconf2009.com)
9 points by smountcastle 18y ago|7 comments