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you must be kidding... ;)
when a production system like credit card or loans system in a bank goes down, they normally have less than 2-3 hours to bring it back up again. and these are really complex and expensive systems we're talking abou…
don't you guys see the trend? most home users who are geeks go for open source because these guys are typically anti-establishment. some non-geeks also go for open source.
however, many corporations who initially embraced open source are now moving…
i'm not anti-open source... but i think that the rate of progress (which was phenomenal) is now slowing down and will be reaching a plateau soon...
open source is great but will not work for most commercial organizations... support and accountabili…
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hey - that first site of your isn't bad at all. better than some sites i come across today... :)
wow, harvard student... and i see you've got a great family... lucky you... :D
their affiliate program is excellent... if there are any affliates in this forum and you decide to go with hostgator, maybe you can register using one of the affiliate links to help members in this forum...
i am not an affiliate myself... :(
deluxenames, - it's not fun when you have a family back home and it's really tiring in the long run. after a while you just wish that you can stay put for a while. i'm managing a large banking system with resources from 4 different countries (includ…
hey, thanks for the link - interesting read...
but to make money, you need traffic and that will only come if you have something on your site that people wants/needs. :D
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me? i'm currently flying around the region (different countries) implementing a large project for a customer (nothing web related - this is my real job). been doing that for almost a year now - very tiring... :(
on the net, i developed a di…
2 things:
1. everything's too narrow - you take advantage of every bit of real estate of the user's screen
2. the panes are too far apart
i assume you're planning to put a footer into the design too?
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same is happening over there at sitepoint... so sad. :banghead:
also, you would also like to say that at dnforum, i believe the structure that they have in place is to make $$$ - which is understandable...
you must be kidding right? :)
there are more than 50 phd propellor heads over there at google tweaking and improving the search engine routines... and the infrastructure that google has in place cannot even be rivalled by microsoft who has deep poc…
me too - i used to be with yahoo...
however, i don't think there is any loyalty with regards to using search engines. the one that provides the best results get the users. so we could all very well move to msn one day (if the do buck up)... :D
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always nice to see someone you know... :)
now what the heck happened to fourtone87??? i believe p and tony are still around... i also see some familiar new names here from other forums...
wow, so the ever famour vivehosting crashed on p hu…
yeah, 750 type-ins a days is amazing... :) some average sites get that type of traffic per month from the search engines... i'm sure it's worth quite a bit... however, $25k is a little difficult to swallow... ;)
you say it was a sci-fi site for 8 y…
i'll stick around and see how things go... you seem pretty good at this... :)
one of the reasons people left this forum previously was that most members were really young (p was only 15 then) and there was too much chatter everywhere...
Are you self-taught, have formal training or a bit of both?
i have a bachelor degree and an mba degree :) which are usefully in my job. as for webmastering, everything is self taught... i webmaster as a hobby and my latest project is http://www.inde…
i think it's a good name and well worth the money if you bought it through a registrar... but i wouldn't pay premium for it through the secondary market... :)
are you going to use it for yourself or resell it?
