Wednesday, August 13, 2003

So you want to start your own web hosting company. Web hosting can be a great way to work from home and put your internet skills to good use. As a full-time college student, I've been running a small web hosting company since June of 2002 that has grown to include customers in Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. This article shares the lessons I've learned and my advice to anyone considering going into the business. It isn't a comprehensive guide, but provide enough information to get started in your search. The focus is on business and logistics aspects, rather than the technical nitty-gritty of system administration. Read on for more information. [kuro5hin.org] 7:04:32 PM  comment []  Trackback []     William Gibson is a stranger in a strange land. Last week I rented No Maps for These Territories (from Netflix), which is a documentary that features well-known science fiction... [Blogcritics] 6:31:29 AM  comment []  Trackback []     I'm not sure if this is fiction or fact. Interesting hobby... First Adventures in Urban Exploration. It's the dead of night, and I'm stumbling through dense undergrowth, a weak pen torch lighting the way. Brambles tear at my clothes and bare arms. Ahead, Monty navigates with a stronger beam, and leads me and Pi up a steep incline. I give up all pretence of looking after my clothes and scramble up on my hands and knees, the torch held in my mouth. I slide down the other side on my arse into a broad trench. "Watch your step, it's along here somewhere," says Monty. We walk slowly, scanning the floor with our torches, and there it is - a featureless black hole in the leaf litter, just three feet across. With apprehension I realise that now I've come all this way, I'm going to have to climb inside. [kuro5hin.org] 6:22:18 AM  comment []  Trackback []     website. Andy Finney, of the original BBC Domesday project, has a website on the original project and its recent emulation. "Let's not decry Domesday as a waste of time and money. It is a salutary lesson in technology creep and we need to know how to cope with it." [future of the book news] 6:16:51 AM  comment []  Trackback []     CAMiLEON. "In making data accessible it was, of course, impertative not to fall into the same trap as in 1986 and to understand that a crucial part of digital preservation is not simply maintaining a copy of the data but maintaining a means of accessing that data. Current media such as CD-ROMs are likely to be just as short-lived as the rapidly changing media of the past; paper tape, punched cards, magnetic tape (e.g. QIC 24), 8" floppies, to name but a few examples. Therefore, to avoid obsolescence of both data and emulation software in turn, the CAMiLEON team emphasised media-neutral, platform-independent formats crucial for accurate and efficient preservation over time." [future of the book news] 6:16:32 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Google now has a built-in calculator. Coool. How about a built-in dishwasher? [Scripting News] 6:16:11 AM  comment []  Trackback []

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