xploraiswakco - Slashdot User

Submission + - .com speed internet to your house?

Submitted by

BostonMACOSX

on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @07:23PM

BostonMACOSX writes: "As I ponder opening up a niche .com site I've been toying with running it from my house and not from an ISP or provider. The problem I'm running into is that although there are many cheap providers they have pretty low bandwidth for what I'll need per month.
I'm thinking that I'm going to run it out of my house. I'm going to start with an Xserve and Xserve RAID. I know enough about LAMP and email servers to get up and going and be dangerous at the same time.

What I need to ask is what are my best options for good business grade internet to the home? I'm just outside of boston so providers should be plentiful. I'm just not sure where to begin.....so where do I begin?"

Submission + - Work is work, right?

Submitted by

livnah

on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @05:47PM

livnah writes: "In a recent AskSlashdot posting (http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/09/1 728252), Pikoro asked what to do or where to go when he hits the top of the IT food-chain and finds that his work is "more work than play". Is it possible that in today's world we're overlooking that work is ... work? Granted, work should be as enjoyable as possible — when you enjoy your work your productivity increases — but are we expecting too much these days? Do we need to re-evaluate our requirement for a high joy-factor while in the workplace?"

Submission + - Books for introducing comp sci?

Submitted by thewiseman on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @03:29PM

thewiseman writes: I'm about to graduate from college with a degree in economics and join the working world full-time, but I'm already thinking about picking up something new. I've been incredibly impressed by and interested in the work being done by an information management specialist at my current firm. Does any slashdotter have some good books they'd recommend for introducing a newb to computer science (specifically topics underlying relational databases)?

Where to Go After a Lifetime in IT? 902

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @02:30PM from the starting-the-next-chapter dept.

Pikoro asks: "I have been working in the IT field for the past 20 years or so, and after getting hired by the largest financial company in the world, I thought I might have finally found a place to retire from. However, after working here for almost a year, I find myself, not exactly burnt out, but longing for a complete career field change. It's not that doing IT related tasks aren't fun anymore, but they have become more 'work' than 'play' over the last few years. Since all of my experience has been IT related, I'm not sure where I could go from here. What would you consider doing for a living, after being in a single field for so long?"

Submission + - Recent activity on DIGG, is DIGG really useful?

Submitted by xploraiswakco on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @02:25AM

xploraiswakco writes: With the recent activity over Digg.com vs AACS, how valid do you think Digg.com is? Add to that there are many that think Digg.com is easy to hack and therefore falsify it's listings (this is I believe what really happened, hackers didn't want the AACS "stuff" to be removed, it isn't that hard for hackers to get there virus "bots" to register and vote. (This is my opinion).

So what do you think?

Hacked
Not Valid
Valid
Very Valid
Can't live without it.
I don't care, where is my fish, the answer was 42

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