samt

yeah, absolutely. In my experience it's often a team-based incentive program to encourage cooperation with other tech sales people.

The best news that could come out of this deal would be better Linux support for T1/2/2+ and Thumper hardware. Awesome hardware but I can hardly justify building expertise and support infrastructure for Solaris just to run it.

Having evaluated oss message queues for high volume web services I can see exactly how twitter might make this decision. - activemq: high resource usage, not super stable at high loads - rabbitmq: messages must ALL fit into memory. Your message queue should be a "rescue me" button - if all your dbs go down, just queue crap to disk. You do not want to worry about memory overflow in that situation. - memcacheq: super stable, low resource consumption but fixed message size (padding for smaller messages).

We ended up using memcacheq but it's hardly what you would call full featured, so we'll have to do prioritization, etc in our code.

clearly you've not spent much time working at a large company.

@waldrews: I have some freelance bandwidth for an interesting Seam project. Contact is in my profile.

Investments by Bodie, Kane and Marcus (BKM) is one classic that still has value in this climate.

How can the service provider point senthil.com to the subdomain? Can't without domain ownership. Either they act as a domain reistrar or they provide instructions to create a cname record.

have not run not such a site myself, so take this with a grain of salt. I assume that most use a database-backed DNS server like MyDNS, so adding/removing/etc subdomains is a simple db call.

Apple is just absurdly, incredibly far ahead of every other pc manufacturer out there. They'll come to market with "green" laptops just when "green" is meaningful to consumers, make a huge splash about it and get an amazing amount of free press. Meanwhile Dell can't figure out which shade of gray sells best to small business buyers on the first Tuesday of the month and HP can't load enough crapware on your pc.

Someone has to mention Cornell. The undergrad community is intensely entrepreneurial, the CS department is top notch and you won't find nearly as many a-holes as at Harvard (half serious).