April 9, 2012
andyswan: It was the fall of 2000, and we were about to put our tag on the internet. Landon and I had just “launched” our first business — NasdaqTradeClub.com (a name which would soon be changed due to various copyright and trademark infringements—- more on that later.) By launched, I mean we used $278 of our $500 limit credit card to publish a poorly-written, three page dreamweaver website up.  It even had a red “x” where the paypal button should have been because we couldn’t figure out how to show the real image. OK, so we’re live…. now what? We spammed the hell out of Yahoo Finance message boards.  Probably 200 posts linking to our site on 125 different boards.   Then we went out and got drunk in the intimidating NYC.   When we got back, we checked paypal.   1 signup.  $295. We were profitable. I didn’t attend another class at law school. Do what it takes to get your message out. Win.

andyswan:

It was the fall of 2000, and we were about to put our tag on the internet.

Landon and I had just “launched” our first business — NasdaqTradeClub.com (a name which would soon be changed due to various copyright and trademark infringements—- more on that later.)

By launched, I mean we used $278 of our $500 limit credit card to publish a poorly-written, three page dreamweaver website up.  It even had a red “x” where the paypal button should have been because we couldn’t figure out how to show the real image.

OK, so we’re live…. now what?

We spammed the hell out of Yahoo Finance message boards.  Probably 200 posts linking to our site on 125 different boards.  

Then we went out and got drunk in the intimidating NYC.  

When we got back, we checked paypal.  

1 signup.  $295.

We were profitable.

I didn’t attend another class at law school.

Do what it takes to get your message out.

Win.

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July 15, 2011
Beautiful nyc Friday deserves a ferry commute.

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Taken with picplz in Hoboken, NJ.

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July 11, 2011
1440 Broadway - my window

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Taken with picplz in Manhattan, NY.

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April 18, 2011
“Google launches Display Network Reserve” - Love this line: It’s crunch time: AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo!: If you’ve got a second wind in you, now’s the time.

Also, great advice to the one’s who ‘sort of’ want to play:

Accenture, Adobe, Akamai, Apple, Cisco, IBM, Oracle and others:  If you’re serious about bringing your expertise in enterprise class infrastructure and service to the huge advertising market, your opportunity is slipping away.

See the rest here: http://bit.ly/hIa0Vq

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Filed under: display Google 
March 10, 2011
If you think you’ve seen some ugly traceroutes, try one to Afghanistan :

 sudo mtr 121.127.32.0

 Host                                                                                                                                                            Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev

 1. 38.121.141.209                                                                                                                                                0.5%   201    1.7   5.3   1.3 105.3  13.9

 2. fa0-11.na01.b001430-0.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com                                                                                                                0.5%   201    9.3   5.7   1.8 123.9  13.0

 3. vl3856.mpd02.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com                                                                                                                         0.5%   201    9.3   9.3   1.7 157.7  22.5

 4. te0-3-0-0.ccr21.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com                                                                                                                      1.0%   201    2.9   5.1   1.8  76.9   8.1

 5. te0-2-0-2.ccr21.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com                                                                                                                      0.5%   201    8.5  11.9   8.3 107.0  12.0

 6. te0-1-0-2.ccr21.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com                                                                                                                      1.0%   201   35.2  39.5  34.9 135.1  14.1

 7. te0-1-0-2.ccr21.iah01.atlas.cogentco.com                                                                                                                      0.5%   201   35.3  39.5  34.8 150.6  14.1

 8. te0-1-0-6.ccr21.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com                                                                                                                      0.5%   201   71.0  76.7  70.7 243.9  21.7

 9. te4-4.ccr02.lax04.atlas.cogentco.com                                                                                                                          1.5%   201   71.1  79.4  70.6 270.4  30.7

10. 203.208.153.45                                                                                                                                                0.0%   201  120.3  82.4  70.6 233.1  28.6

11. xe-1-1-0-0.laxow-dr3.ix.singtel.com                                                                                                                           0.0%   201   71.9  78.2  70.7 318.1  26.9

    ge-1-0-0-0.laxow-cr2.ix.singtel.com

    ge-4-0-0-0.laxow-cr1.ix.singtel.com

12. 203.208.153.121                                                                                                                                               1.0%   201   71.3 160.9  71.1 470.0  99.0

    xe-1-0-0-0.laxow-cr2.ix.singtel.com

    ge-4-0-0-0.laxow-cr1.ix.singtel.com

    203.208.171.85

    203.208.171.137

    xe-1-0-0-0.laxow-cr1.ix.singtel.com

    so-2-0-0-0.sngc3-cr2.ix.singtel.com

13. so-3-0-2-0.sngc3-cr1.ix.singtel.com                                                                                                                           1.0%   201  246.7 255.3 235.2 498.1  32.7

    so-2-0-1-0.sngc3-cr1.ix.singtel.com

    so-3-0-0-0.sngc3-cr1.ix.singtel.com

    203.208.171.85

    203.208.152.222

    203.208.152.226

    so-2-0-3-0.sngc3-cr1.ix.singtel.com

    so-2-0-0-0.sngc3-cr1.ix.singtel.com

14. ge-1-0-0-0.sngtp-dr1.ix.singtel.com                                                                                                                           0.5%   201  250.9 253.5 237.5 459.4  26.4

    xe-0-0-0-0.sngc3-cr2.ix.singtel.com

    xe-0-0-0-0.sngc3-cr1.ix.singtel.com

    xe-0-0-0-0.laxow-cr2.ix.singtel.com

15. ge-4-0-0-0.sngc3-dr1.ix.singtel.com                                                                                                                           0.0%   201  246.3 262.6 239.7 434.9  26.3

    203.208.174.102

    203.208.152.226

    203.208.152.222

16. ge-0-0-0-0.sngtp-dr1.ix.singtel.com                                                                                                                           0.5%   201  245.0 255.4 243.6 477.1  29.5

    202.63.224.195

    ge-1-0-0-0.sngtp-dr1.ix.singtel.com

17. 203.208.174.102                                                                                                                                               2.0%   201  242.6 270.4 242.1 439.1  28.9

    202.63.224.2

18. 202.63.224.195                                                                                                                                                2.0%   200  743.2 455.8 248.2 890.0 246.7

    202.63.225.126

19. 202.63.224.2                                                                                                                                                 48.2%   200  247.3 252.0 246.8 306.5   8.3

20. 202.63.225.126                                                                                                                                               44.5%   200  749.4 754.4 743.1 856.0  15.7

21. ???

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February 25, 2011
One of the more amusing IP Transit spam solicitations I’ve received in a while

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Comments in Italics are mine … 

Hi Mr Evans
   
I work in the entity of business services of Telecom Italia, and come to you to share your thoughts in telecom/financial.

<I’m not comfortable sharing my thoughts with a stranger … its my problem though, not yours>
 
We have developed a very good service, offering:


•   good quality of service for Internet bandwidth
•   and international links for to reach any point on earth, with competitive prices.

<ANY point on earth? This is a bold claim that I may have to test him on>

Telecom Italia is active in all major network access points worldwide, with high quality access to Internet content.

<Dude, a quick check at peeringdb.com shows that you are totally not in Seattle> 

Se@bone is among the best in the classification for the Internet IP backbones in the world by its quality and reliability.

<I’m not sure why, but using the “@” symbol there makes it sound dirty>

An interview would allow me to present you based on actual case our feedback.

<Now I’m just confused, who am I being presented to?>

If you have a request of price, I will do the necessary for to answer.

<Doing the necessary is a dangerous way to start transit negotiations>
 
I solicit your attention for a conf call or direct me to right person.
 
Yours, 

REDACTED
 

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February 22, 2011
Seesmic Desktop is worlds better

than Tweetdeck. I quote @fromedome, “If Microsoft made a twitter application it would be TweetDeck.” 

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January 14, 2010
XEN config file’s don’t get read on re-boot?

weird …

http://bit.ly/6HbktO

4.10. I increased the memory (RAM) in a domain and rebooted it, but it still shows the old memory value?

You need to “re-create” the domain using the

xm create <domU>

command again. Simply rebooting the domain does not cause it to read the new value from the domain definition file.

11:12am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZpxWbyJxA0G
January 11, 2010
Quick Notes :: Setting up new Linux servers on CentOS 5.4

Verify HD speed:

for i in 1 2 3; do hdparm -tT /dev/sda; done

OR

download this C compiler http://www.linuxinsight.com/files/seeker.c , compile with gcc -O2 seeker.c -o seeker cand run

‘Open’ your box from the CLI with dmidecode:

http://bit.ly/5wa7JE

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December 28, 2009
"So true regarding relational db’s (via @infoarbitrage): “Database architecture. The relational database of today will be inadequate to process the massive amounts of unstructured data - in real time - that tomorrow’s (and, in fact, some of today’s) trading models require. This also encompasses distributed and high-performance computing."

—

http://bit.ly/4rmBr5

I also like Roger’s comments (and think they’re dead on) regarding advertising exchanges: “Tomorrow’s ad exchanges will resemble the stock and options markets for equities.”

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