As a telecoms engineer predominantly selling Asterisk for the last 4 years and Asterisk experiance extending back to 2006 it's shocking to see this finally put right. For so many years, I have avoided the e1000 Intel controllers after a very public/embarassing situation when a conferencing server behaved in a wierd manner disrupting core services. Not having the expertise the author has, I narrowed it down to the Eth. Controller, Immediately replaced the server with IBM Hardware with Broadcom chipset and resumed our services in providing conferencing to some of the top FTSE100 companies.
Following this episode, I spend numerous days diagnosing the chipset with many conference calls with Digium engineers debugging the server remotely. In the end, no solution, recommendation to avoid the e1000 chipset and moved on.
For those interested, Prestel was a great service too. Early days of investing and retriving historical data on companies via 4tel's Shares 3000 pages was the only way for private investors to get data freely. Investing could be done by dial-up using the prestel platform.
For those interested, this was a great service too. Early days of investing and retriving historical data on companies via 4tel's Shares 3000 pages was the only way for private investors to get data freely!
pcworld.co.uk is a very reputable company here in the UK so I would not expect them to damage their reputation by harvesting email in this way for 'dodgy' reasons but it is not nice to simply ask you to hand over an email address without specifically saying 'it will not be used for purposes other then x y and z and will not be provided to 3rd party companies etc.'
"Getting to profitability isn't as noteworthy (from a startup POV) as raising an A-round from working 4 days a week."
What we have found here in the UK, is without profitability, raising an A-round is near enough impossible. The UK Start-up/Inventment scene is still very much in it's infancy and investors are reluctant to give sums anywhere near the figure Ryan has quoted without a 'profitable' business. Well done to the team for creating a fantastic service all whilst spending time with family, highly commendable!
The current 'London' Situation is starting to annoy alot of people. The Olympics is a classic example of an event that is for the entire UK but most of the north (inc. Scotland) and west (including Wales and Ireland off the coast of England) will not benefit. Take a look at this image of a map of the events:
The UK has one of the largest number of Football Clubs in the world. Every Major City and Town has a Football Club and the smaller towns have Rugby Stadiums. Some cities have BOTH. Leicester, for example, has The Tigers Rugby Statium a stones throw from the King Power Football Stadium.
Why are these cities not benefiting from such a hugh event and why is the Govenment not investing in the creation of Tech Campus's in all major cities in the UK?
Thanks for the reply. Worked with successful and unsuccessful startups which all fell in to the above situation.
Can you elaborate on your 'list' comment? Am on the second stage of designing and implementing an idea. I hacked a prototype of the idea but am using devs from oDesk to piece it together. is this a bad idea? I have a plan of how i want to execute but would love some help on how others have executed in stealth mode.
Running Telegram, over multiple VPN's?
Accessing Gmail over multiple VPN's so Google doesnt get to know where you are 'really' logging on from?
Making your own VPN network over a combination of AWS, G-Cloud, Azure, DO and Aliyun to 'hide' your actual location?
Peoples thoughts?