I might aswell ...

I decided to try out the domain buy/sell business ... so here I am with my first domain for sale: bestbargaincars.com. So if anyone is interested, the domain is on sale through sedo.

Random ideas on how to improve "selling internet"

In the UK almost all service providers have limits on the amount of data downloaded by the client. In most cases you would have to pay extra if the limit has been breached. Anyway, I came up with a brilliant idea. How about if the ISP-s would sell internet access by GigaByte (GB) rather then time period?

Hereby, if anyone does not use this method yet (except the mobile broadband providers), I declare this idea as mine and no-one should be using it without my permission. Anyway, the idea is simple, no Monthly Contracts but you pay per GB used. Now, many people will complain: "oh, this does not set limits to the bills", well, it does! Simply, this kind of internet service can be provided only on a certain bandwidth and the maximum amount payable can be calculated easily. Sure, you can pay monthly but the idea is to separate both type of users, the ones that only use couple MB per day or the people like me, who download/upload full linux distros and certain other software (while developing) on a daily basis. Sure, you should be able to select the speed for downloading separately (might end up with bigger bills).

Anyway, these days it seems, that big broadband companies and ISP-s are earning billions by using the stupidity of the "average" people by offering them services they never use to the full extent. Anyway, I'm fairly sure, if all people owning a bradband or cable connection would use the service to the limits, the service providers would go simply bankrupt. Why? Simply, because they offer their services relying on people, who don't know anything about the systems and terms and fall for the "bigger is better" fantasy, that exists in this industry.

Another interesting read on this topic is here: BBC and ISPs clash over iPlayer

Hereby, I started a new venture by providing Internet to my neighbors. We share the costs and have our own private network set up.

Geek Celebrations ...

Big day for Ubuntu as the new release is due today. I did pre-order some cd-s already so everything should be fine ... but still ... exiting ...

On the other hand, I'm gonna try out gOS within the next week or so.

Happy Birthday

Yeah, Happy B-Day Carmen Electra and Jasmin Wagner (Blümchen) :)

I will help you with your decisions

So we had a little problem on the irc channel, someone needed to flip a coin. "Flash" offered nicely the idea of making a script ... so i made one ...

Flip a coin

coded in tcl, it is a Unix/Linux shell script. Make sure you have the permissions to execute it. Future plans in development: I might add all different coins (heads or tails might be not represented on all coins) and also a GUI would be nice. Still, this is my first proper open source development. Enjoy.

Thanks for the attention

Time for coffee

The ideal espresso (according to the Instituto Nazionale Espresso Italiano) is a 25ml beverage extracted from around 7g of finely ground coffee, using water at a temperature of 88C, passing through the grains at a pressure of 9 bar. See, dead easy. It should be thick-textured, having emulsified many of the oils, retain most of the volatile aromas and flavours of the bean and be capped with a thick colloidal foam layer - "crema" - reddish, creamy and flecked. Each one of those factors is minutely variable, potentially causing thinness, bitterness, under- or overextraction or - the ultimate humiliation - a thin or patchy crema.

more info here: Tim Hayward on pursuit of perfect home espresso