Okay, I’ve got to get back to work on my post-evacuation work schedule. Putting all this crap back where it goes is much more time-consuming than shoving it all in the Suburby was. But, having everything cleared out of TheGarage provides a good opportunity to reposition some assets that otherwise is not such a simple maneouver. Hopefully when I am done putting everything back in place, my web services will be a little more responsive to requests.
You know you are running some old equipment when you are looking at a some information like this. Not a hyperlink in the whole document.
When was the last time you needed a DOS boot disk?
I have been having some computer hardware problems with my personal workstation since last night. Because I only had my Domino server and my workstation set up, I was kinda out of business. I was tired and the wife and kids finally got home from their Hurricane Rita de-evacuation at about 8:45 PM so I was trying to shoehorn in some quality time with Momma anyway. (The wife and kids drove their normal route home straight down state highway 36 from Belville to Damon and encountered no problems.)
I got back on the problem this morning–that’s both the quality time and the computer problem– and I think I got them both knocked out. My computer was unable to talk on the network. It could see the network connections, but every time I’d try to talk on it, Windows Explorer would crash, especially on internet ftp connections. So I’m checking this and checking that and finally narrow the problem down to the NIC, which is an on-board job from Via. So I figure I will have to disable the on-board LAN and shove in a PCI network adapter.
Before I cracked the case I knew, according to the standard troubleshooting process, that I needed to check the cable. Even though I knew it wasn’t the cable, the manual says check the cable. I always make sure one of my good cables is attached to my workstation; not one of those home made jobbers I have all over the place. So even though I know it’s not the cable…
It was the cable.
The Rita evacualtion cost me approximately 56 hours of downtime. No big deal, right? I don’t even advertise. The only costs to me are intangible. Or are they? How much is ten percent of Google PageRank worth?
I bet there are a lot of organizations who have a pretty close approximation of what PageRank is worth to the their revenue model. Marketing folk can probably cite the figure off the cuff for many different industries and sectors.
How much is a point of PageRank worth to an average blogger’s advertising revenue model? Anyone know? Guesses?
Murdoch is building a significant position in the internet sector:
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp on Thursday made further progress in its internet ambitions by agreeing to acquire IGN Entertainment for $650m in cash.
The video games and entertainment company - one of four key internet properties identified earlier this year by Mr Murdoch as desirable internet purchases - brings the total spent by News Corp on internet acquisitions this year to over $1.5bn.
He has another half billion yet set aside for further acquisitions. Seems he got bullish on the internet once he realized all the advertising was moving to the internet.
Mr Murdoch embraced the internet earlier this year after largely shunning the medium following losses made during the internet bubble five years ago. Like many of his competitors in the media sector, Mr Murdoch has realised advertising revenues are shifting to the internet and so are audiences.
Of course yours truly has been all over this for a while, I just don’t have a couple bil laying around. Maybe he has someone reading my blog.
I suspect this will become a trend. Of course the RIAA will be looking to sue somebody since music changed hands and they didn’t get their cut.
The new recording industry motto might quickly become: one artist, one label.
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