eBay is busted, and its not because some code went bad or because a server somewhere failed. Its because eBay is overrun with people trying to scam other people.
Even the unstoppable
Bruce Schneier isn’t immune. He almost got scammed
twice while trying to sell his laptop on eBay.
The cool thing about eBay’s support system is it will always answer your question; unfortunately, that answer will always be a form letter on how to reset your password, as Timothy discovered when he tried to figure out how to sell his laptop to someone who wasn’t a Nigerian scammer. Timothy has learned the awful truth behind today’s eBay—something many readers here already know—which is that it’s become virtually impossible to sell any sort of medium-to-high end electronics there anymore.
Pretty lame. But I never really trusted spending a lot of money on anything via eBay. Its just too bad that everything on the internet sort of turns into this. Too bad or crazy awesome. I can’t decide.
If the benefit isn’t clearly obvious from the title, let me explain why you would want to set up something like this in your office network. Bandwidth is expensive. Especially if you need a bunch of it and require a solid
SLA. Apple updates can be
HUGE; the most recent
Mac OS 10.5.7 combo update clocked in at a whopping 729MB. Now imagine you have an office of 20 people all using the same internet connection to download the same package from the same place. Madness right?
They’ve just saturated your inbound link and business is grinding to a halt! If you’re in this position you’re already too late, and you’ll have to make up for it using some fancy QoS rules or blocking traffic from the Apple software update servers all together. Don’t live in fear of the next Mac OS update because now you have time to set up your very own Apple software update server!
Lets get to the good tech bits…
posted by on May 07, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Here is your chance to own a piece of Barbarian Group history! I have a bunch of extra buttons left over from my wildly successful mayoral campaign that I’m going to give out FREE to the internet. Just mail me a self addressed stamped envelope to the address below and I’ll mail you a button back. Also it’d be nice if you included a funny/interesting/weird something or other in the envelope you send me and I’ll can post whatever I get!
Nick Bonadies
The Barbarian Group
338 Newbury Street, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02115
posted by on May 05, 2009 at 01:12 PM
filed under:
Brands
I got one of those Pepsi Throwback sodas that was just recently released. It was down right delicious! I like this trend! The packaging leaves something to be desired though.
This design looks much nicer I think. Anyway this stuff is definitely worth checking out if you are a regular consumer of cola type sodas.
posted by on April 17, 2009 at 12:41 PM
Complete with mayor sash from Ben and skull cane from Bruce.
posted by on February 24, 2009 at 10:16 AM
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Software
Uh… its freaking sick. I will probably never touch Firefox or Camino after this. Page loads are probably around 4 times faster than Safari 3. Its especially noticeable on pages with poorly written javascript. For example, my banking website has a script that runs just after the page loads to display alerts, etc. In Safari 3 the page takes at least 15 seconds to load and actually has one of those awkward “blips” where the page acts like it is refreshed but really its just the js doin’ its thang. In 4 the page loads in 3 seconds and is ready to rock as soon as it loads up. Freaking. Awesome.
I think this new Safari is the Google Chrome for the Mac folks.
Grab it here!
