Comments for Eric Severance http://www.esev.com/blog Just another randomly updated blog Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:25:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Comment on TekSavvy and SpeakOut: My Alternatives to Rogers and Bell by Rab http://www.esev.com/blog/post/2008-09-teksavvy-and-speakout/#comment-368 Rab Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:25:17 +0000 http://esev.com/blog/?p=17#comment-368 I've had nothing but good experiences with Teksavvy. Their customer support has been the best I've experienced from an ISP. YMMV. I've had nothing but good experiences with Teksavvy. Their customer support has been the best I've experienced from an ISP. YMMV.

]]> Comment on TekSavvy and SpeakOut: My Alternatives to Rogers and Bell by Alejandro Kismet http://www.esev.com/blog/post/2008-09-teksavvy-and-speakout/#comment-367 Alejandro Kismet Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:47:12 +0000 http://esev.com/blog/?p=17#comment-367 yeah I wondered about that too! It seemed like they had sockpuppets to pump up their reviews, there was a faint smell of BS in the air. I think like you, I used to be a political proponent of TekSavvy, and now I'm not. I may hate Rogers and Bell but Teksavvy is a little scuzzy too. You definitely get a massively better deal then with Rogers or Bell, and alot of people will have no issue, but they have some definite flaws. yeah I wondered about that too! It seemed like they had sockpuppets to pump up their reviews, there was a faint smell of BS in the air.
I think like you, I used to be a political proponent of TekSavvy, and now I'm not.
I may hate Rogers and Bell but Teksavvy is a little scuzzy too.
You definitely get a massively better deal then with Rogers or Bell, and alot of people will have no issue, but they have some definite flaws.

]]> Comment on TekSavvy and SpeakOut: My Alternatives to Rogers and Bell by Alejandro http://www.esev.com/blog/post/2008-09-teksavvy-and-speakout/#comment-366 Alejandro Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:44:14 +0000 http://esev.com/blog/?p=17#comment-366 Yeah. I was not impressed with Teksavvy either Their prices are good, but the customer support is not, you can experience almost as much idiocy as you can get with Bell or Rogers. Quite disappointing, as I had high expectations of Teksavvy. They had serious issues with simple things like billing questions, getting teksavvy password took 3 calls and speaking to a manager. I eventually left Teksavvy in frustration after they cut off my internet without any explanation or warning and never told me it was reconnected. They never offered any compensation for the service termination, so I just never came back. Yeah. I was not impressed with Teksavvy either
Their prices are good, but the customer support is not, you can experience almost as much idiocy as you can get with Bell or Rogers. Quite disappointing, as I had high expectations of Teksavvy. They had serious issues with simple things like billing questions, getting teksavvy password took 3 calls and speaking to a manager. I eventually left Teksavvy in frustration after they cut off my internet without any explanation or warning and never told me it was reconnected. They never offered any compensation for the service termination, so I just never came back.

]]> Comment on Host Your Own URL Shortener: 10 PHP Apps Reviewed by thealanhogannetwork http://www.esev.com/blog/post/2009-06-host-your-own-url-shortener-10-php-apps-reviewed/#comment-365 thealanhogannetwork Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:12:04 +0000 http://esev.com/blog/?p=89#comment-365 As maintainer of <a href="http://lessnmore.net" rel="nofollow">Lessn More</a>, let me say that as of 2011-08-15, it would fit into the table thusly: Random link? Yes. Custom link? Yes. Append URI? No. Regex? No. Has API? Yes. Redir Type? 301. (I follow <a href="http://alanhogan.com/tips/rel-shortlink-for-short-urls" rel="nofollow">short URL best practices</a>) Private? Yes. Custom title No. No title functionality currently. Would not be hard to add this feature (<a href="http://github.com/alanhogan/lessnmore" rel="nofollow">we're on GitHub</a>, pull requests welcome). Edit? Yes, with a big fat warning that changing existing URLs may be Bad For The Internet™. Strips extra punctuation off the end of the URL (Bonus): Yes. (That means that e.g. <a href="http://ajh.us/1)" rel="nofollow">http://ajh.us/1)</a> does not fail but rather is treated as <a href="http://ajh.us/1" rel="nofollow">http://ajh.us/1</a> which would be a real redirection; this does happen in some email and Twitter clients.) As maintainer of Lessn More, let me say that as of 2011-08-15, it would fit into the table thusly:

Random link? Yes.
Custom link? Yes.
Append URI? No.
Regex? No.
Has API? Yes.
Redir Type? 301. (I follow short URL best practices)
Private? Yes.
Custom title No. No title functionality currently. Would not be hard to add this feature (we're on GitHub, pull requests welcome).
Edit? Yes, with a big fat warning that changing existing URLs may be Bad For The Internet™.

Strips extra punctuation off the end of the URL (Bonus): Yes.
(That means that e.g. http://ajh.us/1) does not fail but rather is treated as http://ajh.us/1 which would be a real redirection; this does happen in some email and Twitter clients.)

]]> Comment on Host Your Own URL Shortener: 10 PHP Apps Reviewed by thealanhogannetwork http://www.esev.com/blog/post/2009-06-host-your-own-url-shortener-10-php-apps-reviewed/#comment-364 thealanhogannetwork Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:07:29 +0000 http://esev.com/blog/?p=89#comment-364 <a href="http://lessnmore.net" rel="nofollow">Lessn More</a> is a Lessn fork that is just a bit less simple, with support for e.g. custom short URLs, case sensitivity, and shorter slugs. Lessn More is a Lessn fork that is just a bit less simple, with support for e.g. custom short URLs, case sensitivity, and shorter slugs.

]]> Comment on One Server: What is needed? by Michael http://www.esev.com/blog/post/2011-02-one-server-what-is-needed/#comment-363 Michael Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:23:56 +0000 http://www.esev.com/blog/?p=228#comment-363 With regard to your latest post: "Front-end HTPC hardware: No perfect solutions" I have totally agree with you there. There really are no perfect solutions. I found your blog and see that you're definitely further up the curve than I am especially with esxi. At the moment, I run two machines: my windows box with iTunes and my linux box for storage and sabnzbd. I want more storage, much more storage! My question is really, can I combine my Windows machine and Linux box into one big server with ESXi? Or do you think it's better to just stick with two machines? My initial research tells me that ESXi really likes expensive raid controllers, and if you go the soft-raid route you'll lose a lot of performance. Thanks so much! Michael With regard to your latest post: "Front-end HTPC hardware: No perfect solutions" I have totally agree with you there. There really are no perfect solutions. I found your blog and see that you're definitely further up the curve than I am especially with esxi. At the moment, I run two machines: my windows box with iTunes and my linux box for storage and sabnzbd.

I want more storage, much more storage! My question is really, can I combine my Windows machine and Linux box into one big server with ESXi? Or do you think it's better to just stick with two machines? My initial research tells me that ESXi really likes expensive raid controllers, and if you go the soft-raid route you'll lose a lot of performance.

Thanks so much!
Michael

]]> Comment on TekSavvy and SpeakOut: My Alternatives to Rogers and Bell by themacguy http://www.esev.com/blog/post/2008-09-teksavvy-and-speakout/#comment-361 themacguy Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:30:40 +0000 http://esev.com/blog/?p=17#comment-361 Teksavvy is really good at a few things. Unfortunately being an ISP that is responsible to their customers is not one of them. They are really good at promoting themselves as the little guy fighting the big guys in a David vs Goliath battle but when you get the real facts you find out that the reason teksavvy's relationship with Rogers and Bell is so bad is that Teksavvy is of the opinion that they should be able to use the incumbent's lines for free because the network is already built and the data traffic has a cost of zero. Is it any wonder then that Teksavvy customers are left high and dry when there is a problem with their connection. Teksavvy is also really good (read sneaky) about stacking their forums at dslreports.com with fanboys and staff masquerading as customers so it is impossible to get any sort of a realistic review of their services there. There is also a moderator on those forums who is a huge fanboy and regularly deletes posts that have anything negative to say about Teksavvy. Take my advice. Go elsewhere for service. Teksavvy looks like a good deal but if you have any problems you will be left high and dry with downtime that could range from a day to over 2 weeks and the only thing you will get from teksavvy is excuses and them blaming Rogers or Bell. Teksavvy is really good at a few things. Unfortunately being an ISP that is responsible to their customers is not one of them. They are really good at promoting themselves as the little guy fighting the big guys in a David vs Goliath battle but when you get the real facts you find out that the reason teksavvy's relationship with Rogers and Bell is so bad is that Teksavvy is of the opinion that they should be able to use the incumbent's lines for free because the network is already built and the data traffic has a cost of zero. Is it any wonder then that Teksavvy customers are left high and dry when there is a problem with their connection. Teksavvy is also really good (read sneaky) about stacking their forums at dslreports.com with fanboys and staff masquerading as customers so it is impossible to get any sort of a realistic review of their services there. There is also a moderator on those forums who is a huge fanboy and regularly deletes posts that have anything negative to say about Teksavvy.

Take my advice. Go elsewhere for service. Teksavvy looks like a good deal but if you have any problems you will be left high and dry with downtime that could range from a day to over 2 weeks and the only thing you will get from teksavvy is excuses and them blaming Rogers or Bell.

]]> Comment on Host Your Own URL Shortener: 10 PHP Apps Reviewed by Saurabh http://www.esev.com/blog/post/2009-06-host-your-own-url-shortener-10-php-apps-reviewed/#comment-360 Saurabh Mon, 23 May 2011 10:27:54 +0000 http://esev.com/blog/?p=89#comment-360 Eric. Ive been using Yourls & it also has custom url options. Plz check . For me Yourls rock ! it comes with a wordpress plugin too which makes it my best choice Eric. Ive been using Yourls & it also has custom url options. Plz check .

For me Yourls rock ! it comes with a wordpress plugin too which makes it my best choice

]]> Comment on Host Your Own URL Shortener: 10 PHP Apps Reviewed by Plugins de Wordpress para encurtadores de URL’s http://www.esev.com/blog/post/2009-06-host-your-own-url-shortener-10-php-apps-reviewed/#comment-345 Plugins de Wordpress para encurtadores de URL’s Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:28:01 +0000 http://esev.com/blog/?p=89#comment-345 [...] É só escolher qual deles vão usar aqui neste artigo: Host Your Own URL Shortener: 10 PHP Apps Reviewed [...] [...] É só escolher qual deles vão usar aqui neste artigo: Host Your Own URL Shortener: 10 PHP Apps Reviewed [...]

]]> Comment on IntenseDebate and Google Analytics by Administrador Ingcivilperu http://www.esev.com/blog/post/2011-02-intensedebate-and-google-analytics/#comment-318 Administrador Ingcivilperu Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:18:19 +0000 http://esev.com/blog/?p=245#comment-318 interesante! interesante!

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