donna

Here's what we're developing: We are a community site to prescreen and prepare businesses for Venture Capital. We improve the pitch and probability of funding for startups while saving VC's time and money sitting through unprepared pitches.

I'll provide the details if your interested. Ping me donna (at) genuus (dot) com

Setting up your own server: - Pay for the Mac Mini + Time Capsule - Set up Amazon account with credit card - Sign up for AWS/S3 service, with auto-billing - Configured with Apache 2, MySQL 5, PHP 5 - Place behind your firewall on DSL connection, enabling TCP on port 80 - Set your domain's DNS records to point to Mini

Capabilities - Box handles 500-1,000 visitors per hour (no monthly cost) - Backup Drive automatically backs up all content hourly, saving older versions for disaster recovery - S3 stores all heavy content for distribution; handles HTTP serving of content to unlimited clients simultaneously at up to 500 KBytes/second (delivery of 100GB content costs less than $20/mo)

this might sound cheesy, but for a temporary kluge what would you think of setting up a mail rely behind a home DSL connection?

oops... they missed the point :)

How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

and...if the purchase price is as heavily subsidized by at&t as everyone thinks it will be, apple will sell a boatload of them...;D

I feel it is more honorable to leave them to fate to self evolve as a new world infringes upon them. What about you?

..great quote : “My colleague Francis Crick used to say that God is a hacker, not an engineer,” Dr. Ramachandran said. “You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.”