Does the author realize that the actiontec router can be disabled and used just like a cable modem? That's what I do at home and use a WRT54G instead. I also use opendns instead of Verizon's DNS servers. Latency is pretty low for me.
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The only issues are the lack of people and VCs. You can always do contract work for the government though!
This wouldn't really be necessary in NYC where cabs are ubiquitous but in DC it would be useful.
EDIT: Crud, already sorta exists: http://taximagic.com/
Just require a valid .edu address at sign up and send a confirmation email. Allow students to put in their edu email as well as their personal email because I really only use my personal account, as do most of my friends. Just send a confirmation email each semester or something as recommended by another commenter and that should be strong enough verification. Some people may try to cheat the system by either using an alumni email address (which you should filter: alumni.*.edu) or purchasing an edu domain to host their own email on, but those are both very unlikely and I doubt you'll run into them often if at all. There is at least one school that I know of that doesn't give out email addresses to its students anymore (Boston College or University, I forget which one); for those students just put a note next to the .edu field saying something along the lines of "Your school doesn't give you .edu addresses? Just email us and we'll help you out."
I don't think there's much else you can do to verify student accounts. If you're really ambitious you can ask for the student's ID number, full legal name, and university and then call up the registrar office to verify their registration. My school also participates in the National Student Clearinghouse: http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/ but it costs money for each verification. Obviously these options are kind of extreme and I'm pretty sure only banks and hiring agencies would spend the time verifying an enrollment this way.
There's also a whole list here: http://www.opensourcehelpdesklist.com/
Are you hosting this yourself or do you want someone else to host it?
Also, concurred on the envy I have for those who are good at design. I suck at designing but I love developing. I wish I could do both and I've been getting better (using Kuler and just keeping everything within a color pallete works wonders).
I heard some advice on the radio the other day: invest your age in bonds. So a 40 year old would put 40% of their invesments into bonds. Bonds are slow but reliable sources of income and are basically the same as a loan to a large corporation. Try that if you're looking to back loans and earn interest.
I'll mostly be buying cheap blue chips and companies that are basically hard hit by the current crisis but bound to make a comeback within 1-2 years. Which companies exactly I'm not sure yet.
Funny story: I've been working on a project for the past 2 weeks and I basically finished it in Safari and I was getting ready to do a long day or two of debugging for IE6 when I opened it up in IE6 and lo and behold it was (nearly) perfect! I was so happy, tears nearly ran down my face.
-Make a logo for the top right corner with your branding
-Allow users to edit the Title at the top of the page to whatever the event title is
-Make the subtitle editable so people can add extra info like their name or phone number
-Add a calendar to the right side so people can optionally add a date and time
-Add a google map to the right side so people can optionally add an address
-Clarify that those are both options and if they aren't configured then hide them from the invite page
-Add an optional email box to the generation page so you can receive a secret admin link in order to change the details later
-Add an email box to the invite page (also optional) so people can sign up to be notified in case of a change in time or cancellation
-Ajaxify these options so they're quick to edit. See: Google Notebook for how you should make the titles and other things editable
Okay that turned out to be a lot more changes than I anticipated.
No offense to the submitter of this article. This was popular all over the net today.
If you're lucky find a friend/family member who is fluent in Spanish, a surprising number of people are, and have them do it. It would be best if they learned Spanish in mainland South America, preferably not Argentina, because those places speak the most universal Spanish. Spanish writing from Spain may look to a South American like British writing looks to an American. Caribbean Spanish uses more slang (although that may just be a stereotype) and Argentine Spanish is proper kind of like Spain's (again maybe a stereotype).
What's your business model for this? Are you just doing advertising or are you also offering a rush fee or maybe charging extra for files over 5MB or something?
It's too much work and I don't think it's profitable in the long run.