{"id":98,"date":"2001-08-10T13:35:41","date_gmt":"2001-08-10T20:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2001-08-10T13:35:41","modified_gmt":"2001-08-10T20:35:41","slug":"from-the-moving-from-cubes-to-boxes-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"From The Moving-From-Cubes-To-Boxes Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, former dot-com workers are <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/tech\/log\/2001\/06\/19\/sacrosante\/index.html\">crowding homeless shelters<\/a>.  Gee, lessons learned:  Profitability is a good thing, on-line shopping carts don&#8217;t have cranky wheels and venture capital isn&#8217;t as real as spare change for a cup of coffee.<\/p>\n<p><b>RANT MODE = ON<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Due to a year long struggle with Java Zen&#8217;s (now) former ISP, I have switched to Qwest (Queer Way Everyone Seems to Talk).  I heard it would be bad.  I knew it would be bad.  It is bad.  Two weeks later, Qwest (Quickly Whack Every Single Trouble-ticket) still doesn&#8217;t have it right.  Add to this their shoddy handling of the Code Red worms which keep shutting down Java Zen&#8217;s Cisco router (Cisco gets a ding for this, too.  In fact, ding Microsoft while your at it since the worms only affect their products.  There&#8217;s a reason I run Apache on Linux.  &#8220;Hey Qwest!  Pitch the Windows and get a real operating system.&#8221;)  Short story:  Java Zen doesn&#8217;t have a static IP address and until it does, you would have to get really, really lucky in guessing the DHCP assigned IP.  How much free time to YOU have?<\/p>\n<p><b>RANT MODE = OFF<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Have a nice day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, former dot-com workers are crowding homeless shelters. Gee, lessons learned: Profitability is a good thing, on-line shopping carts don&#8217;t have cranky wheels and venture capital isn&#8217;t as real as spare change for a cup of coffee. RANT MODE = ON Due to a year long struggle with Java Zen&#8217;s (now) former ISP, I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}