25 Comments

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   “I eat nothing but ham and mayonaise. It keeps my skin waxy and alluring!”

   Comment by Anonymous — May 25, 2006 #

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   to be fair, it’s probably some editor’s fuckup

   Comment by tom sherman — May 25, 2006 #

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   Yeah, you’re probably right.. any idea what it might have said before the editor screwed it up?

   Comment by Pete — May 25, 2006 #

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   Before it went into editing, the actual quote was:

   “It’s already happening. Microsoft’s new Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer (UMPC) is one example. It’s a mini-tablet PC with sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and Windows XP. For business travelers…”

   Comment by Pramit — May 26, 2006 #

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   The dude looks like Dante from Clerks. “I’m not even supposed to BE here today!”

   Comment by Jim in Buffalo — May 26, 2006 #

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   Meow! A hosting provider catfight!

   P.S. Spellcheck your DreamHost newsletters if you’re going to nit-pick.

   Comment by Joe Grossberg — May 26, 2006 #

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   C.F. is an interesting character:
   http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=155950

   Comment by James Rocko — May 26, 2006 #

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   That C.F. article is inspiring….time for DreamHost to get off their high horse and sue AOL for blocking their email just like C.F. did !! What an inovator!

   Comment by Glen — May 26, 2006 #

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   Geez, Josh, don’t you own a scanner? Now I can’t read about businesses signing on for whatever he’s talking about because there’s a giant blob of flash glare on the page.

   Oh, and when I clicked the link to cihost, it took quite a while for the server to respond. About 10 seconds.

   Comment by sdayman — May 26, 2006 #

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    What’s wrong with CI Host. I have hosted with them before and had no complaints.

    Please elaborate.

    James

    Comment by James — May 26, 2006 #

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    You know, I timed it.. it took 9.5 seconds to load. o_O

    (insert cat scratches here)

    Comment by Pete — May 26, 2006 #

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    James, I think the problem is that the CEO of CI Host is a little immature kid who never got smacked when he was a baby.

    It is highly unusually to sue former employees for the reasons he did. Its highly unusual to sue former employees at all, but there you have it.

    Just one question though, doesn’t his suing impede on our First Amendment Rights? Shouldn’t we be able to say certain things without fear of reprisal? This is very disturbing, especially since the people that made anti-CI remarks were just expressing their own opinions.
    That in no way violates the public-safety-can’t-shout-fire-in-a-movie-theater example, so I can’t see how they’re allowed to sue in the first place.

    Comment by Mike S — May 27, 2006 #

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    Watch out dream host, you guys could get sued from the big man him self! :p

    From,
    Adam - Happy Dreamhost customer :)

    Comment by Adam — May 29, 2006 #

14. 14

    Personally I prefer my Sony PSP without Microsoft.

    Thanks. :)

    Comment by Eian — May 29, 2006 #

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    Glorious. :)

    As others have said (and I personally like Pramit’s unedited copy) it’s probably an editor’s mistake, but man that’s still funny. Ten bucks it said “USB” and some editor’s a complete moron.

    Comment by phoenix — May 30, 2006 #

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    USB is the only thing I can think of that makes even remote sense… Perhaps the dictationist mis-transcribed USP, someone changed it to PSP, then the editor put in Sony PSP..

    I thought this was a far-fetched idea until I realized that AmericanWay is the American Airlines travel magazine… computing acronyms are probably not their strong point.

    Plus, Chris seems like thet kind of guy to put an edge on his Bs.

    Ah yes, it all falls together now.

    Comment by Pete — May 30, 2006 #

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    i thought maybe he was being metaphorical, and editing made it unclear that he was being metaphorical, i.e., maybe he meant, “it’s as if it has a built-in PSP,” meaning you can play games on it.

    But he didn’t really answer the actual question. The question was about cellphones, but UMPCs don’t actually have cellphones built in. And neither do those Nokia tablets mentioned in brackets.

    Comment by adm — May 30, 2006 #

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    I can only hope that once Dremhost starts to offer dedicated hosting again that Dreamhost can match, or even better beat, the pricing of CI Host.

    http://www.cihost.com/products/dedicated-hosting/linux.php

    Comment by Greg — May 30, 2006 #

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    @Greg,

    Wow - I’m surprised to see CI Host dedicated hosting package.

    CI Host offers nearly 3x the diskspace and 2x the RAM that Dreamhost does for the same price ($99).

    Dreamhost, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease start offering dedicated hosting plans again, and not the affliate program with hosting.com. And at the very least, let those dedicated servers have competitive specs that at least equal that of CI Host.

    Rick

    Comment by Rick — May 31, 2006 #

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    Um, Writers don’t usually have dictationists. They *are* the dictationists in Q&A style interviews.

    Comment by Erik — May 31, 2006 #

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    Oh. Then the interviewer screwed up his own dictation?

    Comment by Pete — May 31, 2006 #

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    It’s blatantly clear that dreamhost is trying to get bought out by a bigger fish. How is this clear? Look at the bottom line -holy wienerschnitzel they have explosive growth -huge subscriber base, offering more than anyone~ buy’em before someone else!~!~! They look so sweet -they even have a blog and laid back Cali newsletter -wHOOOPPPPPIeeeE or wait west coast style
    .SNnaaAAAAAaaaaAP yo_

    But the real story is [quote] ” failed to scale well with all the n00bs(s*ck_rz) ” end[/quote]

    It seems like we have wicked servers/bandwidth/diskspace/ maybe even CPU and backups but I betcha key people aren’t around any more / or hell maybe the key people just hack their way through it :) (like I would)

    Take the latest status update -gee whiz somehow 65000 ports were concurrently getting used so we stuck another box inbetween until all those get used concurrently then we’ll put a mega-punisher-enforcer-deathwwashy-slippy-snappy-concrappy something or another ./

    HACK -HACK Hack acka ackackack you outta know by now (was that billy the josh joel?

    Comment by Since 2000 — May 31, 2006 #

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    Two words.

    “Loose association.”

    Comment by Pete — June 1, 2006 #

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    Yes it is really interessant!

    Comment by gas — June 9, 2006 #

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    [...] They have a blog, also written in a human voice. It’s not necessary for DreamHost to have a blog – I’m sure their servers would go on working just fine even if they didn’t write a single humorous post about things such as why they’re having trouble buying a new storage solution or why iTunes Music Store sucks. They even posted about a silly mistake the CEO of their favorite competitor made in an interview in a magazine. [...]

    Pingback by PatrikLockne.com - Why DreamHost is a great company — October 27, 2006 #

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