Insights On Afghanistan
Dec 9
There’s No Limit
Dec 8
“There’s no limit to what we can accomplish if no one cares who gets the credit.”
-Sign of Ronald Reagan’s Desk, as Governor of California, and President of the United States.
The Afghan War
Dec 2
From this week’s Economist magazine. This weeks comic seems to really make their point.
The Afghan War
If you have just come to Japan, you’ll definitely want to experience the internet that they have here. There is a great list of the various companies you can use for your internet access here.
The most cost effective seems to be Excite. From their website, they seem to use this as a way to bring in users for their adult site business.
Next up is Asahi Net, who seems to be the first legitimate provider for the cost. They even have an English homepage if you don’t speak Japanese here.
The amazing thing about Japanese providers is they all provide email addresses with 100 or 200 MB of disk space. Wow! We are in the broadband revolution, I am surprised they haven’t made it to at least 1GB yet.
In the US, for example, Comcast has 10GB even for the add-on accounts.
If you travel much, you’ll see that Japan definitely has the best throughput for broadband internet access in the world.
Back in 2002 AINEO was the first to bring GFI products to Japan. If you are on MS Exchange, you definitely want to be on GFI. I am probably speaking more to administrators than users of mail servers.
The below video does a good job shows a simple but understandable explanation of the threat to PC users.
Business Relationships
Nov 24
Many a new enterprise has failed because the owner never understood this truth—all business is ultimately about relationships. It’s easy to fall into the trap of believing that business success is purely a result of having the best product or the lowest price.
- Mac Hammond
America Is Great..
Nov 17
Thought for Today: “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, French author (1805-1859).
How To Live Long And Strong
Nov 16
Living, caring for others, challenging yourself, could these be the secrets to life?
Check out this article.
In the book, The Millionaire Next Door, by Thomas Stanley and William Danko, 1,115 millionaires were surveyed around the country. They came up with seven common denominators among those who successfully build wealth:
They live well below their means.
They allocate their time, energy and money efficiently, in ways conducive to building wealth.
They believe that financial independence is more important than displaying high social status.
Their parents did not provide economic outpatient care.
Their adult children are economically self-sufficient.
They are proficient in targeting market opportunities.
They chose the right occupations.
Wow! This article in the Washington Post is really sad. I hate to see people lose data.
T-Mobile is a great company owned by Deutsche Telecom. A solid company. I suppose the point to the matter is their back-end was a Microsoft subsidiary called Danger Inc. Clearly they weren’t doing their job.
I found a company that is a very cost effective host. For $4.95 a month you can get unlimited Hosting on one domain. Amazingly cheap! The problem I found out (before switching to AINEO Secure) was that they don’t really back up everything. If your account is ‘too large’ you can’t even initiate a back up from your control panel.
I am very proud of all the sweat and blood we put into AINEO Secure. Running a hosting business is not for the faint-hearted.
We have been supporting mail services since 1997 so have solid communications is second nature to us. For example, our mail servers are clustered. That means that even if one of the mail servers goes down (pretty difficult with duplicate power, processors, and RAID disks), then then another server will pick up the slack.
All of the data is backed up and stored locally and in our Saitama center. I can’t imagine this type of Danger Inc problem happening to us. The last thing I want to do it let it happen to our partners.
Give us a try. AINEO Secure Hosting is great!