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After being told “We’re still rolling out Buzz to everyone, so if you don’t see it in your Gmail account yet, check back soon.” , I found a way to get it NOW!

Just go to http://buzz.google.com  then click the “Try Buzz in Gmail” button. Poof, instantly pushed it to my gmail account right then and there. After that it was available in my gmail account. Let me know if it works for you or not too…

There are several web hosting plans available in the market but it is the Linux reseller hosting, which is ideal for web designers. So if you are planning to start your own web designing venture the Linux hosting is the ideal plan for you.

To understand the concept of Linux reseller hosting, it is very important to know about reseller hosting. The reseller is the one, who buys huge chunks of web hosting space for a parent web hosting company and then sell its to third parties. So if you are looking for small amount of web space to start your own web designing company then Linux hosting is the ideal plan for you. The best thing about Linux hosting is that it is cheap and easily available. For a host of reasons, Linux reseller web space has become a very popular solution for web hosting.

The main reason why Linux reseller has become the most preferred choice is because Linux operating system is considered to be very robust and stable and it also supports many open source application for the web. Generally websites run on Linux reseller platform have an extremely high uptime and the control panel, which h is basically, cPanel/WHM, is also known to be one of the best available in the market. You can get over 52 scripts and all can be easily installed with a click of a mouse.

Working with Linux has become extremely fast if your web hosting provide is having linux server setup on good configuration hardware. The Linux has become one of the preferred choices of hosting plan for users because it is comparatively cheaper than windows hosting plans and it is also convenient for both users and resellers.

Resellers selling Linux reseller plans don’t have to create multiple accounts that will help them to keep a track of their different clients. Since there are different user panels in Linux hosting at times it may seem that is very important to create multiple accounts but in reality it is not the case. In Linux hosting it is very easy to keep a track of the clients and it also helps you to save a lot of time.

Another important feature of Linux web space plan is that we can run any application, irrespective of the language, on it. This gives you an extra edge to run PHP or MySQL based websites as well as to run html, jsp, perl or cgi-bin applications. All these are found on the same server and are also operated with the same control panel. So what are you waiting for switch to Linux hosting plans and kick-start your web designing plans.

Just a quick tip today…

eBay is a great source for most anything… especially for computer releated items. For example, we’re often looking for a particular RAID controller, type of ECC memory, or other part that you won’t find down at your local computer shop. BUT eBay’s search function leaves something to be desired, at least until you start learning some of the nuances.

For example, we’re always on the lookout for deals for certain series of Xeon processors we use. For example one of the servers will use several of the X3000 series quad cores. eBay has a nice feature that you can save searches and it will email you the results daily. But the search itself takes some practice. In  our example we’re looking for a Xeon X3210, 3320, 3350 or 3360 processor. But if you type “xeon x3210 x3320 x3350 x3360″ into the search box, ebay will politely tell you “Your search returned 0 items.”  But we know ebay has some of these on there, so how can that be. It’s the Boolean logic that eBay uses. It is searching for an item that has ALL of those terms in it, and there aren’t any.  What we really want is “xeon” AND ( “X3210″ OR “X3320″ OR “X3350″ OR “X3360″) and may want to narrow down which categories we search under, but we’d be pretty close to right on with just that alone. So how do we tell ebay to use “or” logic?   We put a “,” between them, but we also need to separate them out from the term “xeon” we do that with parentheses.  The resulting search string becomes “xeon (x3210, x3320, x3350, x3360)”  which as I write this results in 15 auction and 37 store items, of which all but a dozen of which are what we’re looking for. The others happen to be IBM X3350 servers which use xeon processors (but not the xeons we are looking for).

To get eBay to email you, use the “save this search” feature near the top. Sign in if needed, and tell it how often and logn to email you.

Recently I’ve seen a few people refer to their domain name, like “myname.com” as a “top level domain” or TLD. The short answer is that it is NOT a TLD. The term Top Level Domain has a very specific meaning, and anything you can register does not fit the definition… Per RFC 920,

The domain system is a tree-structured global name space that has a few top level domains.  The top level domains are subdivided into second level domains.  The second level domains may be subdivided  into third level domains, and so on.
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While the initial domain name “ARPA” arises from the history of the   development of this system and environment, in the future most of the top level names will be very general categories like “government”, “education”, or “commercial”.  The motivation is to provide an   organization name that is free of undesirable semantics.

Notice their words: “top level names will be very general categories…”  Recognize the categories listed, it’s .gov, .edu and .com TLDs. There are also ccTLDs with are country specific such as .us and .ca for the USA and Canada respectively. As of this moment right now, here are ALL OF the top level domains per IANA:

AC, AD, AE, AERO, AF, AG, AI, AL, AM, AN, AO, AQ, AR, ARPA, AS, ASIA, AT, AU, AW, AX, AZ, BA, BB, BD, BE, BF, BG, BH, BI, BIZ, BJ, BM, BN, BO, BR, BS, BT, BV, BW, BY, BZ, CA, CAT, CC, CD, CF, CG, CH, CI, CK, CL, CM, CN, CO, COM, COOP, CR, CU, CV, CX, CY, CZ, DE, DJ, DK, DM, DO, DZ, EC, EDU, EE, EG, ER, ES, ET, EU, FI, FJ, FK, FM, FO, FR, GA, GB, GD, GE, GF, GG, GH, GI, GL, GM, GN, GOV, GP, GQ, GR, GS, GT, GU, GW, GY, HK, HM, HN, HR, HT, HU, ID, IE, IL, IM, IN, INFO, INT, IO, IQ, IR, IS, IT, JE, JM, JO, JOBS, JP, KE, KG, KH, KI, KM, KN, KP, KR, KW, KY, KZ, LA, LB, LC, LI, LK, LR, LS, LT, LU, LV, LY, MA, MC, MD, ME, MG, MH, MIL, MK, ML, MM, MN, MO, MOBI, MP, MQ, MR, MS, MT, MU, MUSEUM, MV, MW, MX, MY, MZ, NA, NAME, NC, NE, NET, NF, NG, NI, NL, NO, NP, NR, NU, NZ, OM, ORG, PA, PE, PF, PG, PH, PK, PL, PM, PN, PR, PRO, PS, PT, PW, PY, QA, RE, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA, SB, SC, SD, SE, SG, SH, SI, SJ, SK, SL, SM, SN, SO, SR, ST, SU, SV, SY, SZ, TC, TD, TEL, TF, TG, TH, TJ, TK, TL, TM, TN, TO, TP, TR, TRAVEL, TT, TV, TW, TZ, UA, UG, UK, US, UY, UZ, VA, VC, VE, VG, VI, VN, VU, WF, WS, XN–0ZWM56D, XN–11B5BS3A9AJ6G, XN–80AKHBYKNJ4F, XN–9T4B11YI5A, XN–DEBA0AD, XN–G6W251D, XN–HGBK6AJ7F53BBA, XN–HLCJ6AYA9ESC7A, XN–JXALPDLP, XN–KGBECHTV, XN–ZCKZAH, YE, YT, YU, ZA, ZM, ZW

So unless you somehow managed to register one of those (not a domain WITHIN one of those but one of those actual TLDs), you don’t have a TLD… It’s not open for discussion, you don’t. You have a “second level domain” according to the people who designed the dns system. Please stop telling people you do, or trying to sell a TLD. You just sound stupid to people who know better.

When trying to develop a site for a wide range of visitors remember that Mac systems display fonts at 72dpi, but Windows uses 96dpi. This could lead to some interesting results when using specific sizes across systems. Just ANOTHER thing to keep in mind while designing for the web…