arithma
I am currently considering leaving the country for the sole purpose of having a better connection.
As my job is resource intensive, and I am being charged crazy, and I can't see my future apps being tested here well, I might as well move out.
Has this thought passed your mind?
rolf
Yes, several times.
Need less to say, I am still here :-/
But I think it would be a good idea to go looking for a more modern country.
PS: For web development, I do everything localhost, but I need to change hosting settings sometimes... and it's unnerving to wait 1/2 - 1 minute every time you change a setting! Besides, Lebanon is falling way behind in terms of mobile apps (iPhone and such), and people dont seem to care.
Kareem
Korea or Japan, you get sick with the average download speed you get trust me :-)
nuclearcat
How much hours per day u are working?
Just crazy idea... we have bandwidth at night and morning. Maybe we can setup office in some cheap place for people who need internet _for work_ and this way support them? So they dont leave country.
nuclearcat
Other time maybe also...
arithma
I didn't quite get what you said nuclearcat,
Who are those we you are talking about? VISP?
Talking of crazy ideas, I was thinking, as a freelancer, we can get a shared place for work, collaboration, and perhaps residence for those far (like myself and I am sure many more). Some sort of a collaborating community to co-locate their resources..
nuclearcat
VISP, yes. My boss happy with this idea, and he is ready to release one of offices for this stuff.
Sure it will be feasible if we can grab few people who interested in that.
rolf
arithma wroteI didn't quite get what you said nuclearcat,
Who are those we you are talking about? VISP?
Talking of crazy ideas, I was thinking, as a freelancer, we can get a shared place for work, collaboration, and perhaps residence for those far (like myself and I am sure many more). Some sort of a collaborating community to co-locate their resources..
I know a guy who has a nice office flat in the Zalka area, last floor, clean, calm, big entrance + office + conference room (with projector...) and kitchen+toilet+small balcony. Connected with 1 meg ADSL. But always empty so he is ok with people using it (probably for a small fee...).
Nuclearcat I think that is a nice idea, but during the day, I hope! If yes, then I'm in!
kareem_nasser
What is soooo special about VISP that everyone is talking about plz tell me.
arithma
This is perfect! Two options already :)
If we can have more specific details about each of the options it would be great.
Zalka is too out of reach for me though, being from Saida, perhaps it's only viable if I can get to crash every couple of days..
nuclearcat
Yep, saida too far. But still i have idea - we can organize and sit there for some brainstorms all together :-)
At day it is possible to sit there too, but i cannot guarantee possibility of large file transfers.
Also on agreement with boss, most probably whole office will be free for us, he is ok to release it.
rolf
nuclearcat wroteYep, saida too far. But still i have idea - we can organize and sit there for some brainstorms all together :-)
At day it is possible to sit there too, but i cannot guarantee possibility of large file transfers.
We can write some scheduling script that would upload to an external FTP during night (for really big files) and the uploaded file will be accessible through FTP and/or HTTP with password protection. But it must be something robust that will not stop on errors.
We can implement a similar mechanism for the inverse (download).
PS: I am thinking about the zalka office. I dont know about the VISP ones, I dont want to force anyone to add scripts on VISP servers... but I guess the idea is valid there too.
nuclearcat
rolf, it is not a big deal to make a PC for our operations and use it as server :-)
Script, yes... easily.
Well, what kind of BIG uploads/downloads required at day? Just as example, and sizes.
So i will think how to solve that.
rolf
nuclearcat wroterolf, it is not a big deal to make a PC for our operations and use it as server :-)
Script, yes... easily.
Well, what kind of BIG uploads/downloads required at day? Just as example, and sizes.
So i will think how to solve that.
I wanted to give a number, but then I thought it depended on the other persons too. Everyone has their own concept of "really big".
As for me, what I had in mind when I said "really big", is over 50 megabytes to upload.
For the download, I do not have anything in mind.
nuclearcat
50 Mb 3-4 times per day not a big deal... we can manage it.
nuclearcat
Maybe we can work on lebix there.
Also still i like idea working at nights... if someone can. Brainstorming at night sometimes lovely...
Plus... well... 10-20 Mbits of internet :-) maybe even more... for some cool things it can be after 2-3am till 6-9am - up to 200Mbps :-)
nablaux
If anyone has actually an idea to work on then it would be perfect. we dont really need an office this why internet was invented to de-centrelize things HOWEVER we do need an internet connection :)
I personally have been thinking of making a product for pattern recognition (this is what i do in life) however this is a bit costly and it turns out it is really difficult to improve on current methods.
any ideas there?
nuclearcat
nablaux - computer vision? neural networks?
I have friend who is researching in this area, but simple things.
I've looked too, but just used opencv for simple things. Thinking to move forward. I really need somehow to make over it system to recognize car license plate (personal idea, that probably will help lebanon, not for money).
arithma
we dont really need an office this why internet was invented to de-centrelize things HOWEVER we do need an internet connection :)
Well we don't have a decent connection, that's why we're not able to decentralize. This should have gone without saying.
Anyway, without further dilution of the topic, nuclearcat, let's set a meeting time.. An open invitation, and a place. It will be a geek only event. We should meet and discuss the opportunities. Let it be at night if we prefer, pizzas, laptops, whiteboards... I believe we can get something useful out of it - I always make use of meetings.
nuclearcat
We can do evening also, if it is more comfortable. I guess for most - yes. Which day you prefer? Normal day, friday, sat, sun?
Maybe we need to vote?
