Hmmm..
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Ng Kai Hoe Raymond wrote:
> Hey, the design was by you. You have done a lot for the website.
Agreed. Red dawn has started off our website with the design..
> > 1) Are we helping HWZ to earn money besides maintaining their server for
> > them?
> Ultimately, we are not even going to maintain their server for them.
> We just provide consultation service in case they do something
> wrong, like "rm -rf *". Nothing more nothing less. Hardwarezone does
> their own stuff, we do our own stuff. That will be the arrangement.
What does it take for hardwarezone to kick us out ? Anytime they
want ? or we have a 1 month notice ?
> > 3) Will these deal with HWZ benefit us or lead to anything big?
> Yes, it certainly does. This whole thing facilitates parallel working,
> parallel working on Perl scripts, PHP, developmental mailing lists for
> local open source developers, provide webhosting service for Singapore
> Linux Conference 2000 (probably for LinuxWorld, in case they have
> a problem looking for a host). We also mirror stuff that were not previously
> possible. Provide a one stop information center for Linux locally in
> Singapore.
Locally ?? Aim overseas !!!! :)
> But of course, Singapore Linux Portal stays as free as possible in
> this process.
HEheh.. we gonna GPL the site ??? :)
> That we have the best of both worlds. UK's people will have
> a fast website to refer to, and locals will have a fast ftp site.
> Elvin can have all those 40 G for his mirroring for all I care then.
> And we can move on to cooler hardwares and resources.
Yah yah.. leave me with the 128k line.. thanx raymond.
> Before that happen, we HAVE to show them we can produce
> results, we have to make the website cool, we have to make
> it presentable (which you did!). It is improving and hits seem to
> be increasing.
One fear.. What if the hits are due to hype/domain name ?
Will they come back ?
Red: It's times like this I want SmartTrace around... but of coz
that's still CLASSIFIED :)
> If we get the Compaq's server, we will achieve full independence.
> I am more excited about this than any of you. Such excitement
> cannot even be described by using the word "orgasm". Stay tune
> for details.
U need a girl to show you what an orgasm is Raymond.. not ur
stuffed penguin or servers...
*hiakz*
Elvin
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