July 2010
0 posts
Domains Price List Update →
Well, the price jump is here:
The affected TLDs are .COM and .NET, the new registration price for these is $10.39/year. Transfers are still $9.89/year. As usual, all prices posted are the actual charge, there are NO hidden fees of any kind.
June 2010
2 posts
Verisign-imposed price increases are less than one...
Domains Price List
We are down to the final stretch before Verisign raises their wholesale price, which means everyone is going to have to raise their domain prices. During this last month we have managed to secure a special deal for renewals only, for .com and .net domains. These renewals are priced so the cost drops with the number of years renewed: for example renewing a .com domain for a year...
March 2010
1 post
Verisign raises prices again →
The biggest (legal, privately owned) money printing operation in the world just raised their prices again, effective July 1st.
A domain name is nothing more than a small database record, just a few kb of space. For the privilege of controlling one of such little bits of text, Verisign owns, as a monopoly, the rights to ALL .com and .net domains in the world. They allow resellers to provide this...
January 2010
2 posts
Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Court Rules... →
We have had WHOIS privacy as an opt-in service since it became available. Why? Because it is an effective speed bump against automated harvesting of personal information for spamming purposes. This speed bump is also very effective against the assholes that harvest our WHOIS information from our customers, then send them domain renewal letters to try to con them into switching over to a new domain...
July 2009
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May 2009
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February 2009
2 posts
1 Year of Surpass Hosting, $1 →
Only February 14-16, and you have to bring your own domain. This is the company that I use for one of my hosting companies, it is where I host veraperez.com. Notice that their regular price applies after the one-year mark.
Christians Bailing on GoDaddy Due to 'Immoral'... →
This is truly despicable behavior by GoDaddy. I can assure you that GoPedro.net has never, and will probably never 1, resort to cheap antics like that in order to sell our very affordable domains.
We sell most domain names for under $10 per year, with no strings attached, no hidden charges and no registrar transfer locks2. And no immoral TV ads.3
*1 Tough economy, I won’t promise we...
January 2009
1 post
Special Wordpress hosting package
For a limited time only, we are offering the following hosting package:
1. Full Cpanel access (so shell access, sorry).
2. No hard limits for parked or add-on domains, subdomains or number of MySQL databases.
3. 10GB/month traffic.
4. 1GB disk space.
5. You are free to install anything that can run on a standard Cpanel.
6. Your choice of (a) free .net/.com/.org domain or (b) .net/.com/.net...
December 2008
2 posts
New Pricing List →
Thanks to the greedy bastards at Internic, it is once again time to tweak the pricing table for http://gopedro.net .
The good news:
Almost every TLD went down in price.
The bad bews:
.COM/.NET/.ORG went up slightly.
This pricing change affects both customers and resellers.
Xbox 360 v. AppleTV as a streaming platform
RIght as I was planning on writing this article, I ran into that rare Slashdot thread that sucked me into posting. Three times.
Hackish
Re:Hackish
Re:Hackish
The posts pretty much summarize our current experience at home with the two Xbox 360s and the two AppleTVs. While it would be nice if Apple officially supported Netflix streaming, it is not a deal breaker, and the Xbox 360 is doing the...
November 2008
1 post
Parallels 4 clashes with VS.net 2005
There is a problem with the way that Parallels 4 does documents folder synchronization. What it does is to point to your home folder on the OS X side with an UNC path. It works great as long as the windows programs that look for that folder understand UNC.
Visual Studio 2005 is not one of these. The first thing that caught me cost me two long miserable hours of troubleshooting. I was installing...
October 2008
2 posts
Perception of time in programmers
It is interesting how wildly the time seems to vary when you are writing code. I would think that after programming for more than twenty years, close to ten years of that professionally, I still feel like time stands still for certain projects, while others just eat the hours without barely a blink.
Between yesterday and today rewrote one of our applications from scratch, with brand new...
Amazon Kindle
Reading or or two books per week can be a hassle when you own the books and you don’t take into account storage. Two books per week is over a hundred books a year. If each book is one inch thick, you are eating over 100 inches of bookshelf in just a year.
Now imagine that you are married, and your wife (14 years and going) also reads two books per week. Oh, and you live in a 1,000 square...
September 2008
6 posts
Chinese spacewalk mission enters orbit →
Our shuttle fleet is a handful of flights away from getting shut down for good. The Russians have money for a war in Georgia, and for deployments to Venezuela, but somehow not as much money for space.
And the Chinese? They got their act together and are sending manned missions to space.
I was, still am, obsessed about the space race since I was a child but this is the first time in my life where...
Fringe, and the start of the Fall TV season
If you know anyone that writes for TV, hug him or her. Buy them coffee and food. Then hug them again.
Be nice to them.
The Fall season started with a hell of a lot less fanfare than what I am used to. I almost missed a few episodes but the PVR saved my sorry ass. I did miss a few, my fault for not checking ahead to make sure that the PVR was programmed properly.
Oh, well.
I am also...
Thanks to Novembird for the theme.
The dead hours
Ask anyone that works in software programming, and they will immediately confirm the following:
No real coding work can be done before noon on a Monday, or after noon on a Friday (weekends don’t count).
Monday mornings are crisis and regrup days. This is when all of your customers stampede in, each with a crisis that came up over the weekend that must be addressed NOW. While this is...
We moved!
If you can read this, then it means you are seeing the blog at its new home. If you are looking for the old entries, they are still available at http://pedroalbertovera.blogspot.com/