Readit NewsIf you follow this line of thinking to its conclusion, you'll come to the same conclusion that politicians of all stable countries realized a long time ago: society is a lot more stable, and a lot less violent-class-revolution-y, when everyone has affordable housing and basic needs met. By seeing to it they everyone is housed, dear resentful renter, you are saving yourself.
(I don't have a dog in this fight, I don't live in California, don't rent, don't own rental property.)
The next day, same story. The flies were now appearing throughout the day. They all looked the same. Where the hell were they coming from? The windows were still closed. I kept vacuuming.
Eventually things were starting to get very irritating. I hunted for an entry point for days without finding anything and the flies just kept on appearing. I was pretty good at vacuuming flies by this point.
By day six I spotted a group of them hanging out near my Kentia palm. Aha! A fly had laid eggs in the soil of the plant. I had no idea that it was a suitable food source for larvae. Needless to say I quickly filled it with gravel and I guess that's the story of how I became a qualified Fly Detective.
Catch one in a cup or plastic bag and stick it in the freezer for about 10 minutes. When you take it out it will look dead, but it's not (unless you leave it in too long.) Being careful not to rip it's wings off, tie a small string or fishing line to one of it's legs.
In a few minutes it will thaw and start to walk around, and then start to fly. You can now walk it around the park like you were carrying a balloon.
There are a lot of things you'll learn along the way if you try to run an ISP. =-)
Also fun, for anyone else who's interested taking "DIY self hosting" to new extreme, it's possible to start your own cell phone company! I don't have a link handy, but search "starting an MVNO" will yield tons of links. When I did the math, it worked out to require only ~100 customers to hit break even. (assuming your time and labor is free, of course)
I have unreasonably happy giggle-fit inducing day dreams about some day using my own designed and manufactured smart phone (easy, because IDGAF about trendy features. running stock debian is fine.), which gets service from my own service provider, and my homemade laptop, getting internet from my own ISP, in my solar powered house.
Also also, for anyone who lives in the SFBA, monkeybrains internet is the best ISP evar. I was one of their first customers, and I miss my ~4ms ping times to the office, and ~8ms ping time to my colo box.
> I agree with the top post that if you're a engineer who hasn't dealt with low level networking stuff, worked in a DC, or had to be on call, this probably isn't a good first project.
I don't really disagree, but I would just say that if you're interested in doing this, and have money you'd like to invest in it, reach out to me. With our powers combined we can probably make something work!
If your only motivation is that you are fed up with your ISP (join the club!) that may not be enough. If you are fed up with your ISP, have a spare $25k laying around, and/or have access to grant money, then we should talk. (Many states have grant funding available today specifically for broadband projects in rural or underserved areas.)
I do consulting work on these types of projects as my main gig now. Many of my customers own businesses in other industries, live in a small town, and decided that their Internet sucked and they want to fix it. But it does take some capital.
You most definitely need some form of experience from the restaurant business to succeed as a restaurant owner, unless you are really lucky. Your analogy make it seem as being a chef is the only job that exist in the restaurant business.
Sure, you can succeed without experience, but your chances to do so increases dramatically with experience.
What I meant was: You should have experience with at least one and preferably several of the important parts of running an ISP before you start one. NOC experience is one of the things that you could already have experience with, but isn't the only one.
> Your analogy make it seem as being a chef is the only job that exist in the restaurant business.
This actually makes my point better than I did. Being a [chef/network technician] isn't the only job that exists in a [restaraunt/wisp].