Will you come sing at my birthday party, pro bono? I am old enough for this to be weird, but you are a hero of mine.

Money

It is one our test for hiring a new developer. "If you google for help and there are 2 links, stackoverflow and somethingexchange which one do you click on?" If they don't say stack overflow, then they haven't done enough real world work for us.

We got a step closer, all our dev management is only part-time. They are also on a team doing development for the other half of their day. Wont work with all people, but it helps to keep management involved in day to day task, in the know.

I don't think this will work in areas where the employees aren't also the target market (they build games, w00t). But it doesn't mean something closer to this would make work more fun.

Noon to 1 is the actual time. It wont let me update the time though.

The time is off.. Should be from noon to 1. Just a 1 hour lunch shindig...

I can bring Super Munchkin and a few other games.

phone books?

When one Enterprise falls.. they just rebuild it and and a new letter to the end. This one will be 'B', I think.

We typically just reuse our wildcard cert from DigiCert. They allow as many resigns as you want.

http://www.digicert.com/

The only way to get people not to cheat on test is give them nothing to cheat with. Which means either you take their intelligent essence to an alternate reality... or you can just give them a calculator instead of letting them use their own.

Unknown as we didn't even look at the protected path. On Qwests Geomax product the SLA's are the same if I remember correctly protected path gives you 4 nines and regular gives you 3 nines. Because Geomax is DWDM they can't really give you a QOS option. The reason for the QOS on the QMOE is that its just a VPLS backbone so you could get over subscribed some where. The one time cost really depends on the fiber build out costs and the type of optics you want on the ends. I would guess depending on where you are in SLC it wouldn't be much. With the QMOE you pay per side so if you are going to be connecting two sites the cost doubles. I don't know how ISP's like say Xmission do it as they have a aggregation MOE link and they just dump customers on it. My guess is they have the customer share some of the cost some how.

Qwest puts Cisco 3750 Metro edition on the Customer side of the drop. The backbone is on Cisco 6500's. I know our link happens to run through only one 6500 so that may help in the great service we get as its a little harder to get killed by over subscription when you don't go over any aggregation links.

Someone else to look into is Comcast's Enterprise services. They are priced very competitively with Qwest's QMOE and they offer four 9's (if I remember correctly) on all of their contracts. This isn't their workplace DOCSIS service but their enterprise fiber service. They like to push that their service is MEF 14 and MEF 19 compliant when their competitor isn't.