While installing MediaWiki, I decided to try out eAccelerator. eAccelerator is one of 3 opcode cache mentioned in Mediawiki install. The other 2 are Turck MMCache and APC.
After browsing around, eAccelerator seems to be the most popular and with the most favourable reviews.
It wasn’t that difficult to get it installed although there was a few detours. A few quick searches (I still refuse to use the world “google” as verb for “search”) solved the problems.
Installing is easy following the installation notes. So far so good. Websites loads, so I went to bed.
Next morning I found all the sites down and there was a screen-full of httpd processes. The VPS ran out of memory and I can’t even su to root. I restarted and found that there were some problem with caching WordPress:
PHP Fatal error: main() [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required
Still trying to find out how to get eAccelerator to work. I suspect maybe it doesn’t on a VPS with limited RAM, in which caseI can give up.
Saw this on TV today and I think it’s a great idea. Naturally I did a search and found it.
Can you figure it out?
Very simply the vest has some solar panels on the back. As you walk around, they charge your gadgets - mobile phone, ipod, digital camera, PDA.
Very handy for the road warrior. Wonder if this works well. Would be great if it charges my notebook as well.
I was browsing Yaro’s Entrepreneur’s Journey and found that he runs Student-Marketing, and one of the thing they do is pasteing poster in campus.
Now this is certainly an interesting idea to try in China.
So far I have not heard of a service like this here, but I’m very sure at an attractive price some enterprising individuals are willing to do the legwork of putting up posters on campus.
The student population is a lucrative market segment but only if tapped well. A while back a group of us tried to come up with a marketplace portal for students. It didn’t take off.
If you are thinking of ideas targeting at China students, here’s a list of campus sites to start with.
References:
It was raining the whole day here in Shanghai.
When it rains, umbrella sellers appears in force at the subway exit. (Ever wonder what they do when it is not raining?) Umbrellas were selling for 10RMB a piece. That’s a little more than 1USD.
Brushing aside one of the seller, an idea came to mind.
Umbrellas are pretty cheap to make (I reckon 15-30RMB in volume). So a company could simply make lots of promotional umbrella and distribute when it rain? Effective promotion that does not get thrown away like flyers.
Of course no one can guess when it will rain. So the umbrella will be sitting around waiting for rain. And where can you find people to distribute?
Why the umbrella sellers!
Assume we strike a deal like this:
- sell the promotional umbrella to the seller at an attractive price
- the seller then sells them when it rain and keep the profit as distribution cost
- Drawback: low distribution, company do not want to sell promotional item
or
- Give the umbrella to the seller
- Seller distribute the umbrella and claim from company
- Drawback: Control. Did the seller really distribute?
I will offer to do all the logistic leg work (from design, purchasing to getting people for distribution) if any company want to give this idea a shot.
If you have a promotion budget, sent me a note!
Here is my idea of an offline version of Google Ads. I had this in mind for a while.
Think about this…
- How many things you buy daily use packaging?
Package for burger, carrier bag for shopping, disposable cup for coffee, containers for takeaways…
- What is on them?
Nothing much. Company log, slogan, instructions. Branding.
- Empty space?
Lots.
- Would companies like to save on these disposable packaging?
Almost certainly.
- How about making money from them?
Tell me about it!
Consider this…
- A company (say, 59oo9le) prints and provides the packaging to all these company
- Branding still intact
- Condition: allow 59oo9le to sell and print ads on selected space.
- Revenue from ads shared (in some way) with packaging buyer.
Further consider…
- Add an “advertise on this package”
Self-cannibalization. No problem as Amazon.com proved. A startup burger shop might advertise on packaging of an establised burger chain.
- Bidding to buy on hot packaging
- More effective than other form of offline ads?
What’s needed?
- brave soul to try
- money to drive
- mindset to modify
You thoughts?
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