For your online presence, you first need a domain name and then a hosting service to host the domain. For example, our domain name is bloggerkhan.com and we can host it with any hosting company. You buy and register your domain name through a domain registrar.  In most cases however; people buy the domain name through a web hosting company. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, most hosting companies as an incentive,  give you one domain name free if you host with them. When your first year of hosting / domain registration is over, it’s time to renew your domain. That is when you need to shop around and see who provides the cheapest domain name registration. If you just have one domain name, the price difference of $10 to $15 is not that much to make you worry about it but if you have quite a few domain names, it quickly adds up. Why spend more for the same service when you can get it cheaper.

When you start looking for the cheapest domain name registration service, you end up at very similar looking sites offering very competitive rates. Most of them are resellers for GoDaddy and offer heavily discounted registration and renewals but just for the first year. If you sign up with them, after one year, you will again have to search for the cheapest domain name registration service because what they don’t tell you is their 2nd year and beyond registration / renewal charges which are significantly higher.

We had to make quite a few calls to the various companies listed below to figure out the true cost of domain renewal after the first year. Instead of listing all of GoDaddy‘s resellers, we just listed GoDaddy.
This listing will save you time. You can select the one you like the best and you will know beforehand what your second year and beyond charges are going to be. You can still take advantage of first year / renewal promotions they are
offering but you will know ahead of time what to expect after the first year. This way, you won’t have to do the same exercise every year.

To view the listing of the cheapest domain registration services, click here.

Laptops with DOS, Windows 95 or Windows 98

With serial port

To many this may sound silly but we do have customers whose applications
require older laptops running either DOS, Windows 95 or Windows 98. Usually
they require a serial port, floppy and hard drive on the laptop. Nothing
fancy but gets the job done.

Contact us to check on current stock. Even if we don’t have
the right one, we can generally get one for you.

Limited stock available on the following motherboards:

1. FIC VA-503+ motherboard
    
2. Tyan S1590S
    
3. Microstar MS-5169
4. Tyan S1854

The Dual Xeon Tyan S2735-8M Motherboard is also available.

To order, visit http://interloper.com

At http://bit.ly/7PNXDI, we have done considerable research in figuring out who provides the best deal in web hosting.  We have compared the top web hosting companies on price, number of domains/account, bandwidth, storage, admin interface and money back guarantee. Features that are common to all are listed in the footnotes.

Since these rates keep changing, we intend to keep them updated at http://bit.ly/7PNXDI

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 Spotlight on Technology – old technology

 Both Baby
 AT and ATX versions

Socket 7 motherboards refuse to die

Socket 7 processors like the Intel Pentium 75 and 100 got Intel started on this massive growth path and international dominance of the processor market. It also brought previously unthinkable affordability to the personal computer platform. That gave birth to a myriad of applications that were developed around such systems and made the PC ever so popular. But that was 1994-1995. Why are we talking about socket 7 processors 15 years later. Because they are still alive and kicking.

How come? Well the motherboards that the socket 7 processors were installed on had 3 or 4 ISA slots, 3 PCI and sometimes 1 AGP slot. All over the world, companies made add on cards and single board computers (SBC) that run off these ISA slots. These SBC’s will not run on PCI or PCI Express slots. Besides, some of these cards and software have problems running on anything faster than a 200 MHz CPU.

An additional quirk is that most users require these boards to be in Baby AT form factor rather than ATX and that makes it even more difficult to source.

Applications that require such computers with ISA slots abound. From ATM machines to POS, Gaming Systems to voice mail systems, manufacturing and CNC machines to military applications.

But socket 7 motherboards aren’t made any more. In fact they haven’t been made since the late 90′s. So where do people find these antiques? Small companies like interloper.com keep stock of such boards. According to Mr. Khan of interloper.com, we scour the whole world for these boards. Whichever scrap pile we find them on, we buy them. If they pass testing, we add them to our inventory.

The PC market in the 90′s was very fragmented, there were scores of motherboard manufacturers and we don’t know which board our customer will ask for. Consequently, we have to carry a large inventory of very diverse models to support our clients. It raises our cost but it makes us the reliable place to go to for service companies that need such boards. We supply to companies in the USA but also all over the world, from South Africa to Portugal, from Italy to New Zealand, Germany to Hong Kong.

Interloper.com provides similar sourcing for some other hard to find parts like ISA and PCI video cards, ISA modems, network card and hubs with BNC ports and older discontinued drives, both IDE and SCSI.

According to Mr. Khan, we are like detectives, snooping around on the trail of cold cases. The bulk of our time is spent finding these parts. It’s not easy but someone has to do it.

Interloper.com can be reached at 972-247-5200 or http://www.interloper.com

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