Do I Want the NCIX Domain?
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Can he hire his old boss and turn him into a RUclips star? Now that's how you do meta. Take that Zuckerberg.
No he’s Old boss work at corsair now
@@trolle517 for now...
@@Mabswer *Linus proceeds to buy corsair in the future* 😂
@@theofficialquicksilver Linus just buys every tech related company in the world 🤣
@@GAMINGOBRIEN69 buys tech company, fixes the bs outta it. Seems just legitimate win for both sides (consumers and him) 😀😂
I was looking for a RAM upgrade for my PC a few days ago. My dad suggested I check on NCIX...
Lucky your dad hasn't built a pc in 10 years 🤣
Bro 💀
Could have been worse, he could have told you to go buy it from Circuit City
@@Cyber_Akuma That yeah that would have been or worse future shop 😂
Was it a dad joke ? :)
NCIX was a weird company to buy from. If you shopped in person, they never had the stuff in stock that their online store said they had in stock. If you were shopping online, they often stocked the exact same product at multiple different prices, presumably from different suppliers. Also the prices would depend on how you found the product - by browsing the site or from a promo email or a price checking site - so you could sometimes change the price by messing with the query params.
then there was direct canada which i dont even understand that whole situation, they were always cheaper and had free shipping. and was part of ncix i think?
As far as i remember Linus talked about that situation, he was constantly in clinch with his boss because of the bad commissioning software, problems with the logistic team and programmers who did not do their job even when his boss promised him the changes he wanted to make as the sales manager.
I remember Linus said that his boss said that having excess inventory was more important than actually generating revenue, because of warehouse costs.
@@ydfhlx5923 no wonder they flop, a 10yo knows that when you have big throughput the warehouse cost can be even rendered null, either from margin or from not needing the warehouse
felt a little like Fry's Electronics in the west coast USA for me. prices were the same online and in store but not always in stock in store but only online
The NCIX domain would have value as it is directly associated with computer parts and accessories, you would have latent topical authority and likely a number of backlinks. It would jump start a new site to have a domain with history like that.
Yep. according to ahrefs, it has 249k backlinks. It's probably worth a good bit of money.
Most people I think would consider it to be one of these dodgy dead brands that has been bought from the liquidators and used to sell overpriced rubbish.
@@katbryce Granted, if LMG did buy NCIX (the domain), I feel like they would make it pretty well-known that it’s now run by them and not some shady liquidator.
"Nerds (with) Computers, Investigating X", X standing in for whatever is being tested or researched, so in a video or write up about HDMI cords, they'd have a motion graphic of someone backpacing the X to change it to "Nerds (with) Computers, Investigating HDMI Cables".
The slogan? "Solve for X".
this is a very clever idea and good use for the abbreviation!
I really like idea of resuing the name if it has an interesting acronym.
'Not completely intentional experiments" has some of your engineers energy in the name.
If you're trying to work out a labs-related backronym for NCIX, the X is always for "eXperimental".
"We've come full circle boys" 😂
Growing up near Chicago in the 90's and 00's Tiger Direct was #1 because of their warehouse in the suburbs we could just go shop in person, but NCIX was tied with Newegg for online ordering PC parts.
After High School myself and a couple friends did freelance PC Building and repair for about 5yrs and I have great memories of ghosting (reading but never posting) the NCIX Forums for advice on how to use Admin features of Windows 2000 PRO and Windows ME because I had absolutely no idea how to use those junk and janky Operating Systems.
EDIT: Truth be told tho I may have NCIX confused with one of the hundreds to thousands of similar pc parts companies that didn't last during that time period.
I was JUST telling a coworker about Tiger Direct !!! oh man I miss going there back when I lived in the suburbs of Chicago!
Wow that's a name I haven't heard in ages!
I think NCIX sounds amazing honestly. Linus, you should totally buy it. You always wanted to disconnect your name from the overall company; this is literally your chance to do so with a short and familiar old-school name! Do what Google has done, make NCIX the main brand that owns all the LTT sub-brands (like how Alphabet owns Google and so on) ... I'd totally get behind that idea!
I think he should buy it if it's less than 1000. Otherwise pass.
@@jason200912 it's not gonna be less than $1k. I think it'll be $15-$20k if not more.
Why?
@@jason200912 LMG is a big company, $1000 for something like this is nothing to them
I always like the flow sound of "NCIX" also the meme potential is great, if I was in Linus's shoes I would do it for my past self and if I had the spare cash
I've been watching since the NCIX Tech tips days and it is basically just a synonym for LTT for me as a European.
For zoning: The Missing Middle is a really interesting issue. We're missing our medium density housing / development, and our middle class.
Honestly i'm all for NCIX being the name of the lab.
For the longest time watching your content, i had no idea what NCIX was, so i just assumed it was some side channel of yours.
It's a name with a history in the US, it sounds new-age silicon valley enough to make the name make sense in the eyes of people unfamiliar with the history, it's probably got a TON of backlinks to the domain in one form or another...
Not to mention you have a history with it yourself, which means the community is already familiar with it.
NCIX is a name that just sticks.
Honestly, do it.
I don't see any downsides to the matter purely from a utilitarian standpoint.
If it feels even slightly right for you, this could be a HUGH win for the efforts of gaining attention for Labs.
"I wonder what happened to NCIX... Oh, wait, it turned into a site where i can easily find all data to compare literally everything tech under the sun? SWEET!"
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_Do it. No pressure, but do it._
I see it as "The Labs" and related "Makerspace" & "Tech Toys"
NCIX:
New
Computer
Information and
Experiments
Ncix sounds like a great way for the lab imo. And if you really want "labs" in the domain you can always use a subdomain
Agree, subdomains are really fun & cheaper than just straight out buying another domain name.
I think there are a lot of older people in Vancouver will have nostalgia for NCIX branding. Long before I heard of Linus, I purchased nearly all of the parts for my first PC build there. NCIX labs would be very cool.
NCIX always sounded like a convention of some sort.
Hearing some of the old usernames from the NCIX forum was blast from the past, spent some time there over the years but wasn't a regular. Was a good forum.
NCIX LABS? Yep, that sounds fun and technical! LOVE the idea as long as it makes you some money or at least has some seriously stank memes with it.
I started watching after the NCIX days but the idea of NCIX Labs is pretty cool. I like the history associated with the brand.
I think something going for NCIX as the lab's name would be that it sounds more "official" than "LTT Labs" if it were to have product certifications or whatever.
5:05
One of the weird things Vancouver does is allow high density development right next to transit hubs but leave everything more than a few hundred meters away from it as low density.
Houston has zoning (i.e. areas designated for different uses and building heights and such) they just don't call it zoning.
It is kind of like saying Coca-Cola doesn't sell bottled water, they only sell Dasani.
The sound is amazing on ltt videos , cheers to who ever takes care of that .
There were some really good one in YT chat (I was only on YT chat, I'm sure there were good ones on Floatplane too) I wish I would have wrote them down for names for the lab with the letters NCIX
As someone from Europe and no recollection of ncix it sounds pretty cool can't lie.
I think loosening zoning would absolutely be a better thing. In my city, we have a ton of neighborhoods where there are multiple houses with no residents and they just end up becoming dilapidated and bringing the entire neighborhood down. And because the houses are owned by some bank or the city, and they don't really care about it enough to put money into the buildings, they just continue getting worse. Why not turn them over to a neighborhood trust, rent them out to small businesses that don't need retail storefronts, and have the rental income go towards fixing up other houses, maintaining the street, and just improving the community? Further, it means that the community and the business are invested in each other, neither wanting the other to fail. And it would be a bonus if it helped people in that neighborhood create businesses and employ others in the community (while also making sure the commute is short and hopefully walkable). Just some thoughts.
I never could understand this strict zoning. Over here in Germany we have zoning but it's always somewhat Mixed. Nobody want's a neighbourhood without a bakery or a small supermarket.
Offen Times businesses like Carpenter workshops or electritians have their company buildings within Residential areas, their employees can get to work by foot.
@@MrFrozenFrost this strict zoning is only strict in North America it seems. And it's definitely a result of massive car companies lobbying the government to ensure most people will *have* to buy a car to go anywhere.
If you watch historical American movies it's common to see mixed zoning. It's the only time American towns actually look "normal" if you get what I mean. (though I'm pretty sure zoning laws weren't really defined until 1920s).
Yall shoud check out "not just bikes" who talks about the desttuctiveness of strict zoning laws a lot.
maybe now , american can discover what it is to have local shop like a bakery or something without it being so far you need to go on an entire trip with your car
NA zoning laws are needlessly absurd to the point that it's pretty much illegal for developers to build anything other than remote, ugly, car dependant, fully detached sprawling suburbs in residential areas, and dystopian shopping districts that have more space dedicated to parking lots than actual stores. It's horribly inefficient in terms of the space that's being used and has resulted in a culture where you really do just need to have a car to do anything even though it doesn't have to be like this. It absolutely needs to change.
I miss NCIX, they were my computer parts go to in Vancouver. Well, before I got old and bought into the Apple ecosystem
As a building mechanical system engineer, zoning made sense when I understood that the support infrastructure is greater in industrial zones than in commercial zones, than in residential zones. Electrical, water distribution (volume and pressure), availability of natural gas, road structure, etc, it all needs to follow the usage of the building. Designing a commercial conversion for a building in old residential neighborhoods is a nightmare as the various services are less available, but building codes don't give the owner a break so we have to make compromises.
Houston doesn't have the tradition zone that the rest of North America has, but they have other mechanisms they use that are just like zoning
Ncix has integration in thousands of older reviews, so it has value and history in it. Dads probably know it from the fun days of PC building.
Way back in the late 90's early 2000's there was an online shop called, Crazy PC. They sold all kinds off after market case mods and such. Fan grills, Fans, Thermal paste, Water cooling parts. You guys may remember them from way back.
I can't believe how accurately you just described a street in my hometown... Walmart, apartments, go-kart place. Never thought of it as odd, but I guess you're right.
You could take a page out of like a dozen different car companies “cool naming scheme” book and use the X for eXperimental.
Houston essential does have zoning, they just have the same rules labeled as local ordinances and the such
Can actually comment on this! From Houston, grew up with tons of petroleum plants literally maybe 3 miles away. They had sirens for anytime something went wrong to alert everyone to go in doors. This maybe happened four-ish times between 6th grade and senior year of high school. So while not ideal, definitely not the dystopian world some people may be imagining. No one ever lived RIGHT NEXT DOOR to one or even within a stones throw away.
About strict vs loose Zoning laws: A hybrid (with just enough of both styles) is always the best option
I literally didn't know what NCIX was before this video, and assumed it was some form of tech company website.
I'd love the neighborhood with the gocart track, walmart, and apartment complex
"Network.. Computer... Interface..." Xperiment Labs sounds like it would work.
Start up ncix again.. we need more computer stores in Canada
I think the middle ground when it comes to zoning is to let commercial and residential mix freely and only regulate the location of industrial in relation to proximity to residential depending on environmental impact
You can have light-zoning laws, or no zoning laws with some exceptions or an approval process.
Literally just drove past my local Walmart/go kart track got sum to say about our city planning? Seems dope to me
Networking/Computer Information Xchange - loosely describes Labs
I had a company I used to work for have their domain come up last month after they closed and I was able to pluck it. There are two other domains that are up next year they own I hope to own as well since the owner has done no business as the company and has abandoned the domains.
3:50, Linus suggesting that NA zoning laws are the best way to do things has to be the funniest take in a while. FYI where I live in England, the shopping centre is a 15 minute walk and go-kart place is 20 minutes (yes i literally live near go-karting)
Was literally yelling "ITS CALLED MIXED USE LINUS"
I don't think he was endorsing it (Houston's zoning laws), just mentioning it
He explicitly said that zoning laws were dumb, how do people always manage to hear something that is completely opposed to what he said?
He literally said that they were dumb, but said that no zoning regulation whatsoever could have downsides
@@the48thronin97 that was with regards to high rise condos next to single family homes as seen in Vancouver. He did explicitly give the example of preventing a big box store and go-karts right next to residential as a pro for strict zoning.
He's right that giant apartment towers right next to single family homes is stupid and NA is suffering from the "missing middle" problem. Most land is zoned for single family housing and the few bits that allow other residential uses are too expensive to build anything other than upscale condo towers.
He's *very* wrong about keeping residential, commercial and even light industrial uses apart.
NCIX wear I first learned how to build a PC back in the 20teens 🤣
The easy way to manage the zoning for a Maker Space, and even manage retail at low rates, is through a Non Profit Corp under community services and education. As long as you sink any profits back into the organization to support and increase services, you can make it work. I can’t imagine Canada is any different than anywhere else treating NPCs at bottom tier or no tax rates, and get zoning variances for "Community Centers".
NCIX will always sound like a computer store or "techie" because I've watched TV ads of it.
I think you're right, the NCIX name is really only valuable to you (and fans of yours). I don't think it's a particularly good idea to hitch your new labs branding to a famously failed brand, even if you did get your start there. I also just dislike the name, I just don't think it sounds good (and like you pointed out, it will cause miscommunications by people who don't understand it). Initialisms, in my opinion, are a generally terrible idea to use as your brand name, because they really provide no context to someone who doesn't already know what it is.
Yeah, like LTT.
I always get it confused with nzxt name which does fans and chassis
@@somebonehead
or LMG
or WAN
Yeah, Linus hasn't really shyed away from them
@@somebonehead LTT, at least, is an initialism used as shorthand for the actual brand, which is LinusTechTips. At the absolute least, it's connected to the brand itself.
As far as I can tell, NCIX stands for "Netlink Computer Inc" and appends an "X" for no reason. No only is the "X" part stupid in a way that makes me think of a thirteen year old thinking their xX_noobsl4yer69_Xx username is cool, but the actual words the initialism stands for mean absolutely nothing to the LTT brand
@@nunyabidniss6073 What the brand originally stood for really doesn't matter all that much considering everyone knows it under the abbreviation, which could stand for anything from 'Next-gen Computer Information' to 'New Couch Intro'.
Bear in mind that internationally, especially for anyone not in the big industry itself, nobody knows NCIX. To call it a famously failed brand is a stretch if we're talking international adoption and exposure, which i think is the goal at least long term.
I don't think it's as cut and dry a decision as you paint it to be, especially with backlinks, it's a valuable domain, especially for operations that neighbor it's original purpose.
If anything the question would be if Linus' operations would at any point overshadow what NCIX was.
It's honestly mostly down to opinion, and personal preference, rather than fact...
Houston doesn't have one single zoning book but they still have zoning just in other forms
When i was looking for info about G-sync on youtube becausei got now alienware AW3423DW. Its was 8yr old vid of linus when he stil work at NCIX and it was nr1 vid on youtube.
As a 20 year old Indian with 0 idea of NCIX other than through LTT. NCIX sounds very techy.
Zoning is stupid. Cities or other authorities should strive to realize plans for a fifteen-minute city wherever they can. The idea is that you will have all your daily needs (kindergartens, schools, groceries, post office, family doctor, pharmacy, entertainment, etc.) taken care of in the immediate neighborhood of your residence. This automatically creates a lot of jobs in residential areas, so many drop out of hours-long commutes, which translates into fewer traffic jams and emissions. Of course, no one in their right mind would issue a permit to build a chemical processing plant or other heavy industry in the middle of a city. Lack of zoning does not automatically mean lawlessness.
i didn’t know what ncix was before becoming a big fan but the X at the end of the acronym makes it feel pretty technical to me
European cities have done it right, I think mixed-use zoning is a good idea!
Luke its probably because it was indigenous land, they only build houses on the properties in North van.
Houston does not have "zoning" they have building restrictions that make it defacto impossible to build specific uses in specific areas
NCIX-
New
Computing
Insight and
Xenagogue
Try using "eXperiment"
Scrabble master, or?
@@Jaeeden That's cheating. It's got to start with X. 😜
I still have a dozen NGEAR 96cd books in storage holding old burned discs lol. I miss ncix
Where can you check when domains expire?
Hamilton Ontario literally has houses across the street from Steel making, used to be primarily worker housing but buying into it now is... not as easy as one would expect
Numerical Confirmation and Instrumentation eXhibit
I know about NCIX because I watched a lot of your videos, but for a lot of people (especially outside North America) it doesn't mean anything
Mixed-use areas are brilliant. Obviously you shouldn't put noisy factories right next to a bunch of housing, but I think it makes perfect sense to put shops and housing close together. Otherwise you end up surrounding your Wal-Mart with an ocean of parking because you put all the houses far away from the people who want to buy from them and work at them.
Even better: put the Wal-Mart on the bottom floor, and a bunch of housing on top.
Even better better: you have smaller, locally-owned stores at the bottom instead of car dependency pushing everyone towards giant stores with lots of parking.
Someone from UK I think if you would acquire ncix domain you made it like a new store make it world wide
From what I've heard, Houston does have zoning, they just don't call it "zoning".
Yes. Just yes on everything NCIX LAB
as an australian, never heard of it, I've only heard of it in relation to you
Network Computing and Infrastructure eXperimentation…. Idk if your looking for an acronym for it??? To use it for labs… maybee
Back in the day, I liked NCIX because for the longest time they didn't charge PST on out-of-province orders. So it's only be 7% tax versus 13% if I got it shipped from Ontario. When they did open up a physical location in Mississauga, the dudes in there were always super nice. Sharp contrast from the Canada Computers that used to be there. But their website was always hot garbage. You couldn't even change payment methods on orders once they were placed. Almost lost my PS4 pre-order because my CC was part of some data breach. Literally took less time to get that resolved through Capital One than it did with NCIX. I think it the domain lapses, Linus kind of has to buy it at this point.
Sadly city zoning is so terrible for cities. It would be NICE to have mixed-use area- houses and apartments NEAR commercial to WALK to work and shopping... that is NECESSARY and the areas LIKE that, and it's so wonderful and generally very expensive desirable area.
All those areas with people seeing empty upper floors above retail or restaurants, b/c they can't use the space for apartments, etc. It'd be amazing to see that... it'd vitalize downtown areas and bring more people to them. It'd also create more housing very easily...
Is there any reference to CIX roman numeral for 109?
4:00 it's called mixed use, and it's done everywhere in the world for millenia except North America
Networking, Computing, & Infrastructure eXperimentation
I know of a place that has 3:50 a go cart indoor, Walmart, Home Depot, and holiday in all in the same lot 😂
Not Just Bikes did a great video about zoning and why Houston is "zone free" but not. Just categorized and labeled differently
Ive watched your videos from tge first months and i guess that those are bittersseet memories and should stay like that.Also how will Ncix brand that failed as expected is going to help a really succesfull brand like Ltt(lmg)?
I think NCIX would be a great domain for labs.
Networks, Computers, Internet Xperience labs (which all makes full sense to what they do in the labs.)
also, ltt and/or linus tech tips is tech related to everybody I know, and ncix sounds even techier
it may be expensive to get, but the amount of money you would make from the videos would pay for itself, and it would be easy to come up with ideas for
In Houston, I saw a literal garbage dump right next to a residential neigborhood
Ncix does sound technical but it sounds something hardware related it reminds me of Nzxt. So you could make it work i guess
NCIX definitely sounds IT related. I also love the name for a lab.
as someone from EU NCIX sounds like either a chip-making company or a cereal with extra protein
Dude if you do that i would really just browse that forum just for fun
NCIX sounds alot like NCIS which is fine because you guys will be investing. The last X could also be symbolic of the fact that you’ll test just about anything
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Zoning is stupid, besides maybe heavy industrial (regarding environmental and noise pollution).
4:45 You are talking single family house, mixed use and high density etc.
5:45 Houston still has rules regarding zoning but obviously less restrictive than the traditional way.
There are great channels such as city beautiful and not just bikes that make the topic of city planning very approachable for people.
I have absolutely no knowlege of NCIX aside from what I've heard from you guys periodically.
Based on that it sounds like Microcenter's less popular little brother that was less successful but had more locations.
Still, "NCIX" by its lonesome does sound techy. Digital electronics & mechanical parts come to mind. Drones, airplane kits, circuit boards, multimeters, motors, pumps... that sort of thing.
I literally live by a Walmart with a mini amusement park next door (Frankie's), and an apartment complex next to that.
NCIX sounds line "New York Internet Exchange" to me. Internet Exchange as in infinity bandwidth switching location.
Other than that nothing comes to mind
Euclidean zoning (the system the US and Canada use) is terrible. There are good ways to do zoning - incorporating mixed-use zoning helps - but in North America we are horrendous at it.
"Houston" may be zoning free, but most of "Houston" is actually smaller cities with their own zoning. Halfway between the first and second rings it starts to be different cities. Most of the plant industry is along the water on the right side of Houston, in the cities of Pasadena, La Porte, and Baytown.
To me, ncix are just four letters that, when used in this order, remind me of Linus.
I know that Victoria doesnt want to build up because it doesnt want to ruin the sight lines. Now with Van this is kind of a moot point but im curious if it has anything to do with that.
New Content Innovation Xtreame (kinda fits with the goal of labs)
NCI-X sounds like a forensics lab :)
As a French ncix does not necessarily sound techie. But yeah it's a 4 letters Domaine. So it can easily recognized even here.
Well xkcd did not mean anything at first.
to add onto your idea "Network computer interface explanation" then you don't have to have Labs in the name, it's implied.