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  1. IPv6 Loopback is ::1 by TrentC · · Score: 1 · on The Impending IP Crisis

    Actually it's "0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1", but in IPv6 you can represent a series of zero octets with a pair of colons. (You can only do it once though, beause otherwise how could you determine where the middle octet in "2002::19ef::127" is?)

    Google also found a mention of a proposal to define ::127:0:0:1 as an IPv4-compatible loopback address.

    Jay (=

  2. Knowbots by sreilly · · Score: 1 · on Ask Dr. Vinton Cerf About the Internet

    Dr. Cerf,

    In your 1988 paper with Dr. Robert Kahn An Open Architecture For a Digital Library System and a Plan For Its Development, you describe a mobile agent system called Knowbots.

    After 14 years do you still think that Knowbots have a part in the future of digital library systems? If so, how has their potential role changed since you worked on this paper?

  3. Kleinrock *DID* Invent The Internet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on RIAA Seeks Summary Judgement Against P2P Services

    A reply on the same thread: For geeks, you slashdot kids display an embarrassing lack of knowledge about a principal subject of geekdom. Kleinrock is indeed considered one of a handful of people who literally and truly invented the Internet. Others were Vint Cerf, Jon Postel, Bob Kahn, and Lawrence Roberts. The Internet didn't come from a vacuum: buy a book, take an hour, and learn about its history.

  4. Re:The requisite Gore joke: by jdgeorge · · Score: 1 · on Top 10 Most Important Tech People of the Decade
    I refer the owner of this comment to the following recent essay written by Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf.

    For the inevitable multitudes who haven't the foggiest who Kahn and Cerf are, here's a bio of Kahn (and no, he isn't the guy played by Ricardo Montalban in Star Trek II).

    And here's a nice little article about Cerf.

    Now, please explain the comment about Al Gore for me.

    Thanks.

  5. Re:Client side Python in Mozilla would be a Nirvan by Bouncings · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla x (Perl + Python) = New IDE
    If you want client-side Python, take a look at Grail, a prototype web browser written in Python. It's not very fast, but does have Python client-side applets similar to client-side Java applets. It uses Python's restricted execution module to give the effect of the "sandbox."

    I suggest taking a look at this program. Although its features don't make it a world-class browser (slow, older HTML support), it does have some interesting ideas and the program is built with a very solid object model!

    Oh, and um... just to troll: I'd like to see a browser in Perl! blah lol... actually, I think there is one. ;)

  6. Check out GRAIL -Cool browser in Python + Tk !!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on JWZ isn't the only one

    http://monty.cnri.reston.va.us/grail/

    If you want to see a cool new browser, check out GRAIL - It's written entirely in Python + Tk !!!
    And you can have python applets, a bit like java applets. It's at version 0.6, and the developers are appealing for more support. Seeing as python is interpreted, it's intrinsically open source.
    It's under Yet Another Public Licence of its own, though - seems reasonable all the same.
    Funny thing is, despite being in python, it seems at least as fast as netscape on my box ( which is 400MHz K6-2, admittedly) It's pretty cool (and less messy feeling then mozilla) - I've always liked python.
    The possibilities for extending this browser seem pretty limitless - and it's OOP !!!
    It needs work though, and the developers say they are willing to give the CVS tree to someone else to look after - any takers? ( I've insufficient resources, and don't know enough Python or Tk, - but I've suddenly got an urge to start learning !)


    source tarball is 385116 bytes !!!


    The only thing to watch out for is the path resolving in utils/grailutil.py of the source tree - it's slightly broken for python 1.5.1 ( looks like it's 1.5.2 specific) the first try...except block is a bit off - it's for resolving paths. I just commented the lot out for a quick test - dunno how to fix it up right