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The Impending IP Crisis
Factomatic writes "With the supply of IP addresses expected to run out by 2005 due to the popularity explosion of the Internet and the expectation that everything from your phone to your washing machine will soon have its own IP address, Alex Lightman, CEO of Charmed Technology and chairman of last month's North American IPv6 Global Summit tells the New York Times "we're going to need something like 100 IP addresses for each human being." IPv6 will increase the supply of addresses from 4 billion today to a number in excess of 35 trillion that is "so big that there's not a word for the number," says Cody Christman, director of product engineering for Verio, which offers IPv6 in San Francisco, Washington and elsewhere. The article is a good layman's backgrounder on the looming IP crisis."
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*SPOILER* Trinity dies at the end of Finding Nemo
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by IP Freely.
Today it was announced that Walter "Matt" Jefferies, the art director who designed the original Enterprise vessel for the first Star Trek series has died at age 82. The art designer contributed greatly to our culture and will be missed by all. Whether you were a Star Trek fan or not, he was truly an icon, and will be missed by all. The official website of the sci-fi series just announced his passing.
His design of the NCC-1701, as it was designated in the first series, has become one of the most iconic images of 1960s television.
The exact cause of his death is not known but Jefferies had been battling cancer.
The website reported that he had recently been given the all-clear by doctors.
He is survived by his wife Mary Ann.
Although conceived in the years before space flight became common, the overall shape of the Enterprise has remained close to Jefferies' first vision, through 10 films and five TV series.
As a tribute to the designer's creation, access tunnels in the Enterprise were named "Jefferies tubes" and have featured in many different episodes and films.
Herman Zimmerman, production designer on the latest Star Trek series Enterprise, said: "Matt was a gentle soul. He has put his stamp on everything we have done since his brilliant, classic Enterprise."
Michael Okuda, technical consultant on Enterprise, said: "Matt Jefferies' quiet modesty belied the genius of his work, which set the path for all of us who are lucky enough to follow in his very large footsteps.
"Today, nearly four decades later, Matt's original Enterprise still stands as a design classic. We will miss him greatly."
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