Little Interest In Next-Gen Internet

Ant wrote in to mention a Computerworld article that is reporting on the slow acceptance of the IPv6 version of the internet. From the article: "Information Technology (IT) decision-makers, in U.S. businesses and government agencies, want better Internet security and easier network management. However, few see the next-generation Internet Protocol called IPv6 as helping them achieve their goals, according to a survey released Tuesday by Juniper Networks Inc."

Comments

Wintel?

[nmg196]

It's been a fair few years since I heard someone use the term "Wintel". Has this guy not heard of AMD?

Also, why does he claim to be a 22 year old programmer, yet at the top of the article page, there's a picture of a guy that looks about 40-50 with a moustache?

> I do not want my browser to eat up all of my memory.

Don't use Firefox then. Firefox is the most memory hungry program I've ever used. With the exception of Thunderbird of course (if you don't agree, look at your own task manager). Currenty my Firefox is using 50MB of virtual memory (turn on the VM column in Task Manager with View > Select Columns)). Is Safari any better on the Mac?

Memory consumption in Fx and IE

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't use Firefox then. Firefox is the most memory hungry program I've ever used.

Currently running Fx 1.0.4 with 3 tabs open, one viewing company Intranet and the other two viewing Slashdot threads.

Opened up IE with the same threads / Intranet for comparison. Of course, no tabs means I had to spawn 3 windows.

firefox.exe: mem 20.5M, virtual mem 12.2M =~ 33M
iexplore.exe: mem 16.6M, virtual mem 7.5M =~ 24M

While Fx definitely appears to have a higher memory consumption, recall that IE uses other things that aren't fully reflected by the iexplore.exe entry in the task manager. Plus, the more windows you open starts to get closer to Fx, which reduces memory by using tabs.

Just my observation.

Re:Duh

[rainman_bc]

The problem is in the HTTPS spec, and the FTP spec.

I think HTTP 1.1 solved some problems, but you should be able to attach an ssl cert to an HTTP 1.1 site without requiring an external IP.

FTP needs to accommodate host headers too.

One of the big problems is that each domain with a cert requires a valid IPV4 address. That's not good.

As well, I love that my ISP hands me an external IP, and that I can do whatever I please. Truth is most users don't need an external IP - they can be NAT'd...