ipv6 NAT exists. I have a router that does it (one of the few ipv6 routers on the market.. cost a packet though for a consumer router).
Businesses will use it to hide their ipv6 addresses from the outside world - you do *not* want your addresses getting out beyond your network border. Heck, I'd probably use it myself for home devices (too simple to have security, like tivo) - none of these support ipv6 though.
Their london node was down for two *months* without any word from them. Was down more than it was up the rest of the time.. gave up and ditched them after 6 months of it.
Best thing is to find an ISP that does routed IP so you have someone to talk to if it fails.
'transitional rollout' -> Replace or upgrade every router, replace *all* your ipv4 specific software (good luck finding an ipv6 version of Active Directory, btw.), upgrade all OS software that doesn't have it (might have been working fine for 20 years.. no more.. trash it and get a new one!) Eats up about 5 years of your IT budget in one go.
Alternative: Put the company behind a NAT. Employees don't need a public IP address anyway.. they don't run servers. Costs are an hour of downtime.
The interface to Office 2007 is vastly different (and vastly more difficult - what were MS thinking?) to every other version of office.
Openoffice is actually far more similar to the mainstream versions of office - Business won't be considering moving for 2-3 years, probably in line with vista movement (get all the retraining costs done at once). For large companies make that 5 years. The students will have graduated by then.
If they have to have MS Office on their CV (and I agree with others that if you have to go that low that what the hell are you doing at university?) then Office 97 or 2000 is perfectly fine.
Any *application* that needs updating because of this is just plain broken. UTC is the only safe way to represent time... as has been proven over and over again. When will they learn?
Updating the timezone files on a Unix OS is trivially easy and can be scripted over ssh normally.
With Windows it's a *lot* harder because it really doesn't want to use UTC.. it always tries to start from local time and convert to it, and it does in fact get it wrong for about 6 months of the year (known bug, been there since NT4 and still not fixed in Vista - See KB 128126, 129574, 190315).
You just disable the TPM chip - the majority of PCs out there don't have one (this laptop was new in November and doesn't have one for example, so it's not just old ones either) so they can't exactly make it mandatory.
They don't use the vans as a scare tactic any more because they don't work.. they've admitted they have a big database and use that instead.
They might have worked in 1950 when maybe one in 10 houses had a TV, no computers, etc. but there's so much electrical noise now that I doubt you could pinpoint a single TV set in an average street with any accuracy.
It's also not available to UK residents at all.. which I find quite bizarre, given that I helped pay for that programme.
I heard rumours they were going to do the same with itunes - allow BBC programmes on it but not to UK residents (less of an issue I guess because itunes only has video support in the US).
(OT) No... every car *claims* to be wired for ipod. What most of them mean by that is they have an aux port on the stereo (the same one that has been on cars for 20 years).
You can't do a hack of a lot of reprogramming of an ipod either, short of hacking it to remove the OS and install linux - and there are a million other embedded devices that do this better and cheaper.
Aside from you completely missing the joke, that's Solaris 10 which hasn't got wide commercial adoption yet - most people are still on solaris 9 which is rock solid at the moment.
For that stuff you could use something like a TomTom - there's already plenty of software for it that does this for ground based stuff, you just need to add altitude measurement... plus it runs Linux so there really *are* thousands of developers, and there's a serial port to get the externally measured data in easily. Seems a much better fit to the task than an ipod.
I played it for over a month and dropped it because of that - it basically boils down to ferrying various items from planet A to planet B and back... over.. and.. over.. again...
Also during that time I didn't see a *single* other character - I know space is big and all that, but where's the interactivity? Might as well have made it single player and stuck it on a CD.
Athlon X2, 2GB RAM, Go 7300. Vista in default configuration runs at about 75% of the speed of XP. Switching the 'Ready' crap off gets it up to about 85-90%.
Power management is unusable - XP 3-3.5 hours, Vista default, 1 hour, Vista with crap off, 2 hours.
It's quite funny actually. They have ReadyBoost that's supposed to take the strain off paging from the hard drive (although it seems to me that having more RAM would give a better speedup), and SuperFetch that puts it right back again by thrashing the hard drive 100% of the time.
Worse, SuperFetch and the indexer fight to get at the hard drive so the head is moving like nuts on a bare install.
When I first tried vista I switched the indexer off fast enough, but had never heard of SuperFetch - took another week of the hard drive light on 100% of the time before I found out how to switch that stupid thing off. Speed improved *a lot* with it off, and the power requirement dropped a lot - but still nowhere near XP levels.
Your testimony alone? Yes, that's unreliable - it's more likely you broke in, got caught and killed the guy who found you, then invented a story to get out of the murder.
So you happily pay at least 10-15 times the cost of the BBC to Sky for about half a dozen real channels and about 300 shopping and religious channels - and sky produce virtually *no* content of their own, plus they have wall to wall adverts.
All of this to maintain a monopoly that's retarted the UK satellite market by 10 years or more (Sky boxes are *really* shitty compared to anything available in Europe and don't even try to compare to the US).
Together with ITV they're reaching crisis point (ITV is ripe for takeover now) - you can't fund a channel on advertising alone, when you're competing with Sky who have a huge subscription charge (~$1200 a year) *and* wall to wall advertising. Not to mention an effective monopoly that means you have to pay that if you want more than the basic channels.
Are you kidding? a DVD is 650mb. That kind of size can be downloaded (theoretically) in 10 minutes on an 8mb connection. In reality with network delays it's more like 20.
Downloading an HD movie is only about 20gb or so. Just leave it running overnight.
And in so-doing, they'd intentionally be giving Vista horrible performance in real-world situations, thus ensuring that uptake was abysmal as people either stuck with XP or migrated to other platforms.
Vista performance is horrible already. Superfetch is not a win. You should cache as the data is read, not thrash the hard disk 100% of the time in the vain hope that you might pickup something the user wants to use.
I deleted vista a while ago but superfetch used to regularly trawl my temporary internet files folder...
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ipv6 NAT exists. I have a router that does it (one of the few ipv6 routers on the market.. cost a packet though for a consumer router).
Businesses will use it to hide their ipv6 addresses from the outside world - you do *not* want your addresses getting out beyond your network border. Heck, I'd probably use it myself for home devices (too simple to have security, like tivo) - none of these support ipv6 though.
SiXXs are pretty terrible, reliability wise.
Their london node was down for two *months* without any word from them. Was down more than it was up the rest of the time.. gave up and ditched them after 6 months of it.
Best thing is to find an ISP that does routed IP so you have someone to talk to if it fails.
'transitional rollout' -> Replace or upgrade every router, replace *all* your ipv4 specific software (good luck finding an ipv6 version of Active Directory, btw.), upgrade all OS software that doesn't have it (might have been working fine for 20 years.. no more.. trash it and get a new one!) Eats up about 5 years of your IT budget in one go.
Alternative: Put the company behind a NAT. Employees don't need a public IP address anyway.. they don't run servers. Costs are an hour of downtime.
No, 2k7 is normal in electronics. First time I've ever heard that it could be interpreted to mean 2007.
The interface to Office 2007 is vastly different (and vastly more difficult - what were MS thinking?) to every other version of office.
Openoffice is actually far more similar to the mainstream versions of office - Business won't be considering moving for 2-3 years, probably in line with vista movement (get all the retraining costs done at once). For large companies make that 5 years. The students will have graduated by then.
If they have to have MS Office on their CV (and I agree with others that if you have to go that low that what the hell are you doing at university?) then Office 97 or 2000 is perfectly fine.
In the UK you need to by hardware but they can't restrict *what* hardware, so OEM versions of Windows often come with a mouse or network cable.
There's no BIOS locking I've ever seen.
It's quite a saving - Vista Ultimate OEM £121 (~$200). Vista Ultimate Retail £369 (~$700).
That assumes a rather naive UTC/LocalTime conversion.
No it assumes the *windows* conversion. Windows really does this.
Every time DST changes Windows reads the times of the files in explorer differently by one hour.
So you can't rely on timestamps in Windows. TBH the 'new DST' doesn't make any difference compared to what happens already. It's broken either way.
Proxy compatibility. MS Proxy server doesn't work with JVM 1.4 (and believe me there are still a lot of those around).
Not sure you'd see it in a home situation though.
Any *application* that needs updating because of this is just plain broken. UTC is the only safe way to represent time... as has been proven over and over again. When will they learn?
Updating the timezone files on a Unix OS is trivially easy and can be scripted over ssh normally.
With Windows it's a *lot* harder because it really doesn't want to use UTC.. it always tries to start from local time and convert to it, and it does in fact get it wrong for about 6 months of the year (known bug, been there since NT4 and still not fixed in Vista - See KB 128126, 129574, 190315).
You just disable the TPM chip - the majority of PCs out there don't have one (this laptop was new in November and doesn't have one for example, so it's not just old ones either) so they can't exactly make it mandatory.
They don't use the vans as a scare tactic any more because they don't work.. they've admitted they have a big database and use that instead.
They might have worked in 1950 when maybe one in 10 houses had a TV, no computers, etc. but there's so much electrical noise now that I doubt you could pinpoint a single TV set in an average street with any accuracy.
It's also not available to UK residents at all.. which I find quite bizarre, given that I helped pay for that programme.
I heard rumours they were going to do the same with itunes - allow BBC programmes on it but not to UK residents (less of an issue I guess because itunes only has video support in the US).
(OT) No... every car *claims* to be wired for ipod. What most of them mean by that is they have an aux port on the stereo (the same one that has been on cars for 20 years).
You can't do a hack of a lot of reprogramming of an ipod either, short of hacking it to remove the OS and install linux - and there are a million other embedded devices that do this better and cheaper.
Aside from you completely missing the joke, that's Solaris 10 which hasn't got wide commercial adoption yet - most people are still on solaris 9 which is rock solid at the moment.
For that stuff you could use something like a TomTom - there's already plenty of software for it that does this for ground based stuff, you just need to add altitude measurement... plus it runs Linux so there really *are* thousands of developers, and there's a serial port to get the externally measured data in easily. Seems a much better fit to the task than an ipod.
I played it for over a month and dropped it because of that - it basically boils down to ferrying various items from planet A to planet B and back... over .. and .. over .. again...
Also during that time I didn't see a *single* other character - I know space is big and all that, but where's the interactivity? Might as well have made it single player and stuck it on a CD.
Another data point.
Athlon X2, 2GB RAM, Go 7300. Vista in default configuration runs at about 75% of the speed of XP. Switching the 'Ready' crap off gets it up to about 85-90%.
Power management is unusable - XP 3-3.5 hours, Vista default, 1 hour, Vista with crap off, 2 hours.
Does Vista suffer from this same problem?
It doesn't slow down over time.. it starts slow.
It's quite funny actually. They have ReadyBoost that's supposed to take the strain off paging from the hard drive (although it seems to me that having more RAM would give a better speedup), and SuperFetch that puts it right back again by thrashing the hard drive 100% of the time.
Worse, SuperFetch and the indexer fight to get at the hard drive so the head is moving like nuts on a bare install.
When I first tried vista I switched the indexer off fast enough, but had never heard of SuperFetch - took another week of the hard drive light on 100% of the time before I found out how to switch that stupid thing off. Speed improved *a lot* with it off, and the power requirement dropped a lot - but still nowhere near XP levels.
Your testimony alone? Yes, that's unreliable - it's more likely you broke in, got caught and killed the guy who found you, then invented a story to get out of the murder.
So you happily pay at least 10-15 times the cost of the BBC to Sky for about half a dozen real channels and about 300 shopping and religious channels - and sky produce virtually *no* content of their own, plus they have wall to wall adverts.
All of this to maintain a monopoly that's retarted the UK satellite market by 10 years or more (Sky boxes are *really* shitty compared to anything available in Europe and don't even try to compare to the US).
Channel 4? High quality content? lol.
Together with ITV they're reaching crisis point (ITV is ripe for takeover now) - you can't fund a channel on advertising alone, when you're competing with Sky who have a huge subscription charge (~$1200 a year) *and* wall to wall advertising. Not to mention an effective monopoly that means you have to pay that if you want more than the basic channels.
Are you kidding? a DVD is 650mb. That kind of size can be downloaded (theoretically) in 10 minutes on an 8mb connection. In reality with network delays it's more like 20.
Downloading an HD movie is only about 20gb or so. Just leave it running overnight.
And in so-doing, they'd intentionally be giving Vista horrible performance in real-world situations, thus ensuring that uptake was abysmal as people either stuck with XP or migrated to other platforms.
Vista performance is horrible already. Superfetch is not a win. You should cache as the data is read, not thrash the hard disk 100% of the time in the vain hope that you might pickup something the user wants to use.
I deleted vista a while ago but superfetch used to regularly trawl my temporary internet files folder...