My Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 can do IPV6, you insensitive clod! (with Tomato firware)
Therein lies the issue. Most routers can be made to handle IPv6, but out of the box almost non do. There doesn't seem to be any firmware updates targeted towards adding the missing IPv6 functionality. I betting that most router manufacturers will only support IPv6 firmware updates on anything less than a year old, since otherwise they would rather you buy new hardware.
DHCPv6 support is hit and miss, but all OSs, that support IPv6, support router advertisements.
A year is a lot of time. Think how much cheaper computers/routers get in a year. That's a lot of expense saved if they can delay switching over for a year.
Its simpler if people just started accepting that IPv6 is going to happen and adjust accordingly. For me its like having to accept Y2K was going to happen and acting accordingly. Believe me its much simpler to code the applications than go through the politics, and possibly technical issues, of getting someone to give back a block they don't appear to be using.
Get your ISP and your router manufacturer to provide you an IPv6 solution. That too is probably not easy, but if we all start making noise then they will start doing something - hopefully.
Try the whole world. According to this counter [entne.jp], the world will be out of IPv4 addresses in 768 days.
Ah just like Y2K issue, nobody is in a hurry until the axe is about to fall.
The only router for the home market that is IPv6 aware is the Apple Airport Extreme, all the others seem to be on another channel.
Slashdot is not going to be accessible from China soon, and not because of the great firewall of China. When is/. getting on the IPv6 bandwagon? At least they could start with their Slashcode site, as way of discovering the issues.
Can anyone say DRM? Consumers do not like DRM and thus are not buying Blu-Ray. The poor economy is also a factor.
That is one issue, but for me the biggest killer is region encoding. As long as I can buy my disk in any country I like and play it in the player of any other country, then I am happy. For me the defeating of CSS on DVDs meant that software applications could be written to ignore the region encoding. The fact I could copy the DVD didn't really rank that high on my list of wants.
With regards to Blu-ray, I have other stuff I want to spend my money on. I have a nice 27" flat screen TV and the DVDs play quite nicely. I will join the Blu-ray generation when the prices make it a no brainer and the market has already shifted. The other thing to take into account is that there are other optical disks, with higher storage capacity just round the corner, in the form of 'holographic disks'.
IE constantly reminds me of our politicians: over promising and under delivering.
Truth is with Gecko and WebKit based browser getting such an important share of the market, Microsoft knows they have work to do. Microsoft hadn't made any noticeable effort on IE until Firefox and Safari started changing the web usage stats. IE is still generally has the largest market share (depending on which site's stats are used), but any serious web developer knows that Firefox counts for a lot.
I work for a company, developing a large scale web site, that would have previously only cared about IE, but with the rise of Firefox we also have to test for this browser. This is a good thing, since even if the QA team only tests for IE and Firefox, things that work in Firefox generally work in other standards compliant browsers. I unofficially I test in Safari and Opera, but that doesn't represent the general company.
So true! Anyone with a background in unairconditioned manufacturing plants can tell you that new computers do just fine in rough conditions, but after a few years you will get power supply failure rates out the ass! Give them DC power inputs, standardized, please (but you KNOW intel won't do that - they don't even use standardized front panel connectors) and you might see the failure rate reduced even further.
Almost all data centers are designed with A/C in mind. This means that as long as A/C is pulling the load no one needs to worry about well designed buildings. As soon as you are challenged with having to design for reduced A/C usage that you end up thinking smarter and how passive systems can do the same thing. Another advantage of trying to design without A/C is that you won't find your servers frying because of an air conditioner failure.
"we're the US government. we don't DO that sort of thing."
Yeah, but didn't one person say "It's not what we can do for you, but what you can do for your country". A cynic would translate that as: "you can pay us all the taxes you like, but we aren't going to do squat in your favour".
Probably, but this begs to me to ask what iTunes is doing to bring down the OS. If it is driver related, then surely all drivers used to communicate with the iPhone and iPod should be user space drivers? If they aren't it would seem Apple did something wrong, or does Vista not support user-space drivers? If Apple is using a user-space driver, then this would put the blame on vista.
But with more and more apps being composed IN the browser, you need isolation to get at least some crash isolation between "apps"
That is a good point. It should also help reduce the issue of a plug-in or stuck page freezing the whole browser.
One thing I would be curious about is how they handle the inter-process communication since, while they are separate processes, things like cookies need to be shared between them. I would also be curious what sort of memory overhead the causes?
Looking at the product page over at Nintendo, it would appear this device uses Buffalo Technology's AOSS solution. The Wikipedia entry describes AOSS as "AOSS (AirStation One-Touch Secure System) is a system by Buffalo Technology which allows a secure wireless connection to be set up with the push of a button. Recent AirStation residential gateways incorporate a button on the unit to let the user initiate this procedure.".
Looking at the images it looks likes they are trying to make this as close to zero setup as possible. With DSL networks this will still require a computer, since you will have to provide your user/password combo, but with cable it will be more or less plug and play, since most cable solutions I have seen use DHCP.
What is interesting is the setting for the bridge/router mode selection is actually in the form of a switch on the back. All I wonder now is whether the SSID and WEP Key will come as a random factory default setting. Doing so would in fact provide more security than some current solutions, seeing that a good number of routers seem to be left to their default settings, with the no encryption and their brand-name SSID. By having this a sticker on the back of the router should mean the only place the user needs to configure anything is in their Wii or DS.
Considering the DRM, how is it better than a regular DVD? Given that a DVD has at least 4.5GB of storage and this USB device is 2GB, I am reckoning that this is not better in any way. In fact its worse: lower quality, unknown DRM and probably the likelyhood that you are screwed if you are using anything but Redmond's OS of choice.
True, but as customers buying their goods we aren't doing anything to discourage this behaviour. If we bought from companies based on their environmental record, or delegated environmental record (national companies, buying from other companies), then maybe they would get the message. The problem is companies continue doing paying the politicians because customers continue funding these companies with their purchases.
I will admit that in this regards that I am as guilty as the next person. I don't make any effort to find out how much pollution the manufacture of my product generates and I don't have any tools to reward or punish the companies based on their impact.
BTW Given that, mercury based, fluorescent light bulbs should be taken back to the store you bought them from to get recycled, are there any countries that enforce a deposit to encourage them returned, rather than thrown away?
With our own planet we have reasonable records of how conditions changed in the past and the results of that. We've got extremely detailed recording of the current situation and the recent past. We've got firmly established science showing why those changes would cause those results. The world's climate is a little chaotic and the simulations match that state of affairs.
The other point worth mentioning, is that people have been to the places on Earth where weather happens. Beyond our planet and our moon, humankind hasn't been to any of the places included in space simulation.
Stream WMV?? You Democrat!!!:p I could have suggested something else, such as MPEG, Real or Quicktime, but keeping in with the Microsoft solutions WMV would have just been fine. Heck VLC plays WMV without issue, even on Linux.
When I get to the site I am told I need the Silverlight plugin AND 'Move Networks Player'. Oh, and it proposes a Java Applet to install it!? Couldn't they just streaming WMV or something less complicated? Looks like they need someone to go over and give them an explanation on how to do things right.
Also, you'll gnash your teeth because god knows how long it will take for apple to provide a compiler toolchain ( gcc? llvm? clang? ) which supports the new features.
Actually this probably depends more on the open source community. Apple will probably simply merge in support when they are ready.
I'd go so far as to argue Javascript used to get a bad wrap because only a handful of people bothered to learn it. "back in the day", my javascript experiance consisted of searching google for "Javascript Image Swap" and copy & pasting whatever bit of code I found. I used to comment to colleagues that nobody really knew javascript because I figured 99% of all javascript code was copy & paste garbage.
There is another reason, and this is one that no scripting language is going to solve: IE, and any other browser that fails to follows the W3C DOM. I have written plenty of Javascript (though wouldn't claim to be an expert), and once I have it working with the standard DOM (used by Firefox, Safari and Opera), I find I have to spend my time having to work out how to make it play nicely with Internet Explorer, because of the non-standard DOM. Its amazing how a good piece of Javascript starts looking like junk because of having to handle a single browser doing things differently. I wouldn't even bother if it wasn't for the market share of IE.
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My Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 can do IPV6, you insensitive clod! (with Tomato firware)
Therein lies the issue. Most routers can be made to handle IPv6, but out of the box almost non do. There doesn't seem to be any firmware updates targeted towards adding the missing IPv6 functionality. I betting that most router manufacturers will only support IPv6 firmware updates on anything less than a year old, since otherwise they would rather you buy new hardware.
DHCPv6 support is hit and miss, but all OSs, that support IPv6, support router advertisements.
A year is a lot of time. Think how much cheaper computers/routers get in a year. That's a lot of expense saved if they can delay switching over for a year.
Its simpler if people just started accepting that IPv6 is going to happen and adjust accordingly. For me its like having to accept Y2K was going to happen and acting accordingly. Believe me its much simpler to code the applications than go through the politics, and possibly technical issues, of getting someone to give back a block they don't appear to be using.
Get your ISP and your router manufacturer to provide you an IPv6 solution. That too is probably not easy, but if we all start making noise then they will start doing something - hopefully.
Try the whole world. According to this counter [entne.jp], the world will be out of IPv4 addresses in 768 days.
Ah just like Y2K issue, nobody is in a hurry until the axe is about to fall.
The only router for the home market that is IPv6 aware is the Apple Airport Extreme, all the others seem to be on another channel.
Slashdot is not going to be accessible from China soon, and not because of the great firewall of China. When is /. getting on the IPv6 bandwagon? At least they could start with their Slashcode site, as way of discovering the issues.
Can anyone say DRM? Consumers do not like DRM and thus are not buying Blu-Ray. The poor economy is also a factor.
That is one issue, but for me the biggest killer is region encoding. As long as I can buy my disk in any country I like and play it in the player of any other country, then I am happy. For me the defeating of CSS on DVDs meant that software applications could be written to ignore the region encoding. The fact I could copy the DVD didn't really rank that high on my list of wants.
With regards to Blu-ray, I have other stuff I want to spend my money on. I have a nice 27" flat screen TV and the DVDs play quite nicely. I will join the Blu-ray generation when the prices make it a no brainer and the market has already shifted. The other thing to take into account is that there are other optical disks, with higher storage capacity just round the corner, in the form of 'holographic disks'.
Clearly you haven't seen the plans for IE9.
IE constantly reminds me of our politicians: over promising and under delivering.
Truth is with Gecko and WebKit based browser getting such an important share of the market, Microsoft knows they have work to do. Microsoft hadn't made any noticeable effort on IE until Firefox and Safari started changing the web usage stats. IE is still generally has the largest market share (depending on which site's stats are used), but any serious web developer knows that Firefox counts for a lot.
I work for a company, developing a large scale web site, that would have previously only cared about IE, but with the rise of Firefox we also have to test for this browser. This is a good thing, since even if the QA team only tests for IE and Firefox, things that work in Firefox generally work in other standards compliant browsers. I unofficially I test in Safari and Opera, but that doesn't represent the general company.
So true! Anyone with a background in unairconditioned manufacturing plants can tell you that new computers do just fine in rough conditions, but after a few years you will get power supply failure rates out the ass! Give them DC power inputs, standardized, please (but you KNOW intel won't do that - they don't even use standardized front panel connectors) and you might see the failure rate reduced even further.
Almost all data centers are designed with A/C in mind. This means that as long as A/C is pulling the load no one needs to worry about well designed buildings. As soon as you are challenged with having to design for reduced A/C usage that you end up thinking smarter and how passive systems can do the same thing. Another advantage of trying to design without A/C is that you won't find your servers frying because of an air conditioner failure.
Below are some links on passive solutions to cooling. Some of the techniques are surprisingly old, but effective:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_cooling
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher
- http://www.arabrise.org/articles/A040105S.pdf
*&(*&, i feel way behind now, looks like i need to go back to 5th grade...
On the bright side you won't have to be asked whether you're smarter than a 5th grader ;)
"we're the US government. we don't DO that sort of thing."
Yeah, but didn't one person say "It's not what we can do for you, but what you can do for your country". A cynic would translate that as: "you can pay us all the taxes you like, but we aren't going to do squat in your favour".
Expect Apple to blame Vista.
Probably, but this begs to me to ask what iTunes is doing to bring down the OS. If it is driver related, then surely all drivers used to communicate with the iPhone and iPod should be user space drivers? If they aren't it would seem Apple did something wrong, or does Vista not support user-space drivers? If Apple is using a user-space driver, then this would put the blame on vista.
But with more and more apps being composed IN the browser, you need isolation to get at least some crash isolation between "apps"
That is a good point. It should also help reduce the issue of a plug-in or stuck page freezing the whole browser.
One thing I would be curious about is how they handle the inter-process communication since, while they are separate processes, things like cookies need to be shared between them. I would also be curious what sort of memory overhead the causes?
Looking at the product page over at Nintendo, it would appear this device uses Buffalo Technology's AOSS solution. The Wikipedia entry describes AOSS as "AOSS (AirStation One-Touch Secure System) is a system by Buffalo Technology which allows a secure wireless connection to be set up with the push of a button. Recent AirStation residential gateways incorporate a button on the unit to let the user initiate this procedure.".
Looking at the images it looks likes they are trying to make this as close to zero setup as possible. With DSL networks this will still require a computer, since you will have to provide your user/password combo, but with cable it will be more or less plug and play, since most cable solutions I have seen use DHCP.
What is interesting is the setting for the bridge/router mode selection is actually in the form of a switch on the back. All I wonder now is whether the SSID and WEP Key will come as a random factory default setting. Doing so would in fact provide more security than some current solutions, seeing that a good number of routers seem to be left to their default settings, with the no encryption and their brand-name SSID. By having this a sticker on the back of the router should mean the only place the user needs to configure anything is in their Wii or DS.
We are now at 32 GB and it's a SDHC card which isn't compatible with older SD devices.
The following Wikipedia artilce indicates that 32GB is the maximum limit available to SDHC cards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card
Considering the DRM, how is it better than a regular DVD?
Given that a DVD has at least 4.5GB of storage and this USB device is 2GB, I am reckoning that this is not better in any way. In fact its worse: lower quality, unknown DRM and probably the likelyhood that you are screwed if you are using anything but Redmond's OS of choice.
Overregulation is mostly the doing of companies
True, but as customers buying their goods we aren't doing anything to discourage this behaviour. If we bought from companies based on their environmental record, or delegated environmental record (national companies, buying from other companies), then maybe they would get the message. The problem is companies continue doing paying the politicians because customers continue funding these companies with their purchases.
I will admit that in this regards that I am as guilty as the next person. I don't make any effort to find out how much pollution the manufacture of my product generates and I don't have any tools to reward or punish the companies based on their impact.
BTW Given that, mercury based, fluorescent light bulbs should be taken back to the store you bought them from to get recycled, are there any countries that enforce a deposit to encourage them returned, rather than thrown away?
With our own planet we have reasonable records of how conditions changed in the past and the results of that. We've got extremely detailed recording of the current situation and the recent past. We've got firmly established science showing why those changes would cause those results. The world's climate is a little chaotic and the simulations match that state of affairs.
The other point worth mentioning, is that people have been to the places on Earth where weather happens. Beyond our planet and our moon, humankind hasn't been to any of the places included in space simulation.
Maybe they could simply change the campaign to: "the most complete web browsing experience for a mobile phone".
Can anyone who is familiar with this tell me whether this is an IPv4 specific issue, or whether it would impact IPv6 as well?
Further details on the Space Cube see the translated product page (original page). To save you clicking on the link:
Flash Memory: VR 5,701,200 MHz/250MHz/300MHz
Flash Memory: 16M byte
DRAM I/F: DDR SDRAM 64M byte
Input/output: IEEE1355 (SpaceWire), RTC and CF (True IDE), XGA (1024×768), USB1.1 and LAN (100BASE), Audio (Stereo) input/output RS232C and JTAG I/F (for debugging)
Power source: +5V
External size: 52mmx52mmx55mm (the spine is excluded)
Stream WMV?? You Democrat!!! :p I could have suggested something else, such as MPEG, Real or Quicktime, but keeping in with the Microsoft solutions WMV would have just been fine. Heck VLC plays WMV without issue, even on Linux.
Ah that had to come up. I imagine another situation, HAL 9000 family guy style:
HAL: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid you can't do that
Dave continues with what he's doing
HAL: Hell Dave, you can' do that. Fuck, would you stop it. Okay, now you've done it!
Dave gets ejected out of the air-lock
HAL: Well you won't be doing that again.
When I get to the site I am told I need the Silverlight plugin AND 'Move Networks Player'. Oh, and it proposes a Java Applet to install it!? Couldn't they just streaming WMV or something less complicated? Looks like they need someone to go over and give them an explanation on how to do things right.
Also, you'll gnash your teeth because god knows how long it will take for apple to provide a compiler toolchain ( gcc? llvm? clang? ) which supports the new features.
Actually this probably depends more on the open source community. Apple will probably simply merge in support when they are ready.
I'd go so far as to argue Javascript used to get a bad wrap because only a handful of people bothered to learn it. "back in the day", my javascript experiance consisted of searching google for "Javascript Image Swap" and copy & pasting whatever bit of code I found. I used to comment to colleagues that nobody really knew javascript because I figured 99% of all javascript code was copy & paste garbage.
There is another reason, and this is one that no scripting language is going to solve: IE, and any other browser that fails to follows the W3C DOM. I have written plenty of Javascript (though wouldn't claim to be an expert), and once I have it working with the standard DOM (used by Firefox, Safari and Opera), I find I have to spend my time having to work out how to make it play nicely with Internet Explorer, because of the non-standard DOM. Its amazing how a good piece of Javascript starts looking like junk because of having to handle a single browser doing things differently. I wouldn't even bother if it wasn't for the market share of IE.
If anyone has used both Objective-C and current C++, can anyone tell me whether the new specification is a clear improvement on either if these?