I run the Firefox plugin SixOrNot. Google - a green 6. Youtube and Facebook ditto. Slashdot, a red 4. There are major sites out there running IPv6.
I have a free tunnel from Hurricane Electric. The only issue is that Google thinks I'm in the USA, which can't be a bad thing.
Now that there are no more IPv4 addresses available in Europe, it's in the interests of the established players to suppress IPv6 and lock out disruptive new startups: e.g. ISP's or Co-Lo's.
In about 1973 the local education authority for my school bought a HP 9830A. It's less of a computer, more of a jumped up calculator, but was programmable in Basic. We had it for half a term, then it went on to the next school. A year or so later, we got it permanently. None of the teachers knew what to do with it, but I latched on to it, and it being a boarding school I was able to play with it in the evenings. I taught myself from the manual, and wrote a noughts and crosses program. Other pupils joined me, and we ended up writing a program to analyse the alignment of stone circles in Cumbria and compare the number of ley lines that could be drawn through them with randomly generated positions. We went on to enter and do well in both a Computer Weekly "Win a Computer" competition and the BBC "Young Scientists of the Year".
NAME = "Divemaster Edition"
NAME = Sneaky Weasel
NAME = Flesh-Eating Bats with Fangs
NAME = Sheep on Meth
NAME = Man-Eating Seals of Antiquity
NAME = Vindictive Armadillo
NAME = Temporary Tasmanian Devil
NAME = Erotic Pickled Herring
NAME = Killer Bat of Doom
NAME = Rotary Wombat
NAME = Funky Weasel is Jiggy wit it
NAME = Arr Matey! A Hairy Bilge Rat!
NAME = Pink Farting Weasel
NAME = Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman!
NAME = Nocturnal Monster Puppy
NAME = Homicidal Dwarf Hamster
The Register's Lester Haynes of its Special Projects Bureau is following the race (in an air conditioned 4x4: temperatures in the cabins of the cars can reach 50C)
Why bother making people type another 8 characters when News International already own sunday.co.uk, which currently redirects to the News of the World anyway.
17th June, Symantec's blog: It has been known for some time that a botnet’s combined computing power could be used for a number of nefarious purposes. We can now add Bitcoin mining to that list.
I've just had a couple of days off work with a nasty virus, and even with my head full of cotton wool I had a play with setting my Netgear DG834 into "Modem only" mode (via the hidden page http://192.168.0.1/mode.htm) and running RP-PPPoE on my linux server. I managed to get it up running IPv4 pretty quickly. Now all I need to do is wait for my ISP to start supporting IPv6. Unlike Andrews and Arnold who have been running IPv6 for ages, they don't think it will be a concern for some considerable time. Don't they understand that some of us want to start seeing if things work and gaining experience right now?
Brian May has an Erdös Number of 7, a Bacon number of no more than 3, and a Sabbath number of 1, thus putting him squarely at the centre of the universe.
Slashdot Mirror
I run the Firefox plugin SixOrNot. Google - a green 6. Youtube and Facebook ditto. Slashdot, a red 4. There are major sites out there running IPv6.
I have a free tunnel from Hurricane Electric. The only issue is that Google thinks I'm in the USA, which can't be a bad thing.
Now that there are no more IPv4 addresses available in Europe, it's in the interests of the established players to suppress IPv6 and lock out disruptive new startups: e.g. ISP's or Co-Lo's.
I can't help thinking that the average Slashdot reader has already watched every episode of Good Eats and knows not to do this already.
Insert "North American" between "average" and "Slashdot".
However do I remember this video made by Underwriters Laboratories from many years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbLqFQQdvoY
Mother was an incubator
Father was the contents
of a test tube in the ice box
In the factory of birth
"decanting bottle"
The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours.
The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.
A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause.
For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours and yours
Somewhere in The Doughnut, a cryptographer is trying to use Violette Szabo's emergency one-time pad code poem to decrypt the message.
Leo Marks' life was truly amazing. Read more at his IMDB entry, (bio & trivia)
This reminds me of the Breidbart Index, a very longstanding
measure of abuse (cross/multi-posting) to Usenet.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/Breidbart-Index.html
Well, if this topic don't get all the low-digit neck-beards, I don't know what will.
Nah - full beard. Haven't shaved since 1976.
In about 1973 the local education authority for my school bought a HP 9830A. It's less of a computer, more of a jumped up calculator, but was programmable in Basic. We had it for half a term, then it went on to the next school. A year or so later, we got it permanently. None of the teachers knew what to do with it, but I latched on to it, and it being a boarding school I was able to play with it in the evenings. I taught myself from the manual, and wrote a noughts and crosses program. Other pupils joined me, and we ended up writing a program to analyse the alignment of stone circles in Cumbria and compare the number of ley lines that could be drawn through them with randomly generated positions. We went on to enter and do well in both a Computer Weekly "Win a Computer" competition and the BBC "Young Scientists of the Year".
There was a big problem with scammers packaging wiki-ed information from community game site
Worse than that, scammers were creating print-on-demand paperbacks of Wikipedia articles and selling them.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/04/03/2112203/print-on-demand-publisher-vdm-infects-amazon
I'm not sure how you easily stop that without hitting the people who genuinely own the copyright from distributing in a format other than a web page.
I was out marshalling a local fell race in the wind and rain earlier today with my 80 year old friend. Read his blog and be inspired.
It's Belkin all over again
The marketing geniuses at Belkin, the consumer networking vendor, have dreamed up a new form of spam - ads served to your desktop, by way of its wireless router.
emergencySMS. Requires registration. Marketed to the deaf, hard of hearing and speech-impaired, but Mountaineers are recommended to sign up too
I still say FRAK! when the need arises. Nobody knows what I'm talking about :(
I know. I can even hum the tune. No yo-yo, though.
http://www.reghardware.com/2011/11/30/bbc_micro_model_b_30th_anniversary/
NAME = "Divemaster Edition"
NAME = Sneaky Weasel
NAME = Flesh-Eating Bats with Fangs
NAME = Sheep on Meth
NAME = Man-Eating Seals of Antiquity
NAME = Vindictive Armadillo
NAME = Temporary Tasmanian Devil
NAME = Erotic Pickled Herring
NAME = Killer Bat of Doom
NAME = Rotary Wombat
NAME = Funky Weasel is Jiggy wit it
NAME = Arr Matey! A Hairy Bilge Rat!
NAME = Pink Farting Weasel
NAME = Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman!
NAME = Nocturnal Monster Puppy
NAME = Homicidal Dwarf Hamster
shredderchallenge seems to be Slashdotted, so apologies if this is a dup.
During the Iran Hostage Crisis teams of carpet weavers were recruited to piece together shredded documents. They were then published in 1982 in 54 volumes under the title "Documents From the U.S. Espionage Den".
The Register's Lester Haynes of its Special Projects Bureau is following the race (in an air conditioned 4x4: temperatures in the cabins of the cars can reach 50C)
They also have a twitter feed
News so far:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/12/world_solar_challenge_2011_race_rules/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/13/solar_update/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/14/wsc_update/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/15/wsc_update/
I reported that Symantec were blogging about this back in June
Why bother making people type another 8 characters when News International already own sunday.co.uk, which currently redirects to
the News of the World anyway.
17th June, Symantec's blog:
It has been known for some time that a botnet’s combined computing power could be used for a number of nefarious purposes. We can now add Bitcoin mining to that list.
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/bitcoin-botnet-mining
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/04/03/2112203/Print-On-Demand-Publisher-VDM-Infects-Amazon
I've just had a couple of days off work with a nasty virus, and even with my head full of cotton wool I had a play with setting my Netgear DG834 into "Modem only" mode (via the hidden page http://192.168.0.1/mode.htm) and running RP-PPPoE on my linux server. I managed to get it up running IPv4 pretty quickly. Now all I need to do is wait for my ISP to start supporting IPv6. Unlike Andrews and Arnold who have been running IPv6 for ages, they don't think it will be a concern for some considerable time. Don't they understand that some of us want to start seeing if things work and gaining experience right now?
Brian May has an Erdös Number of 7, a Bacon number of no more than 3, and a Sabbath number of 1, thus putting him squarely at the centre of the universe.
http://rosschurchley.com/2009/10/18/brian-mays-erdos-bacon-number/
http://www.timeblimp.com/?q=erdos.html
But why didn't they get Brian May to play guitar?
Cropredy? I might see you there.