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  1. Re:Moron - Actually YOU don't know what... on What About IPv6? How Long Until Widespread Deployment? · · Score: 1

    Actually YOU don't know what you're talking about. I'm in the process of implementing IPV6 (part of Solaris 8) on a group of servers as a testbed. IPV6 can be tunnelled over IPV4, also IPV6 can co-exist on the same network. Some routers can also handle routing both IPV6 and IPV4 traffic. In fact, it's a simple translation between 6 and 4 addresses (If you assume the unused portion of the address are zeros.) In fact it's easy to distinguish 4/6 traffic becaue the protocol version number is in the ip packet header.

    And in what way does this make IPv6 backwards compatable with IPv4? THe fact that you have to use tunneling and translation means that it's not backwards compatable. If it were backwards compatable the two could coexist without the added need for translation.

  2. Moron on What About IPv6? How Long Until Widespread Deployment? · · Score: 1

    IPV6 is better. Autoconfiguration, neighbor discovery, big address space, compatability with IPV4, etc

    IPv6 is in NO way compatable with IPv4. Have you even looked at the specifications? I cann't believe you got modded up for this.

    Frankly, I'm thinking we might see another round, like IPV7 (or IPV8 if they make a habit of skipping odd numbers), or it might come very late. Maybe we'll see it on phones and wireless devices before we see wide-spread adoption of IPV6 or general purpose networking.
    You truly have no clue do you.

  3. Re:Too costly at this point on What About IPv6? How Long Until Widespread Deployment? · · Score: 1

    IPv6 is backward compatible. I believe what you meant to say is that IPv4 is not forward compatible:

    No. I meant exactly what I said. IPv6 is not backwards compatable. In other words it can't be deployed on the existing system.

    Completely off-topic: I've seen only one forward-compatible technology: WordPerfect 6/7/8/9/10/etc. Save something in WP10, you'll be able to read it in WP6 (minus some formatting, but you'll be able to read it, with most of the formatting intact).

    Once again you're off. WP10 is in this case backwards compatable when reading files with WP6. Forward compatable implies they had forknowledge of the new standard. And if so why wouldn't they just deploy it.

    I may be wrong

    You are

  4. Too costly at this point on What About IPv6? How Long Until Widespread Deployment? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The main reason we aren't seeing widespread IPV6 is that it's not backwards compatable wiht IPv4. This being the case we would essentially have to replace every server in the US to get IPv6 to work.

    Other solutions like tunneling,translation and dual stack do exist. However all of these technologies(except dual stack) have limited capabilities.

    Having a Dual Stack(one that supports both IPv4 and IPv6) seems to be the most obious solution for the transition. However, this still requires the replacement of servers accross the World.

  5. I wonder on SSSCA Squirms Forward Again Thursday · · Score: 1

    If they get this passed, could we sue them for impeeding upon our right to pursue happiness?

  6. Start a project on Sourceforge on Open Source as Programming Exp. for College Students? · · Score: 1

    I'm in college taking a full load and I'm the administrator of a project on sourceforge. Yeah it's hard but if you don't love coding enough to get involved in a project then you need to switch majors

  7. Re:It only makes sense on Is The Net At Fault For Illegal Filesharing? · · Score: 1

    Along those lines...

    If someone was caught using Windows in a DOS could they sue Microsoft claiming that by being such an insecure and weak OS it is an attractive nuissance. This would be very akin to someone tresspassing on your property and sueing you for breaking their arm jumping on your trampoline(it's an actual law, and yes it happens).

  8. No problem on MPAA Wants Copy-Controlled PCs · · Score: 1

    We can hold this program through the use of AI. I'll send them the program if they want it will provide correct and accurate feedback for eveyr question

    Can we .....?
    That will be circumvented
    How about .... ?
    That will be circumvented
    Well wait, think about ...
    That will be circumvented

  9. Re:Rebuttal/Light Flamage on MPAA Wants Copy-Controlled PCs · · Score: 2

    Because making movies is so expensive, only two in 10 films ever retrieve their production and marketing investment from domestic theatrical exhibition. \

    That's because todays movies suck. The few that don't(LOTR, Momento) make their money back and more. Don't use your writers' idiocy as an excuse to restrict my freedom. You're a buisness for crying out loud, make a better product.

  10. Not a whole lot different on GNOME 2.0 Beta · · Score: 1

    I've looked at several of the screen shots and their doesn't appear to be a whole lot of differences between 2.0 and 1.2. It looks like hte old gnome with a new theme or window manager. Could someone give a quick rundown on exactly what has changed UI wise besides anti aliasing?

    I've been a KDE user for some time now. I think that it is far superiro to GNOME. I've haven't ever understood why you would write such a large project in C. The function names must get horrible after awhile.

  11. We'd like to inform you on Windows Tracks CDs & DVDs You Watch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Several weeks ago when you bought our webcam, we decided that for non-related marketing purposes that we would randomly start recording data and sending it back to the company. We don't intend to sell these pictures to anyone.

  12. Re:Get a Hotmail account on DSLReports Study: 8 Hours 'til the Spam Hits · · Score: 1

    That's the point. You don't EVER use this account. It's just a legal email address that is hte equivalent of using /dev/null.

  13. Get a Hotmail account on DSLReports Study: 8 Hours 'til the Spam Hits · · Score: 1

    What's the big deal. Get an account on hotmail that you don't care about. Then whenver you sign up to buy anythign put that as your address. It's legal and it doesn't inconvenience you.

  14. About Time on Debian Woody Nearing Release · · Score: 1

    I've recently become a debian user from slackware. Apt-get is by far the best tool I've ever used however I was shocked when I installed debian standard and checked the versions of some of the tools. SSH was at version 1.2.3!!! which was insane. Testing wasn't a whole lot better. However I am quite satisfied with unstable currently. Although it breaks from time to time on my laptop.

  15. New Idea on Losing the War on Patents · · Score: 3, Funny

    Next thing you know, somebody will try and patent the hyperlink. Oh wait...

  16. Re:Summary of new features on Java2 SDK v. 1.4 Released · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm glad you're here. If you weren't here to click on the post and cut and paste links, what would people do? New Mod. Lame

  17. The ever lasting Paper Clip on Operating Systems of the Future · · Score: 1

    I can just see it now. Windows will obviously have to communicate with you while it "fixes" things. How you ask? Though the paperclip.

    You delete the paperclip, windows thinks it's user error it undeletes it. Then it turns it back on so that you know it's okay. Welcome the everlasting PaperClip. What we really need is the shotgun OS

  18. Re:Brave New World - Actual Text on Lab Develops Artificial Womb · · Score: 0, Troll

    Congratulations. You can cut and paste. Next time you might try to express an actual thought.

  19. Re:Disadvantages on Preemptible Kernel Patch Accepted · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I love it when people get mod'd up as informative when they just reposted parts of the article. I guess they're helping the people who are unable to click on the link. Perhaps we should invent a new mod type. Idiot

  20. Re:sounds like ClearCASE on Tom Lord's Decentralized Revision Control System · · Score: 1
    ClearCASE is terrible. I had to administer it for several months while I worked as an intern. It is absolutely TERRIBLE. Lets go over the lists of problems.

    • 1) Terrible Network support. If there is a hicup in the middle of transfering a file then ClearCASE completely dumps core. It just can't handle network hicups.
    • 2) Deleteing files on the server is all but impossible. To remove a file from the server you have to delete it 4 DIFFERENT WAYS. This resulted in creation of many scripts
    • 3) ClearCASE is extremely fault INTOLERANT. Whenever a workstation craps, you have to trash parts of the database just so that workstation can run ClearCASE again.
    • 4) There are files on ClearCASE that simply CANNOT be deleted no matter what you try.
    • 5) Their customer support is terrible.


    I've spent many hours on the phone with customer support. Not fun.
  21. My reason for dislike on Why Nobody Likes E-Books · · Score: 1

    It's much harder to take a E-Book into the crapper as opposed to a normal paper book. And the consequences of accidently bending over the toliet to flush and dropping my paper back version of "Lord of Chaos" is much less than that of accidently dropping my laptop.

  22. Privacy Compromised on Hotmail Servers Shut Down by Code Red · · Score: 1

    This article doesn't mention the fact that anybody in the world could possibly have had unrestricted access to any number of email accounts. I wish they would post some statistics on the number of people who took advantage of the fact that there was a root shell on the hotmail servers.

  23. Re:Defemation of Character? on Pavlovich Jurisdictional Challenge Denied · · Score: 1

    Well they didn't slander him directly. They made specific comments about hte open source movement. Even if they had made comments directly about him, it didn't deface his character really. Especially not enough to sue over

  24. Beating netscape it's hard on Opera 5 Free... If You Want Commercials · · Score: 1

    The java web browser that I wrote for one of my CS classes far exceeded netscape's current capavilities. Mainly it didn't crash, it only half sucked, and even though it was a java program, it didn't eat 32 MEGS of my memory.

  25. Is is just me on Debian Hurd Still Coming · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or was the writer of that article smelling horribly or arrogance and spite towards linux. If you're going to write an article that compares two different kernel architechtures atleast try to do it in a relatively nuetral light.