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  1. Re:How long will IPv6 last? on Military Pressuring Vendors On IPv6 · · Score: 1
    NAT is a historical artifact. That a PIX could NAT anything before RFC1918 existed matters in the same classroom where people learn about Classful routing before CIDR. It is more important to note we should already have native IPv6 from carriers. And Slashdot.

    I mean, people, hire me and smash and the other under-modded smart people, we'll teach a class Friday, configure your routers on Saturday, check out the hosts on Sunday, and take the phone calls on Monday. This isn't rocket science (except for HSRPv2, so let's all use GLBP instead). Mainly you'll notice... IPv4 still works like it did on Friday. But all your google traffic, software downloads, and dns... IPv6 in the logs now.

    conf t
    ipv6 unicast-routing
    int vlan 666
    ipv6 addr 2001:db8:db8:666::1/64
    ipv6 router ospf 65066
    network 2001:db8:db8::/48

    Some devices need:
    sdm prefer dual def
    wr me
    reload

    Sooooo haaarrrrrrrdddd omgosh.

  2. Re:How long will IPv6 last? on Military Pressuring Vendors On IPv6 · · Score: 1

    yes! NAT is evil.

  3. Re:Maybe I'm being naive... on Free IPv4 Pool Now Down To Seven /8s · · Score: 2, Insightful

    IPv6 solves problems beyond just the raw number of bits for addressing.

    In your example, 48 bits isn't enough space--in a few years we would be doing another next-gen IP, after implementing IPng as the CTOs start panicking. I don't want to deploy a new Internet every two decades, I'd rather get past the flaws in IPv4 once for my lifetime and start thinking about Y2038.

    Convention is meant to be broken. But perhaps you ignore that we're speaking about bits, not decimal data. The subnet mask FFFFFF00 I see in ifconfig has the same meaning as /24 or 1111-1111 1111-1111 1111-1111 0000-0000 and we all know that because we're smart enough to read slashdot.

    Decimal address can used all you like in IPv6. If you like 208.80.11.254, address your host as 2620:0:c0:1:208:80:11:254 and be happy; meanwhile I'd rather use stateless autoconfiguration or a simple address like n:n:n:1::53 for my nameserver.

    Adoption could be less painless if you weren't citing address space that was deprecated and removed from the Internet five years ago. How is the 6bone keeping its memory alive for so long? Use 2001:db8:: for examples, or at least start an address with operational space like 2610. RIP 3ffe, 6/6/6.

  4. Re:They already make Rav4 EVs on Tesla Signs $60 Million Contract With Toyota · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Don't point out reality. If people knew Toyota and Ford and GM have been mass-producing electric cars since the mid-1990s, they might start asking why they can't actually purchase a product that was introduced over a dozen years ago. Watch "Who Killed The Electric Car" and count the number of RAV4 EVs you see... a past coworker makes his daily commute in one.

    It reminds me of news last year about building charging stations across California, when such facilities have lain abandoned for a decade.

  5. Re:NOOOOOOO on Can Large Scale NAT Save IPv4? · · Score: 1

    if you can't remember something like 2001:db8::1:53 and 2001:db8::2:53 give up on life. Or replace the network designer with me, and I'll replace the admin that can't understand and adjust to new technology with one who can. I may use 4.2.2.4 frequently but I still remember name servers from a dozen years ago (157.91.1.1 simply makes sense) and I know Websense and Monster both have nameservers on x.y.z.53 because I put them there. The address x:y::z:53 is no more difficult to memorize than x.y.z.53 except for the pen strokes.

  6. Google IPv6 Implementors Conference on Obama Highlights IPv6 Issue · · Score: 1

    Video and slides from this summer's Google IPv6 Implementors Conference are available. Besides the things I knew (Google runs IPv6 inhouse, most providers are whitelisting DNS for AAAA because .5% of users are simply broken in v6) there was a ton of interesting detail on mobile IPv6.

    T-Mobile has been supporting dual-stacked v6 on some Nokia models since this summer (there's a group tmoipv6beta) and their guy says interesting things --- He estimates half their traffic will be IPv6 by the end of 2011 simlpy because most of the traffic is to v6 ready content providers like Facebook and Google, the beta is helping to fix sites like Myspace but a prime problem remains hard-coded IPv4 literals in place of hostnames, particularly when embedded within returned data. They've met with vendors to ensure all phones will be IPv6 native within this current product life cycle (two or three years is what I took away).

    Verizon exemplifies the massive need for the massive address space of IPv6. They overlap all of the RFC1918 address space at each of forty sites. Can you imagine? And yet a simple /48, even a /56, would end that, nevermind /32s. I mean, with a single /32 an organization has as many free bits as the entire Internet today. And then there's the DoD's /13.

    Do I need to draw out the bits? Do I need to explain better that NAT is not a firewall? Please, tell your upstreams you want native IPv6. And meanwhile if you're in LA or NYC talk to me about how to bring your network online.

  7. Reel-to-Reel on Preserving Memories of a Loved One? · · Score: 1
    I'm thirty-one, my dad died thirty years ago of metastasized pancreatic cancer, otherwise known as cancer of everything for anyone familiar with human anatomy.

    Yesterday for the first time in my adult life I listened to a twelve minute recording made from his hospital bed at Wishard Memorial where Tudor Auditorium was soon named in his honor.

    While I extend a hand of sympathy, I'm jealously excited for the sheer amount of media you'll gather these interactions and memories with.

    I have one framed family photo, a couple snapshots, a USAF shirt, and a hard hat.

    The other side of preserving memories is your desire to reminisce. You won't be editing anytime soon; in thirty or forty years will the grandchildren have the time or interest to watch 48 hours of babble after they find someone to convert the antique files into FutureWall3 RealReality format?

    Don't record the mundane parts of life. And don't ramble on.

    Take the time to make The One Video. "Hi Kids, it's mom. Here's my message to both of you: Get smart, be nice, fall in love. Love you both. Jane, stay cool, Sally, you're so cute." The best-of video. Without a stupid soundtrack, please.

    And if any of you readers need old reel-to-reel recordings made digital, I sent some tapes (old old 1950s and 1970s) to Mr Toad's in San Francisco and got WAVs from them.

    Print out your digital blog. Or just buy a notepad and start writing. Anthropologists in a few centuries will appreciate it.

  8. Hypercard on How Should a Non-Techie Learn Programming? · · Score: 1

    A non-techie should learn how to program with Hypercard. Finding a 68k Mac might be the hard part.

  9. Eat, drink, and vape your cannabis, be merry. on Industrial Marijuana Farming Approved In Oakland · · Score: 1
    You don't need to smoke cannabis to release the THC and CBDs.

    1) Many use vaporizers, heating the flowers to 390-400 degrees, below combustion but sufficient to release a mist of active ingredients. Like those "no-smoke e-cigarettes" somewhat.

    2) Drink your cannabis: Think back to chemistry and polar solvents like water versus non-polar. If you drop plant material into a bottle of Everclear, vodka, or whatever alcohol, in a short time (five seconds to a month) the non-polar THC has saturated the alcohol and hopefully a minimal amount of chlorophyl has tinted the polar H2O. Because this will not be heated during smoking or vaporizing, one may desire to first decarboxylate the plant material--release an OH from the THC-A and THC-B to create the useful THC--by baking the plant material in the oven for ten minutes at just over the boiling point, around 106C/220F.

    3) Eat your cannabis. A lipophilic substance, cannabis blends well with oil and fat. So one may melt butter and cannabis together, heat soy/coconut/almond milk and stir in cannabis, or warm olive oil and simmer in the cannabis, staying above 180F but below 360F to decarboxylate without vaporizing. The cannabis-infused product may then be used as you like --- butter for cookies, milk for cereal, oil for bread and salads, you can have whatever you like. Or just drop a little bit of butter into your coffee.

    I would posit, anecdotally of course, that cigarette smoke is notably harsher than all but the worst ditch weed.

  10. Really? Really? on What Advice For a Single Parent As Server Admin? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why bother? Get three corded computers, put them in a common area, if it breaks they have to deal with.
    If you're awesome, set up a Windows box, Mac, and Linux machine to expose them to all three big worlds with multiuser accounts on each.

    Accept the younger generation is smarter than you and will easily circumvent any idle attempts at restriction.

    Unless your genuine intent is to spur the next generation of defcon attendees, just let them learn how to compute while they still live in your house.

  11. Re:Hang Gliding while being paid to write code... on Office Work Ethic In the IT Industry? · · Score: 1

    delta (dream state.)

    BatsDR ... beta alpha theta spindles delta rem ...

    I thought REM was most associated with dreams and delta was in-between/start+end of dream events.

    (Yes, I remember using "Bat's DR", as in, Batman's Doctor, cause he does stuff at night)

  12. Re:duh? on How Apple Orchestrates Controlled Leaks, and Why · · Score: 1
    I still have a disc+dmg, it should run under 7.5 if anyone has that running, called "Mac OS 8 Tour" from say early 1996 of the OS that never was released. It would be interesting to see what ideas eventually did re-emerge, the same way At Ease and iPhone Home Screen are similar and Newton handwriting technology is preserved in Ink.

    I remain disappointed JLG couldn't price Be for Apple but BeOS was lost to the future during the days of the BeBox when they selected a single-user model instead of embracing multi-user support as NT did and Apple would with OpenStep. No computer has felt more powerfully usable than my PowerPC Be machine. But NetPositive was about as usable as CyberDog.

  13. Re:Conveniently forgetting the details on Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop · · Score: 1

    So legally entering and exiting these countries makes her dangerous?

    Yes, because these countries are at war. In Lebanon military checkpoints monitor the highway inland, last bombed by Israel in 2006. Syria, a country whose capital has running water six hours a day and routine daily blackouts, was last attacked by Israel in 2007. Less than a year ago, Israel bombed UN facilities and medical staff with a 100:1 kill ratio that would get you banned from any game server for cheating. Despite peace, consider the difficult regulations entering Jordan from Occupied Palestine at the Allenby Bridge versus that of say the Sheikh Hussein Bridge on territory not disputed but still tenacious.

    Agents of Hezbollah may have detained me in Beirut for five minutes but Israel detained me for two hours at Taba, for having passport stamps from Lebanon, Syria, Bahrain, and UAE. Next time I'll take the fast boat to/from Aquaba and bypass Israel. The other side of the coin is worse; those countries would deny me entry if I already had that neon-green stamp in my passport.

  14. Re:Normalize with these animals? on Cuba Jails US Worker Handing Out Laptops, Cellphones · · Score: 1

    And link 4 for the conclusion... "A Moroccan immigrant who was held for three years before his terrorism-related conviction was thrown out has filed a $9 million federal lawsuit against the prosecutor and two other figures in the case."

  15. bring it and use the web on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1
    You'll probably want a laptop. Avoid theft from hostel/hotel by keeping it on your person in a nice bag like from CourierWare. How else will you browse WikiTravel and HostelWorld? (I've had a laptop stolen from a hotel... and still use laptops in public at dorm-style hostels.)

    Are you really gonna spend Two Whole Weeks in London? Use Ryanair or EasyJet out of Luton or Stansted to go spend a few days in Geneva or Amsterdam or Vienna or Milan or...

    And I have my own checklist of the things I tend to bring on trips (I've filled my passport entirely)... Travel Tudor

  16. Re:I don't want new protocols from Google on HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web · · Score: 1

    please don't make me go back to using PHONE on VMS. Research and experimental new technology is alright.

  17. Re:marketing speak = teh suck on IPv6 Challenges and Opportunities · · Score: 1

    1) The addresses are now ridiculously long.

    The addresses are longer; what's your 32 bit solution to a 32 bit problem? We want to solve the problem once in our lifetimes, that's why 64bit was skipped.

    2) There's not supposed to be any such thing as NAT (which also means your practice of always having your inside router be x.1 now gets more complex)

    In IPv4, you are true. RFC1918 has ruined the Internet. But your claim of giving a router a non-eui64 address becoming more complex is FUD.

    conf t
    int gi1/1
    ip addr 172.17.17.1/24
    ipv6 addr 2001:db8:ffff::1/64

    OMG! SO HARD!

    3) Many things that don't REALLY need addresses are now going to get them, because we have so many, so lets just go crazy.

    In 1999, my house probably didn't need a T1 with (dual) backup ISDN. And I've decided in 2009, your house doesn't really need a cable modem, so please give your spare addresses to me. Why do you seek to deny with your FUD both me and the non-US Internet globally routable addresses?

  18. Bush meat on New HIV Strain Discovered · · Score: 1

    Wow, don't use science or anything, that surprises me. Infected bush meat to rotting gums or fresh knife wounds received while butchering is the most plausible method of zoonosis. The latter moreso than the former as saliva is a great disinfectant.

  19. Re:Europe on New Video of Tesla's Mass-Market Electric Car · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wow, you get it. The people that think the sedan model is expensive aren't the market for a 5-series or M-class car from BMW either. And those who call the Aptera expensive at $25k-$30k probably wouldn't have chosen the GTI that I did either. But when I or any other consumer am already willing to spend that amount, and one considers the Free Fuel (at a penny a mile, close enough) and the money you don't have to spend on oil ($10/quart or so for Syntec) and the absence of those damn O2 sensors that fail... I look forward to the day Tesla purchases GM as a proper memorial to the EV1.

  20. Re:Macbook pro on Apple's WWDC Unveils iPhone 3.0, OpenCL, Laptop Updates, and More · · Score: 1

    Eleven on the volume knob. Pop-culture reference, don't worry, you're not missing much.

  21. Zoonosis on US Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine Flu · · Score: 1

    The biological term for the migration of of something, say, SIV from Pan troglodytes to HIV in Homo sapiens or flu from swine to human, is zoonosis. In case you wanna sound smart in conversation tomorrow at work.

  22. Re:Was the racist overtone intended??? on Ancient Books Go Online · · Score: 1
    You're pretty close with respect to the name, Western absent from Art History, I'm using that gross example to clearly demonstrate even modern institutions continue with an assumption that unless otherwise stated non-western achievements are ignored. Acknowledging that assumption is anything but racist as grandparent posited. The whole point is there is cultural relativism and to better understand another culture of study one must be semi-aware of the influence and bias of one's primary cultural foundation.

    Out of curiosity, how are you judging the South African works to be "of deeper magnitude" than the French works?

    I'm judging them quite subjectively, I think they're prettier. But if I need a valid argument you've got age (20-25000 BCE for some basic works versus say 10-15000 BCE for Fr/Sp). I can't really cite images in my head but there are some later works contemporary with Egypt that are amazing in the use of color, shading, and representation of humans.

  23. Re:Was the racist overtone intended??? on Ancient Books Go Online · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The submitter hopefully says "to no great surprise" as a common way of acknowledging the occidentalizing tendencies of western academic and political traditions, of which the United Nations by virtue of its failed father the League of Nations clearly is. That whole colonization/empire thing that Europe was doing... before America got in the game with Cuba, Puerto Rico, Panama, the Philippines, and so on, led to a perspective not of understanding through observation and interaction of the inherent value anything humans do but instead produced a mindset that compared the conquering "civilized, rational" peoples to those "uncivilized barbarians" they have occupied.

    But the point whenever someone brings up Edward Said is that up until a generation or two ago any study in any field that even bothered to examine cultures external to their own did so in what amounts to "Our values versus their inability to yet reach a level of sophistication that matches our values" ... consider the title of some college art classes: basic "Art History I+II" that covers egypt, greece, rome, europe after the renaissance, and america after the armory show. Anything else that happened anywhere else at any point in history doesn't matter and gets put in the category "Non-western art."

    Perhaps another art example: Many are well aware of simple cave paintings in France. Impressive, yes, but works of deeper magnitude and greater age in South Africa are ignored; similarly, pre-Egyptian Saharan peoples left numerous rock-carvings that predate formal Egyptian art yet they are ignored.

    Edward Said's ideas are often cited in the study of religion as it can be difficult for outsiders to truly grasp the object of study in the same way that a practitioner might. The early pioneers in the study of religion just over a century ago were the first to grasp religion could be an object of study but all too clearly display in their writings the bias of a true believer who writes about these curious savages with their peculiar practices that just don't make sense at all when compared with Protestant Christianity.

    I digress.
    ma'a es salaama.

  24. Re:More things to look out for.... on Should Network Cables Be Replaced? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    each port on the core switch can be manually set to a fixed 100mb full duplex (and ignore auto-sensing)

    I just died a little inside. Fix the client, don't bandage the switch. I won't say autosensing problems don't exist, but I can't remember a time in the last decade across dozens of Cats and thousands of edge ports when duplex problems weren't caused by either stupid users forcing their duplex and thus requiring the switch to go half-duplex or wretched terminations at the jack or panel introducing frame/crc errors that would have continued anyway.

  25. Re:what else is wasteful? on Are Long URLs Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    Vowels are excluded in non-elementary/non-Quranic Arabic writing. And it works, in the way that when you see "Blvd" or "Pkwy" you already know how to pronounce it.