I have doubts about it causing many problems for users. Vista and Win7 have IPv6 turned on out of the box. If the user one of those OSs, and has a DOCSIS 3 modem attached directly to the computer, or they have a IPv6 router, they should be assigned an IPv4 and an IPv6 address. If the OS or the router doesn't support IPv6, they would just get an IPv4 address.
Mac and Linux of course, both support IPv6. Even setting up IPv6 manually with a tunnel isn't that hard, if you know just a bit about networking.
Of course nothing ever goes as smoothly as it "should", but I bet more of the issues will be on the Comcast side.
Don't expect to be getting your own IPv6 address any time soon. Most likely, they're going to roll it out for managing all those devices first, and you'll still be assigned an IPv4 address for your Internet connectivity.
They have been talking about IPv6 for management for years, they just needed to wait for DOCSIS 3.0 to support it. But this article specifically talks about residential, consumer IPv6.
From the article:
With wholesale availability of IPv6 on the Comcast network, the next steps include making IPv6 available to Comcast's business and residential broadband customers.
"Comcast plans to enter into broadband IPv6 technical trials later this year and into 2010," Tishgart said. "Planning for general deployment is underway."
>As a professional "graphics artist type" I take a offense at that. What if I were to ask about the computer coders types making the kind of buggy crap they do now with [whatever language you like]?
Well, if it was useless, poorly coded and I was inflicting it on other people, I would be ashamed - except I don't see why I would put it out there in the first place.
Stuff like this has no reason to exist. The first two have maybe a slight excuse, because they are the sites of designers or something and they want their sites to reflect their real-world bad taste. But the last one is absolutely gratuitous as well as awful.
Tomboy has been a "recommends" until now, I believe. Which means it gets installed unless you exclude it manually or set APT to not automatically install recommends.
>My personal windmills are applications like HAL, D-BUS, any gnome-*-daemon, any {Policy,Device,Console}Kit
Actually, all of those are very useful, with the possible exception of some of the gnome daemons (and some of those are going away, as soon as Gnome finishes dropping Corba). HAL is useful, but of course has problems, which is why we are now in a smooth transition from HAL to DeviceKit-*. PolicyKit is an excellent way to handle permissions in a GUI - far better than GtkSudo, etc. ConsoleKit helps with a number of session-related issues, particularly allowing fast user switching. D-Bus is needed because a modern desktop really needs some good IPC outside the basic shared memory, pipes, etc. D-Bus does a good job of providing this.
It depends on what you mean by "other parts of Gnome". There are a number of other Gnome apps written in C#, including Banshee (music player) and G-Spot (photo management). But none of those apps are "officially" part of Gnome (I don't remember what terminology they use). Having Mono one step removed like that is something that seems unlikely to change anytime soon.
>but the more answers they get, the more questions they get as well
true, but that does not make the answers we do have less valid or useful
>and so they are not much further ahead than our ancestors.
We aren't, huh? I hope you enjoy the paleolithic hunter-gatherer lifestyle, then.
>Despite all of our technology, we still have not learned to live in peace with one another That is an issue for Philosophy to tackle or perhaps someday, very advanced psychology/sociology. It has nothing to do with technology, and little to due with science at the level we currently practice.
>Weapons of Mass Destruction which to possibly annihilate the entire human race. Really, we are a lot more likely to destroy ourselves accidentally via ecological degradation than on purpose with weapons. Either way, that just shows that we do have significant scientific and technical know-how.
No, the magnetic poles have reversed a great many times as can easily be seen in the changing domain alignments in crust created over time around mid ocean ridges.
>But once set up, it is completely worth not having to pay for cable.
Except there is virtually nothing worth watching on the non-PBS broadcast channels. No Discovery or relatives, no NatGeo, no History Channel, no Cartoon Network, no BBC America, no Comedy Central. Just PBS and a handful of decent shows on other stations (House, Heroes, Simpsons, Jeopardy... that's about it)
That doesn't make any sense. Are they also going to auction off the Lotus123 format? HTML is a spec - a kind of idea. Whereas the analog spectrum is an actual physical thing (or a specific part of a physical thing).
And to the grandparent post, yes the upcoming versions of Gecko and Presto(?) have significant html5 support.
This might be a Nova, or a Supernova, or something else, but in any case, nova and supernova work very differently - it is not just a matter of degree.
>I'm sure there's still people out there that are using e9 and xfce (for their own reasons).
There are a great many people using something other than Gnome/KDE.
I certainly don't use xfce or e9 (??? do you mean e16/e17 - enlightenment?), but I do use Awesome WM.
As far as I can tell, lightweight WMs and particularly the *boxes and tiling WMs are growing in popularity, mostly with more advanced users (and the number of those is growing, it seems to me, as some that started out as newbies on Ubuntu gain skill). Meanwhile, moderately knowledgeable users are often interested in XFCE or LXDE.
all-in-one printer:
Wal-Mart: HP Deskjet F2210 - HP works, of course
Best Buy: Epson - Factory-Refurbished Stylus NX300 - works (print and scan)
Staples: HP Refurbished Photosmart C6280 - HP works, of course
USB WiFi:
Wal-Mart: CNet CWD-854 - works
Best Buy: Dynex Wireless-G DX-BUSB - does not work
Staples: Netgear WG111 - works
USB TV Tuner:
Wal-Mart: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-850 USB - works
Best Buy: Pinnacle PCTV HD mini Stick USB - does not work
Staples: only tv tuner device was Diamond All-in-Wonder Radeon HD 3650, which I think does not work
6 out of 9 (or 6 out of 8 since a radeon isn't a usb device)? Not too bad, especially since two of the categories are dealing with USB crapware.
Supposedly, Apple is afraid of submarine patents on Theora (they already exposed themselves to risk of submarine patents on h.264, and don't want more risk). Or maybe, being Apple, they just aren't big fans of open standards.
>It would be nice if some free (as in beer) software could ship with a working video encoder that isn't illegal in some countries
It might be nice, but it ain't gonna happen, unless google or someone gets really altruistic and foots the bill or MPEG LA changes their mind about licensing.
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I have doubts about it causing many problems for users. Vista and Win7 have IPv6 turned on out of the box. If the user one of those OSs, and has a DOCSIS 3 modem attached directly to the computer, or they have a IPv6 router, they should be assigned an IPv4 and an IPv6 address. If the OS or the router doesn't support IPv6, they would just get an IPv4 address.
Mac and Linux of course, both support IPv6. Even setting up IPv6 manually with a tunnel isn't that hard, if you know just a bit about networking.
Of course nothing ever goes as smoothly as it "should", but I bet more of the issues will be on the Comcast side.
They have been talking about IPv6 for management for years, they just needed to wait for DOCSIS 3.0 to support it. But this article specifically talks about residential, consumer IPv6.
From the article:
Maybe it using features only in FF3.5? It works fine in SeaMonkey 2.0a (gecko 1.9.1/ff3.5) and the main development target seems to be safari 4.
>As a professional "graphics artist type" I take a offense at that. What if I were to ask about the computer coders types making the kind of buggy crap they do now with [whatever language you like]?
Well, if it was useless, poorly coded and I was inflicting it on other people, I would be ashamed - except I don't see why I would put it out there in the first place.
http://www.karenkaram.co.uk/index2.html
http://www.raspini.gr/
http://www.rockhall.com/rockimmortal/home.html
Stuff like this has no reason to exist. The first two have maybe a slight excuse, because they are the sites of designers or something and they want their sites to reflect their real-world bad taste. But the last one is absolutely gratuitous as well as awful.
Err, F-Spot. The name is just almost naughty, not actually naughty.
Tomboy has been a "recommends" until now, I believe. Which means it gets installed unless you exclude it manually or set APT to not automatically install recommends.
>My personal windmills are applications like HAL, D-BUS, any gnome-*-daemon, any {Policy,Device,Console}Kit
Actually, all of those are very useful, with the possible exception of some of the gnome daemons (and some of those are going away, as soon as Gnome finishes dropping Corba). HAL is useful, but of course has problems, which is why we are now in a smooth transition from HAL to DeviceKit-*. PolicyKit is an excellent way to handle permissions in a GUI - far better than GtkSudo, etc. ConsoleKit helps with a number of session-related issues, particularly allowing fast user switching. D-Bus is needed because a modern desktop really needs some good IPC outside the basic shared memory, pipes, etc. D-Bus does a good job of providing this.
>or do other parts of Gnome depend upon Mono now?
It depends on what you mean by "other parts of Gnome". There are a number of other Gnome apps written in C#, including Banshee (music player) and G-Spot (photo management). But none of those apps are "officially" part of Gnome (I don't remember what terminology they use). Having Mono one step removed like that is something that seems unlikely to change anytime soon.
>Scientists think they know how our world works,
Well, we are starting to have a pretty good idea.
>but the more answers they get, the more questions they get as well
true, but that does not make the answers we do have less valid or useful
>and so they are not much further ahead than our ancestors.
We aren't, huh? I hope you enjoy the paleolithic hunter-gatherer lifestyle, then.
>Despite all of our technology, we still have not learned to live in peace with one another
That is an issue for Philosophy to tackle or perhaps someday, very advanced psychology/sociology. It has nothing to do with technology, and little to due with science at the level we currently practice.
>Weapons of Mass Destruction which to possibly annihilate the entire human race.
Really, we are a lot more likely to destroy ourselves accidentally via ecological degradation than on purpose with weapons. Either way, that just shows that we do have significant scientific and technical know-how.
>No, the poles already reversed once in theory
No, the magnetic poles have reversed a great many times as can easily be seen in the changing domain alignments in crust created over time around mid ocean ridges.
new feature = completely untested
>But once set up, it is completely worth not having to pay for cable.
Except there is virtually nothing worth watching on the non-PBS broadcast channels.
No Discovery or relatives, no NatGeo, no History Channel, no Cartoon Network, no BBC America, no Comedy Central.
Just PBS and a handful of decent shows on other stations (House, Heroes, Simpsons, Jeopardy... that's about it)
That doesn't make any sense. Are they also going to auction off the Lotus123 format?
HTML is a spec - a kind of idea. Whereas the analog spectrum is an actual physical thing (or a specific part of a physical thing).
And to the grandparent post, yes the upcoming versions of Gecko and Presto(?) have significant html5 support.
He must be using Debian stable, not Fedora, Ubuntu or Debian Sid
Hey, I was at Usenix (LISA) in 2001 (age 19), and it was awesome. I wish I could go again, but it doesn't look likely in the near future.
Australia is a continent...
This might be a Nova, or a Supernova, or something else, but in any case, nova and supernova work very differently - it is not just a matter of degree.
I wonder why I thought it was H. erectus? Anyway, H. Habilis makes (slightly) more sense, since it is the most primitive Homo species.
>I'm sure there's still people out there that are using e9 and xfce (for their own reasons).
There are a great many people using something other than Gnome/KDE.
I certainly don't use xfce or e9 (??? do you mean e16/e17 - enlightenment?), but I do use Awesome WM.
As far as I can tell, lightweight WMs and particularly the *boxes and tiling WMs are growing in popularity, mostly with more advanced users (and the number of those is growing, it seems to me, as some that started out as newbies on Ubuntu gain skill). Meanwhile, moderately knowledgeable users are often interested in XFCE or LXDE.
Dell is selling Linux to consumers on x86 and they seem to have no problems with MS.
all-in-one printer:
Wal-Mart: HP Deskjet F2210 - HP works, of course
Best Buy: Epson - Factory-Refurbished Stylus NX300 - works (print and scan)
Staples: HP Refurbished Photosmart C6280 - HP works, of course
USB WiFi:
Wal-Mart: CNet CWD-854 - works
Best Buy: Dynex Wireless-G DX-BUSB - does not work
Staples: Netgear WG111 - works
USB TV Tuner:
Wal-Mart: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-850 USB - works
Best Buy: Pinnacle PCTV HD mini Stick USB - does not work
Staples: only tv tuner device was Diamond All-in-Wonder Radeon HD 3650, which I think does not work
6 out of 9 (or 6 out of 8 since a radeon isn't a usb device)? Not too bad, especially since two of the categories are dealing with USB crapware.
Only if both (all) parties are intelligent Hominids - that is to say, descended from the Pak (aka Homo erectus).
Supposedly, Apple is afraid of submarine patents on Theora (they already exposed themselves to risk of submarine patents on h.264, and don't want more risk). Or maybe, being Apple, they just aren't big fans of open standards.
try reading the spec: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#video
>It would be nice if some free (as in beer) software could ship with a working video encoder that isn't illegal in some countries
It might be nice, but it ain't gonna happen, unless google or someone gets really altruistic and foots the bill or MPEG LA changes their mind about licensing.
Opera can't afford MPEG, so they go with Theora