A method and computer product for automatically generating an IP network address that facilitates simplified network connection and administration for small-scale IP networks without IP address servers, such as those found in a small business or home network environment. First, a proposed IP address is generated by selecting a network identifying portion (sometimes known as an IP network prefix) while deterministically generating the host identifying portion based on information available to the IP host. For example, the IEEE 802 Ethernet address found in the network interface card may be used with a deterministic hashing function to generate the host identifying portion of the IP address. Next, the generated IP address is tested on the network to assure that no existing IP host is using that particular IP address. If the generated IP address already exists, then a new IP address is generated, otherwise, the IP host will use the generated IP address to communicate over the network. While using the generated IP address, if an IP address server subsequently becomes available, the host will conform to IP address server protocols for receiving an assigned IP address and gradually cease using the automatically generated IP address.
Now that bear pretty much zero similarity to IPv6, which is among others: expanding address space over IPv4 while being somewhat backwards compatible for a transition period, improved IP packet modularity for less overhead, new hierarchical infrastructure for improved routing support, built-in IPSec, improved quality-of-service (QoS) support, improved support for ad hoc networking, and improved support for extensibility.
That abstract seems to me that this is... well, something entirely different?
Is it even a protocol?? "A method and computer product for automatically generating an IP network address"... Huh??
Can someone clarify the huge similarities here to me that makes this big news?
Insiders are actully claiming Microsoft is actually thinking of dumping.NET QUIETLY because it has not penetrated the market as expected for the amount of cash pumped into it..
LOL, I'd like to know which those insiders are. Windows Longhorn itself will even be built in large parts on.NET code.
It's all about offering an API to develop for Linux while only requiring basic Windows development skills using.NET.
C++ + GTK + other Linux specific libraries can often turn out to be scary for a Windows developer, making him/her stick with Windows and thinking "others" can "later" do the porting job if necessary. With Mono, a developer can go -- "hmm, I wonder if this will work on Linux now, being developed in.NET?" and maybe suddenly it will, or with only minor modifications. The result can actually be an application being released for both Windows and Linux, instead of just for Windows and a Linux port delayed indefinitely.
Yes, we have Java for this too, but Java isn't all that hot for a major part of Windows developers. A large part enough to warrant Mono, I think. Java isn't a hugely successful language for many Windows developers; but I can sure say Visual Studio and its accompanying software is. We'll probably have more developers moving, or already having moved, from Visual Studio 6 to Visual Studio.NET than Windows developers programming in Java.
They're saying that the hired infiltrator had retrieved and shared the most part of all games and movies released during 2004. To gain more space for all copies, the infiltrator had even bought and sent hardware for a total of SEK 20,000 ($2,800). In the beginning of March, he was supposed to send hard drives totalling at 800 GB, however the raid came in between.
Even worse, this raid was part supported by STIM, an organization partially funded by the swedish government.
So when using the Google cache link, your browser will often start waiting for images to load before displaying the text. And since these images are Slashdotted, it can take a while.:-p
However, you can make it work much faster by clicking the "view cached text only" link in the Google cache header. Here's that page showing text only. It should load much faster, as it doesn't even try to load the images.
I see my post above may not have made it very clear what I meant with "simplicity of Mandrake and not exactly the simplicity of Mandrake". I meant that the Mandrake install was all great for me, and everything seemed to work just fine out of the box, but when I started to use it more, I started get confused from the multiple apps included doing the same thing, etc. It was a strange experience for a user coming from Windows and having seen Mac OS X before as well. I couldn't really see why the Mandrake install I downloaded was five CD's as large as XP, especially for being a Linux distro where Linux fans often complain about unecessary large code bases and application packages.
Well, I guess I belong to the "newbies" (at least not hardcore) users that have caused DistroWatch's distro list dramatically change to look like this in a short period of time:
1. Mandrakelinux, 1509 hits / day, going down 2. Ubuntu, 1371 h/d, going up 3. Fedora, 1352 h/d, going down 4. MEPIS, 1204 h/d, going up
I'm currently a happy MEPIS user for it being Debian based with the great apt-get tools while preserving the simplicity of e.g. Mandrake and the simplicity of... well, not exactly Mandrake or Fedora.:-/ A 1 CD distro with the essential OS level stuff is just perfect for me with more than a dial-up connection, as I can simply install alternative software if I wish, just like I always did with other operating systems like Windows. It has Firefox included and not any Mozilla cruft for example. I love it!
I've used Mandrake 10 and the only thing I remember from it was stuff like it silently producing crash dumps in my home directory, and having maybe four image viewers included where I didn't know which one was more suitable than another and why there was four of them. Now that's everything but taking away complexity for newbies.
I'm no scientist, but to me it always felt like this might be due to tiny flaws in our current theory of relativity -- gravity, and/or the space-time model. Flaws that aren't apparent from experiments we make in our environment, but still become obviously apparent on a very (VERY!) macro scale, with galaxy-sized masses.
In the same way as Newton's theories still works well as approximations on simple experiments, Einstein's may work far far better, but still be approximations that still fall apart, and not because of undiscovered matter and energy. I'm not sure introducing basically virtual matters and energies are the right way to go, as that's basically what they are. I hope they're keeping an open mind on this. Trying to come up with theories that do support existing experiments, but explains what we're seeing in the larger scale as well. Because AFAIK, these observations are almost exclusively happening on a macro scale. Could that be a hint of inherent flaws in our theories that get more and more obvious on the larger scale, in the same way as rounding errors in simple algebra?
Oh, and regarding P2P apps. That's a common misunderstanding with XP SP2. It only restricts the rate connections to unconnected endpoints can be established, not caps for a total maximum number of TCP/IP connections. I up/download at above 500 kilobytes (not bits) per second with SP2 and BitTorrent so obviously SP2 cause no noticeable bandwidth throttles for me, unpatched.
(I RTFA, but couldn't find any info about atmosphere composition... strange, if they detected it, you'd think they'd have a clue what it consisted of too)
The Mercury News reports that the international Cassini spacecraft has discovered that Saturn's moon Enceladus has a significant atmosphere, NASA said Wednesday.
Not only that, but I bet there's an entire rebel base there as well! NASA should better send down a probe there to check it out.
Please give me a second try... I'm obviously too tired.
However, I bet these don't support OCX's properly which a whole lot of VB apps use, as an example of one of the stuff that makes this a problem for existing VB 6 users.
However, I bet these support OCX's properly which a whole lot of VB apps do, as an example of one of the stuff that makes this a problem for existing VB 6 users.
The upshot is that they may make OS issues totally irrelevant by supplying everything anyone needs over the web from their mega-server-farm.
... then you read this in the article...
Google's also been rapidly expanding onto the desktop--Google Desktop is the company's only other Google-developed product that's not in beta. They've acquired the photo-organizing software Picasa, along with the 3D mapping software Keyhole.
... and these are all heavily OS dependent.
Then this:
Google Deskbar, which lets you search for and display Google results without opening a browser (a first step toward rendering IE, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, and company obsolete?)
No, because Google Deskbar requires a browser for the user to browse its search results in? It's quite useless if you can't.
but in the case of naive Windows users, even asking them to reboot can be a scary concept for them.
Hmm, I think you're exaggerating a bit... Windows users should (and I'm not even joking) be quite used to booting and rebooting their systems. Even my mom would understand the implications of restarting the computer.
20-30k is still very good. It's much better than anyone else I've ever seen with BT. I think the fasted I've ever downloaded a file with BT is about 5k on the T3 at work. BT is a horrible protocol, so just be happy with what you get.
What!? That must be a problem with your setup / connection.
I'm normally getting ~5 Mbps download when I download torrents that are "common", i.e. those with at least a hundred peers or so. Yes, that's around 500 kilobytes per second. This is on a 10 Mbps / up down line. I consider 100 kilobytes or lower to be slow here, or normal if it's a rare torrent.
... and unfortunately, the system default is to have Java enabled, and the user default is to answer "Yes" to any dialog boxes popping up while browsing the web.
Slashdot Mirror
Now that bear pretty much zero similarity to IPv6, which is among others: expanding address space over IPv4 while being somewhat backwards compatible for a transition period, improved IP packet modularity for less overhead, new hierarchical infrastructure for improved routing support, built-in IPSec, improved quality-of-service (QoS) support, improved support for ad hoc networking, and improved support for extensibility.
That abstract seems to me that this is... well, something entirely different?
Is it even a protocol?? "A method and computer product for automatically generating an IP network address"... Huh??
Can someone clarify the huge similarities here to me that makes this big news?
Jeez, now even Google is down! I got:
I just can't figure out what Slashdot, or CowboyNeal to be more exact, has to do with this!
Tinfoil hat on!!!11
Insiders are actully claiming Microsoft is actually thinking of dumping .NET QUIETLY because it has not penetrated the market as expected for the amount of cash pumped into it..
.NET code.
LOL, I'd like to know which those insiders are. Windows Longhorn itself will even be built in large parts on
garbage-collected (MS calles them "managed") environments
.NET Framework. Benefits of managed code can be:
.NET runtime
Just a nitpick, but MS calling code "managed" hasn't just to do with garbage collection.
Managed code = code running "inside a sanbox", making no calls outside the
- Automatic memory management
- Automatic lifetime control of objects and versioning to avoid "DLL Hell"
- Runtime checks by the
- Cross-language integration
- Platform-neutrality
- Security
I don't "get" Mono either
.NET.
.NET?" and maybe suddenly it will, or with only minor modifications. The result can actually be an application being released for both Windows and Linux, instead of just for Windows and a Linux port delayed indefinitely.
.NET than Windows developers programming in Java.
It's all about offering an API to develop for Linux while only requiring basic Windows development skills using
C++ + GTK + other Linux specific libraries can often turn out to be scary for a Windows developer, making him/her stick with Windows and thinking "others" can "later" do the porting job if necessary. With Mono, a developer can go -- "hmm, I wonder if this will work on Linux now, being developed in
Yes, we have Java for this too, but Java isn't all that hot for a major part of Windows developers. A large part enough to warrant Mono, I think. Java isn't a hugely successful language for many Windows developers; but I can sure say Visual Studio and its accompanying software is. We'll probably have more developers moving, or already having moved, from Visual Studio 6 to Visual Studio
They're saying that the hired infiltrator had retrieved and shared the most part of all games and movies released during 2004. To gain more space for all copies, the infiltrator had even bought and sent hardware for a total of SEK 20,000 ($2,800). In the beginning of March, he was supposed to send hard drives totalling at 800 GB, however the raid came in between.
Even worse, this raid was part supported by STIM, an organization partially funded by the swedish government.
Google only cache text, not images.
:-p
So when using the Google cache link, your browser will often start waiting for images to load before displaying the text. And since these images are Slashdotted, it can take a while.
However, you can make it work much faster by clicking the "view cached text only" link in the Google cache header. Here's that page showing text only. It should load much faster, as it doesn't even try to load the images.
I see my post above may not have made it very clear what I meant with "simplicity of Mandrake and not exactly the simplicity of Mandrake". I meant that the Mandrake install was all great for me, and everything seemed to work just fine out of the box, but when I started to use it more, I started get confused from the multiple apps included doing the same thing, etc. It was a strange experience for a user coming from Windows and having seen Mac OS X before as well. I couldn't really see why the Mandrake install I downloaded was five CD's as large as XP, especially for being a Linux distro where Linux fans often complain about unecessary large code bases and application packages.
Well, I guess I belong to the "newbies" (at least not hardcore) users that have caused DistroWatch's distro list dramatically change to look like this in a short period of time:
:-/ A 1 CD distro with the essential OS level stuff is just perfect for me with more than a dial-up connection, as I can simply install alternative software if I wish, just like I always did with other operating systems like Windows. It has Firefox included and not any Mozilla cruft for example. I love it!
1. Mandrakelinux, 1509 hits / day, going down
2. Ubuntu, 1371 h/d, going up
3. Fedora, 1352 h/d, going down
4. MEPIS, 1204 h/d, going up
I'm currently a happy MEPIS user for it being Debian based with the great apt-get tools while preserving the simplicity of e.g. Mandrake and the simplicity of... well, not exactly Mandrake or Fedora.
I've used Mandrake 10 and the only thing I remember from it was stuff like it silently producing crash dumps in my home directory, and having maybe four image viewers included where I didn't know which one was more suitable than another and why there was four of them. Now that's everything but taking away complexity for newbies.
Current lie detectors aren't reliable; doing one supporting that would just introduce more factors to make it unreliable.
Yeah, I was just going to write that. :-)
I'm no scientist, but to me it always felt like this might be due to tiny flaws in our current theory of relativity -- gravity, and/or the space-time model. Flaws that aren't apparent from experiments we make in our environment, but still become obviously apparent on a very (VERY!) macro scale, with galaxy-sized masses.
In the same way as Newton's theories still works well as approximations on simple experiments, Einstein's may work far far better, but still be approximations that still fall apart, and not because of undiscovered matter and energy. I'm not sure introducing basically virtual matters and energies are the right way to go, as that's basically what they are. I hope they're keeping an open mind on this. Trying to come up with theories that do support existing experiments, but explains what we're seeing in the larger scale as well. Because AFAIK, these observations are almost exclusively happening on a macro scale. Could that be a hint of inherent flaws in our theories that get more and more obvious on the larger scale, in the same way as rounding errors in simple algebra?
Oh, and regarding P2P apps. That's a common misunderstanding with XP SP2. It only restricts the rate connections to unconnected endpoints can be established, not caps for a total maximum number of TCP/IP connections. I up/download at above 500 kilobytes (not bits) per second with SP2 and BitTorrent so obviously SP2 cause no noticeable bandwidth throttles for me, unpatched.
Remote Desktop too, I use that daily, to get into my home machine from work and on the road.
Yes, however, unlike other restrictions in Home, this is something you can easily get working with any free VNC client on it.
But it's not really air, is it??
(I RTFA, but couldn't find any info about atmosphere composition... strange, if they detected it, you'd think they'd have a clue what it consisted of too)
The Mercury News reports that the international Cassini spacecraft has discovered that Saturn's moon Enceladus has a significant atmosphere, NASA said Wednesday.
Not only that, but I bet there's an entire rebel base there as well!
NASA should better send down a probe there to check it out.
Please give me a second try... I'm obviously too tired.
However, I bet these don't support OCX's properly which a whole lot of VB apps use, as an example of one of the stuff that makes this a problem for existing VB 6 users.
However, I bet these support OCX's properly which a whole lot of VB apps do, as an example of one of the stuff that makes this a problem for existing VB 6 users.
The upshot is that they may make OS issues totally irrelevant by supplying everything anyone needs over the web from their mega-server-farm.
Google's also been rapidly expanding onto the desktop--Google Desktop is the company's only other Google-developed product that's not in beta. They've acquired the photo-organizing software Picasa, along with the 3D mapping software Keyhole.
Then this:
Google Deskbar, which lets you search for and display Google results without opening a browser (a first step toward rendering IE, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, and company obsolete?)
No, because Google Deskbar requires a browser for the user to browse its search results in? It's quite useless if you can't.
but in the case of naive Windows users, even asking them to reboot can be a scary concept for them.
Hmm, I think you're exaggerating a bit... Windows users should (and I'm not even joking) be quite used to booting and rebooting their systems. Even my mom would understand the implications of restarting the computer.
We are sorta heading back into the "time before torrents" when stuff wasn't easily available on a huge online database available on the web.
:-)
The admins and users of The Pirate Bay don't agree with you.
20-30k is still very good. It's much better than anyone else I've ever seen with BT. I think the fasted I've ever downloaded a file with BT is about 5k on the T3 at work. BT is a horrible protocol, so just be happy with what you get.
What!? That must be a problem with your setup / connection.
I'm normally getting ~5 Mbps download when I download torrents that are "common", i.e. those with at least a hundred peers or so. Yes, that's around 500 kilobytes per second. This is on a 10 Mbps / up down line. I consider 100 kilobytes or lower to be slow here, or normal if it's a rare torrent.
... and unfortunately, the system default is to have Java enabled, and the user default is to answer "Yes" to any dialog boxes popping up while browsing the web.
Is the era of free news content about to end?
No, I don't think so.
Ask me again when we're starting to see signs of it actually happening?
In other news, Google News recently updated their free metanews engine.
Pl33z3, sH00t m3 n0w!
Hmm, this journalist definitely seems like a product of Microsoft's new l337 sp33k... oh, excuse me... "leetspeek" guide.
Right! Those Windows users never bitch about anything!
Why bring Windows users into this? So, if Windows users moan, that's an excuse for Linux users to do the same? Is that what you're saying?