Yes. These submissions link to articles that we can cite when attempting to convince our PHBs or CxOs that yes, we do indeed need to budget for the ipv6 migration, and no, we can't wait a couple years to get the ball rolling.
In all fairness, most can wait a couple years.
I work for a Fortune 500 company with tens of thousands of computers and ipv4'd devices. But there's less than a hundred external, routable IP addresses in the whole enterprise. And I suspect quite a few of those could be turned off if needed.
We really have no need for ipv6 at this point. At some point, yes, the network companies are going to come and say "you need to switch your external IPs to ipv6" and we'll do it, but that's hardly Y2K. Even after, would we go back and change everything internally to ipv4? Probably not - 10.x works just fine.
I suspect that's going to be a dominant strategy. Most enterprises - even huge ones - don't need ipv6. It's only inter-enterprise, https, etc. that needs ipv6. So ipv6 will initially be used more as an inter-enterprise glue than a "you need to go through and replace all networking gear in your company".
At some point the price will rise to the point where it pays for Ford, Apple, HP, Halliburton, etc. to sell their blocks and re-IP internally. Right now, it doesn't. In 12 months it might.
One word: Rollover. Sadly, many places in the US still have decreasing radius turns (cloverleaf off-ramp), and this, combined with the dangerously high center-of-gravity of the average SUV results in statistically abnormal rollover rates. In fact, driving an SUV is not only more dangerous for the SUV driver, but everyone else around.
1995 called. They want their single-word-explains-all talking point back.
If you want to make sense of the Unified Field and you want to know who John Hagelin is
...then you need to read more James Randi and less new age crackpottery.
Seriously - this is a guy who claims that if enough people in a city do TM meditation, crime rates will fall and a Vedic Defense Shield will prevent them from war.
John Hagelin appeals to people who think What the Bleep Do We Know and The Secret were science documentaries.
The GPL says you only have to distribute source if you're distributing binaries outside your own organization. It uses the term "third party" to define when distribution has taken place. But "here in Evilstan, all of our citizens are one big happy family. We reject your American notions of individuals. We are all one organization."
Of course, the problem is moot because the Evilstan courts are constrolled by Evilstan's dictator.
Because plots are copyrightable, the actual functionality of code is not.
You can't copyright a plot. You could write a story and publish it about an evil empire with a big base that has one vulnerability and a young man who has special mind powers and blows it up.
If you start talking about Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, and The Force, on the other hand...
I don't know, it probably wouldn't be because there's no such thing as an Abandonware "classification". It's just a feel-good term made up by people so they feel less bad about blatantly distributing games with still-active copyrights.
BLATANT, I tell you. These people are distributing DOS games whose publisher is out of business and no longer selling them. It's so BLATANT. BTW, the word BLATANT was on my Power Words of the Day Calendar for today.
Kernel 2.6.34 and 35 had a problem in the e1000 driver, which seemed to affect only very specific motherboards, like in one of my computers. No networking was an especially inconvenient problem.
And kind of an unnecessary one, considering that the e1000 module code is available for free download on Intel's web site, is GPL, and is very easy to build. My box with an e1000e may be running 2.6.18, but the e1000e module is Intel's latest 1.2.20.
Is there a way on Slashdot to say "block any story labeled Politics"? Because it appears that saying I don't want to see stories that are labeled politics only blocks those that are only politics, which defeats the purpose.
They didn't say their networks are compromised. To be on the safe side, they just assume they are.
Yep it's a RIAA/MPAA model. Assume guilt until proven otherwise, in this case compromised until proven otherwise. Makes you wonder what the NSA is really good for.
Wow...you've leaped from a national security organization adopting a policy of extreme care to a comparison with the recording industry lawsuits. Do you have some sort of associative-compulsive disorder or are you really stating there is any relationship between the two? Or are you just bitter?
They're not quite the same, though. Delicious has always been at least in part about personal use: Sure, it would be cool if someone else saw this neat site I bookmarked and also liked it, but really I'm posting it so that I can find it myself later, since I might not be on the same computer.
+1. I find delicious very useful for just that purpose. After signing up, I have never accessed it outside of the Firefox add-on that lets me access my bookmarks anywhere.
I never could figure out how anyone made any money on it...turns out, no one did.
Or happen to want stability and no random crashes you cannot debug. Go read lkml and similar lists about the frequency of crashes due to dodgy proprietary drivers.
Possibly true, but 99.999% of users have zero ability to debug a device driver. We/they're reduced to googling and asking in forums based on error messages and their experiences, which is not really much different (from their perspective) than if they were using a proprietary driver.
I appreciate your point, but I just don't think the average user cares. My $NEW_HARDWARE is crashing. I either find a fix by googling/foruming/manufacturer website or it doesn't work. Having the source available to me doesn't change that experience really.
Only an idiot would use Windows for something critical. Only the crown prince of the kingdom of idiots would refine uranium using Windows?
Honestly, what would posses someone to do something as absolutly insane as controlling a uranium centrifuge using freaking MS Windows????
I doubt Windows actually controls the centrifuges. On the other hand, all of the data, research notes, statistical analysis, etc. is probably sitting on a file share and accessed through people's desktops.
I'm tired of this monotonic "they're out to get us and they're missiles just got modded +1 Not Funny". As far as I know Iran isn't a particularly bad country for that neck of the woods;
Neck of the woods = Planet Earth. And yes they are.
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Yes. These submissions link to articles that we can cite when attempting to convince our PHBs or CxOs that yes, we do indeed need to budget for the ipv6 migration, and no, we can't wait a couple years to get the ball rolling.
In all fairness, most can wait a couple years.
I work for a Fortune 500 company with tens of thousands of computers and ipv4'd devices. But there's less than a hundred external, routable IP addresses in the whole enterprise. And I suspect quite a few of those could be turned off if needed.
We really have no need for ipv6 at this point. At some point, yes, the network companies are going to come and say "you need to switch your external IPs to ipv6" and we'll do it, but that's hardly Y2K. Even after, would we go back and change everything internally to ipv4? Probably not - 10.x works just fine.
I suspect that's going to be a dominant strategy. Most enterprises - even huge ones - don't need ipv6. It's only inter-enterprise, https, etc. that needs ipv6. So ipv6 will initially be used more as an inter-enterprise glue than a "you need to go through and replace all networking gear in your company".
At some point the price will rise to the point where it pays for Ford, Apple, HP, Halliburton, etc. to sell their blocks and re-IP internally. Right now, it doesn't. In 12 months it might.
"Google labs has created"... I think not. Actually I suspect talented people have created. How about their names?
Or have they been totally borged?
People create. Corporations monetize.
It must be hard to walk with that staggeringly huge chip on your shoulder.
We call it a Ford Fusion, or an Apple iPhone. If we listed all the people, it'd be a real pain.
...I've initiated a research and development initiative into warp core design.
Access to abundant, cheap, clean power for personal usage, including single occupant transport, is social justice.
1972 called. They want their dope-addled buzzword back.
With this restraining order against Geohot we see the Streisand Effect taking hold again as the key spreads all over the net
People who write "we see..." always sound incredibly pretentious, as if they feel they are empowered to speak for everyone.
One word: Rollover. Sadly, many places in the US still have decreasing radius turns (cloverleaf off-ramp), and this, combined with the dangerously high center-of-gravity of the average SUV results in statistically abnormal rollover rates. In fact, driving an SUV is not only more dangerous for the SUV driver, but everyone else around.
1995 called. They want their single-word-explains-all talking point back.
Headline: "What You Need to Know About The New Zodiac Sign"
The Huffington Post is staffed by and written for idiots. No further proof is needed.
If you want to make sense of the Unified Field and you want to know who John Hagelin is
...then you need to read more James Randi and less new age crackpottery.
Seriously - this is a guy who claims that if enough people in a city do TM meditation, crime rates will fall and a Vedic Defense Shield will prevent them from war.
John Hagelin appeals to people who think What the Bleep Do We Know and The Secret were science documentaries.
Confusing - every mainstream language today except Java has them.
And even Java will soon. http://www.javac.info/.
The GPL says you only have to distribute source if you're distributing binaries outside your own organization. It uses the term "third party" to define when distribution has taken place. But "here in Evilstan, all of our citizens are one big happy family. We reject your American notions of individuals. We are all one organization."
Of course, the problem is moot because the Evilstan courts are constrolled by Evilstan's dictator.
Because plots are copyrightable, the actual functionality of code is not.
You can't copyright a plot. You could write a story and publish it about an evil empire with a big base that has one vulnerability and a young man who has special mind powers and blows it up.
If you start talking about Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, and The Force, on the other hand...
I don't know, it probably wouldn't be because there's no such thing as an Abandonware "classification". It's just a feel-good term made up by people so they feel less bad about blatantly distributing games with still-active copyrights.
BLATANT, I tell you. These people are distributing DOS games whose publisher is out of business and no longer selling them. It's so BLATANT. BTW, the word BLATANT was on my Power Words of the Day Calendar for today.
Great! Can't wait to buy one.
Note that I said one.
Kernel 2.6.34 and 35 had a problem in the e1000 driver, which seemed to affect only very specific motherboards, like in one of my computers. No networking was an especially inconvenient problem.
And kind of an unnecessary one, considering that the e1000 module code is available for free download on Intel's web site, is GPL, and is very easy to build. My box with an e1000e may be running 2.6.18, but the e1000e module is Intel's latest 1.2.20.
The fact that Ruby and Rails make bad programming practices possible doesn't prove anything.
What percentage of Ruby usage is Ruby on Rails? I honestly don't know...just curious.
Is there a way on Slashdot to say "block any story labeled Politics"? Because it appears that saying I don't want to see stories that are labeled politics only blocks those that are only politics, which defeats the purpose.
They didn't say their networks are compromised. To be on the safe side, they just assume they are.
Yep it's a RIAA/MPAA model. Assume guilt until proven otherwise, in this case compromised until proven otherwise. Makes you wonder what the NSA is really good for.
Wow...you've leaped from a national security organization adopting a policy of extreme care to a comparison with the recording industry lawsuits. Do you have some sort of associative-compulsive disorder or are you really stating there is any relationship between the two? Or are you just bitter?
They're not quite the same, though. Delicious has always been at least in part about personal use: Sure, it would be cool if someone else saw this neat site I bookmarked and also liked it, but really I'm posting it so that I can find it myself later, since I might not be on the same computer.
+1. I find delicious very useful for just that purpose. After signing up, I have never accessed it outside of the Firefox add-on that lets me access my bookmarks anywhere.
I never could figure out how anyone made any money on it...turns out, no one did.
Or happen to want stability and no random crashes you cannot debug. Go read lkml and similar lists about the frequency of crashes due to dodgy proprietary drivers.
Possibly true, but 99.999% of users have zero ability to debug a device driver. We/they're reduced to googling and asking in forums based on error messages and their experiences, which is not really much different (from their perspective) than if they were using a proprietary driver.
I appreciate your point, but I just don't think the average user cares. My $NEW_HARDWARE is crashing. I either find a fix by googling/foruming/manufacturer website or it doesn't work. Having the source available to me doesn't change that experience really.
So your reaction to Debian's announcement is a long rant about a coming Irish civil war? Were you more focused when you were on your meds?
Left-wing think-tank criticizes Fox news. I'm shocked, shocked!
Only an idiot would use Windows for something critical. Only the crown prince of the kingdom of idiots would refine uranium using Windows? Honestly, what would posses someone to do something as absolutly insane as controlling a uranium centrifuge using freaking MS Windows????
I doubt Windows actually controls the centrifuges. On the other hand, all of the data, research notes, statistical analysis, etc. is probably sitting on a file share and accessed through people's desktops.
If i lived in Iran, I'd want nuclear weapons too, to counterbalance the threat to Iran, of Israel's weapons program.
Israel has never launched a war of aggression. On the other hand, its Muslim neighbors have launched four wars against it with genocidal aims.
Who is the threat again?
I'm tired of this monotonic "they're out to get us and they're missiles just got modded +1 Not Funny". As far as I know Iran isn't a particularly bad country for that neck of the woods;
Neck of the woods = Planet Earth. And yes they are.