Nope, it's really not any easier; I just set mine up last week. What made it really difficult was that when you google "dd-wrt ipv6" you get a lot of different answers, and none of them are quite correct with current firmware. It took me a while to poke around enough and understand what was going on behind the scenes before I got it working the way I wanted.
(the other frustrating part was that apparently the broadcom-wl wireless driver I was using on my notebook does not recognize IPv6 multicast packets, so I spent two days trying to figure out why i wasn't getting router advertisements and why, when I gave myself a static IP, it stopped working a few minutes later -- my notebook didn't see the neighbor requests and never bothered to advertise itself to the network.)
It's pretty nice once it's working though; even my iphone is on IPv6 when I'm at home, much to my surprise. And since someone will probably ask; I'm using Hurricane Electric's free tunnel broker service.
Definitely a good choice; I just picked one up last week because I wanted IPv6 and my old Linksys only had 2 MB of flash. With the 8 MB in the Netgear I was able to load the entire "mega" build of dd-wrt and get pretty much anything I could want.
For complex setups the importance USB support should not be overlooked either; the dd-wrt firmwares only support a 32k flash configuration partition and complex configurations can easily overrun this. When I bought the Netgear I slapped an old 1 gig thumbdrive on the back of the router and use it to store things like my OpenVPN certs that wouldn't fit in the 32k config flash.
Netflix traffic, in theory, is already paid for. L3 is being paid by Netflix to send the traffic, and Comcast customers are paying Comcast to receive it. What Time-Warner described sounds more like a transit peering arrangement, in which L3 is passing at least some traffic to Comcast that is not terminating on Comcast but on networks to which Comcast is connected. Maybe L3 and Comcast do in fact have a transit peering agreement in place, but it seems rather unlikely. Comcast isn't really in the long haul network business and I can't imagine anyone wanting to use them for transit, except maybe as an absolute last resort, such as during a mass outage caused by a backhoe apocalypse.
Your history is off too. The VMS roots are even on their face only very lightly there (no code, they just hired a kernel team composed significantly of ex-VMS kernelfolk and some aspects of the VMS design went in), the BSD roots are hardly there at all, and the OS/2 roots were predominant.
Also, if you shift each letter in VMS one letter forward in the alphabet you get....WNT:)
Even better, I'd like to see the story of a W3C draft done to the tune of "I'm Just a Bill" from Schoolhouse Rock. Just don't let the W3C do it or they will debate the lyrics for years and not release a draft version until 2020.
You are aware of nuclear fallout, right? Radioactive fallout, coupled with the massive dust from all the explosions and fires, is a serious threat to food and water supplies even thousands of miles away from the actual explosions. Some of it could even be subtle, like rises in cancers and mutation rates that take years to fully manifest.
I suspect what the parent was referring to is the relatively short half-life of the tritium used in the fusion stages. Normally it has to be replaced every few years to keep the bomb fully operational, but as you said that still wouldn't prevent someone from getting an old Soviet warhead and turning into one or more single-stage fission devices and/or dirty bombs.
So.... we want the government to watch parents with teenagers but we dont want them to help single or married people with no kids in the area of... oh I dunno Medical assistance?
I call BS.
Funny, I was just thinking the same thing. "Government hands off my health care! Oh, but can you watch my kids for a few hours?"
Reminds me of BBSing in the 1980s. I remember on one board a guy was trying to sell a used vacuum cleaner, but the silly profanity filter kept censoring it when he tried to talk about how it could "really suck.".:)
I don't know how it is where you live, but around here pay phones have all but disappeared. If you get stuck somewhere at night (car problems, etc.) and you don't have a cell phone, you're screwed unless someone is nice enough to stop and help. Which, usually, they aren't.
That being said, having a prepaid phone is certainly a great option for those cases. I'm just saying, cell phones aren't as much a luxury item as they once were.
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Your momma's so fat the only thing keeping her upright is electron degeneracy pressure!
Yo mamma's so fat, her event horizon IS the horizon!
Nope, it's really not any easier; I just set mine up last week. What made it really difficult was that when you google "dd-wrt ipv6" you get a lot of different answers, and none of them are quite correct with current firmware. It took me a while to poke around enough and understand what was going on behind the scenes before I got it working the way I wanted.
(the other frustrating part was that apparently the broadcom-wl wireless driver I was using on my notebook does not recognize IPv6 multicast packets, so I spent two days trying to figure out why i wasn't getting router advertisements and why, when I gave myself a static IP, it stopped working a few minutes later -- my notebook didn't see the neighbor requests and never bothered to advertise itself to the network.)
It's pretty nice once it's working though; even my iphone is on IPv6 when I'm at home, much to my surprise. And since someone will probably ask; I'm using Hurricane Electric's free tunnel broker service.
Netgear WNDR3700
Definitely a good choice; I just picked one up last week because I wanted IPv6 and my old Linksys only had 2 MB of flash. With the 8 MB in the Netgear I was able to load the entire "mega" build of dd-wrt and get pretty much anything I could want. For complex setups the importance USB support should not be overlooked either; the dd-wrt firmwares only support a 32k flash configuration partition and complex configurations can easily overrun this. When I bought the Netgear I slapped an old 1 gig thumbdrive on the back of the router and use it to store things like my OpenVPN certs that wouldn't fit in the 32k config flash.
Everyone gets 18quintillion addresses.... sounds like a plan to run the world out of IP's and start designing IPv7 ASAP!
Yes because we all saw how well "protocol version 7' worked out in Serial Experiments Lain :)
Netflix traffic, in theory, is already paid for. L3 is being paid by Netflix to send the traffic, and Comcast customers are paying Comcast to receive it. What Time-Warner described sounds more like a transit peering arrangement, in which L3 is passing at least some traffic to Comcast that is not terminating on Comcast but on networks to which Comcast is connected. Maybe L3 and Comcast do in fact have a transit peering agreement in place, but it seems rather unlikely. Comcast isn't really in the long haul network business and I can't imagine anyone wanting to use them for transit, except maybe as an absolute last resort, such as during a mass outage caused by a backhoe apocalypse.
+10 for the Invader ZIM reference ;)
Your history is off too. The VMS roots are even on their face only very lightly there (no code, they just hired a kernel team composed significantly of ex-VMS kernelfolk and some aspects of the VMS design went in), the BSD roots are hardly there at all, and the OS/2 roots were predominant.
Also, if you shift each letter in VMS one letter forward in the alphabet you get....WNT :)
Be careful, it might violate the FB TOS. And then the feds would try to give you a hole new meaning to casual sex.
The Feds only care about the hole that is involved.
Even better, I'd like to see the story of a W3C draft done to the tune of "I'm Just a Bill" from Schoolhouse Rock. Just don't let the W3C do it or they will debate the lyrics for years and not release a draft version until 2020.
Trust me, on Chatroulette it's the users that have been exposing themselves.
This is exactly the thought that came into my head after reading the headline.
I believe the technology they employed has something to do with goats.
The real pros use the new unobtanium cables. They're a bit pricey and there's a waiting list, but man are they worth it. :)
Well, to be fair, China wouldn't nuke us -- that would pretty much guarantee that we'd never ever pay them back all that money we owe. :)
You are aware of nuclear fallout, right? Radioactive fallout, coupled with the massive dust from all the explosions and fires, is a serious threat to food and water supplies even thousands of miles away from the actual explosions. Some of it could even be subtle, like rises in cancers and mutation rates that take years to fully manifest.
I suspect what the parent was referring to is the relatively short half-life of the tritium used in the fusion stages. Normally it has to be replaced every few years to keep the bomb fully operational, but as you said that still wouldn't prevent someone from getting an old Soviet warhead and turning into one or more single-stage fission devices and/or dirty bombs.
Ever try to open a bottle of aspirin when your wrist hurts from being at the computer too long?
Might want to take a break there or you'll get some nasty chafing. ;)
So.... we want the government to watch parents with teenagers but we dont want them to help single or married people with no kids in the area of... oh I dunno Medical assistance? I call BS.
Funny, I was just thinking the same thing. "Government hands off my health care! Oh, but can you watch my kids for a few hours?"
And, more importantly, Barrens chat is *created* by kids, and the occasional adults acting like kids.
Reminds me of BBSing in the 1980s. I remember on one board a guy was trying to sell a used vacuum cleaner, but the silly profanity filter kept censoring it when he tried to talk about how it could "really suck.". :)
The absolute worst I have encountered is Coldfusion, where you have to do insanely verbose crap like this:
<cfquery name="getId" datasource="somedb">
SELECT id
FROM users
WHERE login = <cfqueryparam value="#login#" type="cf_sql_varchar">
</cfquery>
Come see me when the electricity is gone once civilization tanks.
If and when that happens there will be far bigger problems to worry about such as food, shelter and sanitation.
Heh, suicide for hackers: "ssh -l root mypacemaker kill -9 1"
I don't know how it is where you live, but around here pay phones have all but disappeared. If you get stuck somewhere at night (car problems, etc.) and you don't have a cell phone, you're screwed unless someone is nice enough to stop and help. Which, usually, they aren't. That being said, having a prepaid phone is certainly a great option for those cases. I'm just saying, cell phones aren't as much a luxury item as they once were.
Hmm sounds like an episode of "Fear Factor" :)