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  1. Re:The guide to IPv6 conversion on Last Days For Central IPv4 Address Pool · · Score: 1

    That's assuming your router plays ball :)

    Mine didn't - teredo just didn't work for me, so I had to go down the tunnel route. It's amazingly easy on Linux (far more so than on Windows, surprise!) and you can easily turn it on and off with a simple ifconfig.

  2. Re:The guide to IPv6 conversion on Last Days For Central IPv4 Address Pool · · Score: 1

    If you're running a modern OS, it's fairly easy to set up a tunnel.

    Register on either http://tunnelbroker.net/ or http://www.sixxs.net/main/ and create a new tunnel for yourself. There are instructions on how to start the tunnel which will put that single machine on the IPv6 network.

    From there, you can look into setting up RAdvD (if *nix) to act as an endpoint on your network, supplying IPv6 IPs to everything on it automatically.

    The next step would be to have an ISP which supplies an IPv6 address to your router (which would need to support it, most cheap ones don't currently), which removes the need for a tunnel and RAdvD, but this step is going to be some time coming..

  3. Re:Where do they get these numbers? on Ballmer Says 90% of Chinese Users Pirate Software · · Score: 1

    http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/how-volume-licensing-works.aspx

    Get the PDF at the bottom of the page, third paragraph on page 8.

  4. Re:Terrific Research, But... on Security Researcher Finds Hundreds of Browser Bugs · · Score: 1

    Here's another one:

    Have you tried to run Outlook Web Express (Exchange) on Firefox? How about the same app on IE? Are they the same experience? hell no.

    On Exchange 2010, yes they are, actually. One of the many reasons I'm really looking forward to our upgrade!

  5. No great surprise.. on Most Android Tablets Fail At GPL Compliance · · Score: 2

    Big name companies provide it (notable exception being Creative, but then they've not always been so hot at this anyway), small unknown Chinese companies don't.

    I'm surprised that Viewsonic only provides the source for 1 of its three tablets though.

  6. Re:Slashdot's ARM wet dreams. on ARM Readies Cores For 64-Bit Computing · · Score: 1

    True enough, for the physical connection stuff, but for pretty much everything else (bar the really (cpu|memory) intensive servers) can be virtualised :)

    Running things on the same box is a problem if you don't have something like vSphere or Citrix XenServer, with their live migration abilities.

  7. Re:Slashdot's ARM wet dreams. on ARM Readies Cores For 64-Bit Computing · · Score: 1

    But that's where virtualisation comes into play on x86. Run lots of little machines on one bigger one..

  8. Re:Intentional? on The Placebo Effect Not Just On Drugs · · Score: 1

    Eh? If a pedestrian doesn't press a button, there is NO pedestrian phase (generally).

    I'll admit, some lights do have a sensor to see if there's a pedestrian waiting, but those tend to be for checking if the button has been pressed and there really is a pedestrian waiting, rather than crossing anyway or running off somewhere else..

  9. Re:Intentional? on The Placebo Effect Not Just On Drugs · · Score: 1

    Really??

    This explains why this occurs in China, too..

    It confused the hell out of me when I was there - it's insanely dangerous!

  10. Re:Size? on Visual Depiction of Who Is Suing Who in Mobile · · Score: 1

    Well done sir! Clearly TFA's authors don't have an eye for design..

  11. Re:Size? on Visual Depiction of Who Is Suing Who in Mobile · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And even better if they sorted it out so that the arrows didn't overlap..

    Why on earth does the Oracle-Google arrow overlap with the Nokia-Toshiba one? Specifically added confusion, that's why.

  12. Re:Bad GUI and no CLI: way too common on Take This GUI and Shove It · · Score: 1

    No, it's all still there, you can just do more in the GUI, without having to resort to PS.

  13. Re:this is ridiculous on Criminals Steal House Thanks To Hacked Email · · Score: 1

    That was probably where the fax came in - a system I wish would die..

    I'm curious to know how they got into his email though. Was it a weak password or was he scammed by them and they guessed it/were given it?

  14. Re:So let me get this straight... on Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software · · Score: 1

    But then they don't deal with direct sales and will probably direct you back to the store..

    I sense an American lawsuit unfolding, should this come in :)

  15. Re:Used video games on Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software · · Score: 1

    But where exactly is the EULA you agree to when you play a game on a console?

  16. Re:So let me get this straight... on Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software · · Score: 1

    So based on that, if you don't agree, the shop MUST take it back? There's no provision in the unseen contract for denying backing out of it.

  17. Re:Why? on HP Snaps Up 3PAR For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    It's certainly far better than anything else we'd looked at (EMC somethings & HP EVAs at the time). For me, 3PAR had the edge over Compellent, purely based on an ease of use and attitude of their sales/tech guys (they were very down to earth and honest about their produce. They claim this is their culture as they were founded by ex-Sun engineers).

    3PAR and Compellent both do thin provisioning (give your servers 100Gb space even though you only have 50G real - add more disks as needed rather than repartition) and variable performance for specific disk areas (start your data out on SATA, use a specific bunch of files lots and it'll progress up to SAS, then up to SSD if it's continually used).

    Everything else we saw was the old SAN way of "you want 300Gb RAID6? You need 4x 300G SATA/SAS/Fibre/SSD drives. Want to move it to another disk type later? Buy another 4 drives and move the data yourself". Really kinda crap in comparison!

    We've still not bought anything to replace our old HP silos, but that's due to other projects. It'll certainly be one of HPAR or Compellents offerings - I'm guessing we'll lean HPAR, as we buy lots of HP kit already. I just hope HP don't ruin what appears to be an awesome thing!

  18. Re:Why? on HP Snaps Up 3PAR For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    I'd be interested in knowing who you think has better technology. 3PAR and Compellent are very close, technologically and I've not seen anyone else who has anything of the sort those two do.

  19. Re:My first thought... on The Canadian Who Holds the Key To the Internet · · Score: 4, Funny

    com! net! org! tv! biz!

    Captain DNS and the Resolveteers!

  20. Re:our service on Internal Costs Per Gigabyte — What Do You Pay? · · Score: 1

    Great!

    Except your terms of service don't appear to mention anything along the lines of availability, backups, etc..

  21. Re:Good start - but needs a minor tweak. on HDMI Labeling Requirements Promise a Stew of Confusion · · Score: 1

    Back to the topic, just buy whatever cable, cut the bag open and if it doesn't work ... RETURN IT TO THE STORE FOR A REFUND.

    Which they probably won't accept as it's not in re-saleable condition! :o

  22. Re:Intentional? on Data Storage Capacity Mostly Wasted In Data Center · · Score: 1

    You might like to speak to 3PAR - when we got them in, they didn't only ask how much storage we wanted, they wanted to know how many IOPS we needed. Their stuff works on the basis that not all the data is needed all of the time. Put hot data on SSD, recent data on SAS/fibre drives and stuff that's not been touched for a while on SATA

  23. Re:well, of course. on Adobe Goes To Flash 10.1, Forgoes Security Fix For 10 · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Not fixing it in IE6... on Microsoft Says Upgrade To IE8, Even Though It's Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    Care to share how you enforce settings in Firefox and others?

  25. Re:All i can say is on Adobe Flash Cookies Raising Privacy Questions Again · · Score: 4, Informative