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  1. Re:IPv6 I hope... on British Telecom Plans to Ditch POTS Network · · Score: 1

    reguardless, they're still addresses, even if they're not all useable. but yes, there is a small percentage you could take off that 1.7 billions, that's still a lot of addresses to allocate :)

  2. Re:IPv6 I hope... on British Telecom Plans to Ditch POTS Network · · Score: 1

    forgot to mention, the report is by APNIC, but it covers the whole internet, not just their portion

  3. Re:Ignoring the fact that this is a dupe... on British Telecom Plans to Ditch POTS Network · · Score: 3, Interesting

    it won't. BT is actually late at that game, i seem to recall AT&T Canada switching their whole network to IP based last year

  4. Re:IPv6 I hope... on British Telecom Plans to Ditch POTS Network · · Score: 5, Informative

    make that clear, there is absolutely NO shortage of ipv4 addresses.

    i just received the APNIC (asia pacific) address report for this week. here's a few fun numbers:

    60% of the allocated ipv4 space has been allocated (yes you hear it right, 60%). that leaves us with 40% still to allocate. 40% of 32 bits. now:
    2**32 = 4 294 967 296
    4 294 967 296 * 0.4 = 1717986920
    that's 1.7 billions address NOT ALLOCATED

    but here's the kick, only 50% of that allocated 60% (30% of the total) are advertised (that means routable on the internet), which in turn mean much less than that are actually used (advertised does not mean it is in use)

  5. Re:ARIN on Build A Darknet To Capture Naughty Traffic · · Score: 1

    one word: SSL sites

  6. rbc on Royal Bank of Canada Software Upgrade Goes Awry · · Score: 1

    guess i'll be watching my bank account for a few days. my account is with another bank, but my car loan is with rbc and i use direct draft hmm

    funny, last time i went to make an extra 5k$ payment on it, the lady at the counter tried to make me switch to them! hah

  7. Re:What is it with these watches.... on Return of the TV Wristwatch · · Score: 1

    i had one of those too, i found you could open the back of the watch (it was just clipped in place, not screwer) and put a piece of paper between the spring and the speaker. no more beeps

    it was handy as we weren't allowed to have/use calculators. a watch just blended in

  8. Re:qmail: never a security lapse. on BIND Is Most Popular DNS Server · · Score: 1

    i also run courier.

    afaik, it has had a few (1 or 2) very minor security lapses in very specific circumstances. though they might not have been in the MTA (i recall one being in maildrop)

  9. Re:Inkscape Rocks!!! on Introduction To Inkscape And Its Future · · Score: 1

    anything, except dia. as it doesn't actually work. visio manage to display what you tell it to. you can't even save and open back a drawing in dia whitout having a completly different design. and don't even think about printing

  10. Re:Inkscape Rocks!!! on Introduction To Inkscape And Its Future · · Score: 1

    maybe you can tell me what a good replacement to visio is? open source?

    and no "dia" doesn't qualify

  11. Re:Over-wired? on Fiber To The Dorm Room · · Score: 1

    there is, but it's much much longer.

    i recall a certain 80km mentionned for CDWM and longer for DWDM

  12. Re:Solution on Playing Games While Not Ruining Your Relationship? · · Score: 1

    depend... killed bunnies are a complete turn off i'd bet...

  13. Re:Good they've merged. Why XML ? on SPF To Be Integrated With MS 'Caller ID' System · · Score: 2, Funny

    imagine the pain for all those losers using tinydns in a default setup (eg, no tcp listening deamon by default)

  14. Re: Not IOS though on What Would You Do With a 92 TBps Router? · · Score: 1

    the problem with cisco's web interface, from my own experience, is it doesn't work.

    it look like it do, but it utterly doesn't do shit. (tried on a PIX). in the end i just typed the command manually (i wore out my ? key too)

  15. Re:Why block China? on 71% of Spam Servers are Located in China · · Score: 1

    cash incentive

    once the block affect too many of their own businesses, they will take action. so long as they don't have an incentive to secure and close down the relays, they won't

  16. blackholes on 71% of Spam Servers are Located in China · · Score: 5, Informative

    there was a tip posted to NANOG this morning. you can use china.blackholes.us as a RBL (look at their page, they have other lists) to effectively block all mail from china's IPs

  17. Re:About time on Google Experiments With Local Filesystem Search · · Score: 1

    i concur, i set up a swish++ server years ago for a company i had a summer job at. quite an amasing beast really. if i remember it took about 15 minutes to crawl the couple of gigs of docs and pdf they had

  18. Re:Potential customers on The Ultimate All-In-One Storage Solution · · Score: 1

    i think that was DEC's president, not IBM's

  19. Re:TCO on Worms Jack Up the Total Cost of Windows · · Score: 1

    you're right, linux is free if your time is worthless

    except he was talking about windows.

    (here's a clue, if you don't use something, your cost is zero)

  20. Re:no viruses for linux yet because.... on Worms Jack Up the Total Cost of Windows · · Score: 3, Insightful

    then that's not a cost of using linux,
    that's a cost of trading off good security for a (little) ease of use.

    compare that to windows, where the "default" is running as administrator.

    people would write viruses, and they would still propagate if linux had 90% of the market share. just not as quickly and wouldn't affect as many people.

  21. Re:Damn, I'm so out of touch. on Operation Fastlink Cracks Down on Warez · · Score: 1

    fairlight and class used to be pretty big a few years ago. not sure anymore as it's been ages since i downloaded any warez... (of course using linux helped get rid of that nasty habbit).

    i've never heard of the other two

  22. Re:No boundries... 100+ individuals... on Operation Fastlink Cracks Down on Warez · · Score: 1

    send em to guantanamo bay

  23. Re:$2,000,000 parking fees at a hacked meter! on Montreal Parking Meters Run Linux · · Score: 1

    if you read the article (i know, i know) you put in cash in it and get time (like an usual parking meter) BUT you can refill it from any station if you remember your parking id

  24. Re:I know little about embedded devices on Montreal Parking Meters Run Linux · · Score: 4, Funny

    remember, we burned down your white house once, no reason we can't do it twice *grin*

  25. Re:What.. on RFID for Automobile Tracking · · Score: 1

    i favor darwinian ways of getting them off the road. who needs driving lessons!