Slashdot Mirror


User: Da_Weasel

Da_Weasel's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
259
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 259

  1. Re:speaking of IPv6 vs IPv4 on Rewrites Considered Harmful? · · Score: 1

    not to be picky or anything...but that 16,700,000,000 per square meter comment is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off....

    it approximatly 2,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 per centimeter

    I completely agree with the code re=written comment though. With all of the provision in IPv6 such as IPv4 Compatible, and IPv4 Mapped IPv6 addresses, there is really no need to re write any code, you can simply put an additional NIC in the machine that is configured for IPv4 and the IPv6 router will handle encapsulating these packets. What alot of people don't realize is that the first 32bits of the new IPv6 address space has been reserved for existing IPv4 addresses.

    As for the absurdlyl huge address space. A lot of it is reserved and most of it is unallocated for any specific purpose, leaving lots of room for IPv6 to grow.

    One more point on over all performance of IPv6: Only the source and destination node may fragment a packet. This will reduce the overhead on internet routers because they will no longer need to be concerned with peicing together fragments created by another router just to get the original packet in a readable format.

  2. Its just not possible on Minnesota Senator Says Email Tax Might Reduce Spam · · Score: 1

    Technology moved to fast for laws and lawmakers.
    As soon as something like this is inacted, some geek somewhere will design a new (no-email, but email like) communication system. First Internet users will start using it, and within a year it can easily replace the current email infrastructure.

  3. How many time are we going to do this...? on Minnesota Senator Says Email Tax Might Reduce Spam · · Score: 1

    Ok, so another politician has brain stormed up this new idea, that...ummm...1,000,000 others have. Seems like everyweek another politician is talking about taxing email. The government has no right taxing this and can make no valid arguments for it.

  4. Re:Read the fine article. on Mail Server Flaw Opens MS Exchange to Spam · · Score: 1

    Agreed, Windows desperately needs some method of allowing the admin to logon as System and fix shit...

  5. Re:Read the fine article. on Mail Server Flaw Opens MS Exchange to Spam · · Score: 1

    Oh great, more gasoline! *sigh*

    First of all, you will never catch me in "MCSE school", those are for idiots who think they can pay $5000 dollars and learn enough in two days about Windows to get a job that pays 100K a year! hahahaha You honestly sound like one.
    Second of all, you have failed!
    In Window the Guest account looks just like any other user account. The only difference is that internally Windows treats the Guest account different. When a user try to access network resources and fails authentication then Windows effectivly logs them in as Guest (if the account is enabled). This means that all unauthenticated users will be logged in and have the permissions and rights of the guest account. Sure you can set the password, and someone can type in the user 'Guest' and what ever password you set, but thats not what an anonymous account is. An anonymous account is one that does not require authentication. If I make an account for Yo Momma, and she gives it out to everyone like 'the clap' does that mean its an anonymous account? No! It just means that she's a whore.

    Here read this, then eat my ass....loser!
    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr eeview/default. asp?url=/technet/prodtechn
    ol/windowsserver2003/p roddocs/standard/dsadmin_con cepts_accounts.asp

    Please keep posting i'm rather enjoying this...it's kind of like a virtual punching bag!

  6. Re:Read the fine article. on Mail Server Flaw Opens MS Exchange to Spam · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nope....try to refrain from commenting when you really have nothing of value to add. The Windows Guest account is equivlent to the anonymous login in most other system. These do not require a valid password, and generally anything or nothing can be entered. If there was a password that could fail then it would no longer be a Guest/Anonymous account now would it?! Don't take it personally though, I was just in a flaming mood, and your post smelled like gasoline...haha!

  7. Falls apart with most long words... on Can You Raed Tihs? · · Score: 1

    Long and uncommon words rarely work with this. After almost an hour of piping all conversations through scrmable.pl on IRC we figured out that is really only works good on word with6 or less letters, and even then only on common words.

  8. City performance on Hybrid/Electric Vehicles: Should I Buy? · · Score: 1

    I don't drive one myself, but they are suppose to get better mileage in the city than on the highway....

  9. Re:Better Idea on 11 Digit Dialing Comes Home to New York · · Score: 2, Informative

    'Why not just give every phone an IP adress?'
    http://www.vonage.com/

    This actually had nothing to do with not having enough phone numbers here in NYC. The FCC decided that Verizon had an unfair advantage since it owned most all 212 numbers. In case you don't know, 212 was originally the only area code in Manhattan, and this is where big business is. For companies that got numbers other than 212, they had to deal with 11 digit dialing for most business to business calls. This made 212 numbers coveted by the business sector. In an attempt to balance this out the FCC ruled that all calls now need to use the full 11 digits.
    This is a bit of a pain to me, since I work as the IT manager at a Call Center in Manhattan. Everything we do has a phone number associated with it. This means that all of the 2000+ phone numbers we own, plus any of our clients numbers, stored in any one of 30 different places need to be checked to make sure that the full area code is being used.