Many of the tech savvey here will already be doing the firewall/proxy thing with highly customised internal networks.
I expect that leaving the internal network unchanged and converting or proxying to 6 at the gateway will be the most painless way of interfacing with 6 (if it ever gets here).
This sounds like accreditation regimes as applied to security products (E3 accredited firewalls etc),
a process that costs many hundreds of thousands of dollars per product. The end result would be higher purchase costs, but maybe lower cost of ownership over the lifetime of product. CEOs love this stuff!
So, if MS retains/extends the monopoly this could provide a mechanism for generating further profits while providing an excuse for slowing down release schedules further.
Two sides to every coin.
(SIG withheld - DRM license expired.)
As an Aussie I just gotta say...
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The current world trend to the political right affects US and Australian citizens in much the same way.
It isn't the person in the street asking for more censorship, but those in power making the most of their time to impose conservative values on the rest of us!
In Australia it was the Port Arthur massacre that was used by the conservative government to ban firearms nation wide, just as in the States it was Sept 11 used to push through a range of restrictive legislation.
Do we get the governments we deserve? I dunno, these are complicated issues, but keeping a balance between the right and the left requires that we use our voices while we still can, etc etc.
I don't want my kids to have the sort of violence described above shoved down their terminals, but at the same time I want them to be empowered to explore whatever virtual realities their minds are capable of... and I trust in their inherent good natures and a positive home environment to help them ignore the nasties and benefit from the positives that on-line life has to offer.
Censorship sucks, Put some faith in human intelligence to make the right decision. Removing the ability to choose results in atrophied thinking apparatus. That is why the right wingers are ultimately working against the values they claim to uphold!
From my experience, however one cables (or builds a netword etc) everything will need to be redone in n years. Trying to build the perfect system to last 20 years is a waste of time. Just build the best you can afford now, and enjoy planning the next big upgrade.
I just put cat-5 into all the kids bedrooms, along with video coax. The cat-5 runs to a 100M switch, and carefully avoids (or crosses at right angles) any 240 Volt electrical mains cables. (We use 240 V in Australia). Everything is running like a charm, for now (except getting SAMBA talking to mt NT box, grumble grumble), but I know
that one day it'll all be replaced with the next big thing.
I think I'll wait for quantum cabling. You know? The one that simultaneously sends every possible packet from and to every possible IP address. The reality eigenfunction collapses it neatly to the packet that you really did receiver (in this reality) elegantly discarding the others because they never in fact existed.
Trouble is that crosstalk can land you in an ugly alternative reality! Emailing mom one minute, being dissected on planet Zoltar the next!
Back in 1976, me and some mates set up the first
computer users group at Griffith University (QLD Australia)
We had just migrated to a Teletype machine after using punched cards, and, having this one machine for the entire campus (linked to a PDP-10 at Queensland University, some miles away) decidied we needed to set up a support system for ourselves and new users wanting access to the terminal, to play TREK.BAS and print out the first ASCII pr0n (Ahh, vicky.dat!)
We managed to convince Queensland Uni to allocate us some money, as a remote chapter of their users group, but befor the money became available, one of our members discovered that hitting Contrl-C during the login process would trip up the accounting system, and allow terminal use for free!
They 'traced' it to us (damn the anonymity of that single terminal) and so the support system died before being born:)
Slashdot Mirror
(grins)
Point is taken.
Slashdot is no longer the tech forum it once was, and is now more a pop culture and reflection of an editorial elite.
All media evolve, and we, the users, must continually reassess the relevance of any media outlet to our needs.
Goodbye all, and thanks for the many ionteresting articles in the past. My requirements now take me elsewhere. I am cancelling my userid.
Kneecap recognition perhaps?
Many of the tech savvey here will already be doing the firewall/proxy thing with highly customised internal networks.
I expect that leaving the internal network unchanged and converting or proxying to 6 at the gateway will be the most painless way of interfacing with 6 (if it ever gets here).
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This sounds like accreditation regimes as applied to security products (E3 accredited firewalls etc),
a process that costs many hundreds of thousands of dollars per product. The end result would be higher purchase costs, but maybe lower cost of ownership over the lifetime of product. CEOs love this stuff!
So, if MS retains/extends the monopoly this could provide a mechanism for generating further profits while providing an excuse for slowing down release schedules further.
Two sides to every coin.
(SIG withheld - DRM license expired.)
The current world trend to the political right affects US and Australian citizens in much the same way.
... and I trust in their inherent good natures and a positive home environment to help them ignore the nasties and benefit from the positives that on-line life has to offer.
It isn't the person in the street asking for more censorship, but those in power making the most of their time to impose conservative values on the rest of us!
In Australia it was the Port Arthur massacre that was used by the conservative government to ban firearms nation wide, just as in the States it was Sept 11 used to push through a range of restrictive legislation.
Do we get the governments we deserve? I dunno, these are complicated issues, but keeping a balance between the right and the left requires that we use our voices while we still can, etc etc.
I don't want my kids to have the sort of violence described above shoved down their terminals, but at the same time I want them to be empowered to explore whatever virtual realities their minds are capable of
Censorship sucks, Put some faith in human intelligence to make the right decision. Removing the ability to choose results in atrophied thinking apparatus. That is why the right wingers are ultimately working against the values they claim to uphold!
From my experience, however one cables (or builds a netword etc) everything will need to be redone in n years. Trying to build the perfect system to last 20 years is a waste of time. Just build the best you can afford now, and enjoy planning the next big upgrade.
I just put cat-5 into all the kids bedrooms, along with video coax. The cat-5 runs to a 100M switch, and carefully avoids (or crosses at right angles) any 240 Volt electrical mains cables. (We use 240 V in Australia). Everything is running like a charm, for now (except getting SAMBA talking to mt NT box, grumble grumble), but I know
that one day it'll all be replaced with the next big thing.
I think I'll wait for quantum cabling. You know? The one that simultaneously sends every possible packet from and to every possible IP address. The reality eigenfunction collapses it neatly to the packet that you really did receiver (in this reality) elegantly discarding the others because they never in fact existed.
Trouble is that crosstalk can land you in an ugly alternative reality! Emailing mom one minute, being dissected on planet Zoltar the next!
Back in 1976, me and some mates set up the first computer users group at Griffith University (QLD Australia)
:)
We had just migrated to a Teletype machine after using punched cards, and, having this one machine for the entire campus (linked to a PDP-10 at Queensland University, some miles away) decidied we needed to set up a support system for ourselves and new users wanting access to the terminal, to play TREK.BAS and print out the first ASCII pr0n (Ahh, vicky.dat!)
We managed to convince Queensland Uni to allocate us some money, as a remote chapter of their users group, but befor the money became available, one of our members discovered that hitting Contrl-C during the login process would trip up the accounting system, and allow terminal use for free!
They 'traced' it to us (damn the anonymity of that single terminal) and so the support system died before being born