In September 1999, I got a Dell with a 450mhz PIII and 128 megs of RAM. It started off with Windows 98SE. Approx 2000 or 2001 I started double-booting linux, and eventually switched over to only linux. By running Gentoo linux with Blackbox as the WM, I was able to keep it perfectly usable until it finally died in August 2007, approx 8 years after it was manufactured. "Internet TV" would stutter/drop-frames, and editing 2560x1920 digital photos in GIMP was "leisurely", but otherwise it was nice and snappy. Web browsing, email, usenet, and spreadsheets were just as fast as my 2ghz work PC with 512 megs of ram, hampered by Windows XP and and MacAfee.
My current main PC is an AMD64-K8 with 2 gigs of RAM. The video card has twice as much video ram as the Dell had system ram. Gentoo linux with Blackbox absolutely flies on it.
> If you're in a public place, you're going to be surrounded by the sounds of people > talking. I don't understand how hearing a person talking on a cell phone is any more > disruptive than hearing them talk to the person next to them.
Talking in an ordinary conversational voice, either to someone across the table, or to a cellphone is not a problem. *YELLING AT THE TOP OF YOUR FUCKING VOICE* is a problem. Apparently, cellphones don't provide audible feedback of your voice, so some people *YELL AT THE TOP OF THEIR VOICE* when talking on a cell.
The only hot-button missing from your tirade is "think of the children". OK, I'll admit I'm in my mid 50's. Back in the early/mid 1980's, I remember 2 new trends in phones... 1) the rise of telemarketing (answering machines were non-existant for the average consumer) 2) instead of phones being hard-wired into the wall, you could actually get the now-familiar phone-jack
There was all sorts of yelling and screaming and apocalyptic predictions about the thousands of people who would die because they had disconnected their phones from the wall socket, and wouldn't get the warning phone call that their house was on fire, or some natural disaster (flood/fire/whatever) was coming their way. Guess what, it didn't happen.
One incident I do remember is when my employer was short-staffed in one office. In addition to someone being on vacation, and someone else on a long training course, another employee in a rotating shift position got pregnant, and was unable to continue, especially with the shiftwork. Because I had done the same job a few years earlier, I got pulled off my regular duties, got a 1-week refresher course by the shift supervisor, then went on rotating shifts by myself for a month.
The morning after my first graveyard shift, I got home around 8:00 AM, and was not exactly 100% lucid. I undressed and crashed into bed... only to be awakened 3 times in the next hour and a half by telemarketing assholes. Fortunately, I had a condo with the "new" phone jacks, and disconnected it from the wall. If the phone had been hard-wired, so help me, I would've "disconnected" it "the hard way".
Similarly, I don't think that society is going to callapse if cellphones become unreliable. Unlike you young whippersnappers, I remember the ers BC... Before Cellphones. Civilization survived thousands of years without cellphones, and can do so again.
I subscribe to "internet radio", namely live365.com. They have thousands of niche stations, versus a couple of hundred for satellite radio, and it costs approx half of what satellite radio costs. And unlike certain other asshole-type organizations, you can listen with linux (.PLS streams).
The annual subscription rate is $72/year. How many of you have spent over $1800 on CDs? Howsabout taking $1800 and buying a T-Bill at 4%? Guess what, your subscription is paid for. If you have a mortgage or a balance on your credit card, the interest rate is even higher, and about a $1,000 worth of music CDs will cost you more than an ongoing subscription. And that's not even counting the cost of a honking big multi-terrabyte raid array for storing your collection.
Another thing about internet radio (and satellite radio, for that matter) is that it does the collecting and playing for you. I live in Canada, and could download with impunity. Then after spending hours and hours looking for stuff I think I might like, downloading, and saving it, and organizing it, I could sit back and listen to it. But I happen to be in my mid-50's, and I make $66 K per year, I have a life beyond the internet, and my time is worth more to me than spending it screwing around with downloading/cataloging a honking big MP3 collection.
So I either spend thousands of dollars of money per year, buying music in my favourite niches, or waste who-knows-how-many-hours downloading and collating it, or I spend a fraction of that time and money, sit back and listen to music until I get sick of it, and still have a lot more time to spend enjoying life (or posting to Slashdot).
I can't take it with me, but I probably spend more time *ENJOYING MY FAVOURITE MUSIC* than many avid P2P downloaders. That's the angle to promote in today's busy society.
> 4.2mhz of the 5mhz of bandwidth is used for video, hardly a waste of bandwidth.
An analog channel is assigned 6 (SIX) mhz of bandwidth. If it was any different, your old NTSC tuner couldn't make heads or tails out of the signal. With digital (ATSC over-the-air or QAM over cable), you have the following choices for how to use 6mhz of spectrum bandwidth...
1 NTSC channels, approximately 640x480
6 digital SDTV channels (equivalant resolution to NTSC, approx 640x480)
Just as VCRs were starting to take off, Polaroid launched "Polavision". It was a moviecam that used a one-shot film cartridge that produced rather grainy movies. Polaroid always compared the low-cost moviecam against $2500 VHS moviecams. Main problem... the 10-minute film cartridges were damn expensive. By the time you bought enough 10-minute cartridges to equal a 2-hour VHS cassette, you'd spend more on the cartridges than the cost of the $2500 moviecam... ouch. AND THE VHS CASSETTE COULD BE ERASED AND RE-USED, while the Polavision cartridges were one-shot devices, like 8mm and "Super-8" film. Polavision was intended as a competitor to 8mm and "Super-8". 8mm and Super-8 were anihilated by VHS moviecams, and Polavision also fell victim to VHS moviecams.
Fast-forward several years. "Browsing devices" are the "VHS moviecams" to epaper's version of Polavision. Before anyone starts ranting against web-browsers, let me point out...
the ORIGINAL web, as developed at CERN, was text-only with browsers like lynx
you can read files on your local drive with Firefox or IE or Lynx
Note that I said "browsing devices", not PDAs, or micro-laptops. I think that cellphones with browsers are going to be far more of an epaper-killer than laptops...
there are a lot more people already lugging around cellphones/smartphones than will ever buy single-purpose "ebook readers"
many cellphones/smartphones already have browsers built-in
Which do you think the average person WHO IS ALREADY LUGGING AROUND A CELLPHONE/SMARTPHONE more likely to do for casual reading...
buy yet another $200 device that they have to lug around, or
use the cellphone/smartphone THEY'VE ALREADY PAID FOR AND THEY'RE ALREADY LUGGING AROUND to accomplish the same task
In a world where cellphones/smartphones/PDAs do not exist, a $200 stand-alone "ebook-reader" might have a market. In today's world, fuggedaboutit. Most people will end up sticking a USB stick into a cellphone/smartphone/PDA and reading text directly with their browser. Verizon subscribers, however, will find that their cellphones are crippled, and they have to upload the file to their account, and Verizon will charge them by the kbyte for the uploads.
(X) and I don't trust ideas from an idiot who can't put up simple text web page with a few gifs that will display properly in browsers that have javascript disabled.
> If a company can make a $200 laptop, and Windows is adding another, what, $70 to the > cost? Well, I imagine at least one of them would take a chance preinstalling Windows and > having a laptop that's some 35% cheaper, and will be used for essentially the same stuff.
The poster is missing one important item. Payments from companies for bundling their crapware (AOL intro, Norton/Macafee, Roxio, Google Toolbar, etc, etc) can generate nore revenue for the OEM than the cost of an OEM Windows licence. If anything, Windows machines end up being *LESS EXPENSIVE* than "bare" machines.
The water contained dissolved chemicals, which were partially composed of radioactive metals.
*ALL THE RADIOACTIVITY IN THE WATER WAS DUE TO RADIOACTIVE METALS*
The "miracle mineral" selectively binds to atoms of metals.
*IN THIS ONE SPECIFIC SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES*, the "miracle mineral" grabs all the radioactive material (i.e. metals) out of the water solution. The claim about removing *ALL* radiation *IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES* is 100% bullshit.
Actually, the "miracle mineral" could be quite useful for filtering metal-contaminated water (regardless of whether the metal is radioactive or not), but that's about it.
> Hate to play the devil's advocate here, but the list for > AdBlock blocks ALL ads, not just "ads that jitter about by > a couple of pixels, or flash bright contrasting colors".
In that case...
1) From the Firefox menu
Tools => Options => Block pop-up windows This stops pop-ups and pop-unders, except at sites in the "Exceptions" list.
2) Use the Firefox Flashblock extension to block schlockwave-trash, except at sites you whitelist. You can also click the "f" button that Flashblock puts up on the blocked Flash stuff, to manually run Flash at sites which aren't on your Flashblock whitelist
> Asia will lead, and anyone who wants to communicate with them will be forced to follow.
You mean I won't have to block 1,000 attempted email deliveries per month to my personal domain, with messages consisting of double-byte gobbledygook that my console isn't set up to display in the first place? One... Two... Three... awwwwwwwwwww.
> Where he absolutely nails it and I agree completely is that music is best created by > flesh and blood people who come together as musicians and create music. To that end. > This weekend, I challenge everyone who takes the time to read this remark to get out > and see a live musician. It is refreshing how much better music is from a flesh and > blood as compared to focus groups.
1) The world has gotten uglier. Go out to a small nightclub in the big city, and you risk ending up riddled with bullets. I'll stick with internet radio at home to hear different music.
2) I have "sensitive hearing"... and I'd like to keep it that way, thank you. Why is it that most bands *INSIST* on blasting the room with 120 decibels of noise? I find "live music" actually painful. Again internet radio is nice, because I get to control the volume knob on my speakers.
I think IPV6 is a good idea. However, with the zealots/fanbois it has for "friends", it sure as hell doesn't need any enemies. Don't go out of your way to piss off potential converts...
1) Do *NOT* advocate a mandatory drop-dead-date for IPV4. Doing so *BEGS* for the rejoinder... If IPV6 is so absolutely wonderful, then WTF do you need to drag us into it, kicking and screaming? Build your allegedly "better mousetrap", and the world will beat a path to your door. Unlike NTSC and ATSC television, IPV6 and IPV4 can co-exist. If IPV6 can't draw people away from IPV4, then it doesn't deserve to live.
2) Do *NOT* tell people that they have a "duty" to spend money migrating to IPV6. Show them the benefits. Again, if there aren't any benefits, it's IPV6's problem.
3) Fercryinoutloud *STOP* harping about "the end of NAT" and "NAT is evil". NAT works. It conserves IP address space, and it also protects end-users. And forget about the stupid argument that putting your PC in the DMZ "proves that NAT doesn't protect your PC". That's equivalant to saying that putting "INPUT ACCEPT" as your only iptables rule "proves that iptables doesn't protect your PC". When you proclaim that IPV6=="The end of NAT", you are spreading FUD, and scaring people away from IPV6. For those of you who whine about how "NAT breaks internet connectivity", remember that "a firewall breaks internet connectivity", too. This is *NOT* "your father's internet". 50 years ago, many people didn't lock their houses. Then meatspace got ugly. 15 years ago many people didn't bother with firewalls or NAT. Then cyberspace got ugly, like so...
90% plus of the people on the internet haven't got a fucking clue how to safely operate an internet-facing server. They *NEED* NAT, not an obscure-interface firewall. I run linux. When I use ADSL, I use NAT. If IPV6 is implemented in my lifetime, I will still use NAT. Deal with it.
And of course pages like http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2006/10/20/how-to-spee d-up-firefox-or-flock-ubuntu-606-610/ will (quite truthfully) tell you that you can speed up Firefox and Flock by setting "network.dns.disableIPv6" to "true" in about:config. And no, I am NOT going to twiddle my thumbs each time I click on a link, waiting for the IPV6 lookup to time out.
> For some reason, a gigabyte of RAM that costs $100 if you install it in a > beige-colored box costs up to $5000 if you install it in a teal-colored box, > at least if you're buying a service contract for the teal-colored box:-)
The consumer crap that goes into the beige-colored box doesn't have error detection/correction and it isn't designed to offer "five nines uptime" and the company selling/maintaining it won't re-imburse you major cash if it doesn't meet five nines. *THAT* is the difference. It'll work "good enough" for Joe Blow surfing pornsites. It will *NOT* keep the internet running with the reliability we've come to expect.
I keep an old PII clunker kicking around to run Galactic Civilizations V2.5, an OS/2-only game. I'd really like to get rid of it, but keep OS/2 for the game. With QEMU and Virtualbox, I've occasionally managed to "install OS/2" but the VM crashes when trying to do much more than merely bring up the OS/2 desktop. I'd be interested in any working solutions. TIA.
Didn't one sport (I forget if it was baseball or football) sue fantasy leagues, claiming that all statistics about the league were the league's "intellectual property"? I wonder how that same claim would play out if several hundred people got together, and filed a class action against the credit reporting agencies, claiming that the individuals' info was their "intellectual property".
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Analog TV goes off the air in the USA Feb 17, 2009 and Canada Aug 31, 2011. North of the Rio Grande, you'll be using an ATSC TV set. In the USA, and in major Canadian cities, the old NTSC TV stations are already being double-banked with digital ATSC (in many cases HDTV) equivalants, so digital is a reality now. ATSC tuners can pull in PSIP data. To quote from the website...
PSIP (Program and System Information Protocol) PSIP is a standard set by the ATSC that provides a methodology for transporting DTV system information and electronic program guide data. It allows broadcasters to identify themselves when you tune their channel. It can be information such as call letters and channel number. It can also convey up to 16 days of programming information. Consumer receiver manufacturers can use PSIP data to display interactive program guides to aid navigation of channels in the DTV receiver.
> It hurts me a bit to see people saying "Just disable ipv6 whenever you install vista." > I think MS is doing a great thing by enabling ipv6 by default. If the instructions to > support desk people, or some "best practice" becomes to disable ipv6 right away, ipv6 > will take *another* 10 years to enter the mainstream.
You almost sound like an enemy of IPV6... if the only way to get IPV6 implemented is by ramming it down people's throats, that says a lot of not very nice things about IPV6.
> This is pretty bad considering that ipv4 addresses are running out in the next 5 years.
You just contradicted yourself there. Is it 5 years or is it 10 years?
> It is exactly these kind of firmware/driver bugs (not having ipv6 support in a network > appliance should now be considered a bug) that need to be flushed out before the > internet is thrust into ipv6 adoption when the address space runs out.
Ex-bleeping-scuse me... I am not a paid beta-tester. My employer (a Canadian federal gov't agancy) has a mandate to serve the public, not to shake out bugs in various IPV6-related software. With Windows, it's always been BCP ("Best Current Practice") to hold off adopting new versions corporate-wide, until Service Pack 1. IPV6 will see a similar pattern. The definition of "pioneer" is "the guy with arrows sticking out his back". I'm not saying I'll never adopt IPV6; I'm saying I'll let someone else get the arrows in their back.
> Economic historians recognize that an inferior product may persist when a small but early > advantage becomes large over time and builds up a legacy that makes switching costly (David 1975).
At last... an economic explanation for the domination of computing by Windows.
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In September 1999, I got a Dell with a 450mhz PIII and 128 megs of RAM. It started off with Windows 98SE. Approx 2000 or 2001 I started double-booting linux, and eventually switched over to only linux. By running Gentoo linux with Blackbox as the WM, I was able to keep it perfectly usable until it finally died in August 2007, approx 8 years after it was manufactured. "Internet TV" would stutter/drop-frames, and editing 2560x1920 digital photos in GIMP was "leisurely", but otherwise it was nice and snappy. Web browsing, email, usenet, and spreadsheets were just as fast as my 2ghz work PC with 512 megs of ram, hampered by Windows XP and and MacAfee.
My current main PC is an AMD64-K8 with 2 gigs of RAM. The video card has twice as much video ram as the Dell had system ram. Gentoo linux with Blackbox absolutely flies on it.
> If you're in a public place, you're going to be surrounded by the sounds of people
> talking. I don't understand how hearing a person talking on a cell phone is any more
> disruptive than hearing them talk to the person next to them.
Talking in an ordinary conversational voice, either to someone across the table, or to a cellphone is not a problem. *YELLING AT THE TOP OF YOUR FUCKING VOICE* is a problem. Apparently, cellphones don't provide audible feedback of your voice, so some people *YELL AT THE TOP OF THEIR VOICE* when talking on a cell.
The only hot-button missing from your tirade is "think of the children". OK, I'll admit I'm in my mid 50's. Back in the early/mid 1980's, I remember 2 new trends in phones...
1) the rise of telemarketing (answering machines were non-existant for the average consumer)
2) instead of phones being hard-wired into the wall, you could actually get the now-familiar phone-jack
There was all sorts of yelling and screaming and apocalyptic predictions about the thousands of people who would die because they had disconnected their phones from the wall socket, and wouldn't get the warning phone call that their house was on fire, or some natural disaster (flood/fire/whatever) was coming their way. Guess what, it didn't happen.
One incident I do remember is when my employer was short-staffed in one office. In addition to someone being on vacation, and someone else on a long training course, another employee in a rotating shift position got pregnant, and was unable to continue, especially with the shiftwork. Because I had done the same job a few years earlier, I got pulled off my regular duties, got a 1-week refresher course by the shift supervisor, then went on rotating shifts by myself for a month.
The morning after my first graveyard shift, I got home around 8:00 AM, and was not exactly 100% lucid. I undressed and crashed into bed... only to be awakened 3 times in the next hour and a half by telemarketing assholes. Fortunately, I had a condo with the "new" phone jacks, and disconnected it from the wall. If the phone had been hard-wired, so help me, I would've "disconnected" it "the hard way".
Similarly, I don't think that society is going to callapse if cellphones become unreliable. Unlike you young whippersnappers, I remember the ers BC... Before Cellphones. Civilization survived thousands of years without cellphones, and can do so again.
I subscribe to "internet radio", namely live365.com. They have thousands of niche stations, versus a couple of hundred for satellite radio, and it costs approx half of what satellite radio costs. And unlike certain other asshole-type organizations, you can listen with linux (.PLS streams).
The annual subscription rate is $72/year. How many of you have spent over $1800 on CDs? Howsabout taking $1800 and buying a T-Bill at 4%? Guess what, your subscription is paid for. If you have a mortgage or a balance on your credit card, the interest rate is even higher, and about a $1,000 worth of music CDs will cost you more than an ongoing subscription. And that's not even counting the cost of a honking big multi-terrabyte raid array for storing your collection.
Another thing about internet radio (and satellite radio, for that matter) is that it does the collecting and playing for you. I live in Canada, and could download with impunity. Then after spending hours and hours looking for stuff I think I might like, downloading, and saving it, and organizing it, I could sit back and listen to it. But I happen to be in my mid-50's, and I make $66 K per year, I have a life beyond the internet, and my time is worth more to me than spending it screwing around with downloading/cataloging a honking big MP3 collection.
So I either spend thousands of dollars of money per year, buying music in my favourite niches, or waste who-knows-how-many-hours downloading and collating it, or I spend a fraction of that time and money, sit back and listen to music until I get sick of it, and still have a lot more time to spend enjoying life (or posting to Slashdot).
I can't take it with me, but I probably spend more time *ENJOYING MY FAVOURITE MUSIC* than many avid P2P downloaders. That's the angle to promote in today's busy society.
An analog channel is assigned 6 (SIX) mhz of bandwidth. If it was any different, your old NTSC tuner couldn't make heads or tails out of the signal. With digital (ATSC over-the-air or QAM over cable), you have the following choices for how to use 6mhz of spectrum bandwidth...
- 1 NTSC channels, approximately 640x480
- 6 digital SDTV channels (equivalant resolution to NTSC, approx 640x480)
- 1 stunning 1920x1080i channel
Why would you choose #1?Fast-forward several years. "Browsing devices" are the "VHS moviecams" to epaper's version of Polavision. Before anyone starts ranting against web-browsers, let me point out...
- the ORIGINAL web, as developed at CERN, was text-only with browsers like lynx
- you can read files on your local drive with Firefox or IE or Lynx
Note that I said "browsing devices", not PDAs, or micro-laptops. I think that cellphones with browsers are going to be far more of an epaper-killer than laptops...- there are a lot more people already lugging around cellphones/smartphones than will ever buy single-purpose "ebook readers"
- many cellphones/smartphones already have browsers built-in
Which do you think the average person WHO IS ALREADY LUGGING AROUND A CELLPHONE/SMARTPHONE more likely to do for casual reading...- buy yet another $200 device that they have to lug around, or
- use the cellphone/smartphone THEY'VE ALREADY PAID FOR AND THEY'RE ALREADY LUGGING AROUND to accomplish the same task
In a world where cellphones/smartphones/PDAs do not exist, a $200 stand-alone "ebook-reader" might have a market. In today's world, fuggedaboutit. Most people will end up sticking a USB stick into a cellphone/smartphone/PDA and reading text directly with their browser. Verizon subscribers, however, will find that their cellphones are crippled, and they have to upload the file to their account, and Verizon will charge them by the kbyte for the uploads.> Day 1: launch rocket ship to Mars carrying all the Repugicans, conservatives,
> NRA members, NASCAR fans, and silly religious people.
Hey, you forgot about the hairdressers, middle-management, and cellphone virus cleaners.
(X) and I don't trust ideas from an idiot who can't put up simple text web page with a few gifs that will display properly in browsers that have javascript disabled.
> If a company can make a $200 laptop, and Windows is adding another, what, $70 to the
> cost? Well, I imagine at least one of them would take a chance preinstalling Windows and
> having a laptop that's some 35% cheaper, and will be used for essentially the same stuff.
The poster is missing one important item. Payments from companies for bundling their crapware (AOL intro, Norton/Macafee, Roxio, Google Toolbar, etc, etc) can generate nore revenue for the OEM than the cost of an OEM Windows licence. If anything, Windows machines end up being *LESS EXPENSIVE* than "bare" machines.
The water contained dissolved chemicals, which were partially composed of radioactive metals.
*ALL THE RADIOACTIVITY IN THE WATER WAS DUE TO RADIOACTIVE METALS*
The "miracle mineral" selectively binds to atoms of metals.
*IN THIS ONE SPECIFIC SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES*, the "miracle mineral" grabs all the radioactive material (i.e. metals) out of the water solution. The claim about removing *ALL* radiation *IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES* is 100% bullshit.
Actually, the "miracle mineral" could be quite useful for filtering metal-contaminated water (regardless of whether the metal is radioactive or not), but that's about it.
That is the real question.
> Hate to play the devil's advocate here, but the list for
... for websites with annoying ads
> AdBlock blocks ALL ads, not just "ads that jitter about by
> a couple of pixels, or flash bright contrasting colors".
In that case...
1) From the Firefox menu
Tools => Options => Block pop-up windows
This stops pop-ups and pop-unders, except at sites in the "Exceptions" list.
2) Use the Firefox Flashblock extension to block schlockwave-trash, except at sites you whitelist. You can also click the "f" button that Flashblock puts up on the blocked Flash stuff, to manually run Flash at sites which aren't on your Flashblock whitelist
3) Follow the instructions at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Animated_images on how to disable animated images
4) ???
5) Lack of profit
> Asia will lead, and anyone who wants to communicate with them will be forced to follow.
You mean I won't have to block 1,000 attempted email deliveries per month to my personal domain, with messages consisting of double-byte gobbledygook that my console isn't set up to display in the first place? One... Two... Three... awwwwwwwwwww.
> Where he absolutely nails it and I agree completely is that music is best created by
> flesh and blood people who come together as musicians and create music. To that end.
> This weekend, I challenge everyone who takes the time to read this remark to get out
> and see a live musician. It is refreshing how much better music is from a flesh and
> blood as compared to focus groups.
1) The world has gotten uglier. Go out to a small nightclub in the big city, and you risk ending up riddled with bullets. I'll stick with internet radio at home to hear different music.
2) I have "sensitive hearing"... and I'd like to keep it that way, thank you. Why is it that most bands *INSIST* on blasting the room with 120 decibels of noise? I find "live music" actually painful. Again internet radio is nice, because I get to control the volume knob on my speakers.
I think IPV6 is a good idea. However, with the zealots/fanbois it has for "friends", it sure as hell doesn't need any enemies. Don't go out of your way to piss off potential converts...
1) Do *NOT* advocate a mandatory drop-dead-date for IPV4. Doing so *BEGS* for the rejoinder... If IPV6 is so absolutely wonderful, then WTF do you need to drag us into it, kicking and screaming? Build your allegedly "better mousetrap", and the world will beat a path to your door. Unlike NTSC and ATSC television, IPV6 and IPV4 can co-exist. If IPV6 can't draw people away from IPV4, then it doesn't deserve to live.
2) Do *NOT* tell people that they have a "duty" to spend money migrating to IPV6. Show them the benefits. Again, if there aren't any benefits, it's IPV6's problem.
3) Fercryinoutloud *STOP* harping about "the end of NAT" and "NAT is evil". NAT works. It conserves IP address space, and it also protects end-users. And forget about the stupid argument that putting your PC in the DMZ "proves that NAT doesn't protect your PC". That's equivalant to saying that putting "INPUT ACCEPT" as your only iptables rule "proves that iptables doesn't protect your PC". When you proclaim that IPV6=="The end of NAT", you are spreading FUD, and scaring people away from IPV6. For those of you who whine about how "NAT breaks internet connectivity", remember that "a firewall breaks internet connectivity", too. This is *NOT* "your father's internet". 50 years ago, many people didn't lock their houses. Then meatspace got ugly. 15 years ago many people didn't bother with firewalls or NAT. Then cyberspace got ugly, like so...
Aug 3 01:42:13 m450 UNSOLICITED:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=24.64.247.183 DST=208.65.246.166 LEN=512 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=71 ID=58522 PROTO=UDP SPT=6403 DPT=1026 LEN=492
Aug 3 01:42:13 m450 UNSOLICITED:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=24.64.247.183 DST=208.65.246.166 LEN=512 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=71 ID=58524 PROTO=UDP SPT=6403 DPT=1028 LEN=492
Aug 3 01:43:34 m450 UNSOLICITED:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=24.64.119.4 DST=208.65.246.166 LEN=512 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=71 ID=6764 PROTO=UDP SPT=3804 DPT=1026 LEN=492
Aug 3 01:43:34 m450 UNSOLICITED:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=24.64.119.4 DST=208.65.246.166 LEN=512 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=71 ID=6765 PROTO=UDP SPT=3804 DPT=1027 LEN=492
Aug 3 01:43:48 m450 UNSOLICITED:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=24.64.11.137 DST=208.65.246.166 LEN=512 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=71 ID=46557 PROTO=UDP SPT=8109 DPT=1026 LEN=492
Aug 3 01:43:48 m450 UNSOLICITED:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=24.64.11.137 DST=208.65.246.166 LEN=512 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=71 ID=46559 PROTO=UDP SPT=8109 DPT=1028 LEN=492
Aug 3 01:46:31 m450 UNSOLICITED:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=219.148.119.6 DST=208.65.246.166 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=108 ID=256 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=12200 DPT=8000 WINDOW=8192 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
90% plus of the people on the internet haven't got a fucking clue how to safely operate an internet-facing server. They *NEED* NAT, not an obscure-interface firewall. I run linux. When I use ADSL, I use NAT. If IPV6 is implemented in my lifetime, I will still use NAT. Deal with it.
And of course pages like http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2006/10/20/how-to-spee d-up-firefox-or-flock-ubuntu-606-610/ will (quite truthfully) tell you that you can speed up Firefox and Flock by setting "network.dns.disableIPv6" to "true" in about:config. And no, I am NOT going to twiddle my thumbs each time I click on a link, waiting for the IPV6 lookup to time out.
> For some reason, a gigabyte of RAM that costs $100 if you install it in a :-)
> beige-colored box costs up to $5000 if you install it in a teal-colored box,
> at least if you're buying a service contract for the teal-colored box
The consumer crap that goes into the beige-colored box doesn't have error detection/correction and it isn't designed to offer "five nines uptime" and the company selling/maintaining it won't re-imburse you major cash if it doesn't meet five nines. *THAT* is the difference. It'll work "good enough" for Joe Blow surfing pornsites. It will *NOT* keep the internet running with the reliability we've come to expect.
I keep an old PII clunker kicking around to run Galactic Civilizations V2.5, an OS/2-only game. I'd really like to get rid of it, but keep OS/2 for the game. With QEMU and Virtualbox, I've occasionally managed to "install OS/2" but the VM crashes when trying to do much more than merely bring up the OS/2 desktop. I'd be interested in any working solutions. TIA.
if u cn rd ths, ur prbbly a lnux geek.
Didn't one sport (I forget if it was baseball or football) sue fantasy leagues, claiming that all statistics about the league were the league's "intellectual property"? I wonder how that same claim would play out if several hundred people got together, and filed a class action against the credit reporting agencies, claiming that the individuals' info was their "intellectual property".
PSIP (Program and System Information Protocol) PSIP is a standard set by the ATSC that provides a methodology for transporting DTV system information and electronic program guide data. It allows broadcasters to identify themselves when you tune their channel. It can be information such as call letters and channel number. It can also convey up to 16 days of programming information. Consumer receiver manufacturers can use PSIP data to display interactive program guides to aid navigation of channels in the DTV receiver.
A big, black, mother...board
...Oriental knowhow and cheap (South) American labour.
> It hurts me a bit to see people saying "Just disable ipv6 whenever you install vista."
> I think MS is doing a great thing by enabling ipv6 by default. If the instructions to
> support desk people, or some "best practice" becomes to disable ipv6 right away, ipv6
> will take *another* 10 years to enter the mainstream.
You almost sound like an enemy of IPV6... if the only way to get IPV6 implemented is by ramming it down people's throats, that says a lot of not very nice things about IPV6.
> This is pretty bad considering that ipv4 addresses are running out in the next 5 years.
You just contradicted yourself there. Is it 5 years or is it 10 years?
> It is exactly these kind of firmware/driver bugs (not having ipv6 support in a network
> appliance should now be considered a bug) that need to be flushed out before the
> internet is thrust into ipv6 adoption when the address space runs out.
Ex-bleeping-scuse me... I am not a paid beta-tester. My employer (a Canadian federal gov't agancy) has a mandate to serve the public, not to shake out bugs in various IPV6-related software. With Windows, it's always been BCP ("Best Current Practice") to hold off adopting new versions corporate-wide, until Service Pack 1. IPV6 will see a similar pattern. The definition of "pioneer" is "the guy with arrows sticking out his back". I'm not saying I'll never adopt IPV6; I'm saying I'll let someone else get the arrows in their back.
> Economic historians recognize that an inferior product may persist when a small but early
> advantage becomes large over time and builds up a legacy that makes switching costly (David 1975).
At last... an economic explanation for the domination of computing by Windows.