I think most of the world works on 240/50. It would make travelling, a lot easier. Different plugs, sure that's easy, and adapters are small, but to have to bring converters with you, that's a pain. Although I have just looked up which countries use what, and actually it's not quite such a clearcut divider as metric/imperial.
I think Swatch made a watch that basically counted 1000.... ticks? per day. So you'd wake up at, say, 300, go to work from 400 to 800, etc. Just found it
Well, why not let the sysadmins/network guys worry about the implications of IPv6?:)
Just get your apps v6 ready:)
Also, I suspect that a lot more people know that a "firewall" stops inbound connections than know that NAT does the same (assuming no port-forwarding-style NAT, etc).
And God no, please, NO MORE NAT. Definitely not in IPv6. We don't need it, and don't want it. It's a crock.
Yep. I've been wondering when Slashdot would get up to date for years now.
Trouble is, Slashdot is unashamedly "American-centric" and it always seems to be the Americans who don't want to move from IPv4 (probably because they got such a good large chunk of the v4 space due to their involvement in it).
US: IPv6 good, metric good, you can keep your 110V/60Hz weirdness if you really have to.
I'm a network admin and I honestly don't know enough about it to be proficient or even comfortable.
Yep, cos it's kind of snuck up on you there, hasn't it. I mean, no-one ever heard of it until the start of this year.
People laughed when I said about a decade ago "get ahead of the curve"....
I can't wait to get back on the v6 net.
I'm waiting to get my sixxs account re-activated. I moved house, and then I registered again, so I now have a -RIPE handle and a -SIXXS handle.
Well, yes, I was typing without trying.
I suppose that \>\> might work, or sudo bash -c "echo 127.0.0.2 google-analytics.com www.google-analytics.com >>/etc/hosts"
There's always more than one way to skin a rabbit.
Download, er, I mean, buy a 70s or 80s BBC TV show called Threads. Bit cheesy in places, but it shows the aftermath of a nuclear war, and frankly, it's not pretty. No-one will look after you at all, if you can work, you can eat, if not, then you'll just die, pretty much.
My rule is that if a script from an external site slows down my page loading long enough that I can see it saying "Waiting for..." in the status bar, then that site gets added to my hosts file.
I'm 120 miles away from my powered off laptop, otherwise I'd post you the worst offenders here.
It still pisses me off that Fedora Linux does not recognise "Edinburgh" as a capital when selecting the TZ during installation but it does recognise USA state capitals.
Have you raised a bug about it? Thought about submitting a patch? Or are you just going to stay getting angry about it?
I suspect that the tiny signals received from from the satellites, and the lack of any sort of decent antenna in most GPS devices mean that it wouldn't take much to cause problems.
You mock, but if you are careful (only bind services that require public access to eth0, use tcp wrappers, harden things, etc), a firewall is mostly unnecessary.
If you've got a dish/directional antenna, and some kit, you can hook it up to your computer, and decode loads of satellite images. You know the pics they show on the weather forecasts? They're just beamed down from space.
Never heard that about McDs, but yes, it's all about clever wording.
"Made with 100% chicken" - it's true - they can mix 100% chicken, with other stuff, and end up with 44% chicken. (Made from is different, if I remember rightly)
Homecooked food is another good one. Made elsewhere, heated up at "home".
I had a head-on collision in 1976 when the left front tire blew out and threw me into oncoming traffic
And that's why we in the UK are correct in driving on the left. See, you would have just gone off the road, and probably into a field. Much nicer than hitting a car.
Now of course, if your right tyre blows, well, that's a whole other problem.
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I think most of the world works on 240/50. It would make travelling, a lot easier. Different plugs, sure that's easy, and adapters are small, but to have to bring converters with you, that's a pain. Although I have just looked up which countries use what, and actually it's not quite such a clearcut divider as metric/imperial.
I think Swatch made a watch that basically counted 1000 .... ticks? per day. So you'd wake up at, say, 300, go to work from 400 to 800, etc. Just found it
Metric. Date format. IPv6. 240v 50Hz. Not many left to go, Americans.
Well, why not let the sysadmins/network guys worry about the implications of IPv6? :) :)
Just get your apps v6 ready
Also, I suspect that a lot more people know that a "firewall" stops inbound connections than know that NAT does the same (assuming no port-forwarding-style NAT, etc).
And God no, please, NO MORE NAT. Definitely not in IPv6. We don't need it, and don't want it. It's a crock.
More chance of being ready when needed? A greater, longer understanding of it? Fun? I don't know - lots of reasons why.
Yep. I've been wondering when Slashdot would get up to date for years now.
Trouble is, Slashdot is unashamedly "American-centric" and it always seems to be the Americans who don't want to move from IPv4 (probably because they got such a good large chunk of the v4 space due to their involvement in it).
US: IPv6 good, metric good, you can keep your 110V/60Hz weirdness if you really have to.
I hear things like "every device gets a public IP" and freak out
Why? Why on earth? There are these things called firewalls, right....
I'm a network admin and I honestly don't know enough about it to be proficient or even comfortable.
Yep, cos it's kind of snuck up on you there, hasn't it. I mean, no-one ever heard of it until the start of this year.
People laughed when I said about a decade ago "get ahead of the curve"....
I can't wait to get back on the v6 net.
I'm waiting to get my sixxs account re-activated. I moved house, and then I registered again, so I now have a -RIPE handle and a -SIXXS handle.
Well, yes, I was typing without trying. /etc/hosts"
I suppose that \>\> might work, or sudo bash -c "echo 127.0.0.2 google-analytics.com www.google-analytics.com >>
There's always more than one way to skin a rabbit.
Affect.
Is it really that hard?
Download, er, I mean, buy a 70s or 80s BBC TV show called Threads. Bit cheesy in places, but it shows the aftermath of a nuclear war, and frankly, it's not pretty. No-one will look after you at all, if you can work, you can eat, if not, then you'll just die, pretty much.
Trust Aunty to make it all look so glamorous.
My rule is that if a script from an external site slows down my page loading long enough that I can see it saying "Waiting for ..." in the status bar, then that site gets added to my hosts file.
I'm 120 miles away from my powered off laptop, otherwise I'd post you the worst offenders here.
Derren Brown did a TV show based on this. It was called something like The System. Well worth watching.
A bender is also a long drinking session. "I went out on a bit of a bender last night, and smoked way too many fags."
Ironically, addons.mozilla.org is one of the sites that had a fake cert generated for it.
My personal philosophy is that the instant you hear the term "dumbing down" you can ignore the speaker
Sorry, I stopped listening after that.
It still pisses me off that Fedora Linux does not recognise "Edinburgh" as a capital when selecting the TZ during installation but it does recognise USA state capitals.
Have you raised a bug about it? Thought about submitting a patch? Or are you just going to stay getting angry about it?
Interference can be monitored and controlled.
I suspect that the tiny signals received from from the satellites, and the lack of any sort of decent antenna in most GPS devices mean that it wouldn't take much to cause problems.
What about Morse code? You can use a single frequency, and convey information by simply switching it on and off.
You mock, but if you are careful (only bind services that require public access to eth0, use tcp wrappers, harden things, etc), a firewall is mostly unnecessary.
Little do you know.
If you've got a dish/directional antenna, and some kit, you can hook it up to your computer, and decode loads of satellite images. You know the pics they show on the weather forecasts? They're just beamed down from space.
More. Did you know Hams "own" 44/8" too btw?
Never heard that about McDs, but yes, it's all about clever wording.
"Made with 100% chicken" - it's true - they can mix 100% chicken, with other stuff, and end up with 44% chicken. (Made from is different, if I remember rightly)
Homecooked food is another good one. Made elsewhere, heated up at "home".
I had a head-on collision in 1976 when the left front tire blew out and threw me into oncoming traffic
And that's why we in the UK are correct in driving on the left. See, you would have just gone off the road, and probably into a field. Much nicer than hitting a car.
Now of course, if your right tyre blows, well, that's a whole other problem.
They do have a history of interfering, probably with good intentions, but things never usually work out how you want them.