Voyager will find the long lost Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Rumsfeld will use this as an excuse to overhaul the space program! We all know the Iraqis have had a secret space program since 1950.
Wow I should only hope to make a piece of code that lasts so long (the best I did is 3), a true testament to what a bunch of nerds with some ingenuity (and money) can really do. These days it seems we have the genius, but surely not the money. Oh well...
Sssh.. You missed your calling with the guys who wrote the software with the Y2K bug in it!
Microsoft is gradually moving almost their entire product line to managed code (.Net). So yes, anything to do with Windows will have to be.Net in a few years time.
Maybe routers, switches, hubs, fiber optics gear. You know, the stuff that makes it a network instead of a bunch of computers sitting on a warehouse floor.
At the executive level, yes, GWB's crew has enough problems already. But at the lower levels of government, I think there are lots of good people who see the advantages of moving forward. Remember that there is lots of inter-department communication so as the Pentagon moves to IPv6, so will the NSA, then the CIA and FBI. Then the whole Justice Department, the State Department, Commerce, Energy, etc. I do admit though it will be decades before something like the Department of Agriculture makes the move.
It is already happening. Asia and Europe are miles ahead of North America in terms of IPv6 deployment. This is just another area (like mobile/wireless) where the US and Canada are going to fall behind the rest of the world because the suits don't have the foresight to look any more into the future than next quarter's results.
NAT does nothing that any decent real router/gateway cannot do as well. You install a router at the entrance to your network. It hands out REAL IP adresses to your hosts, and you put rules in your router that say 'drop TCP/UDP packets that are heading for port 1024', excluding those hosts that you want to run web/email/SSH on, etc.
Exactly. It may take 20 years to completely exhaust the space, but we will have to make the switch way before that happens.
One analogy I have come up with is bathrooms. Say you have 100 bathrooms, and right now 50 of them are busy (assigned). Now you (person #51) come along and want to use one. Is it very hard to find a spare washroom out of the 100, when 50 are free? Probably not too hard. Now think about when there are 90 bathrooms full and person #91 comes along to find a bathroom. It will be a lot harder to find one!
The same analogy can be applied to the IPv4 address space. I am ignoring the fact that you could have a database keeping track of all of the free bathrooms to point people to. But even in the real world, it is not as simple as 'ask and you shall recieve'. There are lag issues between when an organization gives up an address space and wants to move to a different one. Especially in Asia and Europe right now, organizations are having major problems getting enough address space to meet their needs and are having to resort to NAT because they have no choice whatsoever. NAT may work for little users who only run email/web, but it doesn't for people who want to do things like VoIP, and hosting of many other services.
To summarize, we need to migrate to IPv6 well before the address space runs out completely.
Yes, the size of the routing tables is one more reason for the upgrade to IPv6. But there are a few problems with IPv6 that still need to be worked out before we can say for sure that the routing tables are going to get much smaller. The biggest one so far is the issue of multi-homing (having more than one provider to your network). No one solution has come forward that isn't without some significant disadvantages over the current way it is done in IPv4.
The US military is moving to solely IPv6 by the end of the decade. The rest of the US government will probably be not too far behind. IPv6 is happening right now, and will replace IPv4.
According to their study, yes it will take 20 years for 100% of the address space to be used up. But there was a study done (trying to find the URL right now..) saying that once we reach a critical mass of around 85% usage, it will become nearly impossible for an organization to obtain new address space. At this point, we will essentially be in a crisis-state, where no one will be able to request more space.
7% annual means 1.x% for the quarter, which is good but not exceptional, particularly given all the one-offs - mortgage refinancings, the war money, tax cuts etc.
It always seems to come down to benefits of cheaper labor making goods less expensive which does help an economy out by making it more competitive. I get kind of confused by it all.
And it does.. so long as the labour that used to be employed in the now outsourced sector can find *better* work in another new sector, without displacing any more people. This is a little known assumption about the whole reason for outsourcing to make a country more competitive.
In other words, as long the country can continue to reinvent itself by creating new industries where the newly unemployed can find work (after losing their jobs to outsourcing) that pays better, it will be okay. The problem right now is I don't see any industry coming forward to fulfill that role.
It is pretty simple, the gains (from new work) have to outweight the loses ( from outsourcing). Otherwise the only ones who really gain are the already rich owners of the capital and their politicians.
Of course.. if they ever mended LookOut the AV guys would go out of business overnight but that's a whole new consipracy theory involving large cash backhanders and deliberately broken coding there...:o)
The newest versions of Outlook have been fixed. They no longer auto-run scripts, etc. But it is pretty hard to protect against stupid users who will open.exe's from just about anyone. Though I have heard Outlook can now be configured to just plain reject emails with any sort of script/executable attachments.
I don't think they are going after that market. Even Microsoft's FrontPage and DreamWeaver are no longer targetted there. You are thinking of enterprise-level sites connecting to databases, etc. But there is still a huge market for static webpages, and most of them end up on the company's intranet.
Come on, the camera as security issue is bogus. What are you gonna do, stop everyone with a cell phone because you can now snap 1.2 megapixel pictures with some models and send them in real time?
Yes, cell phones with built-in digital cameras have been banned in several major research & development labs even as of this moment today. This includes facilities at Samsung Electronics, and at least one of the major domestic car manufacturers (GM or Ford -- trying to find the story for it now).
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Oops my mistake. Those new articles are just posting the pdf copies of the aforementioned motions and supporting memorandums.
But look at the date of the post the article posted, Nov. 5. As compared to the dates of the "motion to compel discovery against IBM and IBM has responded", which are November 6th and November 7th.
lets just hope that the attorneys pushing for stiffer guidelines dont Bork the process ;-)
.. dont fork( ) the process"
For a second there, I thought you had made a typo in saying "lets just hope that the attorneys..
*Sigh*. You know you are a geek when..
Yup, or about half a day.
0.001428936 years * 365 days/year is about 0.521 days.
Yes, the US government has a secret message it uses to identify this point:
.. Can you hear me now?"
"Can you hear me now?
Voyager will find the long lost Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Rumsfeld will use this as an excuse to overhaul the space program! We all know the Iraqis have had a secret space program since 1950.
Wow I should only hope to make a piece of code that lasts so long (the best I did is 3), a true testament to what a bunch of nerds with some ingenuity (and money) can really do. These days it seems we have the genius, but surely not the money. Oh well...
Sssh.. You missed your calling with the guys who wrote the software with the Y2K bug in it!
Microsoft is gradually moving almost their entire product line to managed code (.Net). So yes, anything to do with Windows will have to be .Net in a few years time.
What's the other ~5 million going for?
Maybe routers, switches, hubs, fiber optics gear. You know, the stuff that makes it a network instead of a bunch of computers sitting on a warehouse floor.
At the executive level, yes, GWB's crew has enough problems already. But at the lower levels of government, I think there are lots of good people who see the advantages of moving forward. Remember that there is lots of inter-department communication so as the Pentagon moves to IPv6, so will the NSA, then the CIA and FBI. Then the whole Justice Department, the State Department, Commerce, Energy, etc. I do admit though it will be decades before something like the Department of Agriculture makes the move.
IPv4 is broke. NAT is the proof of it. I want to give all my machines on my network public addresses, but I cannot because my ISP won't allow it.
It is already happening. Asia and Europe are miles ahead of North America in terms of IPv6 deployment. This is just another area (like mobile/wireless) where the US and Canada are going to fall behind the rest of the world because the suits don't have the foresight to look any more into the future than next quarter's results.
ps. I am Canadian
NAT does nothing that any decent real router/gateway cannot do as well. You install a router at the entrance to your network. It hands out REAL IP adresses to your hosts, and you put rules in your router that say 'drop TCP/UDP packets that are heading for port 1024', excluding those hosts that you want to run web/email/SSH on, etc.
Exactly. It may take 20 years to completely exhaust the space, but we will have to make the switch way before that happens.
One analogy I have come up with is bathrooms. Say you have 100 bathrooms, and right now 50 of them are busy (assigned). Now you (person #51) come along and want to use one. Is it very hard to find a spare washroom out of the 100, when 50 are free? Probably not too hard. Now think about when there are 90 bathrooms full and person #91 comes along to find a bathroom. It will be a lot harder to find one!
The same analogy can be applied to the IPv4 address space. I am ignoring the fact that you could have a database keeping track of all of the free bathrooms to point people to. But even in the real world, it is not as simple as 'ask and you shall recieve'. There are lag issues between when an organization gives up an address space and wants to move to a different one. Especially in Asia and Europe right now, organizations are having major problems getting enough address space to meet their needs and are having to resort to NAT because they have no choice whatsoever. NAT may work for little users who only run email/web, but it doesn't for people who want to do things like VoIP, and hosting of many other services.
To summarize, we need to migrate to IPv6 well before the address space runs out completely.
Yes, the size of the routing tables is one more reason for the upgrade to IPv6. But there are a few problems with IPv6 that still need to be worked out before we can say for sure that the routing tables are going to get much smaller. The biggest one so far is the issue of multi-homing (having more than one provider to your network). No one solution has come forward that isn't without some significant disadvantages over the current way it is done in IPv4.
The US military is moving to solely IPv6 by the end of the decade. The rest of the US government will probably be not too far behind. IPv6 is happening right now, and will replace IPv4.
According to their study, yes it will take 20 years for 100% of the address space to be used up. But there was a study done (trying to find the URL right now..) saying that once we reach a critical mass of around 85% usage, it will become nearly impossible for an organization to obtain new address space. At this point, we will essentially be in a crisis-state, where no one will be able to request more space.
C++ and Java are inferior products? To what, C? I don't think so.
NT is 6 years old though. Red Hat 9.0 is not even a year old?
7% annual means 1.x% for the quarter, which is good but not exceptional, particularly given all the one-offs - mortgage refinancings, the war money, tax cuts etc.
No, 7% annual growth of GDP is very good, it is the highest in 19 years.
It always seems to come down to benefits of cheaper labor making goods less expensive which does help an economy out by making it more competitive. I get kind of confused by it all.
And it does.. so long as the labour that used to be employed in the now outsourced sector can find *better* work in another new sector, without displacing any more people. This is a little known assumption about the whole reason for outsourcing to make a country more competitive.
In other words, as long the country can continue to reinvent itself by creating new industries where the newly unemployed can find work (after losing their jobs to outsourcing) that pays better, it will be okay. The problem right now is I don't see any industry coming forward to fulfill that role.
It is pretty simple, the gains (from new work) have to outweight the loses ( from outsourcing). Otherwise the only ones who really gain are the already rich owners of the capital and their politicians.
Of course.. if they ever mended LookOut the AV guys would go out of business overnight but that's a whole new consipracy theory involving large cash backhanders and deliberately broken coding there... :o)
.exe's from just about anyone. Though I have heard Outlook can now be configured to just plain reject emails with any sort of script/executable attachments.
The newest versions of Outlook have been fixed. They no longer auto-run scripts, etc. But it is pretty hard to protect against stupid users who will open
April Fools Day has come 6 months early this year!
I don't think they are going after that market. Even Microsoft's FrontPage and DreamWeaver are no longer targetted there. You are thinking of enterprise-level sites connecting to databases, etc. But there is still a huge market for static webpages, and most of them end up on the company's intranet.
Come on, the camera as security issue is bogus. What are you gonna do, stop everyone with a cell phone because you can now snap 1.2 megapixel pictures with some models and send them in real time?
Yes, cell phones with built-in digital cameras have been banned in several major research & development labs even as of this moment today. This includes facilities at Samsung Electronics, and at least one of the major domestic car manufacturers (GM or Ford -- trying to find the story for it now).