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  1. Re:No seatbelt on Analog Designer Bob Pease Dies In Car Crash · · Score: 2

    The reason he didn't make the turn is that it's a Beetle. They are known for suddenly understeering you, head on into trees.

    I also doubt that a lack of seatbelt was the cause of death in this particular scenario (or at least, what I can assume about this scenario based on known car traits).

  2. Re:No more on RIM Struggles Continue · · Score: 1

    That's funny, 2 minutes ago here, but I detest it. Hate it hate it hate it.

    I find my google calendar on my HTC Desire much nicer.

    Sure, the exchange stuff is great for work, but that's it.

    If RIM goes bust, maybe they will take the damn thing away! \o/

  3. Re:I love git!! on Linus' Other Gift to the World · · Score: 1

    For me, it's just little personal projects that I am working on. No collaboration at the moment and no branching. I just want to plod along on my little projects, keep the versioning controlled incase I make a big old f-up and have it available wherever I am (At home on my laptop, at home on the desktop, in the workshop, on the train, at work). Whenever I work in a new place, I just want to continue where I left off in the last place.

    Is git the wrong tool for the job?

    I understand about the branching and don't have anything against it as I don't have any pre-learned version control methodologies in my head already (other than lots of messy commenting and file renaming lol) as I have not used a cvs before. I figured from my initial research that git seems to be the way forward and that I should learn and use that rather than another.

  4. Re:I love git!! on Linus' Other Gift to the World · · Score: 1

    So i'm still getting my hands dirty with git, having not really used a code versioning system before. I have come across a lot of information of the type that you describe so am still in the "some form of decentralized VCS" camp. I do not yet see the big picture.

    What is it for you that made you see the picture, and can you explain it easily like the sites I have seen can't?

    Also, I too want a 'central' git repository and I too have seen the "You're not supposed to do that!" but I still don't get why. I want to be able to sync the project on any computer i'm working on and be up to date, surely centralised is the way to go?

  5. Re:Slashdot has no AAAA address on World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K · · Score: 1

    Yeah, no. I posted that before they turned it off lol.

    They only had it turned on for the www.*, you see. That was my error.

  6. Re:Slashdot has no AAAA address on World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K · · Score: 1

    Yeah pretty much!

    recursive redirect joke?

  7. Re:Slashdot has no AAAA address on World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K · · Score: 1

    What advice?

    Did you reply to the wrong post or something?

  8. dyndns.org on World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K · · Score: 1

    I have a host on dyndns.org and up until yesterday, the AAAA record came back, but today it says there is no AAAA record, even though it is still configured in my account on their site.

    Anyone else found this problem today?

  9. Re:Slashdot has no AAAA address on World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K · · Score: 1

    Ahhh oops. That explains it.

    Also, I noticed that although host was not giving an ipv6 addy, wget was, but that's just because facebook.com redirects to www.facebook.com that does have ipv6. Missed that first time.

    ~$ wget facebook.com
    --2011-06-08 12:00:04-- http://facebook.com/
    Resolving facebook.com... 69.63.181.12, 69.63.189.16, 69.63.189.11
    Connecting to facebook.com|69.63.181.12|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
    Location: http://www.facebook.com/ [following]
    --2011-06-08 12:00:04-- http://www.facebook.com/
    Resolving www.facebook.com... 2620:0:1c00:0:face:b00c:0:2, 69.63.189.26
    Connecting to www.facebook.com|2620:0:1c00:0:face:b00c:0:2|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
    Location: http://m.facebook.com/?w2m&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F&_rdr [following]
    --2011-06-08 12:00:05-- http://m.facebook.com/?w2m&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F&_rdr
    Resolving m.facebook.com... 66.220.147.43
    Connecting to m.facebook.com|66.220.147.43|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

    That's a good dual stack test for the client end right there... 4 and 6 in one instance of wget.

  10. Re:dnshat participating on World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K · · Score: 1

    ~$ wget www.dnshat.com
    --2011-06-08 11:54:17-- http://www.dnshat.com/
    Resolving www.dnshat.com... 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fe93:b4b3, 173.230.158.14
    Connecting to www.dnshat.com|2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fe93:b4b3|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

  11. Re:So what on World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K · · Score: 1

    Yes

  12. Re:Slashdot has no AAAA address on World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K · · Score: 1

    Did Facebook & Yahoo turn theirs off again, or are there actually problems with this whole thing?

    ~$ host yahoo.com
    yahoo.com has address 67.195.160.76
    yahoo.com has address 69.147.125.65
    yahoo.com has address 72.30.2.43
    yahoo.com has address 98.137.149.56
    yahoo.com has address 209.191.122.70
    yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 e.mx.mail.yahoo.com.

    ~$ host facebook.com
    facebook.com has address 69.63.189.11
    facebook.com has address 69.63.181.12
    facebook.com has address 69.63.189.16
    facebook.com mail is handled by 10 smtpin.mx.facebook.com.

  13. Re:Well that didn't take long. on iOS 5 Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    BUT BUT BUT APPLE SAID iOS IS ALREADY YEARS AHEAD!!!!

    "With iOS 5, we’ve added over 200 new features — taking a mobile operating system that was already years ahead of anything else and moving it even further ahead. " - Apple.com

    How do they get away with that? The problem is, people believe it because they said it.

  14. Re:Where is the Google test? on World IPv6 Day On June 8 · · Score: 1

    Actually, if you are using ipv6, then it says the following instead:

    "Yes, looks like you’re using IPv6 already.
    Welcome to the future of the Internet!"

    Welcome indeed! :)

  15. Re:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000 Post! on World IPv6 Day On June 8 · · Score: 1

    Thanks guys.

    Must get round to learning it at some point. But like others have found, unless they start using it at work, I have no *real* need.

    Actually, my ISP is testing it so I may set it up and have a play. Yes. I think I will!

  16. Re:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000 Post! on World IPv6 Day On June 8 · · Score: 1

    So I haven't done a lot of reading up on The Six yet, but how would the following two ip addresses, in their collapsed form, be distinguishable from each other?

    0000:0000:1234:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000

    0000:0000:0000:1234:0000:0000:0000:0000

    Surely they would both be ::1234:: right?

    I get, however, that the above are probably invalid addresses. Does this mean there are a limited number of valid addresses?

  17. Re:Good - arrest me on Embed a Video, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    It's "Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day".

  18. No Werewolves! on No Moon Needed For Extraterrestrial Life · · Score: 1

    YAY! We can be safe from Werewolves on these 'that's no moon' planets.

    Also, "10 times higher" did they just pluck that number out of thin air?

  19. Re:Brain Thoughts on Researchers Grow a Brain In a Dish · · Score: 1

    I know, that's what I meant. I don't like the Marvin in the film and I find Zaphod in the film really annoying :(

    Although, in the recent continuation of the radio series, Stephen Moore could not recreate the Marvin voice quite the same which I found a weenie bit... well, not annoying, it just got to me a bit. I guess it's hard when your vocal chords are that much older :) - or they lost the parameters for the old hardware that modified his voice...

    But that was nothing compared to losing Peter Jones as the book :(

    Hey, at least it was fun to finally hear Douglas himself in the series :)

  20. Re:Brain Thoughts on Researchers Grow a Brain In a Dish · · Score: 1

    I hate the new Marvin :(

    And the new Zaphod :(

  21. Re:Keyboard Garage on Researchers Grow a Brain In a Dish · · Score: 1

    Did you post to the wrong story or something?

  22. Re:Brain Thoughts on Researchers Grow a Brain In a Dish · · Score: 1

    What was he doing by the coffee machine?

  23. Rapture on Volcano Erupts In Iceland · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Fail.

  24. Re:Sounds a bit odd. on Apple: an 'App Store' Is Not a Store For Apps · · Score: 1

    Cos God no longer existed.

  25. Re:I wonder what would happen on Apple: an 'App Store' Is Not a Store For Apps · · Score: 1

    Hoover up that mess will you!