I am a civil servant in the IT field. I get to work with all sorts of fun Cisco equipment and a bunch of ATM equipment also. This would be fun even if they didn't pay me, but I receive a very generous salary for someone only 3 years out of college. The gov't has a special salary rate for folks in the IT field. I personally make about $66k which is grand!!!!
I receive all sorts of free training for real work as well as for certifications (just in case I don't like my job and want to get out). Uncle Sam is paying for my graduate education. I have a clearance (again...handy if I leave). I also have a good happy feeling that I am helping with the war on terror and supporting all of the men and women who are protecting this great country.
I have noticed a few mentions of the 24 colors being the "numbering system: and not the "7-bits".
The problem is that if the Incans used 24 colors for each bead (or 25, as someone suggested, using the lack of a bead as a color) then this would be a base-24 or base-25 system!
If we take a base-2 number with a possible 7 digits, then we hve 2^7 possible numbers which is 128 possibilites....but....If we take a base 25 number with a possible 7 digits, then we have 25^7 possible numbers which is 6,103,515,625 possibilities!!!
Of course, this would be very similar to English...we have 26 letters and the possible combination of words with 7 letters is 26^7 or 8,031,810,176 possibilities (which is why it takes so long to brute-force crack a password).
I don't know what this would mean for the Incans, but it makes the professor's job a little harder at cataloging all those messages the Incans sent back and forth to each other.
Incan prediction: "The world will end when the worlds population reaches YYYYYYY"
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I am a civil servant in the IT field. I get to work with all sorts of fun Cisco equipment and a bunch of ATM equipment also. This would be fun even if they didn't pay me, but I receive a very generous salary for someone only 3 years out of college. The gov't has a special salary rate for folks in the IT field. I personally make about $66k which is grand!!!!
I receive all sorts of free training for real work as well as for certifications (just in case I don't like my job and want to get out). Uncle Sam is paying for my graduate education. I have a clearance (again...handy if I leave). I also have a good happy feeling that I am helping with the war on terror and supporting all of the men and women who are protecting this great country.
Nope.... /. issue I assume (as it is happening to me too!)o ftware/ios121/121newft/121t/121t5/dtssm5t.htm#1021 424
his link is just badly formatted...a
The link is still there...
link - http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/s
Even with IPv6, you can bet people will still be extremely stingy when it comes to handing them out
...granted, the 1/8th of the address space being given out is 4.25*10^37 addresses
...but it is still 1/8th damnit!!!!
:)
You are correct sir...only 1/8 of the IPv6 address space is going to be given out initially as unicast addresses.
About 86% of the addresses will be unassigned.
Straight from RFC3513 - IPv6 Addressing Architecture, p17
"The Metrics has you!" - J4m35 C4r73r
"What is the Metrics?" - R0n41d "The ONE" R34g4n
Well....that's what I get for not reading the article... :)
I have noticed a few mentions of the 24 colors being the "numbering system: and not the "7-bits".
The problem is that if the Incans used 24 colors for each bead (or 25, as someone suggested, using the lack of a bead as a color) then this would be a base-24 or base-25 system!
If we take a base-2 number with a possible 7 digits, then we hve 2^7 possible numbers which is
128 possibilites....but....If we take a base 25 number with a possible 7 digits, then we have 25^7 possible numbers which is 6,103,515,625 possibilities!!!
Of course, this would be very similar to English...we have 26 letters and the possible combination of words with 7 letters is 26^7 or 8,031,810,176 possibilities (which is why it takes so long to brute-force crack a password).
I don't know what this would mean for the Incans, but it makes the professor's job a little harder at cataloging all those messages the Incans sent back and forth to each other.
Incan prediction: "The world will end when the worlds population reaches YYYYYYY"
A is color 0, Y is color 24