For everyone that's had an article deleted for being non-notable, WP being deemed non-notable (next to the Great Wall of China) should be just deserts.
It amuses me how this statement carries the direct implication that some pet article being declared non-notable on Wikipedia is somehow a personal offense that justifies bitterness and spite.
Yes, yes it does, because it disrespects both the victims labor and denigrates the victims worldview as being inferior, all for a small, brief feeling of superiority, and a savings of about a billionth of a cent of disk space and network traffic.
I think the funniest part is this would annihilate the deletionist position by using the force of govt.... You wouldn't allow some random dude in his mom's basement to delete a brick from the Great Pyramid, so I guess the deletionist philosophy would finally be purged from wiki using force of law. And, in my opinion, good riddance. Some antisocial worldviews deserve extinction.
If that were true, they'd get rid of the ability to install all those stupid toolbars that lusers always have about 5 of on their browsers. Amongst a certain lower class of knowledge, it seems nearly mandatory to have about five toolbars taking up about two inches of vertical space on the browser, claiming no idea how they got there, why they got there, or what they do. Kind of like the situation of good luck finding someone in the societal lower classes that doesn't smoke.
This would be called the "Not and idiot" mode... it should require some basic math to enable it to keep the typical idiot from accidentally enabling it.
I have often wondered why there are no OS that I'm aware of that have variable strength captchas for user access....
OK you wanna accept a self signed SSL cert that happens to match your kerberos (or dns or whatever) domain? Fine you gotta "solve" 2+2.
You wanna edit your network settings, integrate this simple polynomial.
You wanna run fdisk as a non admin user, "prove that x**n + y**n = z**n only has solutions where n=2"
Have you considered that some people in the Mozilla project might be getting paid to destroy firefox for "sane people" thus forcing everyone back on MSIE?
This is the only reasonable explanation for their recent horrific UI decisions...
Maybe a smarter move would be integrating Omnibar into firefox by default.
That's not how those cats roll. With bookmark sync, instead of adding xmarks by default, they added firefox sync, which is really nice, other than it doesn't work.
I suspect they'll add something called "firefox-ni-bar" that claims to do waht omnibar does, and looks nice and appears to work for a little while, and then it starts randomly deleting the URL, displaying the previous undeletable URLs, etc.
My suspicion is we're about to have a script unleashed upon us that whines when it sees files owned by UID inside a certain range anywhere but inside/home and/tmp, or a magic partition finder that finds/home by looking for uids in a certain range, or every file inside a certain UID range gets wiped out of/tmp with a different timeout than UIDs outside that range, or only files within a certain UID will be backed up (because its dumb to waste backup time and storage on/bin/ls, especially if it got haxored)
Since it only takes about 30 minutes to set up network wide single signon with LDAP and kerberos, even (especially?) at home, I'm not seeing this as having much impact. I use afs so I don't much care about the NFS/UID nightmare either.
I was recently thinking about this, and the last time I added a user to my LDAP and kerberos at home was when my daughter was born (figured she'd need it a couple years later, and in fact now she does). To add another user at home, not only would I have to look up again how the heck to do it, but I'd need to review all those "Now that you're expecting..." pregnancy books again.
This would have been a Big Deal in the mid 90s when I only had one box, but its not the mid 90s anymore...
Having just three characters of your password should not be able to determine its validity unless they are decrypting your password (vulnerability) or storing it as plain text (vulnerability).
There's a third possibility, Sony seems to operate at just the right level of clue to store each individual character in a separate column, although each individual character hashed of course for security reasons. (if you're reading this, and don't get the joke, please don't program anything using a password, unless you work at Sony, OK?)
You might not waste money on a smartphone, but please spend some on math tutoring.
Its a marketing thing. I decided that cheating lying marketing people would take the phrase "two gigs" to mean 2 gigaBITS and you assumed they aren't out to get you and they very generously meant 2 gigaBYTES. If you divide by 8, hilariously you end up within seconds of my estimate. The difference is apparently you broke out the calculator to get the exact answer and I did it in my head, admittedly I was showing off a bit, knowing it was "way more than four mins but maybe around a quarter less than five mins" but I reported it as exactly 4 mins 45 secs, I do admit to improper sig figs as I really only had about one and a half sig figs...
How can the average homeowner tell if their cable modem/router is IPv6 capable? Or, is this a non-issue?
But, if I unplug my modem and take it over to my computer so I can type the model in, google doesn't work.
That's why you buy the apple i-device and carry the web browser to the device instead of the other way around. After some years of ownership, the miracle of magically having every instruction manual / FAQ / cheatsheet / quickref table ever made (or so it seems) has turned into the primary use for my ipod touch...
If it's slow, it's not a problem for most users, annoying, but not a problem
And that right there is making the marketing people scream... allow that meme to escape into the wilderness, and business model of getting most of your profit from people who buy the fastest, might not work anymore.
Is that while "capped", you're not shut off on the 2GB/mo or higher plans, simply throttled to "2G" speeds once you reach your monthly allotment.
HSPA 7.2 is... supposedly 7.2 megabit/sec. I'm assuming marketing is advertising 2 gigabits rather than the much smaller 250 megabyte number... If they really offered 2 gigabytes, I'm sure they'd advertise "16 gigabits" for obvious appeal.
So, at 7 megabits/sec, that'll take approximately 4 minutes 45 seconds to burn thru the 2 gig and then drop back to "2G".
Think about it... its like buying a cellphone to talk on that has less than 5 minutes a month of service.
And people wonder why I have no interest in wasting money on a smartphone... Why bother if I'll never be able to use it?
I've been doing 25mbit/3mbit on DOCSIS 2.0 for a few years now and 100mbit/5mbit on DOCSIS 3.0 for about a year. Servicing approx 500k subscribers. It works fine.
Uh... you might look again. DOCSIS 2 can do 30 Mbit on a single downstream.
For 64-QAM yeah. For 256-QAM more like 40 megs on the same channel. Gonna need a clean plant with decent SNR to run 256-QAM but its quite possible.
I've never seen a node / CMTS DS that was only connected to one subscriber. I'm sure someone out there has.
Saying the total shared DS speed is 30 megs therefore I got "30 megs service" is kind of like saying my old dialup ISP had a T3 for us to share, so I had "45 megs dialup service"...
I will admit it depends on your local node size and the guts of your local PR flacks.
If you assume you've got maybe 800 passings, maybe 400 subs, and maybe 1 in 100 runs torrents all day at 8 megs each, thats 32 megs right there...
If you assume your local PR flacks are more honest than normal, then they'll say you'll probably only get "about 5 megs". If your PR flacks are ambitious, they'll quote the full downstream of a 256QAM which is 42.88 megs, even though no one will ever get it.
I stand by my quote, if your local cableco advertises more than 8 megs, its probably DOCSIS 3.
How can the average homeowner tell if their cable modem/router is IPv6 capable? Or, is this a non-issue?
WRT to cablemodems:
You can only run, eh, "8 megs" or so over a single downstream channel... If your local cableco is selling services running faster than that, they must be doing channel bonding to do it, which requires DOCSIS 3 link layer protocol, and DOCSIS 3 certification / licensing / whatever has mandatory ipv6 support. Also no one in China has manufactured a non DOCSIS 3 hardware compatible cablemodem for I would guess a couple years now. Does not exclude the possibility of your local cableco having a warehouse full of brand new, "old" DOCSIS 2 modems.
Most people "get the cablemodem for free from their provider". Its possible you live in an area were you own and pay for the modem, much like the DSL guys do. Assuming you purchased it, look for "DOCSIS 3 support" on the shipping box, or just google for your model cablemodem and "docsis3" etc.
It would be nice if you could see which clubs and restaurants are getting the most check ins. You would know the hot spots..... That is where foursquare I think is falling down a bit. Discovery tools.
You meant to write, foursquare is missing out on selling business owners on fake checkins to boost their popularity.
So you find the "hottest new club" in the city on foursquare, go there, and theres no one there all night but two homeless alkies.
Even if the cable modem supports it that doesn't mean the rest of the system will.
Well if you get picky and define "support" as synonymous with "works", most ISPs don't "really support ipv4" either because the only support you'll ever get is "reboot yer router and/or reinstall windoze"
The key problem with IPv6 remains that you can't really deploy v6 only nodes until you have eliminated the v4 only nodes
Not so... I have some experimental ipv6 only boxes at home. Set up a caching web proxy (I use privoxy; many years ago, like a decade ago, squid didn't do ipv6). Oh and you need a ipv6 dns server on the lan, so if your BIND is version 8 or older (90s-ish era) then you need to upgrade it.
I can agree with this part. Practically the sole reason I'm fearing the change is that I'll no longer be able to set up devices and connections easily. As it stands right now, I take one look at an IPv6 address, and it's enough to make me blanch and think "Holy hellbore, how am I going to remember that monstrosity of an address??".
Can you memorize an ipv4 address and a credit card number?
Get yourself a/48, which is only 12 hex digits vs a CC which is 16 decimal digits, memorize it, and encode your ipv4 addrs in your ipv6 addrs as per this example:
ip addrs 10.1.1.10 on vlan 200 on blah:blah:blah/48 from your isp is ipv6 addrs:
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While wikipedia is impressive, it's just one small part of the internet. Why wouldn't the internet as a whole qualify as a world wonder?
The religious nuts would discover its about 99% pr0n and freak out.
For everyone that's had an article deleted for being non-notable, WP being deemed non-notable (next to the Great Wall of China) should be just deserts.
It amuses me how this statement carries the direct implication that some pet article being declared non-notable on Wikipedia is somehow a personal offense that justifies bitterness and spite.
Yes, yes it does, because it disrespects both the victims labor and denigrates the victims worldview as being inferior, all for a small, brief feeling of superiority, and a savings of about a billionth of a cent of disk space and network traffic.
I think the funniest part is this would annihilate the deletionist position by using the force of govt.... You wouldn't allow some random dude in his mom's basement to delete a brick from the Great Pyramid, so I guess the deletionist philosophy would finally be purged from wiki using force of law. And, in my opinion, good riddance. Some antisocial worldviews deserve extinction.
Ever wrote something in Perl?
Even Perl, believe it or not, actually has Test::Unit, Test::Simple, Test::Harness, and about eighty zillion logging and debugging systems.
Javascript, thats got... uh...
Nice explanation in the first paragraph of what the book is about. This is missing far too often in other /. reviews.
The main camel website is apparently http://camel.apache.org/
However, I have been unsuccessful in figuring out how this would fit into my workflow.
that it eats up too much space.
If that were true, they'd get rid of the ability to install all those stupid toolbars that lusers always have about 5 of on their browsers. Amongst a certain lower class of knowledge, it seems nearly mandatory to have about five toolbars taking up about two inches of vertical space on the browser, claiming no idea how they got there, why they got there, or what they do. Kind of like the situation of good luck finding someone in the societal lower classes that doesn't smoke.
This would be called the "Not and idiot" mode... it should require some basic math to enable it to keep the typical idiot from accidentally enabling it.
I have often wondered why there are no OS that I'm aware of that have variable strength captchas for user access....
OK you wanna accept a self signed SSL cert that happens to match your kerberos (or dns or whatever) domain? Fine you gotta "solve" 2+2.
You wanna edit your network settings, integrate this simple polynomial.
You wanna run fdisk as a non admin user, "prove that x**n + y**n = z**n only has solutions where n=2"
Have you considered that some people in the Mozilla project might be getting paid to destroy firefox for "sane people" thus forcing everyone back on MSIE?
This is the only reasonable explanation for their recent horrific UI decisions...
Maybe a smarter move would be integrating Omnibar into firefox by default.
That's not how those cats roll. With bookmark sync, instead of adding xmarks by default, they added firefox sync, which is really nice, other than it doesn't work.
I suspect they'll add something called "firefox-ni-bar" that claims to do waht omnibar does, and looks nice and appears to work for a little while, and then it starts randomly deleting the URL, displaying the previous undeletable URLs, etc.
Why the hell would you change a user's UID?
My suspicion is we're about to have a script unleashed upon us that whines when it sees files owned by UID inside a certain range anywhere but inside /home and /tmp, or a magic partition finder that finds /home by looking for uids in a certain range, or every file inside a certain UID range gets wiped out of /tmp with a different timeout than UIDs outside that range, or only files within a certain UID will be backed up (because its dumb to waste backup time and storage on /bin/ls, especially if it got haxored)
Since it only takes about 30 minutes to set up network wide single signon with LDAP and kerberos, even (especially?) at home, I'm not seeing this as having much impact. I use afs so I don't much care about the NFS/UID nightmare either.
I was recently thinking about this, and the last time I added a user to my LDAP and kerberos at home was when my daughter was born (figured she'd need it a couple years later, and in fact now she does). To add another user at home, not only would I have to look up again how the heck to do it, but I'd need to review all those "Now that you're expecting..." pregnancy books again.
This would have been a Big Deal in the mid 90s when I only had one box, but its not the mid 90s anymore...
Having just three characters of your password should not be able to determine its validity unless they are decrypting your password (vulnerability) or storing it as plain text (vulnerability).
There's a third possibility, Sony seems to operate at just the right level of clue to store each individual character in a separate column, although each individual character hashed of course for security reasons. (if you're reading this, and don't get the joke, please don't program anything using a password, unless you work at Sony, OK?)
Sony is being forced to play a game where the other side has the better toolset.
Kinda like a Sony memory stick vs industry standard SD card?
You might not waste money on a smartphone, but please spend some on math tutoring.
Its a marketing thing. I decided that cheating lying marketing people would take the phrase "two gigs" to mean 2 gigaBITS and you assumed they aren't out to get you and they very generously meant 2 gigaBYTES. If you divide by 8, hilariously you end up within seconds of my estimate. The difference is apparently you broke out the calculator to get the exact answer and I did it in my head, admittedly I was showing off a bit, knowing it was "way more than four mins but maybe around a quarter less than five mins" but I reported it as exactly 4 mins 45 secs, I do admit to improper sig figs as I really only had about one and a half sig figs...
How can the average homeowner tell if their cable modem/router is IPv6 capable? Or, is this a non-issue?
But, if I unplug my modem and take it over to my computer so I can type the model in, google doesn't work.
That's why you buy the apple i-device and carry the web browser to the device instead of the other way around. After some years of ownership, the miracle of magically having every instruction manual / FAQ / cheatsheet / quickref table ever made (or so it seems) has turned into the primary use for my ipod touch...
NAT is the reason for the season.
Thanks to ipv6, NAT will soon die the death it deserves. Buh Bye NAT!
If it's slow, it's not a problem for most users, annoying, but not a problem
And that right there is making the marketing people scream... allow that meme to escape into the wilderness, and business model of getting most of your profit from people who buy the fastest, might not work anymore.
Is that while "capped", you're not shut off on the 2GB/mo or higher plans, simply throttled to "2G" speeds once you reach your monthly allotment.
HSPA 7.2 is ... supposedly 7.2 megabit/sec. I'm assuming marketing is advertising 2 gigabits rather than the much smaller 250 megabyte number... If they really offered 2 gigabytes, I'm sure they'd advertise "16 gigabits" for obvious appeal.
So, at 7 megabits/sec, that'll take approximately 4 minutes 45 seconds to burn thru the 2 gig and then drop back to "2G".
Think about it... its like buying a cellphone to talk on that has less than 5 minutes a month of service.
And people wonder why I have no interest in wasting money on a smartphone... Why bother if I'll never be able to use it?
I've been doing 25mbit/3mbit on DOCSIS 2.0 for a few years now and 100mbit/5mbit on DOCSIS 3.0 for about a year. Servicing approx 500k subscribers. It works fine.
What, have you got like 3 subscribers per node?
Uh... you might look again. DOCSIS 2 can do 30 Mbit on a single downstream.
For 64-QAM yeah. For 256-QAM more like 40 megs on the same channel. Gonna need a clean plant with decent SNR to run 256-QAM but its quite possible.
I've never seen a node / CMTS DS that was only connected to one subscriber. I'm sure someone out there has.
Saying the total shared DS speed is 30 megs therefore I got "30 megs service" is kind of like saying my old dialup ISP had a T3 for us to share, so I had "45 megs dialup service"...
I will admit it depends on your local node size and the guts of your local PR flacks.
If you assume you've got maybe 800 passings, maybe 400 subs, and maybe 1 in 100 runs torrents all day at 8 megs each, thats 32 megs right there...
If you assume your local PR flacks are more honest than normal, then they'll say you'll probably only get "about 5 megs". If your PR flacks are ambitious, they'll quote the full downstream of a 256QAM which is 42.88 megs, even though no one will ever get it.
I stand by my quote, if your local cableco advertises more than 8 megs, its probably DOCSIS 3.
How can the average homeowner tell if their cable modem/router is IPv6 capable? Or, is this a non-issue?
WRT to cablemodems:
You can only run, eh, "8 megs" or so over a single downstream channel... If your local cableco is selling services running faster than that, they must be doing channel bonding to do it, which requires DOCSIS 3 link layer protocol, and DOCSIS 3 certification / licensing / whatever has mandatory ipv6 support. Also no one in China has manufactured a non DOCSIS 3 hardware compatible cablemodem for I would guess a couple years now. Does not exclude the possibility of your local cableco having a warehouse full of brand new, "old" DOCSIS 2 modems.
Most people "get the cablemodem for free from their provider". Its possible you live in an area were you own and pay for the modem, much like the DSL guys do. Assuming you purchased it, look for "DOCSIS 3 support" on the shipping box, or just google for your model cablemodem and "docsis3" etc.
It would be nice if you could see which clubs and restaurants are getting the most check ins. You would know the hot spots. .... That is where foursquare I think is falling down a bit. Discovery tools.
You meant to write, foursquare is missing out on selling business owners on fake checkins to boost their popularity.
So you find the "hottest new club" in the city on foursquare, go there, and theres no one there all night but two homeless alkies.
Even if the cable modem supports it that doesn't mean the rest of the system will.
Well if you get picky and define "support" as synonymous with "works", most ISPs don't "really support ipv4" either because the only support you'll ever get is "reboot yer router and/or reinstall windoze"
The key problem with IPv6 remains that you can't really deploy v6 only nodes until you have eliminated the v4 only nodes
Not so... I have some experimental ipv6 only boxes at home. Set up a caching web proxy (I use privoxy; many years ago, like a decade ago, squid didn't do ipv6). Oh and you need a ipv6 dns server on the lan, so if your BIND is version 8 or older (90s-ish era) then you need to upgrade it.
Now, tunnels vs native is a bit more of an issue.
Tunnel means I've had the same /48 for many years. Darn near a decade now.
Native means every time I reboot my cablemodem I'll probably have a different /60 (or smaller?).
I might stay with a tunnel semi-permanently.
I can agree with this part. Practically the sole reason I'm fearing the change is that I'll no longer be able to set up devices and connections easily. As it stands right now, I take one look at an IPv6 address, and it's enough to make me blanch and think "Holy hellbore, how am I going to remember that monstrosity of an address??".
Can you memorize an ipv4 address and a credit card number?
Get yourself a /48, which is only 12 hex digits vs a CC which is 16 decimal digits, memorize it, and encode your ipv4 addrs in your ipv6 addrs as per this example:
ip addrs 10.1.1.10 on vlan 200 on blah:blah:blah/48 from your isp is ipv6 addrs:
blah:blah:blah:0200:0010:0001:0001:0010
This is the easy way to dual stack ipv4 and ipv6.