You can't be serious, Juniper (and Cisco for that matter) would *love* to sell upgrades to handle IP6. Juniper doesn't have a SOHO router business to protect by keeping everything IP4 (and I question how much Cisco really values it's Linksys market)
Besides, IP6 adoption would probably just make folks buy home routers all over again. I have to wonder if the ISP's would allow everyone to have as many IP's on their local connection as they wanted, or if they'd try to up your monthly bill for each IP. If that's the case, someone is going to come up with the equivalent of a NAT router to avoid paying for extra IP's
On what role on my playing.
I do a good bit of side work, mostly for private practice lawyers, real estate agents, and accountants. Usually small offices that can't afford to hire a full time IT person. Unless it's a reference from a friend, I'm usually viewed with skepticism when I first walk on the job. About an hour later when I'm tweaking machines, cleaing off virii and spyware and managing to not get in anybody's way, they appreciate the fact that I'm really good at what I do. They listen to my suggestions and act on them. I have several deals where I'm on retainer to drop by once a month to do checkups, and get a base payment whether I do any work or not. If I have to actually do some serious work, I get my retainer and charge them a reduced hourly fee (it's usually much cheaper than paying my hourly fee if I have to put in some serious time)
Now, in the case of one real estate office, it's fairly big. And I run the network. Now most problems I can just RDP in and fix from wherever I'm at. But god help the poor sods if I have to go into the office, because I'm in pure BOFH mode. The owners love me to death because I keep them running so they can exploit people for money. The users hate me because I have that network locked down so tight that they don't get to have any fun when they should be working.
So all in all, I'm not worshipped as the god I once was, but I never wanted that. All I want is for the boxes to run smoothly and my money. I do good work, and my clients trust me, and they respect me as a professional within my field, just as I respect them as a professional within theirs.
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You can't be serious, Juniper (and Cisco for that matter) would *love* to sell upgrades to handle IP6. Juniper doesn't have a SOHO router business to protect by keeping everything IP4 (and I question how much Cisco really values it's Linksys market) Besides, IP6 adoption would probably just make folks buy home routers all over again. I have to wonder if the ISP's would allow everyone to have as many IP's on their local connection as they wanted, or if they'd try to up your monthly bill for each IP. If that's the case, someone is going to come up with the equivalent of a NAT router to avoid paying for extra IP's
Yeah, I wonder if they'll try and charge me for OS/2 drivers again ;)
But only Imperial Stormtroopers are that preceise! According to Obi-Wan anyway. I wonder if Jedi get senile.
Heh, yeah, go talk to the OpenBSD folks and see how they feel about their security vs. microsofts ;)
Sorta reminds me of Underworld... Can I be the vampire prince this millenium? :)
On what role on my playing. I do a good bit of side work, mostly for private practice lawyers, real estate agents, and accountants. Usually small offices that can't afford to hire a full time IT person. Unless it's a reference from a friend, I'm usually viewed with skepticism when I first walk on the job. About an hour later when I'm tweaking machines, cleaing off virii and spyware and managing to not get in anybody's way, they appreciate the fact that I'm really good at what I do. They listen to my suggestions and act on them. I have several deals where I'm on retainer to drop by once a month to do checkups, and get a base payment whether I do any work or not. If I have to actually do some serious work, I get my retainer and charge them a reduced hourly fee (it's usually much cheaper than paying my hourly fee if I have to put in some serious time) Now, in the case of one real estate office, it's fairly big. And I run the network. Now most problems I can just RDP in and fix from wherever I'm at. But god help the poor sods if I have to go into the office, because I'm in pure BOFH mode. The owners love me to death because I keep them running so they can exploit people for money. The users hate me because I have that network locked down so tight that they don't get to have any fun when they should be working. So all in all, I'm not worshipped as the god I once was, but I never wanted that. All I want is for the boxes to run smoothly and my money. I do good work, and my clients trust me, and they respect me as a professional within my field, just as I respect them as a professional within theirs.
Heh, if Microsoft could be forced to release a non IE integrated version, it'd instantly become the most pirated OS on the planet