Gee, why is no one switching to IPv6?
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Since no-one is choosing to run IPv6 on the ground, isn't this a bit pointless?
Why is no one running IPv6 on the ground? Well, I'll tell you why I don't run it:
Neither of my ISPs (work or home) supports it
NONE of my routers support it
A lot of applications I run don't support it
Dealing with it on apache would be a PITA, wouldn't it?
Besides, who wants to deal with IPv6 when dotted quads are easier to memorize? Just wrench the class A address assignments away from the current assignees (not a single one of them needs a class A block) and reallocate them reasonably. Apple does not need a class A block, Merck doesn't, HP doesn't, GE doesn't, IBM doesn't, MIT doesn't. Halliburton doesn't, and the DoD certainly does not need multiple/8 assignments. Besides, isn't the DoD largely on IPv6 now? Reallocate the IPv4 space reasonably, force organizations such as Apple, HP, IBM, Merck, and Halliburton justify their IP allocation request like I had to for my puny/27 block, and then there will be plenty of space for all.
Actually, in that case, the legal copyright holder or an authorised agent is offering the song for free download. They have no ethical nor moral basis to sue people for downloading the files that they are offering for free. You can countersue them, and possibly charge them with fraud.
Better option? Ignore the RIAA entirely. Look to other avenues for your entertainment.
I set up OpenSuSE 10.2 back in January and I am STILL not done configuring it on my home machine!
Okay, that is a half-truth. The truth is I bought a (at the time) bleeding edge motherboard in November, put SuSE 10.1 on it (stock kernel did not support Marvell ports, so rather than switch to the Vanilla kernel I threw in a Netgear card) and left it at that so I could work from home. Since then I upgraded to OpenSuSE in January. In February I upgraded Beryl and configured it to my liking, and got Myth working with both tuner cards (I HATE the 1/2 second delay with the Hauppauge cards BTW - it makes on-demand digital cable extremely annoying to interact with. The $30 MSI is a MUCH better card at 1/4 the price). Last month I worked with the VPN client until I got it to connect reliably. One Marvell NIC port is still not working, and neither is the on-board WiFi. Oh, the WiFi will work if I do not enable encryption, but if I enable it, no connection. So, there is still more tweaking to do. Also, I can NOT get kcal or twinkle or ekiga to work with asterisk. VOIP apps work just fine in Windows without any problem. Wait, let me back up; I can HEAR the calls, but no one can hear me.
And yet, I try to not boot Windows; I haven't booted to Windows in weeks, since I got VPN working reliably. Incoming connections don't work, but I can access the LAN from home. I just can't connect to home from work through the VPN. So yeah, I'm still tweaking.
On the other hand, on fully supported hardware, I can have SuSE, Unbuntu, or CentOS installed, patched, and FULLY configured in 2-3 hours, including all required applications. Windows, with all of the updates, applications, and 5,927,381 required reboots between each step and then finally tweaking (what Windows DOES allow to tweak) takes over 20 hours.
Download a Linux distribution or two per month and watch a few videos on Youtube and you will exceed that 5GB cap. I'm with Comcast, not Verizon, and I often download that much in a single day at home. Not one single "illegal" download among them.
When downloading Linux distributions I use that much bandwidth in a few hours, plus I almost always have a VPN connection to my office and to colocated servers in the data center, pulling down backups, so that's another bunch of gigabytes being pulled down overnight. Not one single movie, MP3, or warez download among many gigabytes downloaded.
That's not to say I do not download TV shows; I do download them when I miss them, from work, and I watch them at work when I get a chance. It's fair use since it is a modern form of timeshifting.
MP3 downloads? Thanks but no thanks. I do not want to get tempted to buy new material from RIAA member labels.
Boobox, please post details chronicling your ideal on the forums at registerflies.com? We're trying to compile a list of lost domains there and try to build a community which can hopefully pressure ICANN into improving checks and balances. Registrants' concerns should come first, not registrars, and certainly not ICANN officials'.
That is EXACTLY it. They're being named in multiple suits now as they have known about RegisterFly problems dating back to 2002 when RF was just a reseller for eNom and Tucows - four whole YEARS prior to granting RegisterFly accreditation. They sat back and did NOTHING about the complaints.
When RF was a reseller, I'm sure the response was "So? They're not a registrar so it's not our problem." When RF became a registrar, all they did was forward complaints about RegisterFly, TO RegisterFly. ICANN officials truly DID NOT CARE about RegisterFly problems until RegisterFly ran up a $120,000 bill with ICANN. Suddenly they became very concerned about RegisterFly, but RegisterFly could have made the heat from ICANN go away by simply paying up. ICANN has never been about protecting registrants' property. They STILL don't; there are many thousands of domains frozen in pendingDelete, redemption, and expired/grace period status. Granted, they did freeze them so no more RF-registered domains would be deleted, but ICANN has yet to come up with a solution to restore those many thousands of PAID-FOR-RENEWAL-IN-FULL domains.
ICANN is every bit as responsible for the current situation as RegisterFly is. In fact there is much evidence that suggest other registrars are equally to blame, because eNom and Tucows have not been upholding their reseller agreement obligations; i.e., to correct RegisterFly mistakes (e.g., fix renewals for registrants) and charge the correction fees back to the reseller (RegisterFly). Oh no; instead, they have been charging the REGISTRANTS a $160 redemption fee, even though the reseller agreement holds REGISTERFLY liable for those fees, NOT the REGISTRANT.
One year from now, ICANN will probably not exist as we know it today.
Perhaps Crossover Office + Microsoft Office on Linux or OS X would be a workable solution for you? Absolutely 100% Microsoft Office compatibility minus the Windows baggage. PLUS, you can back up the "bottle" (the fake Windows environment) and restore it in seconds when necessary.
That's why when I need to purchase bulk quantities of Uranium, I always go to the Wal*Mart Supercenter. They work with the distributors to drive cost down. Made in USA is great and all, but when it comes to my nuclear supplies, I buy from Wal*Mart because you just can't beat prices on Indian- or Chinese-refined Uranium.
Why not just use two devices:
- phone with bluetooth
- iPaq hx2795
Enable biometric security and encryption, then you can rest assured it is either the authorised individual accessing data, or someone cut that person's finger off and used it to authenticate.
I quit buying CDs, and I do not download music either. I spend my entertainment dollars on DVDs and on-demand cable. Last month I purchased 22 DVDs. January I bought about 15. This month I purchased about nine. (and FYI I have not had time to watch more than a few of them, I rip them to xvid format and listen to them on my PocketPC at the office).
I think there will always be a strong market for hardware RAID solutions such as 3ware. I finally dumped software RAID for 3ware and will be doing RAID in every single new PC we build for in-house use. They are painless to set up in both Linux and Windows, and the RAID monitoring utilities are excellent.
1999 through 2002 or so they had some NASTY SMP bugs which either caused crackling or even worse system lockups. See my other post in this thread because I don't want to repeat what I posted elsewhere here, but Creative finally owned up to the bug when Hyperthreading was announced. It was too little, too late from my perspective, but YMMV.
I got bit by the SMP bug, with the Sound Blaster Live! Platinum. They flat-out denied there was such a bug, blaming the chipset, despite their usenet newsgroup being FLOODED by workstation and high-end PC users who confirmed the bug, on a variety of chipsets. You could work around some of the race conditions by manually setting the sffinity using intfiltr but it did not resolve all of the issues, and it defeated the purpose of a high end card in an SMP system. It took a big OEM (Compaq) who had access to the source to produce a workable fix, but by then it was too late. Many Creative customers found alternatives such as Hercules Game Theater XP or Turtle Beach sound cards instead. It wasn't until Hyperthreading was announced that Creative resolved the issue once and for all, because they could no longer deny the bug existed now that SMP-like architectures going mainstream forced them to make their products thread-safe.
Like ATI I avoid them, because they did not care about customer support issues once it endangered their bottom line. I also do not sell or recommend them to clients.
Some of the PCI Audigy sound cards have looked fantastic, and they are more Linux compatible than my Game Theater, but I am too attached to the convenience of the external breakout box to give that card up. Are their products so good that I should give Creative a second chance? Have their policies changed for the better?
This is not like that at all. I recently learned I'm allergic to soy - I suffered from migraines, fatigue, insomnia, and was getting ADHD symptoms. Getting off soy eliminated those symptoms (well, I still get migraines, but fewer of them and from other causes). If I eat soy, I notice fairly quickly because I feel fatigued and drowsy. Fortunately I'm not so sensitive to it that it'll stop my heart or anything, but waking up with a migraine the day after is worse than a hangover. But, I get the reaction pretty much right away. Soy won't kill me, at least not in the short term, but the more I eat it, the more sensitive I will become to it and it can eventually lead to allergies to other legumes such as peanuts.
The issue being discussed here is long-term damage which is not immediately noticeable. It is not like you'll eat GMO corn today, wake up with yellow eyes tomorrow and run to the doctor to get a shot. It is a toxin which will stress your liver over time, causing it to overwork and eventually fail, if you are sensitive. Will it take 5 years, 10 years, or 25 years? Who knows? If you turn out to be one who will be affected by this you WILL NOT KNOW until the damage is already done, and at that time you may need a new liver.
With the food supply why not play it safe? It's HARD to find bread which does not use soybean oil or soy flour. I finally found some at Wild Oats but now that they are being bought out changes are it will become a Whole Foods store and Whole Foods does not carry bread which does not contain soy. However, even then I will have options. I can bake my own bread.
With genetically modified foods, avoiding it can become impossible as strains cross-pollinate naturally; the defective gene can spread into organic farms, and permeate the entire food system. Avoiding tainted corn can potentially become literally impossible. In those cases, you will have no options. Well, you could just not eat the corn, but what about white rice which has been modified to include lilac genes, another toxin with similar ramifications? Okay, now that you know your liver is stressed, avoid white rice and corn. But wait; banana farms want to "cure" the banana blight by killing all the natural banana plants and producing genetically modified bananas.
When you play with the food supply where long-term effects may not be known for many decades, WHY PLAY WITH IT? AND, why commit the heinous act of introducing it to the environment when it is irreversible? I hate treehugging, bleeding heart beatniks, but I'm sorry, I agree with Greenpeace on this one. This is far worse than the global warming situation.
Moral of the story: when you register domains for your business name, register the.com,.net,.org,.biz, and.us (or whatever TLD exists for your country). This negates the necessity of a squatter or competitor from infringing on your trademark.
Believe it or not there are alternatives to litigation, even in today's sue-happy climate.
I'm sorry, I did not get that. Can you restate your analogy using a car? We on Slashdot do not understand analogies unless they're really bad car analogies.;)
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Why is no one running IPv6 on the ground? Well, I'll tell you why I don't run it:
Besides, who wants to deal with IPv6 when dotted quads are easier to memorize? Just wrench the class A address assignments away from the current assignees (not a single one of them needs a class A block) and reallocate them reasonably. Apple does not need a class A block, Merck doesn't, HP doesn't, GE doesn't, IBM doesn't, MIT doesn't. Halliburton doesn't, and the DoD certainly does not need multiple
Actually, in that case, the legal copyright holder or an authorised agent is offering the song for free download. They have no ethical nor moral basis to sue people for downloading the files that they are offering for free. You can countersue them, and possibly charge them with fraud.
Better option? Ignore the RIAA entirely. Look to other avenues for your entertainment.
By the way, I'm too cheap to pay the discounted price for that album. Can you make me a copy please? /RIAA: I'm KIDDING!
P., you forgot to include "without disconnecting my Mountain Dew I.V. feed"
You know, P., Apple iTunes was made with YOU in mind.
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Oh come on, how was that flamebait? I think it's rather funny.
I set up OpenSuSE 10.2 back in January and I am STILL not done configuring it on my home machine!
Okay, that is a half-truth. The truth is I bought a (at the time) bleeding edge motherboard in November, put SuSE 10.1 on it (stock kernel did not support Marvell ports, so rather than switch to the Vanilla kernel I threw in a Netgear card) and left it at that so I could work from home. Since then I upgraded to OpenSuSE in January. In February I upgraded Beryl and configured it to my liking, and got Myth working with both tuner cards (I HATE the 1/2 second delay with the Hauppauge cards BTW - it makes on-demand digital cable extremely annoying to interact with. The $30 MSI is a MUCH better card at 1/4 the price). Last month I worked with the VPN client until I got it to connect reliably. One Marvell NIC port is still not working, and neither is the on-board WiFi. Oh, the WiFi will work if I do not enable encryption, but if I enable it, no connection. So, there is still more tweaking to do. Also, I can NOT get kcal or twinkle or ekiga to work with asterisk. VOIP apps work just fine in Windows without any problem. Wait, let me back up; I can HEAR the calls, but no one can hear me.
And yet, I try to not boot Windows; I haven't booted to Windows in weeks, since I got VPN working reliably. Incoming connections don't work, but I can access the LAN from home. I just can't connect to home from work through the VPN. So yeah, I'm still tweaking.
On the other hand, on fully supported hardware, I can have SuSE, Unbuntu, or CentOS installed, patched, and FULLY configured in 2-3 hours, including all required applications. Windows, with all of the updates, applications, and 5,927,381 required reboots between each step and then finally tweaking (what Windows DOES allow to tweak) takes over 20 hours.
Download a Linux distribution or two per month and watch a few videos on Youtube and you will exceed that 5GB cap. I'm with Comcast, not Verizon, and I often download that much in a single day at home. Not one single "illegal" download among them.
When downloading Linux distributions I use that much bandwidth in a few hours, plus I almost always have a VPN connection to my office and to colocated servers in the data center, pulling down backups, so that's another bunch of gigabytes being pulled down overnight. Not one single movie, MP3, or warez download among many gigabytes downloaded.
That's not to say I do not download TV shows; I do download them when I miss them, from work, and I watch them at work when I get a chance. It's fair use since it is a modern form of timeshifting.
MP3 downloads? Thanks but no thanks. I do not want to get tempted to buy new material from RIAA member labels.
Boobox, please post details chronicling your ideal on the forums at registerflies.com? We're trying to compile a list of lost domains there and try to build a community which can hopefully pressure ICANN into improving checks and balances. Registrants' concerns should come first, not registrars, and certainly not ICANN officials'.
That is EXACTLY it. They're being named in multiple suits now as they have known about RegisterFly problems dating back to 2002 when RF was just a reseller for eNom and Tucows - four whole YEARS prior to granting RegisterFly accreditation. They sat back and did NOTHING about the complaints.
When RF was a reseller, I'm sure the response was "So? They're not a registrar so it's not our problem." When RF became a registrar, all they did was forward complaints about RegisterFly, TO RegisterFly. ICANN officials truly DID NOT CARE about RegisterFly problems until RegisterFly ran up a $120,000 bill with ICANN. Suddenly they became very concerned about RegisterFly, but RegisterFly could have made the heat from ICANN go away by simply paying up. ICANN has never been about protecting registrants' property. They STILL don't; there are many thousands of domains frozen in pendingDelete, redemption, and expired/grace period status. Granted, they did freeze them so no more RF-registered domains would be deleted, but ICANN has yet to come up with a solution to restore those many thousands of PAID-FOR-RENEWAL-IN-FULL domains.
ICANN is every bit as responsible for the current situation as RegisterFly is. In fact there is much evidence that suggest other registrars are equally to blame, because eNom and Tucows have not been upholding their reseller agreement obligations; i.e., to correct RegisterFly mistakes (e.g., fix renewals for registrants) and charge the correction fees back to the reseller (RegisterFly). Oh no; instead, they have been charging the REGISTRANTS a $160 redemption fee, even though the reseller agreement holds REGISTERFLY liable for those fees, NOT the REGISTRANT.
One year from now, ICANN will probably not exist as we know it today.
Perhaps Crossover Office + Microsoft Office on Linux or OS X would be a workable solution for you? Absolutely 100% Microsoft Office compatibility minus the Windows baggage. PLUS, you can back up the "bottle" (the fake Windows environment) and restore it in seconds when necessary.
This explains why my C=1541 drive is so damned slow.
"breaks?" You must drive a Cavalier. ;)
That's why when I need to purchase bulk quantities of Uranium, I always go to the Wal*Mart Supercenter. They work with the distributors to drive cost down. Made in USA is great and all, but when it comes to my nuclear supplies, I buy from Wal*Mart because you just can't beat prices on Indian- or Chinese-refined Uranium.
Why not just use two devices:
- phone with bluetooth
- iPaq hx2795
Enable biometric security and encryption, then you can rest assured it is either the authorised individual accessing data, or someone cut that person's finger off and used it to authenticate.
RIAA:
I quit buying CDs, and I do not download music either. I spend my entertainment dollars on DVDs and on-demand cable. Last month I purchased 22 DVDs. January I bought about 15. This month I purchased about nine. (and FYI I have not had time to watch more than a few of them, I rip them to xvid format and listen to them on my PocketPC at the office).
Fuck you very much RIAA.
I think there will always be a strong market for hardware RAID solutions such as 3ware. I finally dumped software RAID for 3ware and will be doing RAID in every single new PC we build for in-house use. They are painless to set up in both Linux and Windows, and the RAID monitoring utilities are excellent.
1999 through 2002 or so they had some NASTY SMP bugs which either caused crackling or even worse system lockups. See my other post in this thread because I don't want to repeat what I posted elsewhere here, but Creative finally owned up to the bug when Hyperthreading was announced. It was too little, too late from my perspective, but YMMV.
I got bit by the SMP bug, with the Sound Blaster Live! Platinum. They flat-out denied there was such a bug, blaming the chipset, despite their usenet newsgroup being FLOODED by workstation and high-end PC users who confirmed the bug, on a variety of chipsets. You could work around some of the race conditions by manually setting the sffinity using intfiltr but it did not resolve all of the issues, and it defeated the purpose of a high end card in an SMP system. It took a big OEM (Compaq) who had access to the source to produce a workable fix, but by then it was too late. Many Creative customers found alternatives such as Hercules Game Theater XP or Turtle Beach sound cards instead. It wasn't until Hyperthreading was announced that Creative resolved the issue once and for all, because they could no longer deny the bug existed now that SMP-like architectures going mainstream forced them to make their products thread-safe.
Like ATI I avoid them, because they did not care about customer support issues once it endangered their bottom line. I also do not sell or recommend them to clients.
Some of the PCI Audigy sound cards have looked fantastic, and they are more Linux compatible than my Game Theater, but I am too attached to the convenience of the external breakout box to give that card up. Are their products so good that I should give Creative a second chance? Have their policies changed for the better?
Bullshit. You have to disclose the terms of use first, bitch.
This is not like that at all. I recently learned I'm allergic to soy - I suffered from migraines, fatigue, insomnia, and was getting ADHD symptoms. Getting off soy eliminated those symptoms (well, I still get migraines, but fewer of them and from other causes). If I eat soy, I notice fairly quickly because I feel fatigued and drowsy. Fortunately I'm not so sensitive to it that it'll stop my heart or anything, but waking up with a migraine the day after is worse than a hangover. But, I get the reaction pretty much right away. Soy won't kill me, at least not in the short term, but the more I eat it, the more sensitive I will become to it and it can eventually lead to allergies to other legumes such as peanuts.
The issue being discussed here is long-term damage which is not immediately noticeable. It is not like you'll eat GMO corn today, wake up with yellow eyes tomorrow and run to the doctor to get a shot. It is a toxin which will stress your liver over time, causing it to overwork and eventually fail, if you are sensitive. Will it take 5 years, 10 years, or 25 years? Who knows? If you turn out to be one who will be affected by this you WILL NOT KNOW until the damage is already done, and at that time you may need a new liver.
With the food supply why not play it safe? It's HARD to find bread which does not use soybean oil or soy flour. I finally found some at Wild Oats but now that they are being bought out changes are it will become a Whole Foods store and Whole Foods does not carry bread which does not contain soy. However, even then I will have options. I can bake my own bread.
With genetically modified foods, avoiding it can become impossible as strains cross-pollinate naturally; the defective gene can spread into organic farms, and permeate the entire food system. Avoiding tainted corn can potentially become literally impossible. In those cases, you will have no options. Well, you could just not eat the corn, but what about white rice which has been modified to include lilac genes, another toxin with similar ramifications? Okay, now that you know your liver is stressed, avoid white rice and corn. But wait; banana farms want to "cure" the banana blight by killing all the natural banana plants and producing genetically modified bananas.
When you play with the food supply where long-term effects may not be known for many decades, WHY PLAY WITH IT? AND, why commit the heinous act of introducing it to the environment when it is irreversible? I hate treehugging, bleeding heart beatniks, but I'm sorry, I agree with Greenpeace on this one. This is far worse than the global warming situation.
Why not? That's what the music label does.
Moral of the story: when you register domains for your business name, register the .com, .net, .org, .biz, and .us (or whatever TLD exists for your country). This negates the necessity of a squatter or competitor from infringing on your trademark.
Believe it or not there are alternatives to litigation, even in today's sue-happy climate.
I'm sorry, I did not get that. Can you restate your analogy using a car? We on Slashdot do not understand analogies unless they're really bad car analogies. ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NdisWrapper
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
It's already been done, for wifi drivers. For the devices it does work with, it works fairly well.