Have you ever tried logging into a box at runlevel 3 and typing "startx"?

On the super rare occasions where I'd need a GUI at the console of a system, this would work well enough for me (assuming all of the proper packages were installed).

A regular practice for me was to do installs as "minimal desktop" and then during the final configuration, change runlevel to 3 in inittab.

yoPhone!

Shocking!

In an interview one of the designers of IPv6 admitted that they should have made it backwards compatible. Hindsight being 20/20 and all that.

The impression I get (since I'm part of the group that runs the network for a major southeastern university) is that everyone should be running dual-stack for a while. Any infrastructure equipment you get that runs v6 should also be able to run v4 fairly easily. Any time we upgrade all the equipment in a building, or put in a new building, the addressing for the switches gets done via IPv6. For a majority of desktops, dual stack is available. For servers ... it depends (the issues there being more human than technical).

But we have the money available to us to have IPv6 capable equipment. At home, FiOS has yet to provide me anything that provides IPv6 connectivity natively (ignoring tunneling). From what I've ready recently, say what you will about Comcast, at least they're deploying it.

The impression I get from your post is that you have equipment (both infrastructure and otherwise) that's more than 10 years old. I feel for you; we do, too. To a large extent, I'm not so sure you want an OS that old to have any kind of Internet access anyway. From a "It makes me feel good" stand-point, it would be nice if there were an easily implemented v4-v6 translation method available, but there just isn't.

So, what am I trying to say? Well, I've never talked to the "IPv6 crowd," but I don't doubt that they can be obsessive. But need to maintain an internal IPv4 network? Oh my, that can't be that hard. IPv4 isn't going away any time soon, and I seriously doubt there's anything out there on the services side (IE, a website) that you couldn't easily get to via IPv4 (unless it's an IPv6 proof of concept site).

It's going to be outside-in. Until all the major providers of home internet are providing at least a majority of their customer base IPv6 access, it's not going to be that big a deal. And even after they're doing that, you've got to assume that they'll be dual-stacking it, too. At least for a while.

Having worked for a university for 18 years (-1 for the recent year I spent working for corporate America/India) I can easily see how something like that (university not doing things they way a company would suggest) would happen.

Um ...

"and girl!"

I disagree. This sounds more like the Orange Propulsion Gel than the blue stuff.

"The only problem may be that the sauce may come out a little too easily on to their food."

Now, if it comes shooting out of the top after you open it, that would be the blue gel.

Because there's a fiscal penalty for failure when it's found!

Read some of the iPhone 4S doco/articles, and you'll discover that it's not a 4G device. On *anyone's* network.

It will do HSPA+ 14.4, but that's supposedly only marginally faster than 3G speeds (I haven't done more than read an article or two about it).

One would theorize that when Apple finally makes a 4G device, it will be LTE (which is what Verizon and AT&T are already deploying) and not WiMAX (which is what Sprint deployed and will probably abandon by 2014). So, best that Sprint at least have some LTE deployed by the time Apple releases a 4G capable iPhone.

On a personal note, I've been a Sprint user for eons, and got an Epic 4G on release day. I've got until probably second quarter 2012 on the contract, so I'll probably wait to see what's available and if my area has LTE before I upgrade. The Epic Touch 4G is nice, but I'd rather save the money (and wait to see how things are next year).

And it probably won't be an iPhone when I do upgrade.

Six if they don't. ;)

Rumor had it before the AT&T deal was announced that Sprint was negotiating with T-Mobile.

It could easily be one of the reasons why Sprint is so vocal about their opposition to the AT&T deal.

Story was also used in a movie with Gary Sinise named IMPOSTOR.