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Comment Re:Of course (Score 1) 141

I didn't say "Why wouldn't you have a IPv6 capable network" I asked "Why would you use IPv6?"

Well, it's a good thing that I actually answered the second question, rather than the first, isn't it?

All my equipment/OS's can handle IPv6 just fine, but there's no reason to ever use it inside a local network. I can hit IPv6 outside my network just fine... http://test-ipv6.com/

Granted, that's entirely up to your ISP. But out-of-the-box equipment that's IPv6 capable equipment should support IPv6 as long as your ISP does as well.

If you only run IP4 internally, then you can only address, at best, a subset of IPv6 addresses on the public Internet.

Comment Re: Surprise? (Score 2) 579

There's far too much broken desktop stuff for Linux to be usable on the desktop en-masse. Playing a video file from the network. Simple, right? OS X will play directly from share. Windows will play directly from share. Linux will copy it (all 4 GB or whatever) before it will play.

Errr...WTF are you talking about? Linux plays directly from network shares just fine. I do it all the time. In fact, I've been doing it for years. I can't remember the last time I had to wait for it to copy the entire file before it would start playing. (Although I do remember that happening, but it was YEARS ago. Maybe even a decade.)

Comment Re:Surprise? (Score 4, Interesting) 579

Well, that's what you get for running Ubuntu in a dev environment. It's a distribution that's meant to be installed from Ubuntu's repositories, only updated from those same repositories, and never really used for any third party software. I've got a 75+ year old guy using it, because he kept getting infected when he was running Windows. Hasn't had any problems with it at all, other than when a stick of memory went bad, and it started crashing all the time.

For stable servers (and even workstations) I've been running Debian since at least as far back as 1997. There were some issues like you describe in the first 5 years or so, but honestly, the only thing I've run across in the last 5 years was when I tried to do a database server upgrade, and uninstalled the old postgreSQL version 7 before migrating the data to the new version 8 server. That was a relatively easy fix, though, and it only happened because I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing. Other than that, every Debian machine I maintain (and there are A LOT of them...) just runs perfectly.

I have a customer who installed an Ubuntu server because "it has a GUI and it'll be easy for me to use". I stuck with it for a while because they liked it, solving problem after problem that cropped up because we kept needing to add third party software to it, which broke on literally EVERY SINGLE kernel upgrade.
Finally, I figured out the amount of time I'd spent fixing shit that wouldn't have broken if we'd been using Debian, and how long it would take me to back up, blow away, install Debian, and restore data. Turned out the customer would have been 4 figures richer if I hadn't had to fix all the Ubuntu screwups over a couple of years. Recommended migrating to Debian, they agreed, and that machine hasn't had a problem since. That was 6 months ago.

Comment Re:I can see a large false positive rate (Score 1) 146

Israel army (on phone to Gaza officials): We're going to be bombing this building, so make sure you get all the children, women, and others out.
Hamas terrorist: HA! Children! Stay where you are! You are safe here from the Jewish infidels! Don't move!
---- bombs drop ----
Hamas terrorist (to foreign media): That accursed Israeli army! They bombed children! How could they!

What other military actively warns the enemy ahead of time that they're going to be bombing a specific target? It's Hamas that makes sure civilians stay there, so they can use their deaths in the propaganda war against Israel. And you've fallen for it.

Comment Re:Fortunately there is Linux.... (Score 1) 179

You somehow find it impossible for a Ford to break down?

Of course. That would require a Ford that actually runs in the first place.
Buh dum, crash!
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Try the fish; it's delicious!

(I don't really have anything against Ford, other than their miserable first gen Sync system, but it was just too good to pass up....)

Comment Re:Of course (Score 1) 141

Because if you didn't, when (he he....maybe "if") the entire Internet finally switches to IPv6, you'd have to run 4to6 hacks on your router, and probably have large swathes of the Internet unreachable, because your IPv4 internal network doesn't have the capability to properly address the IPv6 address space.
Much easier to just use IPv6 internally to begin with.

Comment Re:Metadata (Score 1) 175

Most snail mail is read and sorted by machines before it gets to the postman.
There is ample opportunity to collect metadata electronically with snail mail.

A snail mail letter can be dropped into a bulk, anonymous mailbox outside a variety store miles from your home/workplace, with no return address, and still get to where it needs to go. That makes the connections between sender and receiver impossible to track.

This isn't possible for email, as it needs an email account to be sent from.

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