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Comment Re:Just got mine... (Score 1) 168

I haven't taken it outside to try to get a lock. It found my location inside, but not via GPS. I can't get a lock with any GPS device (even my handheld Garmin) inside my house, so I'm not shocked. If I get some time today I'll try to take it outside to see if I can get a lock.

They say the metal back panel interferes with the GPS signal, and I don't doubt it. Personally, my uses for GPS on here will be minimal though. When I'm on the road I can use location-based services on my phone rather than a tablet, but time will tell how much of a problem it may be.

Comment Re:Just got mine... (Score 1) 168

I want to get the dock but nobody had it in stock yet. It works great without it, so I don't mind waiting until the current craze dies down.

The stock Asus Battery widget looks like it displays indicators for both the tablet and dock batteries. I have a screenshot of the widget preview for proof if someone really wants to see it.

Comment Re:Just got mine... (Score 1) 168

I have dozens of unix boxes I can ssh to if I need to do anything like that. I plan on using it as a tablet myself, even if I do get the dock it's main purpose is internet apps + games.

If I need to do anything more complex, I can always ssh or vnc/rdp to another box and do it remotely.

The transformer prime does a bit nicer job of multitasking though, the recent apps button lets you easily swap between running applications or kill ones you aren't using. I'm not sure if that's an Asus thing or a Honeycomb thing though.

Comment Just got mine... (Score 4, Insightful) 168

I just got mine this afternoon, ordered just before Christmas from Best Buy and it came today. So far, I'm impressed with it.

I will probably not root the thing, and have no interest in custom ROMs, so aside from the impending ICS update it's great for me as-is.

I've been playing on it non-stop since I pulled it off the charger about 3 hours ago and even with all manner of app installing and game playing it's barely below 75% charge.

Comment Re:Awesome (Score 3, Informative) 53

pfSense 2.1 has been including an IPv6 capable OpenVPN setup with tun for a few months now, though it's still in early development. The client on the firewall is capable, as is the windows client that the export package can generate with an included config.

openvpn[32839]: OpenVPN 2.2.0 i386-portbld-freebsd8.1 [SSL] [LZO2] [eurephia] [MH] [PF_INET6] [IPv6 payload 20110424-2 (2.2RC2)] built on Aug 11 2011

Comment Re:IPv6 (Score 1) 326

IPv6 doesn't have NAT in the same sense that IPv4 does. What it has is prefix translation, which can move your devices into a different subnet, but it doesn't (at least that I've seen) have a means to hide multiple IPs behind a single address.

Not that it would be practical for ISPs to track/charge based on device anyhow...

Comment Happlily enjoying IPv6 on my network (Score 3, Informative) 243

[Disclaimer: I am a pfSense developer, so I'm a bit biased. For those of you who don't know what pfSense is, it's a BSD-based firewall distribution.]

pfSense 2.0 won't officially support IPv6, but there is a branch available that does IPv6 which will later become 2.1. I'm running it on my home router with a GIF tunnel to Hurricane Electric ( http://he.net/ http://tunnelbroker.net/) to get IPv6 even though my ISPs do not have any native IPv6 support yet. The IPv6 support is a work in progress but is complete enough that it will do what most people want/need.

Instructions for the setup and more info can be found on the pfSense IPv6 board here: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/board,52.0.html

I get a 10/10 on the IPv6 tests from http://test-ipv6.com/ on all my PCs as well as my Droid X running 2.3.3. If you're already using pfSense 2.0, give the IPv6 code a try, setup a tunnel to he.net, and enjoy. Doesn't take too long at all to setup.

Comment Use pfSense + he.net tunnelbroker (Score 1) 133

I posted a comment much like this in the last IPv6 thread, but here it goes again. :-)

[Disclaimer: I am a pfSense developer, so I'm a bit biased. For those of you who don't know what pfSense is, it's a BSD-based firewall distribution.]

pfSense 2.0 won't officially support IPv6, but there is a branch available that does IPv6 which will later become 2.1. I'm running it on my home router with a GIF tunnel to Hurricane Electric (http://he.net, http://tunnelbroker.net/) to get IPv6 even though my ISPs do not have any native IPv6 support yet. The IPv6 support is a work in progress but is complete enough that it will do what most people want/need.

Instructions for the setup and more info can be found on the pfSense IPv6 board here: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/board,52.0.html

I get a 10/10 on the IPv6 tests from http://test-ipv6.com/ on all my PCs as well as my Droid X running 2.3.3.

Comment pfSense + he.net tunnelbroker (Score 1) 231

[pre-comment disclaimer: I am a pfSense developer]
I am running the IPv6 branch of pfSense 2.0 on my home router and I have v6 connectivity via he.net's tunnelbroker service. It works nicely, most devices on my LAN are happily preferring v6 over v4 for connections where it's possible, though it is rather limited at the moment. While the IPv6 code won't be included in the 2.0 release when it ships, it's easy to overlay on top and run it now. It will make it into the 2.1 release for sure. It's making great progress but it's not yet 100%.

Checking my RRD graphs I see that on one graph it showed a total of around 2GB of IPv4 transferred and for the same period, 30MB of IPv6, so somewhere near 1.5% of my traffic is ipv6 for that period.

Check the pfSense IPv6 board for more info and a howto.

Comment Not discarding, just tightening control (Score 1) 127

FTA:

If you are an existing developer of client apps, you can continue to serve
your user base, but we will be holding you to high standards to ensure you
do not violate users’ privacy, that you provide consistency in the user
experience, and that you rigorously adhere to all areas of our Terms of
Service. We have spoken with the major client applications in the Twitter
ecosystem about these needs on an ongoing basis, and will continue to ensure
a high bar is maintained.

Seems to me that's saying that clients still exist, they're just being held to stricter standards. They'll only be discarding ones that don't follow their guidelines. Now I'm sure that means foisting all kinds of undesirable promotional crap on clients that can't be ignored, but it's not making clients obsolete.

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