Vanjoki also addressed recent reports that Nokia would use MeeGo on all future members of the N series. The N8 will be Nokia's only Symbian 3-based smartphone, says Vanjoki. However, a Symbian 4-based N series is a very strong possibility, he says.
Why would anyone buy an N8 - obviously going to be another orphan.
Until Nokia actually chooses between symbian and meego as their smartphone platform, I expect that neither will prosper.
* get rid of NAT - I like NAT, it helps me keep the private parts of my network - well - private
* auto-configure - what an awful idea, a recipe for disaster
* every device their own ip - um why?
And then there's the cost of implementing. Just as a simple example you can currently ssh or rdp to servers without needing dns to be working because you remember those critical ips and can type them in quickly. Try doing that in the ipv6 world. So you need new infrastructure to manage your addresses - that's not theoretically a difficult thing to do, but just one more reason to put off a non-urgent (to the people with ip4 addresses) change which gives no upgrade advantage.
There may be advantages to ISPs and network managers, I don't know, but they obviously aren't big enough that ISPs are pushing this change to consumers.
In addition there is often a lot of benefit in working things out for yourself - this provides the in depth understanding to base deeper work on which can be lacking if merely following instructions...
Also, FFS could someone write some simple and easy to implement deployment guides for common website configurations like LAMP, IIs6/asp.net, etc. Right now I have to read the technical specifications and figure it out - no way I have time for that!
Chrome - hit s and see slashdot home page, hit enter. There's nothing wrong with the concept, its the implementation that is crap.
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