spot on - I nearly bought an N900. If I had I would be seriously pissed off. Maemo is very rough and when I was considering buying the N900 I assumed Nokia would continue to improve it. Instead Maemo has been abandoned. Is Nokia going to stick with meego? Or will it finally push symbian forward? Who knows...

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.

The reason nobody is adoping ipv7 is that all the so-called advantages of ipv6 are all disadvantages, except bigger address space. If there were some advantage then we would be willing to invest the substantial time and money to switching over.

* 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.

Not all knowledge is in formal publications, a heck of a lot of information that falls short of the publication threshold is shared at conferences and through informal communication. While rivalries can sometimes reduce communication there is a lot of information shared between colleagues.

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...

nobody wants an ipv6 address -- because all websites are on ipv4 -- because there is no demand for websites to be on ipv6 -- so nobody wants an ipv6 address

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!

+1: funniest comment in ages

Neat

Firefox - hit s and see a bunch of urls I've been to once and have no interest in. All urls shown are deep inside the sites, pages I have visited at most once.

Chrome - hit s and see slashdot home page, hit enter. There's nothing wrong with the concept, its the implementation that is crap.

Yes - if we could get to orbit at a less astronomical (sorry) cost, most of the other options become much more likely.

Murdoch could easily put noindex in his robots files - then google won't link to his articles. I assume he doesn't do that because most of his visitors come from google so then visitors and ad revenue would fall. So, what is Murdoch's strategy here?

In my experience working with various advertisers, the problem is mainly not with Google or Yahoo who act on click fraud but their second-tier competitors like Miva, looksmart, etc who basically would go broke if they prevented click fraud.

How it works is that the scammers set up affiliate accounts with the above ad networks and then the botnet (or other means) is used to direct clicks through affiliate links to genuine ads, thus defrauding the advertisers. In most cases they redirect clicks intended for another purpose, so the advertiser's website which eventually appears to the victim is generally unwanted. I know this due to hate mail accusing our company of perpetrating this on purpose. The links look somewhat 'real' on your logs due to the wide geographic spread of IP addresses, but this traffic can be easily identified by the fact that the real people on the hijacked computers *never* buy.

Unfortunately the only solution is to not use Google and Yahoo's competitors, the net result of which is to reduce competition in a very bad way.

Yeah mate, I feel your pain, I've been there! However, for servers you still need raid - software raid in server OS is just fine these days, or better still if you've been burned, any server-quality raid card really does 'just work' (look for hardware with 'hot swap' drives - worth the money).

For workstations, backups plus SSD for speed.