Getting yelled at by stupid or corrupt administrators is part of the job.

College is what the lecturers and the students make it. If you've got tenure, then you're pretty much untouchable, precisely so that you can take a stand without fear of the repercussions. (Of course, if you haven't got tenure yet, then tread carefully.)

Proxy-ND? Stateful DHCPv6? Somehow I doubt it.

They're very different beasts.

DD-WRT is a single, monolithic image, similar to a vendor firmware but with more features. What is available tends to be well integrated into the GUI, but if a feature is not available, you're pretty much out of luck (unless you're willing to install software by hand).

OpenWRT, on the other hand, is a package based system: there's a base system and an extensive set of optional packages that you may install. It used to be the case that the OpenWRT GUI was not very good, but it has improved a lot in recent years, and I now find it fairly usable. Of course, not all packages are well integrated with the GUI.

I'd recommend going with OpenWRT. The base system should be reasonably easy to understand, and you'll be able to easily install extra software when you find that you have unusual needs.

OpenWRT has had support for native IPv6 for as long as anyone can remember. However, the support wasn't native, in the sense that it required some knowledge to configure properly.

With the current trunk (and this snapshot), you can configure things like DHCPv6 prefix delegation, DHCPv6 relaying, proxy-ND and so on over the web interface -- and it just works. (Famous last words.)

Just to prevent people from getting the wrong idea -- OpenWRT is fully functional and rock solid on a lot of 802.11n hardware (including 40MHz support). I haven't played with 802.11ac yet.

I don't recommend the WRT54G(L) for OpenWRT hacking -- it's a little short on RAM and seriously short on flash. There's a lot of much nicer routers available, with more RAM, more flash, 802.11n and gigabit Ethernet. Somebody else in this thread mentioned the WNDR3700v2, which I'm very happy with (but check the board revision -- the v1 doesn't work well). The successor is the WNDR3800, which is the same board with more RAM.

Yeah, it's pretty horrible. The only way to write (presentation) MathML is to generate it automatically from a sane input format, either a GUI or something like LaTeX.

We'd still deal with the inconvenience if it were universally supported by browsers -- but 15 years after MathML was conceived, it still isn't.

We've been waiting for math rendering support in HTML for slightly over 15 years (MathML came out in 1998, and there was HTML 3 math before that).

We've given up. Both the scientific and the higher education communities are using PDF almost exclusively, and our respective userbases (fellow scientists and students) have accepted PDF as the format of choice. At the same time, PDF support in browsers and on tablets has become good enough to make that a reasonable proposition.

But yeah, let's write blog postings about why MathML is not dead, it only smells funny.

This is an individual submission, not an IETF working group draft, and does not appear to either be proposed for an IETF wg draft or to be in the RFC Editor's queue. In short, it has nothing to do with the IETF.

Becker is actually a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, which is not the Nobel Prize.

While registering to the conference, have attendees fill in a form with the two questions "Are you a government employee, and if so in what quality" and "Are you a journalist, and if so, in what newspaper(s) do you publish?" The people that you want to attend will be happy to have a name tag saying "Government employee, University of so and so". The people who feel the need to hide their affiliation are probably the ones you want to be escorted by security.

Wikipedia has been known to be wrong before, but it appears to confirm what I've always been told:

The Government Ministers are all members of Parliament, and are accountable to it.
[...]
For most senior Ministers this is usually the elected House of Commons rather than the House of Lords. There have been some recent exceptions to this [...]

I'd love to hear otherwise from a reliable source.

So you say that only professional politicians should be able to hold government positions?

For anyone who's lost -- the United Kingdom has this strange political system where you need to be a member of the legislative branch in order to serve on the national executive: only members of parliament can be ministers of Her Majesty's government. This would appear to imply that it is impossible to appoint a specialist as minister, since only professional politicians have a chance to be elected to parliament; in practice, appointment to the Lords is used as a workaround.

SMBC