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Comment Re:Awesome (Score 3, Informative) 53

by Fez (#38162272) Attached to: Dutch Government Officially Trusts OpenVPN-NL

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
Biotech

In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner 619

Posted by samzenpus from the just-like-mom-used-to-grow dept.
wanzeo writes "Within the last decade, many of us have experienced the encroachment of ethics into our mealtime. Phrases such as vegetarian, vegan, organic, bST, GMO, etc. have become part of common grocery store advertising. The most recent addition to the list of ethically charged food is in-vitro meat, or meat that was cultured in a petri dish, and was never part of a live animal. The project has been brought to fruition by Mark Post, a biologist at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. Grown using animal stem-cells on a nutrient medium, the nearly see-through strips of muscle would need to be stacked nearly 3,000 times to approach the thickness of a burger. The practice promises to be more humane, sustainable, and efficient than conventional meats, with one analysis suggesting it would, 'use 35 to 60 percent less energy, emit 80 to 95 percent less greenhouse gas and use around 98 percent less land.' In a world where nearly half of all crop production is used to feed livestock, a move towards artificial meat may be inevitable."

Comment Re:IPv6 (Score 1) 326

by Fez (#38005792) Attached to: Comcast Begins Native IPv6 Deployment To End Users

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...
Patents

Patent Applications Hint Apple Wants To Eliminate Printer Drivers 323

Posted by timothy from the from-anywhere-is-a-nice-ideal dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Apple has filed two patent applications that describe an approach as well as file formats and APIs to eliminate the printer driver as a requirement for users to access a printer and print documents. If the company has its way, there will be three ways to access a printer in the future: The first will be via a conventional software driver. The second will be via a cloud service and the third will be via a driverless access method that supports 'universal' printing from any type device."

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

by Fez (#36376482) Attached to: World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K

[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

by Fez (#36326316) Attached to: World IPv6 Day On June 8

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

by Fez (#36236006) Attached to: IPv6 Traffic Volumes Are Low, But Nobody Knows How Low

[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.
The Internet

Ask Slashdot: How To Monitor Your Own Bandwidth Usage? 319

Posted by CmdrTaco from the with-a-yardstick dept.
Vrtigo1 writes "With many ISPs either already using bandwidth caps or talking about them, I was wondering how other Slashdot readers are keeping tabs on how much data is being transferred through their home Internet connections. None of the consumer routers I've used seem to make this information easily accessible. I'd like some way to see exactly how much data has been sent and received by the WAN port facing my ISP's modem so I can compare the numbers I get with the numbers they give me. I don't want to pay for their modem firmware updates and other network management traffic, so I'd like to see how the two numbers line up."

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

by Fez (#35467318) Attached to: Twitter Discards Client UI Community

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.
Twitter

Twitter Discards Client UI Community 127

Posted by Soulskill from the pack-your-junk dept.
Antique Geekmeister writes "Twitter has just decided to discard the community of developers who've created interesting and innovative UI applications. The announcement shows that they intend to switch from the 'bazaar' model of development to the 'cathedral,' with much tighter control of user interfaces for 'security' and 'consistency.'"
Networking

Cisco Linksys Routers Still Don't Support IPv6 380

Posted by samzenpus from the coming-soon dept.
Julie188 writes "It's 2011, IPv4 addresses are officially exhausted, and the world's largest router maker, Cisco, still doesn't support IPv6 in its best-selling line of Linksys wireless routers. This is true even for the new E4200 router released just last month (priced at $180). The company has promised to add IPv6 to the E4200 by the spring. But it has not been specific about if and how it will offer an IPv6 upgrade to the millions of other Linksys routers currently running in homes and small businesses."
Google

Google To Push WebM With IE9, Safari Plugins 413

Posted by timothy from the first-one's-free dept.
surveyork writes with this "new chapter in the browser wars: 'Google in a defense of its decision to pull H.264 from Chrome's HTML5 revealed that it will put out WebM plugins for Internet Explorer 9 and Safari. Expecting no official support from Apple or Microsoft, Google plans to develop extensions that would load its self-owned video codec. No timetable was given.' So Google gets started with their plan for world-wide WebM domination. They'll provide WebM plugins for the browsers of the H.264-only league, so in practice, all major browsers will have WebM support — one way or the other. Machiavellian move?"

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