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Submission + - In 2010 the World Runs Out Of IPv4 Addresses (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by blitzkrieg3 on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @02:52PM

blitzkrieg3 writes: Ars has an excellent writeup of the coming end of the IPv4 Address space, as well as in depth technical reasoning behind it. From the article:

Either by choice or otherwise, the big ISPs will soon have to stop giving each customer an IPv4 address of his or her own. Giving those customers just IPv6 is not an option, as the majority of the services are still IPv4-only and many IP-capable devices that don't run a full operating system (smartphones, VoIP phones, webcams) don't support IPv6. So that means stretching the existing IPv4 addresses in some way through "carrier grade NAT" (CGN).

Assuming the ISPs don't strip people of their current IPv4 address, Apple users may be in the best shape.

Submission + - Sears.com Squelches Web Programming Blunder (foxnews.com)

Submitted by blitzkrieg3 on Thursday August 20, 2009 @11:19PM

blitzkrieg3 writes: Earlier today someone made public a trivial exploit on the Sears.com website. Sears was storing page paramaters from the client editable url into the catagory of the page, leading to some pretty funny results. Once the catagories were loaded into the cache, every subsequent hit would pull up the same user submitted catagories, even without any page paramaters. TMZ and Fox News have their own reports. Reddit has since been forced to take the post off of their front page by their parent Conde Nast, but the page can still be accessed via permalink.

Submission + - "Nothing Left to Prove" on The Linux Deskt (cnet.com)

Submitted by blitzkrieg3 on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @02:52PM

blitzkrieg3 writes: Matt Asay likes the latest Fedora release, especially when it comes to the desktop. From the article:

This is the state of "desktop" Linux today: it really has nothing left to prove. It took years to become user friendly, but it has arrived, helped along by the world's move to browser-based computing. At this point, the only thing that Fedora and the other Linux distributions can do is embrace and extend the Windows or Mac computing experience, because they've largely matched them (especially Windows).

I'm impressed with the work on xrandr and HAL, particularly with regard to input properties. Devices can now be hotplugged without major issues, and most new distros are having users delete their xorg.conf.

Submission + - Danger Mouse Releases Album as Blank CD-R

Submitted by blitzkrieg3 on Sunday May 17, 2009 @05:06PM

blitzkrieg3 writes: The DJ's much anticipated album, "Dark Night of the Soul", may never see the light of day, do to a dispute with EMI It is a colaboration between artists Danger Mouse, Sparkle Horse, and David Lynch, among others. In an effort to promote the record, Danger Mouse is set to release the book of photos by David Lynch, along with a blank CD-R, presumably with the cover art. From the article:

An unnamed spokesperson for Danger Mouse says that "due to an ongoing dispute with EMI" the book of photographs will "now come with a blank, recordable CD-R. All copies will be clearly labeled: 'For legal reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will.'"

NPR Music is also streaming the entire record, completly for free. Danger Mouse has previously entered questionable legal teritory with The Grey Album, a mashup of Jay-Z's Black Album and The Beatles White Album. EMI also blocked the release of that album.

Submission + - All OEMs Now Ship Desktop Linux (computerworld.com)

Submitted by blitzkrieg3 on Thursday December 11, 2008 @02:47PM

blitzkrieg3 writes: Computer World has an article about how all major original equipment manufacturers are now shipping desktop Linux. This after HP decided to put Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on their Compaq dx2390 desktop. From the article:

With this move, HP finally followed Dell, which was the first major OEM to make desktop Linux available as a pre-load, Lenovo and Asus into the desktop Linux revolution. In fact, with HP coming aboard, the first stage of the Linux rebellion is done.

The Register has a more detailed writeup here

Submission + - General Motors Snubs Battery Exchange Model (nytimes.com)

Submitted by blitzkrieg3 on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @04:13PM

blitzkrieg3 writes: Better Place, the electric vehicle company that partnered with Israel, Denmark, San Fransisco, Austraila, and recently Hawaii to install electric vehicle grids, is also working with automakers Renault and Nissan to produce electric vehicles that will accept their standardized batteries. General Motors was also asked to participate, but declined. Thomas L. Friedman argues it's because of such short-signed decisions and general lack of innovation that the big three are having to ask Congress for $15 billion. The business model that Better Place is pioneering has the potential to revolutionize the auto industry as we know it, possibly killing the gasoline car in the process. Did GM make a mistake by not becoming a partner?

Submission + - NYSE Moves to Linux 1

Submitted by blitzkrieg3 on Friday December 14, 2007 @07:04PM

blitzkrieg3 writes: The New York Times is reporting on how Linux is "mature enough" for the New York Stock Exchange. They are using commodity x86 based Hewlett-Packard hardware and Linux in place of their traditional UNIX machines. From NYSE Euronext CIO Steve Rubinow:

We don't want to be closely aligned with proprietary Unix. No offense to HP-UX, but we feel the same way about [IBM's] AIX, and we feel the same way to some extent about Solaris
Other reasons cited for the switch were increased flexibility and lower cost.

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