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Comment: Re:Ah, no thank you. (Score 1) 166

by SmilingBoy (#43279739) Attached to: Direct-to-Vinyl Recording Makes a Comeback (Video)

I've listened to a DVD Audio disc and the audio quality is _phenomenal_, especially the crystal-clear treble playing back high notes on a piano, a piccolo or cymbals.

In your mind only. Or it was differently mastered than the CD. CD quality is perfect for human hearing. Higher bitrates and frequencies achieve nothing as you can't hear it anyway. DVD-A or SACD may be better for dogs though. Or bats.

Comment: Re:Why? (Score 1) 403

by SmilingBoy (#41771149) Attached to: Microsoft Releases Windows 8

Span desktop background across all monitors.

About. Damn. Time.

This already works on Windows 7, at least with monitors with the same resolution. You need to have a picture that has exactly the resolution of your monitors combined, and then select "Tile" as the option for the background. I have a part of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field as background picture, with a resolution of 2100x1680, and it spans nicely across my two 1050x1680 screens (they are vertical).

Comment: Re:spammers (Score 4, Informative) 241

by SmilingBoy (#41336433) Attached to: RIPE Region Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses
Bullshit. I have followed IPv4 exhaustion in detail for the last 5 years. The prediction was always that IPv4 will run out at the global level between 2010 and 2013 (it happened in February 2011), and run out at the regional level in the years after that (it happened in April 2011 in Asia-Pacific and today in Europe-Middle East). So no surprises at all. If you are a European ISP, and you stuck to the rules of RIPE NCC, you now have IPv4 stocks that should satisfy your growth needs for the next three months. After that, you cannot grow your network anymore without resorting to the mess that CGN is.

Comment: Re:Not unexpected (Score 1) 241

by SmilingBoy (#41335507) Attached to: RIPE Region Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses

Not sure. Carrier Grade NAT is quite expensive as well, and a big mess to administer. It is much worth than NAT at your home router as plug and play can be used by programmes to open ports dynamically. So once you go CGN, expect many support calls because of broken stuff.

I expect most ISPs to hand out native IPv6, and - once out of IPv4 - offer CGN as a stopgap for users to reach IPv4-only servers. The biggest and most popular sites are IPv6 enabled already, and I would expect the others to follow suit as well.

Comment: Not unexpected (Score 2) 241

by SmilingBoy (#41335397) Attached to: RIPE Region Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses
I hope that this will serve as another incentive to move to IPv6. Allocations by RIPE NCC have already been very conservative over the last year (only allowing you to apply for new IPv4 space for three months of growth), so by the end of the year, there will be a real squeeze at the final customer level. I am lucky in that my ISP provides both IPv4 and native IPv6, so I will not be affected, but very few people are in such a position.

Comment: Not unexpected (Score 1) 1

by SmilingBoy (#41335319) Attached to: RIPE region runs out of IPv4 adresses, now allocates from last /8
I hope that this will serve as another incentive to move to IPv6. Allocations by RIPE NCC have already been very conservative over the last year (only allowing you to apply for new IPv4 space for three months of growth), so by the end of the year, there will be a real squeeze at the final customer level. I am lucky in that my ISP provides both IPv4 and native IPv6, so I will not be affected, but very few people are in such a position.

+ - RIPE region runs out of IPv4 adresses, now allocates from last /8-> 1

Submitted by 8-Track
8-Track writes "The RIPE NCC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, distributed the last blocks of IPv4 address space from the available pool. This means that we are now distributing IPv4 address space to Local Internet Registries (LIRs) from the last /8. This means that an ISP may receive one /22 allocation (1,024 IPv4 addresses), even if they can justify a larger allocation. This /22 allocation will only be made to LIRs if they have already received an IPv6 allocation from an upstream LIR or the RIPE NCC. Time to move to IPv6!"
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Comment: Re:They STILL have the BEST KEYBOARD (Score 1) 299

by SmilingBoy (#40617047) Attached to: RIM CEO On What Went Wrong

Our company switched from BB a month ago, we could choose between Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4S (I had a BB Bold 9000 before). I took the Nexus and am very happy, and the only thing I hated at first was the touchscreen keyboard.

After a short search on the web, I came across the Swype keyboard (also on-screen), which allows you to type a lot faster as you keep your finger on the screen when moving from letter to letter. I think I now type even more quickly than on my BB. The only thing that is difficult is to type while walking, which was easier on the BB.

I am quite happy now that I chose the Nexus as Swype is not available on the iPhone. Some of my colleagues are quite annoyed that they picked the iPhone after I showed them Swype!

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Publilius Syrus

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