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A New Global IPv6 Backbone->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Still waiting for your Internet provider to support IPv6? Apparently one provider gave up waiting for other ISPs and deployed a free global IPv6 backbone with tunnel end points around the world. Most Microsoft users are now automatically using this IPv6 infrastructure. As a result, IPv6 reachability no longer sucks (i.e. loss / latency) and one blog claims IPv6 traffic has jumped by 1400% (http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/09/who-put-the-ipv6-in-my-internet/)."
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Large scale Mac deployment. 1

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UncleRage
UncleRage writes "I've been asked to research and ultimately recommend a deployment procedure for Macs across a rather large network.

I'm not a stranger to OS X; however, the last time I worked on deployment NetRestore was still king of the mountain. Considering the current options, what methodology do admin adhere to? Given the current selection of tools available, what would you recommend when planning, prototyping and rolling out a robust, modular deployment scenario?

For the record, I'm not asking for a spoon fed solution; I'm more interested in a discussion concerning the current tools and what may (or may not) have worked for you. There are a lot of options available for modular system deployment... what are your opinions?"

Acne can Make you Uninsurable

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pickens
pickens writes "Hugh Pickens writes:

The Washington Post reports that health insurers have issued guidelines that deny coverage to people suffering from such conditions as acne, hemorrhoids and bunions. Documents obtained from a California insurance broker show that other uninsurable conditions included pregnancy, and being an "expectant father" was grounds for "automatic rejection." There was also this more general disqualifier: "currently experiencing/experienced within the last 12 months symptoms for which a physician has not been consulted." As Congress works on legislation to overhaul the nation's health-care system, one of their main objectives is to stop insurers from denying coverage on the basis of health status. Proposed legislation would prohibit insurers from denying coverage to individuals with preexisting conditions or charging them higher premiums because of their medical history — practices known as medical underwriting. The internal insurance company documents reveal that insurers deny applicants based on occupation, age, weight, use of a wide range of common prescription drugs, minor health conditions or mere "symptoms" that have not been reported to a physician. "What these documents show is the lengths to which insurance companies are willing to go to make a profit," said Jerry Flanagan, health-care policy director of Consumer Watchdog, a nonpartisan consumer advocacy organization. "What it shows is that insurance companies want premiums without any risk.""
Apple

Synthetic Binaural Audio Comes to the iPhone

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "This past Friday, a $1 app came out on the iPhone, Aves. The app itself is a brief 3D shoot-the-bird game, but there's some awesome technology under the covers — the entire game is rendered with synthetic binaural audio, something I've never seen before in anything, much less a throwaway game for the iPhone. It has to be played to be believed, and it will have your head swiveling the first time you try it. (if you've never heard of binaural recording before, the Virtual Barbershop is the ur-example online.)"
Microsoft

Microsoft launches new pre-Windows 7 anti-Linux of->

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davidmwilliams
davidmwilliams writes "Microsoft has been making steps to educate U.S. retailers that Linux is a limited operating system that works with only few peripherals or online services, and that what most customers want is Windows.

Highlights include the fact that "Windows Live" is a free download for Microsoft Windows but not available for Linux. What I want to know is where is the "one-stop updater" and "license free" checkboxes?"
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Comment: Re:Inc. China (Score 3, Interesting) 235

by jorgis (#27683977) Attached to: Germany Institutes Censorship Infrastructure
I don't believe that this necessary will lead to censorship of other "offensive" or politically incorrect material. Here in Norway, we've had a similar filter[1] in place for a few years now, and it hasn't been extended in any degree to include anything other than what has been deemed as child porn. It's efficiency in combating the distribution of child porn can be questioned, but I don't think you'll ever find it being used for other purposes. [1] http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Norwegian_secret_internet_censorship_blacklist%2C_3518_domains%2C_18_Mar_2009
Classic Games (Games)

Setting Up Ubuntu On a PS3 For Emulation 81

Posted by Soulskill
from the eight-bit-high-def dept.
Gizmodo is running a guide on how to install Ubuntu on a Playstation 3 and set it up to play vintage games through emulation. Quoting: "It still kind of surprises me (in a good way) that Sony was, from the start, very OK with PS3 owners tinkering with Linux on their PS3s. A modified release of Yellow Dog Linux was available from the very beginning, and some very handy hard drive partitioning and dual-boot utilities are baked right into the PS3's XMB; Ubuntu gets installed on an entirely separate partition of your PS3's hard disk, so your default system doesn't get touched and switching between Ubuntu and the XMB is a piece of cake. There is a flipside to this coin, however. Since the PS3's Cell Processor is PowerPC based, you won't be able to use any Linux software that's compiled for x86, which is, unfortunately, most of it. However, Ubuntu has always had a PPC distro, and most of the basic stuff will work just fine. You can even load up a PPC-compiled Super Nintendo Emulator, SNES9X, and play some classic games pretty easily on your Sixaxis controller paired via Bluetooth."

Comment: Re:It could mean there is hope. (Score 1) 625

by jorgis (#26539721) Attached to: Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry?
The moment I realized that there would be no final year of Linux was the moment I discovered that my beloved stage piano(!) actually ran some version of Linux. While the debate has raged over what year will be "the year of Linux on the desktop", people has assumed that being ready for the desktop is somehow equated with being successful. At the same time, Linux has snuck in the back door into surprisingly many homes, into appliances Microsoft never ever dreamed of supporting, and that is a good a measure of Linux' success as a win on the desktop. I believe the day Linux has more installs (appliances/computers running its code) than any Microsoft product will come a long time before Linux matches the user share of Windows on the desktop.
Linux Business

Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry? 625

Posted by timothy
from the so-you're-saying-shuttleworth-has-business-acumen dept.
ruphus13 writes "Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, claims that the company is very close to the $30M mark, at which point, they will be a self-sustaining company. While people feel that this should not worry Microsoft, the real question is whether a 10,000 person effort on a failure like Vista can actually be the paradigm of a long-term strategy. From the article: 'Microsoft had 10,000 people [the article is unclear whether these were all developers, or administrative and support staff were factored in] working on Vista for a five year period ... huge profits in any given year can mean relatively little five years on. Canonical's self-sustaining revenue may not be threatening — but it leaves one wondering how sustainable Microsoft's development process really is.'"

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. -- Anatole France