Comment Vendor sales answer (Score 1) 406
"That's funny, this is the first time someone ask."
wash, rince, and reuse
Comment let's defend ourselves (Score 1) 342
by carrying guns in airplanes!
Comment Re:Another reason for using laptops is... (Score 1) 115
Don't forget that in space, chips are exposed to more rays than on earth. Having a bit to flip by itself to its opposite value happens way more often. I'm sure they slow down the processor and add extra shielding to compensate....
Comment Re:Just once... (Score 2, Funny) 187
..no they looked for ET!
Comment One Down... (Score 1) 187
...Many more to go
Fix the Whois!
Fix the Whois!
Submission + - IPv6 and SEC filing (nanog.org)
FranckMartin writes: It is likely that public companies will have to include the state of IPv6 deployment under compulsory SEC filings. When IPv4 exhaustion happens, companies may not be able to grow their business on the Internet. This seems a rather important piece of information shareholders may need to evaluate the future value of their stock?
Comment Who is the idiot... (Score 1) 110
...that decided to put a scripting language inside PDFs?
Have we learn anything? Do we have to use back postscript for sending safe documents?
Have we learn anything? Do we have to use back postscript for sending safe documents?
Submission + - The Future of the Internet in 4 videos (isoc.org)
FranckMartin writes: The Internet society has released 4 videos where they explore the future of the Internet. In these times of cyber-wars, net neutrality, censorship and increased government control, will the Internet stay the way we know it, or the way we think we know it? As they explain "While obviously not intended to be a definitive overview of the landscape or all potential issues, we believe the results are interesting and, we hope, thought-provoking. [We hope] they will inspire thought about possibilities for the future development of the Internet, and involvement in helping to make that happen in the best possible way."
At the end you can vote on what is the biggest threat to the future of the Internet.
At the end you can vote on what is the biggest threat to the future of the Internet.
Submission + - Linux to take over Microsoft in Enterprises (linux.com) 1
shougyin writes: For years, Linux has enjoyed much of its success as a replacement for Unix. Companies turned to Linux to replace Unix servers, or for new deployments within a Unix-heavy environment. Linux is still king there, but it's starting to encroach on Microsoft as well. Big companies are planning overwhelmingly (76.4%) to add more Linux servers in the next year, and less than half (41.2%) of the companies are planning to add Windows servers in the next year. Even more interesting, nearly half (43.6%) are actively planning to decrease use of Windows servers in the next year.
Submission + - Pirated Software Could Bring Down Predator Drones
Pickens writes: "Fast Company reports that Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Margaret Hinkle will soon issue a decision on an intellectual property-related lawsuit that could ground the CIA's Predator drones as Intelligent Integration Systems (IISi) alleges that their Geospatial Toolkit and Extended SQL Toolkit were pirated by Massachusetts-based Netezza for use by a government client and is seeking an injunction that would halt the use of their two toolkits by Netezza for three years. The dispute goes back to when Netezza and IISi were former partners in a contract to develop software that would be used, among other purposes, for unmanned drones. IISi's suit claims that both the software package used by the CIA and the Netezza Spatial product were built using their intellectual property and according to statements made by IISi CEO Paul Davis, a favorable ruling in the injunction would revoke the CIA's license to use Geospatial. If IISi prevails in court this would either force the CIA to ground Predator drones or to break the law in their use of the pirated software. But there's more. Testimony given by an IISi executive to the court indicates that Netezza illegally and hastily reverse-engineered IISi's code to deliver a faulty version that could cause predator drones to miss their targets by as much as 40 feet. According to a deposition by IISi Chief Technical Officer Rich Zimmerman "my reaction was one of stunned amazement that (the CIA) want to kill people with my software that doesn't work." Zimmerman was also nervous about any possible legal liability for IISi in case Predator missiles miss their target; in his words they would not continue participating "without some sort of terms around that indemnifies us in case that code kills people.""
Comment May be just in time for... (Score 1) 349
... an updated timezone info for Fiji:
Fiji New Daylight savings starts October 24th with no end in sight.
Fiji New Daylight savings starts October 24th with no end in sight.
Comment Don't wait for your ISP... (Score 1) 583
... to provide you with IPv6
If you have
-a static IPv4, use a tunnel from he.net
-a dynamic IPv4, use 6to4 like on openWRT or Apple Airport Express
-a nated IPv4, use a teredo tunnel
Most likely your PC is already using tunnels.
Once you have done it, you will wonder what was all the commotion about.
For the office, disable IPv6 on your servers and provide IPv6 on your clients, then figure out your servers later
If you have
-a static IPv4, use a tunnel from he.net
-a dynamic IPv4, use 6to4 like on openWRT or Apple Airport Express
-a nated IPv4, use a teredo tunnel
Most likely your PC is already using tunnels.
Once you have done it, you will wonder what was all the commotion about.
For the office, disable IPv6 on your servers and provide IPv6 on your clients, then figure out your servers later
Comment Re:Still hobbyist... (Score 1) 442
The whole of Google servers are on IPv6, Facebook is IPv6, Netflix is IPv6, back to mac uses IPv6 when it can...
There are no more dancing turtles... There is non-negligible IPv6 traffic once you enable it on your network. Studies have shown it...
There are no more dancing turtles... There is non-negligible IPv6 traffic once you enable it on your network. Studies have shown it...
Comment Re:Why would I want to spend forever using a tunne (Score 1) 442
Tunnels are free, ISPs do not charge for them, in fact this is to by pass your ISP lack of native IPv6.
Take an Apple Airport Extreme, and it takes just on tick to enable IPv6 in advanced settings and you are set.
Take an Apple Airport Extreme, and it takes just on tick to enable IPv6 in advanced settings and you are set.
Comment Get IPv6 on your clients now, servers for later (Score 1) 442
IPv6 is easy to implement, it takes 5 mn to setup a tunnel (Tunnel Broker) and switch on IPv6 (you don't need to wait for your ISP to provide you with IPv6). And yes tunnel is the recommended way of getting IPv6 (the OECD in a report about IPv6 says so too). So get a tunnel, switch it on and enjoy IPv6. What is more difficult is to get your servers on IPv6, but client side is is done in no time. So get your users on IPv6 today then when they are more familiar, you can start to migrate your servers to IPv6.
We have 7% of ASN (the backbone Internet) which are IPv6, we need 1,000 more to reach 10% of ASN, then snowball effect will took place.
Any other attitude is procrastination, FUD, and misconceived ideas.
A blog about IPv6 and other issues in the Pacific Islands and the rest of the world
We have 7% of ASN (the backbone Internet) which are IPv6, we need 1,000 more to reach 10% of ASN, then snowball effect will took place.
Any other attitude is procrastination, FUD, and misconceived ideas.
A blog about IPv6 and other issues in the Pacific Islands and the rest of the world
