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At Current Rates, Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses 460

Posted by timothy from the so-last-decade dept.
An anonymous reader excerpts from an interesting article at Ars Technica, which begins "There are 3,706,650,624 usable IPv4 addresses. On January 1, 2000, approximately 1,615 million (44 percent) were in use and 2,092 million were still available. Today, ten years later, 2,985 million addresses (81 percent) are in use, and 722 million are still free. In that time, the number of addresses used per year increased from 79 million in 2000 to 203 million in 2009. So it's a near certainty that before Barack Obama vacates the White House, we'll be out of IPv4 address[es]. (Even if he doesn't get re-elected.)"

Submission + - A decade's worth of IPv4 addresses (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: There are 3,706,650,624 usable IPv4 addresses. On January 1, 2000, approximately 1,615 million (44 percent) were in use and 2,092 million were still available. Today, ten years later, 2,985 million addresses (81 percent) are in use, and 722 million are still free. In that time, the number of addresses used per year increased from 79 million in 2000 to 203 million in 2009. So it's a near certainty that before Barack Obama vacates the White House, we'll be out of IPv4 address. (Even if he doesn't get re-elected.)

Comment OLPC: CPU too slow (Score 1) 137

by sick_soul (#28834657) Attached to: Ivan Krstić Says Negroponte's Wrong About Sugar and OLPC

I also bought two OLPC, using the "give one, get one" program,
and gave the one sent to me as a Christmas gift to my nephew.

He used it and is still using it, but the main problem is: it is painfully slow.

The CPU in the XO-1 is an AMD / 433 Mhz and integrated graphics, with 64K Level 1 and 128K Level 2 Cache: I think that it simply cannot keep up with the amount of computation that its software components require.

And I do not think that Python is necessarily to blame here.
I cannot say for sure without profiling, but I think that for most interactive uses the perceived performance problems are not in tight Python logic loops, but in rendering and other basic stuff which mainly happens in C libs.

Comment great news! (Score 1) 164

by sick_soul (#28037051) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

Great news for me, I'll be able to continue using my favorite distribution even in the 64 bit environment. After a brief initial experience with SuSe,
I went with Slack and never looked back.

Comment that's great. We need more of these game companies (Score 1) 117

by sick_soul (#27800751) Attached to: <em>Quake Live</em> Dev Says Mac and Linux Are "Top Priority"

I am happy of course to see that having a Linux native version is a priority at least for some developers.
Too bad I really don't like Quake-like games, or any FPS.
If only the RPG companies would have Linux in their mind. Like Bioware, which delivered Neverwinter Nights (thanks!), but now turned its back on us with Dragon Age.

Comment my first time (Score 1) 739

by sick_soul (#27711635) Attached to: What Did You Do First With Linux?

I bought SUSE Linux together with a new computer in a small shop near my home.
I specifically asked for it, since I was going to go to the university, and I needed a Unix-like system for my studies, to practice at home and work on assignments, without having to always go to the computer labs, where DEC machines and terminals were available.

The guys in the shop installed the OS for me, so I had everything already working. No network connection btw.
I started messing around, and soon discovered that a game called "nethack" was installed.
It blew my mind.
Programming

Submission + - A good look at six open source graphics utilities

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Tis article provide a survey of a number of popular Linux data visualization tools and include some insight into their other capabilities. For example, does the tool provide a language for numerical computation? Is the tool interactive or does it operate solely in batch mode? Can you use the tool for image or digital signal processing? Does the tool provide language bindings to support integration into user applications (such as Python, Tcl, Java programming languages, and so on)? It also demonstrate the tools' graphical capabilities. Finally, it identifies the strengths of each tool to help you decide which is best for your computational task or data visualization.
Privacy

House Approves Warrantless Wiretapping Extension 342

Posted by Zonk from the a-big-thank-you-to-congress dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The House of Representatives voted 227-183 to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to allow warrantless wiretapping of telephone and electronic communications. The vote extends the FISA amendment for six months. 'The administration said the measure is needed to speed the National Security Agency's ability to intercept phone calls, e-mails and other communications involving foreign nationals "reasonably believed to be outside the United States." Civil liberties groups and many Democrats said it goes too far, possibly enabling the government to wiretap U.S. residents communicating with overseas parties without adequate oversight from courts or Congres.'"
Education

Submission + - New TI graphing calculator now public

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An anonymous reader writes: Texas Instruments has just unveiled its next generation of graphing calculators the weekend with the TI-Nspire. TI calculators are famous not only in the educational arena but also with the hobbyist hacker crowd around the world because of the ease (or some would say complexity) of which it is to develop for them. The TI-Nspire comes in both CAS (computer aided algebra) and non CAS flavors, and as an added bonus, the non CAS models even includes a fully functioning TI-84+ compatibility mode using a replaceable TI-84+ keypad (which is sure to come as a delight to 84 hackers and gamers everywhere). It packs 20MB of storage and 16MB of memory, an ARM based processor, a 320x240 grayscale LCD, and a USB port. The TI-Nspire should be out in the fall to specific dealers, and in retail stores by early 2008, just in time for back to school in 2008.
Programming

Submission + - OCaml Summer Project

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Yaron
Yaron writes: "The OCaml Summer Project (funded by the company where I work, Jane Street Capital) is aimed at encouraging the use of OCaml by funding students over the summer to work on open-source projects in the language. The project has started accepting submissions, with the final date being March 15th. It's a new approach to promoting the use of minority languages. It will be interesting to see if it catches on."

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