Comment Re:I got a sixxs tunnel account today (Score 1) 164
Well, the turtle does it for me.
There was an attempt to offer free porn via the theipv6experiment.com but that didn't take off.
Well, the turtle does it for me.
There was an attempt to offer free porn via the theipv6experiment.com but that didn't take off.
Did you even both to try and understand how their usage works?
It's 2GB a month, 0900-1800 Mon-Fri, or 100GB off peak (all other hours) or a combination there of. It's measured in units of which up to 2 carry to the next month (or if you have a higher tariff more are carried) . In the 6 months I've currently been a member I've not gone over my use and yes, I use Steam, stream movies from LoveFilm and iPlayer, download demos and so on. So far this month I've downloaded 35GB data.
I see your point now and don't agree that issues with AAAA records is one of the reasons things move slowly. If that were the case they'd be seeing problems now - Google, for instance, deal out AAAA records and broken AAAA lookup would hamper requests to them where the client OS thought it should try the IPv6 route.
On the whole migration to IPv6 should be transparent to the end user. The firmware on the (admittedly ISP controlled) router is upgrade to support IPv6, the router than starts to emit and respond to NDP requests. Most end user machines will pick these up, sort itself out with a native IPv6 address get on with it.
In the cases where the ISP doesn't control the router it's more difficult but there are methods of dealing with those cases in ways that are not too onerous for the end user.
I think the reason ISPs haven't migrated yet, on the whole, is they lack the motivation and, perhaps more likely as motivation should follow, expertise - both from a technical and managerial perspective.
I, somewhat sadly, have to agree with this. Sun support used to be, up until a few years ago, some of the best around. First is was the cutting of the real music from on hold, replacing it with adverts. Then then shipped silver and gold support out to Eastern Europe. At that point a call that previously took a hour or two to resolve suddenly became several hours, if it was ever resolved.
Solaris is really not what it should be by now. Patching is still an absolute pain. Command line tools are either archaic or not at all UNIXy (zonecfg, svcs, svcadm etc.). ZFS is largely worthless to the Enterprise space: VM & FS in one so not worth using on hardware RAID platforms and SANS. Zones are handy in dev, and on light installations but of no used in large deployments (Oracle in a zone? No chance). The thing is, SMEs don't generally use Solaris and it's not going to make inroads into that space at this late stage. Linux has done that already if they want UN*X(alike).
DTrace is nifty, I'm sure, but has a heck of a learning curve and so far I've not met anyone who's used it in earnest.
So, the features that 10 offers to the Enterprise market are what 8 and 9 have - good performance and reliability. But Linux, largely thanks to RHEL 5.x, can do that too now and on cheaper hardware.
It's all a great shame. I really enjoyed working with Solaris. It was an easy buy-in for managers and worked beautifully on Sun's hardware. But since Sun turned into a buzz-word crazed marketing machine (what ever happened to xVM Server..?) under Schwartz it's become a shadow of it's former self.
A great, great shame.
You're not all for an anonymous web really are you?
There are many ways to hide tracks already that are more effective than this offering (Tor, Open wireless access points, anonymous proxies and so on).
Organisations that have significant risk from being hacked either improve their security or get the hell of the Internet.
"This generation may be the one that will face Armageddon." -- Ronald Reagan, "People" magazine, December 26, 1985