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Comment Re:Other stuff available over IPv6 (Score 1) 264

by aos101 on Thursday January 08, 2009 @02:36PM (#26374889) Attached to: Google Over IPv6 Coming Soon

http://sixy.ch/ also has quite a few IPv6 enabled websites.

Comment Re:FUD! (Score 5, Informative) 120

by aos101 on Saturday June 28, 2008 @10:32AM (#23980715) Attached to: Feds Say They're Ready For Monday's IPv6 Deadline

Hey IANNA, why not free up some of the "LEGACY" Class-A allocations (see below) That would free some 650 MILLION addresses!!! Some 15% of the address space.

http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space [iana.org].

That'll do us for what? Another 10-15 years or so? Plus if the US gov wants to release a bunch too since they are going IPv6.

This whole "OMG! We're going to run out of addresses (and ponies)" scare is starting to be more pathetic and fake than Nostradamus predictions!

Take a read of this blog post to find out what's really happening:

http://blog.icann.org/?p=271

They allocated more than one /8 per month in 2007, so even if they did recover all 650 million addresses from the allocations you mentioned (very unlikely), it would not buy us another 10-15 years. It would buy us about 3 years assuming the demand for IP addresses doesn't increase.

Reclaiming address space doesn't solve the problem, it just delays it. And it doesn't even delay it by that much.

Submission + - Fedora 8 officially released (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by Cat in the Hat on Thursday November 08, 2007 @11:44AM

Cat in the Hat writes: Fedora 8 has been officially released. Ars Technica has a run-down of what's new in Fedora 8, including the PulseAudio sound daemon, Nodoka visual style, and a new authentication system. 'Another major change in Fedora 8 is the new PolicyKit authentication system that makes authority escalation more secure. Instead of providing root access to an entire program when it needs higher privileges, PolicyKit makes it possible to isolate individual operations that require higher privileges and put them into system services that can be accessed through D-Bus. Another advantage of PolicyKit is that it will give administrators more control over which users and programs have access to individual operations that use escalated privileges.'

Submission + - Forget about OpenOffice, KDE readies KOffice 2.0 (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by Da Massive on Tuesday October 09, 2007 @12:26AM

Da Massive writes: While the industry is distracted by the ongoing tussle between Microsoft and OpenOffice.org over document formats, the KDE project is quietly preparing the next generation of its own office suite, KOffice, which will run on for Linux, Mac OS X and... Windows. http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1596080362

Submission + - Putin Threatens US Missile Bases in Europe (forbes.com)

Submitted by

Melugo

on Sunday June 03, 2007 @12:45PM

Melugo writes: "Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that U.S. plans to build a missile defense system in Eastern Europe would force Moscow to target its weapons against Europe. "If the American nuclear potential grows in European territory, we have to give ourselves new targets in Europe," Putin said, according to Corriere. "It is up to our military to define these targets, in addition to defining the choice between ballistic and cruise missiles." It feels like the Cold War all over again. See the rest of the article at: Forbes or a comment on it at alittlebitoffreedom.blogspot.com."

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