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Originally Posted by Lord Orwell
Why else would someone buy a wifi router?Quote:
Originally Posted by SJWhiteley
LOL good comeback rofl :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by baja_yu
Huh....to put the results on Face Book?Quote:
Originally Posted by SJWhiteley
Back to the serious side of this thread... IPv? Address', what is next? I've been hearing a lot lately that there will be a new type of IP Address, anybody have info on this? I feel like this is a big technological advancement and is going to lead to a lot of good but probably more bad things. I can't find anything on google, except for my local news story. Is this just going to be a global IPv6 switch?
http://baynews9.com/content/news/bay...not_quite.html
Try remembering an IPv6 number...but I don't really see it as a 'big new technological advancement': what kind of 'good' things or 'bad things' can you envision? I haven't seen anything in the protocol spec that allows it to do anything IPv4 could do.Quote:
Originally Posted by thebuffalo
It's not about what it can "do", it's about IPv4 running out of available addresses. We are coming to a point where we have more devices than there are addresses. IPv6 was designed to address that.
We've been using IPv6 addresses for like... 8-10 years.. thats what this is showing up on my TV in the morning for? Everyone else is finally starting to use them? They are so much harder to remember :(Quote:
Originally Posted by SJWhiteley
And as far as I'm sure, I don't believe that many devices currently made can handle using an IPv6 Address, phone companies 5 years ago weren't saying "hey, remember to be sure they work with IPv6!". I still use a G2, so phones that old are still in use!
Does OnStar use IP addresses for their devices? I sure would hate to buy a 2007 Escalade and not be able to setup my OnStar because GM/OnStar didnt make sure they worked with IPv6. Is 12.123.12.123 as an IPv4, doesn't it have an IPv6 value already? Kind of like abc1:23::ab1:23ab?
You surf based on IP address? If not, why are you remembering them?
Work IP's, we have like 20 different static IP's, possibly more, I only know of 20 though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
ipv6 is now active. I believe monday was the rollout day.Quote:
Originally Posted by thebuffalo
Pen and paper? A text file? Those can help, if you actually have to type those in 10 times a day.Quote:
Originally Posted by thebuffalo
It's appearing on your TV because several major companies and ISPs are making a switch to IPv6. Well, not really a switch. The new system runs in parallel and since the new system is not backwards compatible, there are systems in place for establishing communication between the two. So if you're on v6, you can still access stuff on v4. The point is to make a bigger push to try and eventually phase out the v4.
Part of the reason people have to memorize these static IPs in the workplace is because networks are managed by entirely out of control box jockeys.Quote:
Originally Posted by thebuffalo
There is almost always WINS, in house DNS, etc. to let you get to these machines by name but to make their own lives easier these tend to be given "inventory tag" names that are considerably more clumsy to remember than an IP(v4) address!
Examples:
S123A536HH5273Z234
KK000234V61DK456
I've seen this in shop after shop. The problem is really due to the cluelessness of management, and it results in all kinds of unnecessary horrors beyond this as well.
While you want to avoid periods in host names because it interferes with DNS, you can still build DNS-like hierarchies using hyphens or even underscores when desired. One shop I know of does this, but the results can get ugly there as well:
MET1-WEBPUB-13
MET1-DMZDB-3
Those two machines are on their "metropolitan network 1" and one is a public-facing web server (#13), the other a DMZ database server (#3). An advantage is that they can rework networks quite a bit and be free to change IP addresses and network numbers.
But even this breaks down and can result in cascading software configuration maintenance if a machine must be renamed to fit radical network changes.
Part of the reason this problem even exists is that when TCP/IP was designed the world was still host based, with a small number of hosts users accessed through non-IP terminals. There were never supposed to be that many hosts to worry about, so you could give them names such as colors, names from mythology, old girlfriends, whatever.
IP addresses aren't just used on the internet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
But that's the point - the internet addresses map to user friendly names which we use for browsing. So, really, what does IPv6 really bring to the table over IPv4?
A bunch of numbers and letters.Quote:
Originally Posted by SJWhiteley
IP addresses are used by all connected devices, not just those hosting websites. In fact, a lot of different websites can and are hosted on one server, technically linking to the same IP address. The number of available IP addresses in IPv4 is running out because there are only so many combinations you can make in a 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255 range. IPv6 brings LOADS more addresses.Quote:
Originally Posted by SJWhiteley
And the possibility for custom IP's!Quote:
Originally Posted by baja_yu
1337:N00b::34T3R:4LYF
Yeah, 2^32, to be exact. A pathetically small number for the web these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by baja_yu
Actually it's 2^30 since IPs that start with 10 and 192 are used for local networks. I am not sure about IPs that start with 127, or 0. Are there public IPs that start with 127 or 0?
This seems to be a list of all special-use addresses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve...IPv4_addressesQuote:
Originally Posted by CVMichael
So...
2^32 = 4,294,967,296 - 592,708,608 = 3,702,258,688 IPs available
I'm amazed that we made it this long.
I got them off of the toilet talk. Talent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Ahh, could have sworn it said scatalogical advancements.Quote:
Originally Posted by Icyculyr
I assure you it did not, and still does not :pQuote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
i am not sure about some of the numbers, but i can tell you that 0 is not used and 255 is used for broadcasting to every address in that subnet.
MacBook Pro with Retina display
Bring on the super high resolution displays! (I'm wanting a 27 inch 5120x2880 display btw.)
I was wondering when the new macbook would make a showing...Quote:
Originally Posted by Icyculyr
Hmm... a full speced new MBP for $3800 (plus tax), or a car? I can't decide yet ;)
I could rebuild my weekend warrior, and pay for my NBA finals tickets with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by baja_yu
Meh, I didn't really need that new heart transplant anyway.
Given some of the posts I've seen around here... that's far safer than a pacemaker...Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
-tg
The SSD will go faster ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by baja_yu
When I saw this article I immediately thought of this thread.
New toilet technology after 150 years of waste
Quote:
The United Nations estimates disease caused by unsafe sanitation results in about half the hospitalizations in the developing world. About 1.5 million children die each year from diarrheal disease.
Scientists believe most of these deaths could be prevented with proper sanitation, along with safe drinking water and improved hygiene.
computerized transportation - home utilities are going to be connected to internet - vehicles wont need driver any more
Cheese stuffed bacon.
Mmmmmm... Cheese Stuffed Bacon... with fried onion sprinkles.
I can't wait for my water heater to be connected and have its own Twitter feed so it can tweet the water temperature. I just hope it doesn't go crazy and post naked pictures of me while I'm showering.Quote:
Originally Posted by ahmedkhairy
Water heaters have no interest in posting naked pictures of humans. That's not what turns them on. Instead, it will post pictures of your shower when you are not in it. To a water heater, that's a naked shower, and that's what gets them going. You can tell this is true, too: Consider that the water cools off if you are in the shower long enough. That means that the water in the tank is hottest when the shower isn't being used.
Yeah, but also, using up the hot water is what will get the heater 'turned on' by its thermostat.
Gad! You live in a total appliance orgy! How do you sleep at night? Aren't your pipes banging?
You should see my stove. It burns with a fiery passion. And my iron gets so hot that it shoots steam out of its holes. But my water cooler seems to have a split personality. It serves cold and hot water.
Your water system has gone plumb crazy.
In my case, my sink is a geological phenomenon. Seriously. For the last several years, there have been occasional times when I have heard odd, high pitched, pinging sounds that I haven't been able to track down. Eventually, I end up in the bathroom and find shards of enamel scattered around the sink. The force of the explosions are fairly impressive, as shards have been thrown a couple feet, at least. This went on for a year or two, then went dormant for well over a year, until last week, when a series of minor eruptions scattered shards all over the sink, though none of the shards made it very far.
So you may have erotic appliances with more tension than an afternoon soap opera, but I have an exploding sink. It's all good fun.
Knew it was only a matter of time before this thread got weird.....CC never disappoints :bigyello:
I don't have a water tank and instead have "on demand" hot water. Does that make my boiler a bit of a slut?
I'm also tempted to make a joke about my shower giving good head but that would indicate that my minds in the gutter. On the flip side it would leave me laughing like a drain.