byteshredder on July 8, 2008 at 12:26 PM

yup. All your little problems will go away and be replaced by one BIG problem.

/shudder.

-Wasteland Man.

WastelandMan on July 8, 2008

so, why do you sign your name when you already have a signature?

Nice pic by the waterfall (I believe it’s a waterfall…) It’s an interesting shot. All are awesome, but be careful with sharing them. Must keep anonymity.

craig on July 8, 2008 at 1:55 PM

And to think, all we had to do to bring the Internet crashing down was do forget to null our strings and reverse our CRLF

“The end is near”

“No dag gummit! I said the sherrif is a ni….”

Entelechy on July 8, 2008 at 10:48 AM

The intranet Toooobes are broke.

Less Awesome.

-Wasteland Man.

ELITIST!

Seriously, I didn’t know you were a “Two-Ameica” Edward’s fan, the HAVEs and the HAVE-NOTs.

Pilgrim on July 7, 2008 at 10:02 PM

People don’t know how much they owe to “80/20 windowing,” do they?

MMW on July 8, 2008 at 11:48 AM

Oops…off by a factor of 10. 61.9 *10^21.

My problem with this thinking is if you are going to do it, why stop at 6? Why not open it up more or have someway to patch it later to extend it. IP6 solving all the problems is like getting a 1 gig hard drive back in the day (when a HUGE program was 4megs) and saying, “I’ll never fill this up.”

MirCat on July 7, 2008 at 10:30 PM

So…the IPv6 address space is 128 bits for a total number of addresses 2^128. The total surface area of the Earth is around 5.5 * 10^15 square feet. 2^128/5.5*10^15 is 3.4*10^38/5.5*10^15 or 6.19*10^21 (Six Billion Trillion!) addresses for every square foot of the Earth. Unless we start individually addressing bacteria I think we’re OK.

P.S. yes its me.

WastelandMan on July 8, 2008 at 2:49 AM

Awesome

There’s plenty of room out there with virtual servers, NAT etc, not to mention the inevitable move to IPv6 (a well-understood software solution).

This goon is simply mugging for attention. Pillock.

Just what we need. Ignoramuses (ignorami?) panicking about another non-issue. See? I’ve worked in this field for over a decade, and I’m more concerned about the plural form of “ignoramus.”

In short, it’s a political problem, not a technical one

You can count on some Demonrat politician to come up with a mandated fix that one of his family members or close personal friend will make a few million from. Happens very time.

In short, it’s a political problem, not a technical one.

The problem with IP6 is that older servers don’t understand it. Before it can be fully adopted, all internet servers have to be upgraded.

MarkTheGreat on July 8, 2008 at 6:56 AM

This should be no sweat for our throw away forced obslescence society. Really how many software systems do we have today that are fixed with automatic updates that you never see? Internet addressing could be fixed the same way.

I suppose he never heard of shared IP hosting? How does he think they are dealing with it now? It is called a ROUTER! What a dumbass

.Has to be a chicken little liberal. Didn’t he also say that the surge would never work? /heh

Early disk drives, even for large mainframes, were measured in 10′s of megabytes, and were very expensive.
Memory for these units was measured in kilobytes, and was also hideously expensive.

Knocking two digits off of the year saved lots of money and made the programs run noticeably faster.

The problem was the two digit year became habit, and then became standard.

IPv 6 fixes this problem. All the routing and switching hardware has been ready to use this address space for at lease 4 years.

evilned on July 8, 2008 at 5:08 AM

Yes. Of course. The phony “problem” has long been solved and the prepared, mundane, next-gen, ratified solution has been well in place for years.

A non-story, except to those like PC Magazine hoping to get page hits from manufactured hysteria.