I’m not going to start explaining its power, I just want to share a VI cheat-sheet I found a few months back when I was working for Faculte.

The first image is the entire Cheat Sheet, and the rest are the training sheets for different actions you want to perform while text editing. So? How do you like it?

Big players don’t have any interest in training their people to handle IPv6, or to handle dual stacking, they are not building their gadgets to support IPv6 yet, because it’s still far far away, but their costs will jump from a normal normal curve to a very steep one just because they did not plan ahead.

It’s only 96 more bits, it’s not magic, but someone has to know how to do it. If you have no clue about what I just said here, watch the interview below and ask your system administrator about it. If you are the system administrator, watch the interview below, start asking for funds and time to work on it but most important start dual stacking. Slowly, gently, get your experience with IPv6 otherwise you’re gonna pay the big bucks in the end.

Randy Bush on IPv6 Deployment

IPv6 provides enough addresses to allow the Internet to continue to expand and the industry to innovate. It is not, however, directly compatible with IPv4, meaning that a device connected via IPv4 cannot communicate directly with a device connected using IPv6.

Deploying IPv6 on a global scale is vital to the Internet industry, but it requires pro-active steps on the part of industry players: technology must be upgraded, staff trained, business plans developed. Uptake to date has been relatively slow, but this is now changing, and businesses need to be aware of the need to adopt IPv6. To ignore IPv6 is to risk your medium to long term business viability.

Ripe NCC built a website with a lot of starting points for deploying IPv6 at http://www.ipv6actnow.org I suggest you take a look at it, watch the interviews and start preparing.

What is IPv4?

What is IPv6?

Makes you think, doesn’t it? [seen on BSPCN]

If you ever used SMF, take the time to read the article and try to help these guys spread the word out because one good piece of software is on the brink of extinction right about now.

If you never used SMF, but you are using a forum software that does not meet all your expectations, SMF is for you, but first, read the article, and help the community develop the software further.

Thanks!

“I have a sore throat.”

2000 BC : “Eat this root”
1200 AD : “That root is heathen, say this prayer.”
1500 AD : “That prayer is superstition, drink this elixir.”
1800 AD : “That elixir is snake oil, Take this pill.”
1900 AD : “That pill is ineffective, Take this antibiotic.”
2000 AD : “That antibiotic is artificial, Here why don’t you eat this root.”

They are able to compute quite a few complex answers, delivering correct answers for correct questions. 

For example, they are able to tell me the distance from one remote town in Romania to some other remote town in Japan, or in the US with interpreted distances, and travel times by different means of locomotion like this or this. It can tell you how many calories you had for breakfast if you use it like this, or compute a sum together with its limit divergence/convergence, function graph etc. and many many more type of queries are available on their example page.

The funy part was today when I asked it about my birthdate, and I got the results in the image below. 

If I only had asked it 40 weeks before… :P

PS: 1377 – 40 = 1337

Do we have any estonians around? Can you confirm that?

A bit of salt here, a dash of pepper there, you get the idea.

At a certain point, one of them says:

- Dude… Does this taste funny to you?!

This is the description rom the author, and you might get some insight from his words and explanations… 

You call people by what they accept, not by what they dont.
In this sense the word atheist is redundant.

I accept physical evidence and reasoned logic (PEARL), the core of the scientific method.

It has made our standard of life vastly better.

It has also delivered us incredible destructive power. In a society like this those who act on faith (without evidence) are an increasing hazard to us all.

The power that science delivers us must be wielded responsibly, else there will be noone left to discuss the folly.

Doomsday, end of times Christians like PCS (posterboy for creationist stupidity) lust and desire the end of the world.

Religion such as this in a society such as ours is simply a recipe for disaster.