I discovered earlier today that through my trial ipv6 access I am using mostly ipv6 to access Google services. This made me wonder: just how much of my home network’s communication with the outside world is through ipv6 compared with ipv4?
I don’t have any results yet, but this is how I’m measuring it using Debian [...]
November 19, 2009 – 15:11
After some experimenting I’ve managed to get a semi-permanent 115kb/s SLIP connection between my main Debian server and a 486 running BSD. By semi-permanent, I mean as soon as there’s a power cycle I’m going to have to run out with a laptop with DHCP server, a crossover cable and some patience to make it [...]
November 10, 2009 – 22:59
My ISP has been doing a lot of work in the IPv6 department recently and amongst all their IPv6 offerings they have just started a trial for ADSL customers to run a dual IPv4/IPv6 PPP connection. They also run a broker to provide an IPv6 tunnel over IPv4, but this native solution is much neater.
Here’s [...]
I would like to put an uncomfortable spotlight on those computer geeks who think that they’re cool because they use some particular piece of software. I have some authority to talk about those kind of people because I’ve been one before, but I hope that I’ve since grown out of such trivial rubbish.
One common example [...]
Friends of mine know that I have much to complain about where iTunes is concerned. To summarise what is a long rant (which I may someday write), the problems are poor support for file formats—Ogg Vorbis and FLAC in particular—and various UI issues. Getting a better music-playing program running on OS X is a secondary [...]