People are having fun with v6 addressing. Take a look at Cisco and Facebook in particular.

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [2001:4860:b009::6a]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 2001:470:8:cfb::1 ( Read more... )

Fuck you Sun. Fuck you too, NetApp. You can both die in a fucking fire.

Go to Hell, don't come back.

...To stop fucking with Java. I have this NetApp that is administered via Java applets, most of which don't even pretend to work with versions of Java six months prior to whatever release of ONTAP you're using on your NetApp. I've spent the last while building a VM that I will not patch, and can only hope the NetApp will feed me whatever Java ( Read more... )

Man, I thought Vista's network stack was aggressive, and then I met Windows 7. It does all kinds of nifty on the fly TCP optimization (sliding TCP window sizing, variable on the fly MTU, MRU, and MSS values, and rapid scaling up of data throughput as best as I can tell), which are all anticipating ten, forty, and hundred gigabit LANs as normal and ( Read more... )

Other than the WiFi bridge losing connectivity at random (sometimes it's solid for hours; sometimes it goes after twenty minutes, but it's a considerable lateral distance from the AP and on another floor) and then NOT REESTABLISHING A CONNECTION (which is not the 360's fault), I'm really liking the 360's networking bits. Vista Ultimate happily ( Read more... )

So, the kiddo has been wanting an Xbox360 for a while. He's got quite a chunk of change in birthday money that he's never spent, so we used that to cover part of the cost. I picked up an Elite version for him yesterday. Yeah, it's a bit more expensive than the standard box (and the Arcade wasn't even an option), but it comes with Lego Indiana ( Read more... )

I hate you all.

Jamie

Dr. Can has up one of his 'Dorky Polls' over at Science Blogs, and I had voted for E ( Read more... )

When I get home from work this afternoon, I will arrive to the waiting bandwidth of FiOS. I'm tempted to download the whole intertube just because I CAN!