Blogs

The topic is usually covered in terms of network and service providers and they themselves are not that far down the IP v6 road yet or maybe they are further than we know, but studies by Google would suggest otherwise. Either way, looking at the IP v6 issue from just the network perspective is looking at the main core area, networking. However, if you chew the IP v6 problem a little more, another flavour emerges and it starts to get a little bitter.

IPv4 that is. But I wonder if there are any patterns in IPv6, may just be harder to find.

Netmask              Netmask (binary)                 CIDR     Notes    
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255.255.255.255  11111111.11111111.11111111.11111111  /32  Host (single addr)
255.255.255.254  11111111.11111111.11111111.11111110  /31  Unuseable
255.255.255.252  11111111.11111111.11111111.11111100  /30    2  useable
255.255.255.248  11111111.11111111.11111111.11111000  /29    6  useable

Preface
The BBC Digital Revolution production is quite interesting I must say. A person I listen to, Tom Foremski initially was a little sceptical about the idea of an open source programme. I must admit a short while after I encountered Aleks Krotoski (aleksk) on tweetdeck’s recommended and I have to say, she is looking at and thinking about some interesting stuff.

BBC's Digital Revolution Team are making a series on the Web (a.k.a Internet) and they were asking about mapping the Internet. I had to say something, here is why I think it is a good idea.

From the comment on Digital Revolution blog

Why technology is better suited to explore space than we are.

Man's own technology is not up to life supporting function in microgravity, neither is terrestrial life suited to life in microgravity, we loose bone denisty and our immunity is 50% as effective if we can use New Scienctist and logic as a source (http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn17734-space-station-science/7)

I recently watched Star trek (Review here. Brilliant, sheer brilliance. If you have not seen it watch it.)

I have been so snowed under for the past month I have not had time to think, let alone blog, so here is a quick one that has been bugging me for a few years now.

The digital economy.

Original first public publication

Emit – Turning time on it’s head

FORWARD

I have asked myself many times where to begin this and have tossed and turned it in my mind for many months. The reason it has been difficult to know where to begin is because there is no finite beginning or end per se. Do I start at the end of the universe or the beginning? Perhaps in the middle and work out in both directions.

As an intro into this post. I am a nutter.

For the yanks (if any ever read this) – "nutter" meaning a person who is nuts, mad, out of their tree, one sandwich short of a picnic.

A couple of years ago I had a revelation (well I like think it was). A new theory on time.

Although sysadmin day has been around for many a year, I have never recognised it as a "day". That is probably because I am usually too busy.

However, this year I am still very busy, but the hell with it, I am taking it off. Indeed sysadmin day should be a public holiday all over the world for sysadmins!

This is a quick post from the airport departure gate, just because I am so flabbergasted and amazed at the stupidity of government. No research has gone into this apart from determining that Professor Neil M Ferguson OBE FMedSci specialises in Mathematical Biology of Infectious Diseases and that his research aims to improve understanding of the epidemiological factors. And that he and Dr Simon Cauchemez from Imperial College London say studies suggest that closing schools in the autumn (the beginning of the flu season) it could reduce the number of Swine Flu infections by up to 45%.