That Dell is "considering" AMD is a big step. Dell has been notoriously a Intel-only vendor. Dell would not say they are considering unless they see that their customers are demanding the AMD platform. http://www.techspot.com/story16286.html
Yes, the old backwards compatible problem still exists. Maybe this is the way we need to go? Intel tried with Itanium which failed. The IBM PowerPC platform also exist at 64bit, so did Alpha (are they still existing?)... None have really been very successful in giving users 64bit. Apple is...
I think AMD has managed to get thge 64bit into mainstream quite well considering everything. Many vendors are switching to AMD 64 and sales are very high. Some games already do have extra benefits for the AMD 64 platform which are not available for 32bit systems. Of course this is a marketing...
It is not all about pixels. It is about dynamic range too. At current, the dynamic range of good quality film is larger than those currently available digital sensors. Dynamic range and colour resolution are very important aspects which is very much needed to be considered. A normal PC monitor...
Use a carbon stick. They burn out relatively quickly, but are not expensive. They can go up to 3500 degrees which is brighter than most other types of materials can go. You can even use the graphite from normal pencils to test with.
If you want to use LEDs and want to be able to control the...
Many users have 1GB RAM today. But you are missing out all the developers out there. Graphics artists, photo editors, desktop publishers, game and software developers, music and video developers and so forth. To these people a lot of RAM is very much needed. with pre 64bit you are limited to...
There have been some intermittent type of errors and from what I understand these can be the fault of the PSU giving low or spiky voltage/currents.
From looking around on Anandtech I found only a old review on PSU's: http://www.anandtech.com/casec...ng/showdoc.aspx?i=1774
It was a good...
I'd say that for MP3's it highly depend on the quality of the encoding. But, if you have a good sound system or good headphones (Philips HP890) you will easilly hear the compression artifacts of even high bitrate MP3's if you have a good soundcard. A cheap SBLive will give you good sound for...
IPv6 isn't in the research phase yet. I has been researched for over 10 years. In fact it is deemed to be baked and ready so root servers and top-level domains have started to provide IPv6 access in public (rather than just on development nets).
Also, spidey07, you have not yet answered my...
No. They create problems. One which you did not answere was if two separat users want to talk to eachother and they are both behind NAT at their respective ISP?
This type of collision is getting more and more common.
How would two users behind NAT do to talk to eachother? The only way now is that one of the users forwards a port, or they use a third party to communicate through.
It is very unlikely that normal users could actually change NAT settings with their ISP.
So you think that it is a good thing that more and more users can only access the internet through local IPs and NAT? Just this fact alone makes IPv6 the better choice.
Take China for example. There maybe is 100 million mobile users there. If they are going to access internet and to be able to...
I agree entirely :). Just take UPnP as an example of a bad and insecure technology that is developed partly because NAT problems.
just think of how many other extra development there has come into simple protocols to just overcome NAT problem. Things like passive FTP transfers and complex...
Indeed, I meantioned IBM just because they do invest in all sorts of technology areas :) I cheated a little.
I never said that you should switch a working IPv4 infrastructure for a IPv6 one in your or other companies. I suggested AT would as they have tech and geek visitors. Many of the ones...
I see your point. But I was talking about AT, not some <big company>.
There are some large companies investing in IPv6 too:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/os/zseries/ipv6/
So. Who is going to start? This is a Moment 22 situation where noone wants to take the lead.
I might also say that I have talked to some people who would use IPv6 on their internal (very large) networks because it is much easier and logical to manage than IPv4. Externally he did still use IPv4...
There are no hardware upgrades required for the type of IPv6 tunnel I suggested. Also, the only real upgrade that needs to be done is to enable IPv6 support in the OS that is used.
If I am not mistaken, AnandTech is using a Windows 2000 server (www.netcraft.com). There is a IPv6 update...
IPv6 was actually in SP1 already. It is also in Win2K with the Advanced Networking update (perhaps already in SP4?) Win2K3 has it natively.
Also, you can do NAT etc with IPv6 if you want. There are also local IPv6 addresses that you can use if you do not want to have public ones.
This is why we use domain names ;). If you want a little easer to remember you can setup a DNS to point to these sites; site1.somedomain.com, site2.somedomain.com, and so on...
Btw, your 5951:0000:2T6MF:0000:1500:0000:58G0:FRTH can be written as 5951::2T6MF::1500::58G0:FRTH (not thinking of the...
I think and hope it will be faster than this. Remember IPv4 is already 15-20 years old. Because of current way they distribute IP's there are only about 250 million usabl addresses. They are already close to be used up.
No, that is not required. It depends if he wants to let his webserver...
No matter if you have internal IPs or not you should still have firewalls on each machine to prevent internal problems (for example virusen) and security risks. That would have nothing to do if you run IPv6 or IPv4
I suppose if you have that view we could stick with paper and pen and fax "because if works". After all IPv4 is nearly 20 years old.
You say easilly managed. I doub't most home users think their IPv6 NAT boxes are easilly managed to get things like GnomeMeeting, MSN, BitTorrent, Streaming...
Indeed most of IPv6 features do exist in IPv4. Management wise, IPv6 is a little simplier even for large networks.
The firewalling isn't any more difficulet or have to be de-centralized either.
In any case. IPv6 is what will be and as a tech site I think anandtech.com should support it. The...
Even though people could have external IPs directly on thier LAN it is still possible to run a firewall on each machine (everyone ought to) and also on the router!
Other benefits iwth IPv6 is mobile IP (allows you to keep the same IP even if you move around), IPsec etc. It also has multicast...
Surf the net =)
For example, because of the many IP addresses (2^128) you will not ever have a problem with NAT etc because each machine - and even application, if you like, can have their own IP.
Just so you know the ICANN has already accepted IPv6 to some of the root servers. Some top level domain servers has too (like .de). the university networks in many areas for example the Swedish SuNET and Finnish FiNET has already IPv6 incorporated in their nets.
You say "issue", but I'd rather...
1. True. The multitude of IP addresses weren't the reason in the first place.
2. No, not at all. I am just a user. Why do you have to be rude?
3. .. Ok.
As IPv6 is becoming more and more accepted I think that Anandtech should be in the foremost front and also support IPv6.
If your ISP/webhotel does not support IPv6 natively you can sign up for a IPv6-on-IPv4 tunnel freely with many of the available "tunnel brokers".
here is a few...
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