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The coming IPocalypse, Pt 2 — The Addressening Comments Off

For most peo­ple, if they think about IP address­ing at all, they see it as a 1:1 assign­ment of addresses to machines. This isn’t true though, either in the­ory or prac­tice. A sin­gle machine can con­tain at least the fol­low­ing address types: IPv4 uni­cast  —  192.168.1.10 IPv4 loop­back  —  127.0.0.1 IPv4 broad­cast  —  192.168.1.255 IPv4 mul­ti­cast  —  224.0.1.41 IPv6 uni­cast  —  2001:DB8:0:0:0202:B3FF:FE1E:8329 IPv6 loop­back  —  ::1 IPv6 any­cast  —  2001:DB8:0:0:0:0:0:0 IPv6 […]

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Published:
15 October 2010 – 12:37 pm
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By petrilli

The case for “green energy” in 140 characters or less Comments Off

From a recent tweet by Tim Bray on Twit­ter: BREAKING: Large Air Spill at Wind Farm. No threats reported. Some claim to enjoy the breeze. That pretty much sums it all up right there. I real­ize that there are all sorts of issues with “green energy”, but I think many peo­ple fail to rec­og­nize how absolutely dirty and […]

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Published:
3 May 2010 – 11:24 am
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By petrilli