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IP registry goes to Defcon 1 as IPv4 doomsday nears

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IPv6 on consumer kit *is* coming

Some have asked where the consumer level kit support is. It's definitely starting to appear. I have a Samsung wireless laser printer at home. It does IPv6 out of the box. Somewhat to my surprise. Obviously it only manage a link local address because my wireless router doesn't know what to do with IPv6, and neither does my ISP, but still.

I work at an academic site, and the subnet I use daily is dual-stack. All my systems attached to it just worked without further effort.

I have a VM with Bytemark. Enabling IPv6 on it was easy, and Just Works.

This really isn't all that hard. The only thing that really needs to happen is greater ISP takeup, and more consumer device support. The latter is happening already, witness my printer.

I guess it's probably driven by the greater pressure on IP space in the Far East. I am told demand from China is the principal pressure on us at work to support IPv6 properly.

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Apple Mac OS X: A decade of Ten

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MS CLI

Actually, there is one, albeit not a bundled one. PowerShell is a seriously powerful CLI. In some regards considerably more powerful than the UNIX/POSIX shells from which it is clearly inspired. Like many Reg readers, I've been rather anti-MS for a while, but PowerShell is a very clear example of something Microsoft have definitely got right; take the concepts of the UNIX shell, and apply them to .NET objects so you can do pretty much anything from a simple command script to a GUI application all in the same scripting language.

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