World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K 243
alphadogg wrote in with a fairly extreme bit of hyperbole saying "The nation's largest telecom carriers, content providers, hardware suppliers and software vendors will be on the edge of their seats today for World IPv6 Day, which is the most-anticipated 24 hours the tech industry has seen since fears of the Y2K bug dominated New Year's Eve in 1999. More than 400 organizations are participating in World IPv6 Day, a large-scale experiment aimed at identifying problems associated with IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol, IPv4. Sponsored by the Internet Society, World IPv6 Day runs from 8 p.m. EST Tuesday until 7:59 p.m. EST Wednesday. The IT departments in the participating organizations have spent the last five months preparing their websites for an anticipated rise in IPv6-based traffic, more tech support calls and possible hacking attacks prompted by this largest-ever trial of IPv6."
Re:Fingers crossed (Score:3, Informative)
Polyurethane bushings squeak a lot, and automotive consumers care way too much about reductions in noise, vibration, and harshness, to the point where every car carries around hundreds of pounds of needless sound-deadening material.
Polyurethane bushings greased with the proper kind of grease really do not squeak. Further, when the bushing is permanently affixed to a sleeve as are the polyurethane bushings I installed at the pivots of the Dana 50 TTB in the front of my 1992 F250 7.3 4x4, that connection will squeak even less. I ripped most of the asphalt (except from the toe pan, but yes from the floor) and all of the interior out of my 1989 Nissan 240SX — yes, it got hot in there — and I couldn't hear the poly bushings at all even with the silencer in the "fancy" (cheap on eBay, though) exhaust, which brought it down pretty much to stock levels since I had no header. But then, they came with the proper grease and I used it.
If vehicles are designed to take a poly bush with a metal sleeve then this is a non-issue. And using hollow poly bushings provides superior ride to silicone-filled rubber in every way as they are more consistent. This actually has the effect of improving ride quality under the hands of competent engineers, because they may tighten up the suspension design and do the damping in the shock absorbers where it belongs. Then all you have to do is drop the typical OE Tokico crap for some Bilsteins or similar...
Happlily enjoying IPv6 on my network (Score:4, Informative)
[Disclaimer: I am a pfSense developer, so I'm a bit biased. For those of you who don't know what pfSense is, it's a BSD-based firewall distribution.]
pfSense 2.0 won't officially support IPv6, but there is a branch available that does IPv6 which will later become 2.1. I'm running it on my home router with a GIF tunnel to Hurricane Electric ( http://he.net/ [he.net] http://tunnelbroker.net/ [tunnelbroker.net]) to get IPv6 even though my ISPs do not have any native IPv6 support yet. The IPv6 support is a work in progress but is complete enough that it will do what most people want/need.
Instructions for the setup and more info can be found on the pfSense IPv6 board here: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/board,52.0.html [pfsense.org]
I get a 10/10 on the IPv6 tests from http://test-ipv6.com/ [test-ipv6.com] on all my PCs as well as my Droid X running 2.3.3. If you're already using pfSense 2.0, give the IPv6 code a try, setup a tunnel to he.net, and enjoy. Doesn't take too long at all to setup.