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Enabling IPv6 on OS X

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or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dancing Kame

Note: This will apparently not work if you’re behind a NAT. I had to plug my machine directly into my cable modem to get it to work.

Open up a terminal. Type /sbin/ifconfig -a to list your devices. You should see something like:

en0: flags=8863 mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::203:93ff:fe67:80b2%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
        ether 00:03:93:67:80:b2
        inet 192.168.1.101 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        media: autoselect (none) status: active

Find the one that says “status: active”, usually this is en0. If it’s not, be sure to replace en0 with whatever it is in later instructions

Type:

sudo ip6config start-v6 en0; sudo ip6config start-stf en0

Visit http://[3ffe:501:4819:2000:210:f3ff:fe03:4d0]/ in your web browser. If you see a dancing turtle, congratulations you’ve joined the currently completely useless IPv6 Internet.

Argh! Why don’t they turn this on by default? Who’s running this botched IPv6 transition?

But hey, I can see the dancing turtle. It’s not all bad.

[Aaron Swartz: The Weblog]

Cool! Unfortunately it doesn’t work over my Airport base station. My cable modem is in another room and I’m not using any Ethernet cables.

License Expired

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Our SourceOffsite server license expired, so right now I can’t log in to the server to check in my source code.

All of the Mac code has been merged into the VSS, so we’re no longer using my CVS server.

Big technology firms take on Hollywood over piracy

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Big US tech firms joined Thursday with consumer groups and others to fight Hollywood’s demands for mandatory technology to prevent piracy of films and other digital entertainment.

The new coalition, the Alliance for Digital Progress (ADP), includes Microsoft, Cisco, Intel and Apple, as well as several consumer groups, think tanks, taxpayer organisations and other organisations.

The alliance will lobby to dissuade Congress from passing laws requiring anti-piracy technology in computers, DVD players and other electronic devices.

Alliance members say that they do not advocate distributing illegal copies, but that mandatory technology aimed at stopping piracy would be a solution worse than the problem.

“Piracy of digital content is a serious, complex problem that concerns all of us,” said Fred McClure, president of the alliance.

“But government-designed and mandated technology that swaps the diversity of marketplace solutions for a ‘one size fits all’ approach is not the answer. Mandates are a mistake. A mandate will raise the price of everything from CD players and DVD players to personal computers. It will make the devices consumers own today obsolete. And it will stifle the innovation at the heart of digital progress.”

Consumers and technology groups have been concerned about possible legislation that could require technology that makes it hard to copy films or music or make it impossible to play DVDs on more than one device.

“We are greatly concerned that Hollywood is trying to pressure Congress into forcing technology mandates onto American consumers,” McClure said.

“Hollywood should be working with others in the private sector to develop solutions to the piracy problem that will succeed in the marketplace and benefit consumers.”

Although the music industry said recently it would stop lobbying efforts for such mandates, Hollywood’s main lobby group, the Motion Picture Association of America, has maintained its policy.

“Hollywood leaders like Jack Valenti (of the MPAA) would have organised the monks to burn down Gutenberg’s printing press if they were alive during that period of rapid change and innovation,” said Harris Miller, president of the Information Technology Association of America, a high-tech group that is part of the alliance.

“Legislators have heard Hollywood’s pleas to stifle innovation, but more education will help them make informed decisions. We look forward to working with ADP to make sure all sides are heard when it comes to digital rights management.”

The MPAA had no comment on the new alliance, but last week Valenti argued that Hollywood may split with the music industry on the issue. even though they have been united against swapping services like Napster.

“The film and music industries are separate, unique enterprises with different strategies for addressing the outstanding issues concerning digital copy protection,” Valenti said last week.

“We are not prepared to abandon the option of seeking technical protection measures via the Congress or appropriate regulatory agency, when necessary.”

Valenti and other Hollywood executives have claimed piracy is one of the biggest threats to the industry, potentially costing billions of dollars and depriving creative artists of royalties.

Digital rights advocates say Hollywood has cried wolf before, having sought special protection against videotapes when VHS technology arrived, but noted that the industry’s 2002 revenues set a record for the third year running.

The alliance includes several other tech firms including IBM, Dell Computer, Motorola and Hewlett Packard; and a hodgepodge of organizations including Americans for Tax Reform, Citizens Against Government Waste, Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the National Association of Manufacturers. [Utusan Online]

For Sale

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I’m selling my domain MyMacmail.com. Hopefully the buyer could turn it into a full service, maybe outsource it and provide more services. I don’t have time to deal with it.

12" PowerBook

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I went to Mac Center and tried out the 12″ PowerBook G4. It’s a beautiful machine and it felt very snappy. I’ve read some complaints about the heat, but it didn’t feel any hotter than my iBook.

I’m planning to buy one soon.

20" display incompatible with MacOS 9

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Interesting note at MacInTouch

According to Apple’s description of its new 20-inch LCD, “The Apple Cinema Display requires Mac OS X v10.2 or later.”
[Doug Post]There would seem to be no technical justification […] But it raises another question, even for those with an extra $129 in hand: Does the Jaguar requirement – if real – mean no booting uinder OS 9, only Classic, even on “old” machines (i.e., Monday’s) that shipped with 9.2?
I note that Apple still says its 17-inch and 23-inch displays work with “OS X v10.1.3 or Mac OS 9.2.2 or later.”

[Thomas Richard] I just got off the phone with my sales rep at MacWarehouse who confirmed that the new LCD displays from Apple WILL not work with OS9. Only Jaguar. So if the customer tries to boot up in OS9, the display won’t function. Classic, apparently will. Isn’t that odd. She told me that Apple had the disclaimer (warning?) in big caps that the displays will not function at all in OS 9.

Opera whiners

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“I’m not a quitter, and our company isn’t a quitter, but it really is up to Apple,” said Jon von Tetzchner, chief executive of privately held Opera. “The Mac platform may not be viable for us any longer.”

This is ridiculous – Opera blames Safari for the failure of it’s browser. Even before Safari, Opera sucked, and was lagging behind iCab, Omniweb, IE, Mozilla and Chimera in features. [Xspot]

I looked at Opera when it was released, and there’s no way to say it nicely: it just plain sucks. It’s fast, but not faster than Chimera or Safari. It’s also by far the ugliest & quirkiest browser I’ve ever seen. It has more gratuitous toolbars than a Microsoft product. It also doesn’t look or work like any other browser I’ve ever used.

Chimera is still my favorite browser. Safari has too many problems that make it unusable for me (notably the problem logging into PHP-Nuke sites).

Happy birthday, Macintosh!

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The topic pretty much says it all. Today is Macintosh 19th birthday, and this means my favorite computer is only 4 years younger than I am!

We may be called a cult, a following, die-hard maniacs of a dying computer evolution branch, but no matter what, we know what is the best computer out there. It may have quirks both in lagging hardware and OS, but eventually they are getting worked out. Thanks, Apple!

Posted by slava at 02:57 AM [Unsanity.org]