I'm sure we will need a huge tax increase worldwide to pay for the retrofitting of everything everywhere to accommodate IPV6 too. :-)
Bob On Jun 6, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 06/06/2012 08:44 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: >> Richmond- >> >> Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 10:03:26 AM, you wrote: >> >>> Oh, dear; another retro soul, like myself . . . :) >> Yes, like Bob said. If you try to do the Right Thing you'll find that >> the rest of the world hasn't caught up yet and all sorts of things >> will break. I think some day there will come another y2k panic moment >> when folks realize that we really *have* run out of ip addresses and >> then everyone will scurry around to backfill patching code that should >> have been done long ago. >> > > Ha, Ha, Ha . . . Mark et al; I have spent my life doing the Wrong Thing, > so I can really see no besetting reason to change now. > > The nonsense on the BBC website (the BBC being specialists in nonsense, > especially when it comes to computers) > says something about 2015 being the date when IPv4 will vanish of the face of > the earth. But the other day I was, as > usual, working out kids' exam marks with a slide-rule, so 'Boo' to that! > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode