* Posts by Richard Hector

3 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jul 2016

Internet samurai says he'll sell 14,700,000 IPv4 addresses worth $300m-plus, plow it all into Asia-Pacific connectivity

Richard Hector

No v4 unless you're doing v6

I hope that these addresses are not available to those who can't be bothered doing IPv6.

No organisation should be eligible for more IPv4 space unless they're actively using IPv6 - with the possible exception of those of us small operators who are stuck behind lagging upstreams. But then, such organisations generally don't apply for space from APNIC anyway.

Stallman's final interview as FSF president: Last week we quizzed him over Microsoft visit. Now he quits top roles amid rape remarks outcry

Richard Hector

non-GNU Linux

No-one has created a non-GNU Linux system? Ever heard of Android?

Captain Piccard's planet-orbiting solar aircraft in warped drive drama

Richard Hector

Re: "Green Prince of Darkness" at FauxScienceSlayer

If you want to fight false science, which is a worthy cause, it helps to understand the basics yourself.

Horsepower and watts are units of power, not work/energy. "the work necessary to lift one cubic foot of dirt four feet high" is, as you say, work. I guess foot-pounds is a valid way to express that, though joules is less confusable with torque. What you probably meant to say is that one horsepower is 550 foot-pounds per second.