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IP address stories: 4 news summaries

 100 Must-Have Skills for Geeks 

Do you have the know-how to be a true techie?

Jul 10, 09 2:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Think you're a geek? Living up to the label requires a certain set of skills—or knowing how to Google them. Wired compiles the 100 essential skills for true geekdom:
  1. Secure a wireless router.
  2. Steal wi-fi from your neighbor.
  3. Mess with people stealing wi-fi.
  4. Name all
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Internet • IP address • routers • computer • nerdiness • geeks • wireless router

Dot Gov Must Act on Looming Dot Everything Shortage

OECD issues warning about Internet running out of IP addresses

May 15, 08 1:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says businesses aren’t working hard enough to promote an upgrade to the current Internet protocol, which is set to run out of IP addresses by 2011. So it’s pushing for governments to spend more on IPv6 equipment, software and services, as... More »

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Internet • IP address • IPv6 • IPv4 • Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Feds Lag on Internet Protocol Upgrade

Agencies must support IPv6, but most aren't switching

Dec 17, 07 3:48 PM CST
(Newser) - A deadline for US federal agencies to support an upgrade to the current Internet communications protocol, which would provide much-needed new IP addresses, is likely to come and go without much changing. Agencies' networks must be capable of running IPv6 within 6 months, but observers estimate most won't actually make... More »

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Internet • IP address • IPv6 • IPv4

Internet Running Out of
IP Addresses

Service providers need to get onboard with IPv6

Oct 31, 07 11:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - By 2010, new computers won’t be able to get online, warns Internet co-inventor Vint Cerf, unless ISPs adopt IPv6, a new system of assigning IP addresses. IP addresses are unique number strings devices need to get online, but most of the 4 billion numbers possible under the current system... More »

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Internet • IP address • ICANN • Vint Cerf • IPv6

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