* Posts by le.zap

7 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Sep 2014

Global IPv4 address drought: Seriously, we're done now. We're done

le.zap

IPv6 usage soaring?

The following graph: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html seems to indicate that about 1 in 6 users of Google access it from an IPv6 address.

I was quite surprised by this.

Windows 10 networking bug derails Microsoft's own IPv6 rollout

le.zap

Re: Sigh

With many phones using IPv6, roll-out of IPv6 may be happening quicker than you think.

Take a look at the following graph from Google: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

Seems like over 15% of users access Google through IPv6 today. That's a lot more than I expected!

Mozilla: Five... Four... Three... Two... One... Thunderbirds are – gone

le.zap

They keep trying to spin off Thunderbird

They've been talking about spinning off Thunderbird for years (since at least 2007, that I recall), and they even did it once... only to bring it back in when that didn't work well.

I like Thunderbird. I use it all the time and have installed it for a number of others. I haven't given my e-mail to Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft yet. I appreciate being able to use Thunderbird on multiple platforms, it provides a choice from the dominant platforms of the day, which always seemed to me to be a strong value of the Mozilla project.

Hmmm. Will stay tuned, but this is not good news.

Pitch Black: New BlackBerry Classic is aimed at the old-school

le.zap

Re: Why didn't they keep the keyboard curved?

OK, thanks for the feedback. I will definitely locate one and try it out myself: keyboard are not archaic, the tactile feedback when you type stuff in is quite useful.

le.zap

Why didn't they keep the keyboard curved?

Sigh. The Classic looks nice, but why did they have to make the keyboard straight? BB keyboards were always curved and small enough that they were reasonably easy to operate single-handedly.

It's like bringing back "Coke Classic" but with "almost the same taste as before, but not quite" :-)

I would still prefer to have a device with a real keyboard. Let's see if this catches on.

Hate the BlackBerry Z10 and Passport? How about this dusty old flashback instead?

le.zap

Nice idea, but why not a curved keyboard?

It's good that Blackberry is putting out a new phone for the many fans of its existing devices, but why did they not equip it with the truly classic "blackberry curved keyboard" that was space efficient and so nice to use? It really gave you the impression that it was purposefully made for a small handheld device. Current "flat horizontal layout" is OK but definitely not as nice.

Oh well, at least they're trying to address the wishes of many of their users albeit somewhat late.

Good grief! Have you seen BlackBerry's square smartphone?

le.zap

Re: Hope it gets an honest chance

Seriously, why don't they come up with a device that uses the same type of keyboard that their old phones used to have. Many of the BB fanatics liked the tactile feedback *and the rounded shape* of their old keyboards... and then, even when they added a keyboard to BB10 devices, they went for a "straight" alignment of the keys which didn't make it as pleasant to use as the old scheme.

Sigh! When they dropped BB5, they also stopped completely making devices available that had the physical characteristics that people were comfortable with. They might have been surprised at how many people would have bought a device with "a blackberry keyboard" underneath a taller screen.

Oh well, I have now been typing on a silly glass keyboard for a few years (Android, IOS...), but still don't like it... and I am left to wonder at BB's strategy !?!?!