IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10 percent deployment (Ars Technica)

Our phone system is powered from the exchange, not the home, power supply. So we have a fixed-line phone plugged into the wall (plus all our cordless, true). But that way, if we have a power outage, we still have a phone line.

Somebody tried to nick a 50KV power line near here a few years ago, and a large area was without power for about a week. Cordless phones died instantly without power to the base station. How long does a typical mobile battery last nowadays? With all these smartphone functions I can flatten mine in a day (and if the local mast dies it'll flatten itself transmitting at full power trying to find a mast!).

Okay, we were about 100yards outside the power fail area, but if we'd lost power our phone would probably still have worked because the local exchange would have had an emergency generator.

Cheers,
Wol