The name of the OS is "Windows Phone 7", so this is a "Windows Phone 7 phone", not a "Windows 7 phone". This is is the sort of dumb naming that leads to things like, "Plug your monitor into the DisplayPort port," or "point your web browser at http://slashdot.org/".

Part of it is that it's hard to actually make anything using in-game redstone wiring, in the same way that it would be tricky but nerdily rewarding to make a 16-bit ALU using discrete transistors and wires on a breadboard. It also requires digging around in interesting and often surprising environments to actually *get* the redstone to make this stuff, so it's makes a good time sink for addictive personalities. It's pretty different from writing a mod for a game in some scripting language.

That forces the DNS resolution itself to only go over IPv6. I think what you want is host -t AAAA slashdot.org.

Safari, for example, had a bug until recently that caused page loads to fail if the site has an IPv6 address but the client doesn't have connectivity. In addition, there are a bunch of autoconfigured tunnel technologies that can cause problems. See, for example, APNIC's chief scientist's report on Teredo: http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2011-04/teredo.html

> same websites at a slower speed (due to the tunnel)

I have a Hurricane Electric tunnel set up, and this is actually not always the case:

--- www.facebook.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9011ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 36.170/38.304/39.851/1.103 ms

--- www.v6.facebook.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9009ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 16.583/18.888/25.474/2.335 ms

That IPv6 route includes a hacky wifi hop that the IPv4 one doesn't, and it's *still* better.

It's a production unit, but people at the conference don't actually get them for another month.

Its display functionality is totally inadequate.

Do any operating systems use DHCPv6 by default? I know Linux just uses stateless autoconfig by default, which works great for renumbering, but how do you get DNS entries that way?

I guess you just manually configure your servers to use DHCPv6 and let everything else use autoconfig?

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