It's good that Planetary Annihlation will have support for modding and Linux :)
So give them your voice and some of your cash by funding them on Kickstarter and then next year we'll all happily be destroying planets!

> Win7 requires me to kill ipv6, because there's no good way to tell the system to prefer ipv6.

If you have tunneled connectivity, thus non-native being announced on an Ethernet interface you will likely have to set in the registry:

SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Dnscache\Parameters\AddrConfigControl = 0 (DWORD)

That way AAAA lookups are always performed and also preferred. Though it still depends on the application if it actually uses getaddrinfo() at all and does not resort addresses itself, which some applications do and some others do not.

> Let me easily set priority of v4 vs. v6.

With Lion Apple has implemented a variant (quite unrelated to the IETF drafts) of Happy Eyeballs in their systems. As such, depending on previous connection history, latency and other factors you might get IPv4 or IPv6 connections at random. And nope, there is no knob at all to turn off that behavior. Right back at you.

(oh and yes, I have a Mac too, which is why it kinda annoys me, but if you just slow down IPv4 a bit on the outbound router you always get IPv6 as the Mac thinks that IPv4 is "slower" than IPv6... still a knob would be useful, yes, bug reported a long time ago)

You mean relicensing SixXS software (AICCU) under a more restrictive license? Yes, that is indeed quite abusive, be happy that the copyright enforcers are not coming down your neck for that.

It is great to make websites with all kinds of 'facts' but without actually showing both sides of a story and including all the details, they are not facts and they are effectively just biased statements from a pissed off person.

To quote slimjim8094:

As that is what those "true stories" are about, nothing else.

Dear anonymous poster, please move along or get an account with your real name and details instead of just posting fact-less and out of context inflammatory remarks. Kthx!

> And it's no coincidence that half of abusive SixXS is half-run by a Google employee.

What you mean with "abusive" here is the "half" that cuts people off when they abuse the service. That "half" would be me, not the "half" that you try to implicate.
There are actually even websites dedicated to this about it which only name me. The other "half" is a true voice of reason, so don't say bad things about him that have no backing at all.

Thus really the 'co-incidence' seems to be merely in the fact that you are an anonymous poster, who likely was abusive him/her/itself, got cut off yourself and likely that is why he/she/it cannot even post on slashdot with a real account as here you also got kicked out already.

It makes sense for several years already, as a lot of "firewalls" (eg, that nice Great Chinese Firewall) and various other such country-wide blockades to the Internet, do not have a single bit of understanding of IPv6, and as long as they remain that way, IPv6 will work like a charm......

Next to the other thing for home users: everything becomes accessible, instead of having to get IPv4 addresses from your home ISP (which generally they won't do, but indeed there are cases where they do), or getting a private server outside in a network, which is not home. For years already: set up an IPv6 tunnel, get a prefix, use it from anywhere.

There are only 9 labs which are real IBM Research Laboratories: Almaden, Austin, Brazil, China, India, Haifa, Tokyo, Watson and Zurich

linky: http://www.research.ibm.com/worldwide/index.shtml which does not list Sao Paolo, Brazil yet though.

This new one in Australia is just a new IBM R&D center, part of IBM, but not part of IBM Research though....

As that thing does not even seem to fly and people always like to see movies, check: http://ng.uavp.ch/ for a huge amount of information about NG-UAVP's (Next Generation Universal Areal Video Platform) of course all open source hard and software.

Multiple videos of WORKING drones over here: http://ng.uavp.ch/moin/Videos

Also, don't forget to check this cool cyber-cute overload: Quadrocopter Drone Has Its Own Little Home :)

Btw, what is so special about adding a wireless card/stick to a drone and letting it sniff the airwaves? :)

To make sure that no other packages like eg base-files suddenly start adding these kind of packages you might want to add to /etc/apt/preferences or prolly better a file like /etc/apt/preferences.d/dontwant something like:

Package: avahi-daemon canonical-census
Pin: release v=dontwant,a=dontwant
Pin-Priority: 1001

This will block two annoying packages that don't belong on most servers.

avahi, because you don't need to announce everywhere when your server is located somewhere in a DC (indeed it might be handy in a local network, but it stops being useful when you don't have multicast routing and/or have a routed network)

canonical-census, because Ubuntu does not need to know what your server is doing.

Of course other packages can be blocked in a similar way from being auto-added by apt. (unfortunately a dpkg 'hold' does not work).

Another way is to make a fake empty package, then the depends are satisfied, in the above case you might have packages which refuse to install because the package can't be found. Do make sure with 'apt-cache policy' to see if you don't have other apt-prefs at a prio of 1001 (or higher if that is possible) otherwise they might still get there.

I am also wondering when Ubuntu/Redhat and other such commercial "Linux" companies start being nice to all the people who actually do the hard work and start acknowledging that those people are what they are selling/supporting/consulting on and earning money with.