Posts by bombastic bob 10944 publicly visible posts • joined 1 May 2015
Shirley wget or curl already does a more than adequate job?
youtube-dl de-obfuscates the actual video URLs, downloads higher resolution video than your connection might be capable of live-streaming, AND creates a convenient '.mkv' out of it all [in most cases]. It ALSO does NOT require a java player to view the videos, so for SECURITY, it is MORE than ideal.
The problem is that youtube and the other video sites are busy TRYING TO OUTWIT IT, by changing things frequently, like a moving target. Last week thd tool worked. Next week it MAY NOT. and GOOD LUCK finding out what URL the video is REALLY on without excess MANUAL EFFORT.
This is why the script is SO BRILLIANT and SO POPULAR.
Youtube should just have a "download" button anyway.
all we need is ANOTHER LOCATION for the youtube-dl code, maybe somewhere in Finland... or put the tarball on USENET
(why these cloudy repo sites would be so "essential" is beyond me)
And what's to stop OTHER web sites around the world from hosting a mirror? All youtube-dl makers (I use this script myself, so I don't have to watch skippy video) need to do is post a set of links and a set of hashes (along with file size) to verify the thing, and voila! It's not that large anyway (~1.7Mb uncompressed) and consists of a SINGLE python program.
So a paste to USENET might be the easiest way to do it. Now I'll need to subscribe to some of the 'binary' groups
what does use cryptography by default
probably anything involving crypto API, from web browsers and e-mail to domain logins and file sharing. But that's just a guess on my part.
Fair bet I won't get a patch for Windows 7 either. I'd like something I could manually install, please, rather than getting mandatory updates enabled via "windows update".
the Google monster is having trouble tracking me with my choice of VPN, browser and add-ons.
It's been my observation that when I do the following:
* use chromium
* erase ALL history in an anal retentive way before I go someplace that uses CAPTCHA
The CAPTCHA puzzles are SIMPLER, and more frequently I just get a checkbox.
Thought I might mention that...
In most cases, I only have to click a checkbox marked I am not a robot;
My experience has demonstrated that CAPTCHA does NOT like you to use non-chromium browsers.
* Nearly every time I use firefox, I have trouble with as many as half of the captchas
* Specifically, the captchas that involve a slow fade-out and slow-fade in of a picture you might need to click because of an object on it *ALWAYS* *FAIL* whenever I use Firefox. This has been going on (sometimes worse, sometimes just bad) for ABOUT A YEAR now.
* There does NOT seem to be any kind of reasonable feedback or customer service contact on this [I have tried, in one case an e-mail address]
* Using FreeBSD and/or Firefox should _NOT_ make you "suspect" nor cause you to get "nothing but the hard ones that require a screen magnifier to solve and involve more than 2 'next/verify' buttons"
* NOT having "the most bleeding edge browser" should _NOT_ make you "suspect" [and it should STILL WORK PROPERLY]
* rejecting 3rd party cookies or setting 'private browsing mode' should NOT make you "suspect"
I have seen government services for the state of California actually USE CAPTCHA which is EXTREMELY ANNOYING because of this sort of thing.
I have also been waiting for a chance to RANT about this where someone else might actually CONFIRM it independently. I do frequent a particular web site that uses captcha to control user posts to (try to) prevent abuse. So I'm basically FORCED to USE CHROMIUM for this.
(but I have great hacks in place to prevent everything I do from being tracked by "that one browser" that doesn't have noscript or cookie blocking or private browsing or any OTHER mitigating 'thing' and I use a script to DUMP ALL HISTORY which is comprehensive and seems to work just fine...)
XWayland stacked on Wayland
How to actually make something like this WORK... (but will the alleged CHILDREN working on the Wayland project ever consider such a reasonable proposal from an OLD FART like me?)
* XServer uses X.org implementation "as-is" running like a subsystem layer [my read-up on XWayland just now suggests it is not really like this at all]
* XServer runs independently, NOT invoked by Wayland (so you can have it listen on a TCP socket, just like always, NOT like XWayland currently is, if I read it correctly)
* X11 Video driver and glx and shared memory extensions do the actual work, implemented by X.org as a video driver, and not necessarily a part of Wayland [but with X11 hooks in Wayland as needed]
* OpenGL lib similar to what NVidia does, that does more direct video things at a low level, so you get equal [and possibly better] performance with X11.
* XVideo hooks via the X11 video driver.
This would essentially be 'wayland as a soft video driver'. It would support remote X11, and existing X11 applications without modification. It would essentially use the SAME X.org server code.
But here's what it would NOT do: It would NOT force EVERYONE ELSE to CHANGE, thereby giving up tried/true for the NEW SHINY, sorta like as described in [mentioned again] Arthur C. Clarke's "Superiority".
Get rid of the ancient cruft and add new features, optimising as you go.
I'm not sure there's a LOT of "ancient cruft" there. Some of that still has use, especially for running a GUI application on an embedded system (let's say something in the 100's of Mhz clock frequency ballpark) across a network (let's say a WiFi G network with lots of interference) and still get reasonable UI performance in which the application is still "usable". not like you're playing videos or anything...
I like to think of that "ancient cruft" as "well tested bug-free code".
X11 has a LOT of legacy stuff in it, which I expect is NOT used all that often (except x sample applications like xclock etc.). And better docs for the more recent extensions would be nice, like glx, shared memory extensions, and so on...
Freetype and related stuff are actually add-on libraries.
THAT being said, it is NO excuse to go and ABANDON a working system for "something that more resembles the way Micros~1 does it" like WAYLAND, *ESPECIALLY* when you *LOSE* *CAPABILITIES* that are EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!!! You know, like the 'DISPLAY' environment variable and REMOTE X server support.
/me uses pluma on an RPi to edit files NEARLY on a daily basis for a major client of mine, using 'DISPLAY' to edit source files on a Linux workstation across the network, often WIRELESSLY. It's a touch screen system, like so many others out there i bet. NO WAY could I do editing on that touch screen, either, and it needs to have the application RUNNING ON THE TOUCH SCREEN to test the code I'm working on. I can't imagine the HORRIBLE INCONVENIENCE AND SLOWDOWN that a LACK of remote X11 capability would cause...
(yeah NOBODY's doing that remote X server thing... right? What, HALF the people who read El Reg do that at least OCCASIONALLY? That sounds about right)
X11 side - (for the clipboard)
Not that hard, and a bit more flexible than it is in the windows world. In theory, within the X11 world, you can store multiple data types on the clipboard (each with its own owner), and not "just one thing" (they don't even have to be for the same object or application, etc.). Additionally it's really not all that hard to make use of in the X11 world. Many clipboard APIs and libraries exist for just about every toolkit I'm aware of. It's more or less a "solved problem" with a lot of sample code available.
I use a background thread and some sync objects (in my own toolkit) to make it appear to work synchronously from the main thread. Copy/Pasta performance is pretty good. The UI is basically seamless, no stuttering or weirdness. code is simple (synchronous call similar to Win32 API in that regard) with the toolkit doing the async stuff in its own thread as needed.
There is a nice command line example 'xclip' that's not all that hard to follow, which lets you access the clipboard from the command line. So if you need clip functionality and are NOT using a toolkit (or are writing your own), this is likely to be very useful to you (it was for me, a long time ago):
https://github.com/astrand/xclip
Question: why abandon something that works and is in long term maintenance mode?
2nd Question: who here has NOT read Arthur C. Clarke's "Superiority" ?
I'm still not clear how this is supposed to be accomplished in the new spiffy Wayland-only world.
It's not. Wayland becomes a way of FORCING LINUX USERS INTO A MS WINDOWS MODEL, just like systemd and "other Poettering things"
And, according to the article, X.org is *HARDLY* ABANDONWARE. Last commit a few hours ago, right?
If they need more people to keep X.org alive, I'll volunteer MYSELF.
But... I will *NOT* be *FORCED* into *WAYLAND* and *LOSE* the *ONE* *BEST* *FEATURE* of X11 protocol, the use of the DISPLAY environment variable to run on a REMOTE desktop [or the same one, with a different user context].
that word - "modern". Hey RED HAT, I do NOT think that word means what YOU think it means!
When I read "an application that has been stable for years might now fall over" it just reminds me of the *KINDS* of unintended consequences these "developers" (with real-world blinders firmly in place) "feature creep" into things that have a large user base, only to "not give a crap" when things ULTIMATELY DO FALL OVER.
This is why I will *NEVER* do an application that depends on "the latest bleeding edge version" of something *LIKE* Node.js
We have seen this sort of thing from dependent libs at least a FEW times, particularly when developers capriciously "decide" to withdraw their content, out of spite or malicious intent, doesn't matter, same result.
The C language was originally set up to fail gracefully, which is a major reason why it's ideal for kernel development. In a typical kernel "thing" you already test for error conditions BEFORE you work with something. You force unused pointers and structures to a default state (typically 0 or NULL), and check for it at specific points where it matters. Errors become something you TEST for, and NOT something that CRASHES things.
Back in the day, the FRUSTRATION of a single line of code ending your run in "?Something error at line 500" is what (most likely) drove this feature in C. Also consider the "Unhandled Application Exception" box in Windows versions before 3.1 . That infamous UAE caused SO much frustration, it HAD to be dealt with.
Now Node.js has its OWN version of "Unhandled Application Exception" simply because what was once a warning that COULD BE IGNORED, is *NOW* a FATAL END OF THE UNIVERSE *ERROR*.
Thanks for that, Node.js "developers".
it's why back doors themselves should NEVER be used. Classic example here, in which OTHERS have discovered the keys, and the existence of the back doors has been revealed, defeating their very purpose and compromising EVERYTHING gummints were attempting to use them for.
They need to do REAL investigating. You know, like the OLD days.
Open source may provide a perfect solution to this. How about hardened linux router software that's 100% open source that you can subsequently load onto Cisco's hardware and thereby ELIMINATE the problem? Peer review would find any back doors. Maybe Linus could make it happen?
I think there should be a law that says ALL personal information has to be stored encrypted and the encryption keys stored seperately.
Usually this is accomplished through high profile lawsuits for when people fail to do it voluntarily...
(so I have my doubts whether a law would make a difference)
A general "data protection" regulation (assuming it does not already exist) MIGHT help, but I expect that one (or more) already exists by now.
Migrating to Wayland - why are they doing this again? I bet it's the same justification as it was for the "new" interface of Gnome 3 [which broke the panels in my opinion, on several levels] and so on? And the major changes to the gedit user interface (making it harder to work with)? Just because it is *NEW* ?
Here are some GOOD reasons to make SURE they do NOT abandon X11.
* Remote execution of programs, via DISPLAY environment variable, where the UI is presented on a remote desktop across a network.
* The ability to run an application locally, using a similar method, with a different logged-in user context (works playing video, too). I can do this to REALLY sandbox a web browser, including cache, settings, script/cookie enabling, and so on.
* X11 is by its very nature client/server, and therefore leverages multi-core (to some extent) already.
* glx and driver-specific OpenGL already exist for enhanced performance
* change for the sake of change - ALWAYS a bad idea - Arthur C. Clarke's "Superiority" comes to mind
Having "Wayland Too" is fine, as compatibility is a GOOD thing. They just need to make sure that X11 is _NOT_ abandoned!
Otherwise, GTK3-based programs, which seem to run 'ok' on my Mate desktop systems, will NOT be able to run outside of a Wayland-based system.
(and having GTK3 more compatible with Mate settings, like getting rid of some of the scrollbar weirdness, would be a nice feature, too)
(and make those STUPID phone-friendly-menus and icons OPTIONAL rather than MANDATORY)
customers are slightly miffed about the little tiny CPU security vulnerabilities thing that we all had to work around at our cost to patch and the reduction in performance
Since AMD processors were "mostly unaffected" by the more egregious vulnerabilities, I'd put this at the TOP of the list of "why our profits were lower than expected" [including the efforts to mitigate it].
RE: spending $1 billion on 'diversity'
They have set their priorities straight...
you were KIDDING, right? [in my view, that would be lawsuit defense at the expense of profitability]
a poisoned tree bears poisonous fruit.
Intel might need to 'clean house' a bit, though. Mega-corporations tend to become top-heavy, lots of bureucratic "scampering" without actually getting anything done (makes me think 'Agile'). They could most likely re-arrange their middle and upper management to become more efficient, maybe incentive for early retirement bonuses and things of that nature. (You can do it without layoffs, in other words)
But usually when companies like Intel restructure, they sharpen their axes instead... and upper management seems to stay about the same, doesn't it?
and a remaining question, does "diversity" include AGE?
Maybe the Russians think we look like them.
And believe we hack into Russia..
Most likely, yeah. But I don't think that Russian hackers are out there trying to destroy the USA from within. It's most likely your average cloak+dagger spying, which has been going on since WW2.
(what nobody ever watched a James Bond movie from the 60's, 70s, and 80's?)
Here's a thought: why didn't anyone mention CHINA and N. Korea?
This data seems to be missing out on a lot of complexity.
The TIOBE index has always (in my opinion) been a more accurate indicator of language popularity, and it has consistently shown a predominance of Java and C (with occasional jockeying for 1st place) followed by various other languages (including C++). C-pound is generally much lower, currently at around 4.1 percent.
Currently Python is bumping up, challenging Java, which has dropped significantly. I suspect this is only temporary, though. There was a temporary downward bump for C in mid 2017 for some reason, possibly due to introduction of new languages in certain highly visible public projects (I'm thinking Rust but I can't tell from the chart).
And for October 2020, closely following C-pound at 4.1%, is VB at 4%, and JavaScript is at a pathetic 2.1%. This is a _bit_ different from the values in the article, which put JavaScript and C-pound at significantly higher percentages.
Programming language surveys can easily be corrupted by improper sampling, and the way the questions have been worded. I think TIOBE's statistics, which have been collected and tracked for DECADES, are a much better representation of where things are REALLY going.
I have to wonder what would happen if someone(s) who are NOT bent on forcing the world into 2D FLATTY McFLATSO web interfaces (i.e. Mozilla since "Australis") were to supply the 90% of revenue Mozilla appears to 'need'... when all they REALLY needed to do in the FIRST place was maintain a working browser that, uh, worked. And NOT "feature creep". Like "Australis". And it drives another question, would they make Mozilla look like it did BEFORE Australis if the hand that feeds them (or teet that nourishes them) WANTS it?
I can't think of a good analogy for this, other than feeding pigeons. What happens when the bird lover stops coming?
why does a man climb a mountain? Or go to the South Pole?
Or why go to the moon? Or Mars? Or the bottom of the sea?
Same reason, yeah. Exploration is a good thing.
Back in the 60's, astronauts were HEROES. Then space became mundane, even boring. A couple of accidents and suddenly we have no space shuttles any more. And no HEROES. Not REAL ones, anyway.
It might be a REALLY GOOD thing to get back to that. And of course, NASA, ESA, UK, Russia's space agency, Japan, Israel, and anyone else who wants to come along. Should be fun.
Although on the surface it seems as if a 'web view' component or C++ class would be convenient for generating a user interface, it would seem to me that they're missing the boat on this COMPLETELY.
I saw something like this creep into MFC a decade or so ago, tried it, and didn't like how it was tied in so heavily to Internet Explorer. And of course, how it is NOT portable to Linux or FreeBSD.
I've toyed with things _like_ WebKit, and the dependency hell it can cause. It's disappointing.
On an Android you can create a "web app" pretty easily, and it's all built-in. not like I really think THAT is a better solution, it's convenient for things that already exist as internet web pages [so that the "web app" basically embeds the browser page]. For a few kinds of solutions, this actually makes sense because you can literally open a specific hard-coded web page with an "app" icon that way (and sometimes that's easiest for installation).
But the general NON-PORTABILITY of this kind of web page container/class/whatever is pretty disappointing.
If there were a LIGHTWEIGHT LIBRARY for web support, I'd be interested. So far, though, I'm DISAPPOINTED.
And having to invoke "the latest bleeding 'Edge'" to make it work... no. Just no.
there are various absurd things (negative energy, causality violation, singularities) which everyone kind of knows are implausible but we can't yet say why
yeah good stuff, but keep in mind that for every particle there is an anti-particle, except maybe for gamma [which you could call 'energy' I suppose]. gamma is the result of the annihilation of a particle and an anti-particle. However, if anti-particles are actually particles moving backwards through time [maybe disproved, maybe not] the need for anti-energy wouldn't be there - only anti-time.
And... consider the multi-verse interpretation, where causaility is not a fixed thing. A paradox is resolved through time travel the moment the time traveller "arrives", because a new universe gets created in the quantum event of his arrival. Or something like that.
I've actually considered a sci fi plot surrounding that. Man invents FTL drive, and after testing it, arrives in an alternate universe where history is messed up, like the Nazis won WW2 or it's still Rome in modern day, or everyone's a communist because the USSR won the cold war. Many 'Sliders' plots were like this. Anyway, the protagonist must now use his knowledge of history, discover how to move backwards in time, and find the point at which his arrival screwed things up, and then "fix it" so he can get back to his own time line. Not a new concept, really, but a new twist on an old trope. Could become an entire series... [and I can think of many that had history as a plot device, from Dr. Who and Time Tunnel to Sliders and Highlander]
(but I guess this article is kinda old now, and maybe nobody will see this...)
"So, since they've seen emissions for longer than they expected, one possibility is that the central object is indeed a neutron star and not a black hole, and this would be interesting because it would tell us things about neutron stars I think."
More like 'fusion' then - and being inelastic, kinetic energy has to go someplace... and so it spins so fast that it must slow down somehow, so emits gamma [and maybe absorbs a good deal of that, too, like you suggested]. But when the neutron star absorbs it, what does it cause to happen? I was assuming that it's behaving like an excited atom, which must either emit gamma or fission to remain stable. On a macro scale.
I hate to spoil your joke, but in reality, a "tenth thickness" of a shielding material is the approximate thickness (along the path of the gamma) needed to reduce radiation levels to 1/10 of what it was. So in theory SOME X-rays will get through lead, but depending on its thickness, most probably won't.
/me ducks rotting veggies and half-cups of liquid
quantum entanglement appears to be faster in some situations
Quantum entanglement seems to follow a different set of rules [as I understand it].
Gravity should follow the same rules of space/time as does both light and EM fields. But yeah, quantum entanglement is something else entirely.
NOTE: if you use super-strong gravity + EM (and maybe light) to create some kind of warp bubble, the rules of physics would apply normally within the bubble, and outside of the bubble, but not at its border, and so moving the bubble would move you along with it "faster than light", or so the theory goes. Some physicist from Mexico came up with a really good description of how it's done a decade or so ago.
The speed of light is really the speed of causality: it's the fastest way any information about an event can get between any two points
That's a nice summary!
One of the explanations (in the article) of the 3 years' of X rays is the creation of a 3rd neutron star. In short, they're suggesting that, like a nuclear reaction, on a macro scale the neutron stars collided to form a "massive unstable star-particle" which then "fissioned" into multiple parts... and when you study how nuclear fission actually works, this makes for a VERY interesting analogy. Keep in mind a neutron star is a bunch of neutrons held together by massive gravity, similar to a black hole. But inside a black hole, matter is even denser and has a "6th state", sort of a non-particle "mush" containing everything that WOULD be atoms and neutrons and quarks and electrons and all of that, except it's so dense it just "mushes" and all of the borders between things go away. Or something like that.
(as I understand it, there are 6 states of matter: solid, liquid, gas, plasma, gamma, and that mushy stuff you find inside a black hole - and only the first 4 states actually keep atomic structure somewhat intact)
A neutron is (as a particle) the combination of a proton, electron, and 2 anti-neutrinos. Reason is that anti-particles and particles must balance. And so those recently-proven-to-exist neutrinos provide the anti-particles to make up the neutron. And then you crush the neutrons under high gravity, to form a neutron star, which [in theory] would really be 'neutron mush' that can still act like neutron particles [until you crush it even further into a black hole]. In a way, it's like a ginormous atom.
NOW, you combine them in a collision, not unlike nuclear fusion. The new neutron star is unstable, and splits apart. Gamma is released, and quite possibly, additional "smaller bits" (i.e. 3rd neutron star), much like what you see in atomic fission reactions, only on a lot bigger scale.
And that 3rd star now has too much kinetic energy, quite possibly spinning at close to relativistic speeds. It's a fair bet that gravity forced an inelastic collision, which means kinetic energy had to go someplace. I suspect that the 3rd star is spinning like hell, WAY too fast to be stable, and is slowing down by emitting gamma. [I also have to wonder whether or not the 3rd neutron star would actually be a black hole created by the collission, and the same point about kinetic energy and inelastic collisions]
Anyway I could be as right or wrong as anyone based on the analysis here. But it would be fun to see, if we could get up close without being X-ray'd to death.
politicians asking for a magic unicorn to solve all their problems
You assume they MEAN WELL.
I suggest they are playing "think of the children" to MANIPULATE people into letting them take more freedom and put us ALL under surveilance. This is the kind of thing that gummints do, in a POWER GRAB.
I love the "real police work" example by French police with the use of warrants to crack the phones of people they wanted to spy on. WELL! DONE! FRENCH! COPS!!!
The rest of the world (including USA) needs to get a CLUE, and stop being LAZY. _REAL_ police work, please, and NOT blanket surveilance. [that violates the 4th amendment anyway]. GET a WARRANT.
(followed by the usual 'genii out of the bottle' 'open source encryption examples' 'de-CSS example for DVD playback' 'PGP and IDEA' 'when encryption is illegal, only criminals will have it' and so on)
as long as the remote connectivity works, any competent IT pro can put up with crappy baud rates, limited UIs, and unnecessarily slow response times, and STILL get the job done faster than actually BEING there... while in his underwear, sipping adult beverages and/or caffeine sources.
icon, because [answered my own question, heh]
Space - it's the realm of TRUE hackers, steely-eyed missile-men, the sparkiest of sparks, and the maddest of mad scientists.
studying Mars this way should reveal a lot, including the presence of water in the soil, deeper down where it's not sublimating so much.
Mars' atmosphere is 95% CO2 but extremely thin. Temperatures (below -60F) are such that CO2 is probably as effective as it can be at absorbing IR being radiated out into space, but being so thin, is unlikely to do a whole lot of good. The partial pressure of CO2 is around 600 pascals, if I deduce it correctly (from various sources), as compared to less than 50 pascals for earth (0.04%). Obviously there's more going on than just the partial pressure of CO2, which affects how well it can react with IR radiation escaping into space. 1 Atmosphere on earth is around 101,325 pascals (for those who didn't know already, _I_ had to look it up, I'm used to psi, tor, and bars). The rest is just maths.
So as a result you have a case where the atmosphere probably is NOT going to have a great effect on temperature of the soil. And so the probe can measure deeper down and figure out what's happening at the "permafrost" layer, if there is one [or would be one] and get a really good picture of what's going on planet-wide. And I think they may find that there's water or ice 'down there' making a HUGE difference in temperatures. [probably what they're looking for, I say]. and of course, instruments top side to relay the data and take its OWN measurements.
Should be fun.
occasionally I've needed to use exFAT to transfer very large files to a windows system on a USB drive, or if someone hands me a USB drive formatted from a windows system [which apparently defaults to exFAT unless you tell it NOT to, and that may not be very easy...]
In the past I've used FUSE. but as I use FreeBSD, is it part of OIN? Or are the people who make the FUSE driver part of it? In any case, I'll just use it anyway and ignore anyone peeking over my shoulder...
(I do not want my birthday taken away, no no, seriously, stop looking over my shoulder)
ext2 has no journal. not sure you would want that. But I think ext4 has differences with ext3 that make it NOT compatible with ext2 for a few things. In any case, if I'm on FreeBSD and I attempt to use an ext2 built-in driver to read ext4, it fails. I need to use the appropriate FUSE driver for ext4. but the ext2 driver "works" with ext3, as long as you don't care about journaling.
so yeah depending on what you need, ext4 is a good thing, but not very compatible outside of the Linux world.
hmmm... double-checked my firewall config, looks like I'd already disabled incoming ICMPv6 for types 133 through 137, which includes all of the NDP protocol stuff, to the best of my recollection...
heh, dodged a bullet there. /me wipes sweat from brow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICMPv6
Ping of Death was the best bug ever.
an accidental script ran in response to the firewall detecting certain kinds of intrusion activity... accidental. Allegedly. Heh.
Your post reminded me of Code Red. it opened up a port on the intruding/probing server that had direct access to a CMD shell. Sending commands via that port COULD cause IIS to shut down, thereby stopping the probing for vulnerabilities... and maybe (allegedly) put a file called "IDIOT.TXT" on the logged in desktop, and MAYBE pop up a dialog box that announces the machine is infected with a virus and then name the virus and tell them to patch their system or shut off IIS ... {allegedly)
the primary issue I see is occasionally getting only quad-A responses out of DNS instead of A and AAAA responses when ::1 is listed as a DNS server.
just did a test on a windows 7 box - with FBSD running bind (as 'named') and serving up requests for IPv4 and IPv6, using 'ping' got me the IPv6 address, and nslookup showed both IPv6 and IPv4, with IPv6 listed first.
when I told nslookup to look specifically at the name server's ::1 address, the results were the same. But DHCP tells the windows 7 box that the DNS server has an IPv4 address on the LAN. So I'm not entirely sure how to reproduce that on my network... maybe manually set up the DNS with an IPv6 address? Or it just may be a matter of which one's specified first in the list o' DNS servers for DHCP/DHCPv6 or however it is that Windows 7 is grabbing its IPv6 info [I got DHCPv6 and 'auto address' and other support on the network, so Apple AND Android devices have no trouble with it]
Also, in my case, the ::1 DNS server returns the same A and AAAA records that the x.x.x.x one does. So maybe it's just a 'Micros~1 quirk' ? I'd be interested in what nslookup results look like for your domain controller, especially when you explicitly tell it which name server to use.
