The Blog of Harald

So RedHat 8.0 is out, and supposedly (according to the reviews) has a nicer desktop experience than in the past.

Windows is vexing me.

There are two versions of WINE floating around now; one that will run most OpenGL games, and the other that supports MS Office, and will run many multimedia browser plugins under Mozilla.

The only thing I really use Windows for (at home) these days is browsing, games, a couple of relatively innocuous utilities, and the enormous Excel spreadsheet that is my Rolemaster character.

Conclusion: it’s time to attempt, once again, the Linux-only laptop. First, I have to liberate some “copious spare time”….

I discovered that I was actually using IPv6 (quite successfully) when I turned it off and a bunch of things broke :-)

So the state now is:

• I’ve re-enabled IPv6 on the cfrq.net network.
• I’ve disabled IPv6 on Windows, since that’s what was really bugging me.
• I’m still running Apache 1.3.26; it supports PHP, and I haven’t rebuilt PHP for Apache 2.0.40 yet.
• I’ve shot zebra dead as a doornail, and I’m back to using static routes. With my CIPE patch for detecting the liveliness of the network connection, this gives me relatively efficient routing even in the face of my ever mobile laptop.

The experiment continues…