So yes, I have it. I called the Apple Store in Fashion Valley and they had one available. So I left work early for a very important errand. I’ve been setting it up all night. The first order of business of course is switching the thing to a UNIX filesystem instead of HFS+. Not that I detest HFS+, I use it on my iPod. It just doesn’t support mixed case the way I need it to.

I’m getting a new computer. It’s one of these. Actually, I have one. It’s sitting on my desk now. I’m making this post on it. Unfortunately this doesn’t bring me as much joy as you might think. The unit that I purchased happened to have a defective LCD panel so I have to return it for another one. Sucks. There’s a strip down the left edge of the screen with semi-blinking/flashing horizontal bars.

I got the Chianti NAT rotator working again today. That was a relief. It stopped working and I didn’t know why so I was dreading having to work on it again because I was expecting it to take hours to fix. Fortunately it was simply a matter of calling natd wrong. A few weeks ago I had tried some tests with natd to see if I could smooth out the 30 second arp catch-up that happens when changing addresses.

Well, all attempts at getting Debian on this thing have been a bust so far. Debtakeover died when ld-linux.so got moved. I looked at the installing debian on Dell page, which did have the correct disk drivers but uses the Woody installer so there’s no LVM manager. I tried going for the progeny based anaconda installer since that does support creating LVM devices but it’s currently not buildable. So right now I’m reinstalling RedHat for the second time today and I’m going to try debtakeover again with sid.

I’m getting used to this RedHat box. It’s still no debian, but I’m getting by. The new Mozillas came out today so I upgraded on my iBook and on RedHat. I was disappointed to find that there’s no netatalk available for RedHat ELWS, so I was forced to rely on NFS mounting, which worked remarkably nice. Much nicer than I had anticipated. If you found this page through Google and you want me to get to the chase, this is where it comes in.