war journal 009 - xgl

Kororaa XGL live CD that demonstrates Xorg7 features can only be described as uber-wow!

i got the torrent from above, burned it (400+mb) then popped it into my centrino laptop. sadly, a kernel panic happened. don't know why. anyway, i popped it into a dell precision 340, pentium4 512mb machine with 32mb nvidia video card. and oh wow! wish i could have screenshots of that thing.

transparent window borders. workspace switching was supersmooth. even the animation of the windows and the border shading. i'll be studying how to migrate my gentoo64 at home to xorg7--- if kororaa is a sign of things to come, it is well worth it!

war journal 008

success!!!!

everything works now.

i can browse all the sites. i did some minor kernel tweeking. and some updates. and a reboot to gentoo-linux and here we are. all systems are operating normally. i can now get podcasts on my iTunes over at this imac.

:D

warjournal 007

ok. i finally found sometime to fix up my home network! as of this posting, i'm writing this on my imac which is connected to my gentoo box. my gentoo box provided local dhcp, masq, and firewall features.

everything ought to work.

but somehow... software like itunes, and system update won't work. heck, just pointing my browser to www.apple.com i get a dead link. as do mac dev center and many other sites.

i just don't know why. and still tracing the problem through my logs. could it be that these services use a different port? because my firewall blocks all other ports except ones that i allow of course. or something else?

i dunno. but i'll try to figure it out soon.