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More complications

In a post last week I mentioned that my ppp0 connection would keep dropping whenever IP_Forwarding was enabled.

Over the weekend I was trying again to get it sorted out.  I was using a Windows computer to test with, and I got it working perfectly.  I thought everything was cool, until I connected my MacBook again, and the connection started dropping, like it did before.  I really don't know what a Mac would be doing differently, but it just doesn't work (WiFi and Ethernet do the same thing).

The plan was to put a different OS on the MacBook anyway, so I decided to do that, and then see if it worked. I did not manage to do this ether.  The optical drive in the MacBook is giving trouble.  It wont accept any disk.  It will sometimes the MacBook Installation Disk, but it wont work with any other disk I tried.

I had burned the Arch Linux installation disk from the Windows computer, so I wanted to try burn the disk from the MacBook, but it wouldn't accept any blank CDs, it just keeps spitting them out again.

What has also happened now is the battery has swollen up, and the clip thing that holds it in is broken, so it keeps falling out.  This is not to serious I guess, if it is plugged in it runs without the battery just fine.

The MacBook is three years old now, so I do not think it is worth having anything repaired on it, I just need to rethink my computer setup.  Maybe I can use the MacMini (which is now five years old, but still strong, except it is a G4 PPC, so there may be some limitations) as my main computer.  Will miss the portability, but a laptop with a battery that falls out is not very portable anyway.
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