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 would...
Time 2 Relax & Think