Yesterday a group of us went to see a Handball game between the Elbehexen (something like the witches of the Elbe) and some other team, whose name I forgot. The hexen won, and we then went out to drink a bit. Not too much because we needed to go back to class today, although two of them haven't been. With this the development of rpgs is going slower than I planned. I should already have the language defined, but I still haven't taken a look at it. I did however start to re-organize where the files go. Everything at top-level is no longer considered good. I'll try to get more info on why the IPv6 to the Zaurus doesn't work and try to get a croos-compile to work for StrongARM, to check for portability stuff. Even if my software never runs on a StrongARMv4l, this should be good for general portability.

So, when I got back home, I couldn't get the IPv6 to work. I'm not actually sure why. I though it was the netmask or something like that, but it doesn't seem to be that. I have moved to the new server (the european one) and I'm going to update what I can. I still need to write that thing about XOR (possibly) revealing your password. BerliOS won't let me connect. I don't know if this is an acutall network failure or I'm being specifically blocked. This means I can't upload the rpgscript code for inclusion in CVS. I need to try again to connect with the laptop in the uni WLAN. I still have to know where it's actually a good place to connect since sat outside doesn't really seem like such a good idea to me. UPDATE: BerliOS is working again. don't forget to check out my project in http://rpgscript.berlios.de, you know you want to ;)

So, I've managed to get IPv6 between nacht.local and manolo.local, although it doesn't seem to be possible to delete an IP address on the Zaurus. The migration to IPv6 was actually easier than I though, once I figured out that I needed to get addresses of site scope. It's actually much nicer than IPv4 because it's shorter (one being fec0::1 and the other fec0::2) although I'll need to change that once I get to set up the router using some sort of *nix. It'll most likely be LFS (www.linuxfromscratch.org), unless I get to grips with one of the BSDs before that, although for the bandwidth the link has, network stack performance is not really a problem. Since the AP/router/firewall is gonna be a proper PC running Linux, I've decided to do a migration in the LAN, although when I checked to see how good you can configure an IPv6 address using WinXP (Half Life 2 needs a 'net connection, and the rest of the familly will want to use it as well) and it doesn't let you configure it. At all. I checked again. Still nothing (like it was gonna have changed) would appear to let you configure it. I'm guessing that it's either creating the automatic one based on the MAC address of the interface or it's trying to use the IPv4-mmaped address (2002::a:b:c:d:1, the letters being the IPv4 address in hexadecimal notation). I don't want to use neither of them because they're ugly, long and complicated (at least I don't want to use them exclusively, but also the site link addreess) so I might have to put an IPv6 and an IPv4 address on the AP just so that Win can connect. I'll try to use IPv6-only on the computers I can, but it's not gonna be easy. I've at long last got an account with freenet6.net (they provide tunnel for using IPv6 if your ISP doesn't support it) and also looked at what the status is on IPv6 integration in Eurpe. It seems like the official IPv6-enabled web-server list is over here at the uni (6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de), although I think I'd feel more proud if I actually studied here. Oh well, maybe in a few years. I then wen't looking for what there was in Spain (just to see if I could get a tunnel to IPv6 closer to home) and the projects over there all seem dead. The global summit in Madrid hasn't been updated since the 2003 summit, which is a very bad sign. The official company that does IPv6 in Spain hasn't had anything updated since 2002, and some pages are stuck in 2000. Seems like I'm gonna have to use this tunnel, which probably ends somewhere in the US, even if I just wanna visit european websites (and destroys my plan to use as much european stuff as possible, like BerliOS for project hosting (rpgscript.berlios.de) (developer.berlios.de) and a possible transfer of the personal site to a german host. These guys seems to have the best 'net connections, since I can for example, download stuff much faster from german mirrors than from a uni not 2000Km from my location (when I'm in Spain), and soupoussedly being in a national network, which should be a lot faster, but I get speeds I'd be ashamed of were I uploading something from my minuscule link. I think this helps me to decide on a place for uni and possible living. While were on national disgrace, Castilla y Leon (we call them "autonomous community", but if you don't what it is, it's something more or less like a state, but they can't segregate, an belive me, some have really been trying) has singed a deal with a certain software company based in Redmond,WA, while all the other communities have started to go the open/free-source way by releasing their own distributions (Debian Sarge in Spanish with, I souposse, minimmal changes). I think that they should focus on a common distribution, but that's just me.

I finally managed to get my Sharp to run Opie. This time it had to be with a new one, as the older one didn't work. I'm trying to get gcc to build for cross-compiling for StrongARM (armv4l in this case), but the one from CVS seems to have some problems. I'll try with the 3.4.2 I think I still have around. Since manolo (that's the Zaurus, thus not capitalized) can do IPv6, I thought I might as well start getting used to it, and this is a way I can try IPv6 without breaking something important. Hopefully I'll get all that done by tonight. I've also been thinking about the idea of using the IrDA in the mobile, the PDA, and usbnet to get Internet in my laptop. I'll have to make sure it doesn't work at uni with the Wi-Fi first, and since I don't actually have a internet account here (I mean Germany), there's not much point. It might be at least useful for when we're on the road in Spain and there's no other way to get Internet (like, say, in the car). I know the speed is very slow, but it's better than nothing when we have to be driving for a few hours in the car to get anywhere it's worth it. Maybe the time it takes to get to MediaMarkt would be a good candidate, researching which part to buy just before I get there. All I gotta figure out now is how to get the ethernet-over-usb network to work when the cradle isn't plugged-in. Maybe it does, but that means I have to put the phone in unnatural positions (upside down about 2-3 cm over the table).