New toy

[ewx]

So the iBook finally arrived last week. I've since spent much of my spare time getting a variety of things working:

Wireless connectivity. Our firewall couldn't even see the wireless PCI card I'd bought but my server machine could, so that's where it went. I've not managed to persuade it to do WEP, but I'd always planned to use a VPN link over the wireless LAN anyway and have now got secnet, timeplease's VPN software working. I get about 8Mbit/s, which is a little disappointing for something advertized as 54Mbit/s but adequate for many purposes (and I can always plug it into the wired LAN if necessary).

PuTTY, specifically the GTK+ version, which is not a great challenge. I seem to be using Terminal in practice, though it remains to be seen what I'll do in the long run.

Starcraft. This installed pretty easily. The plan is to get a separate mouse and keyboard, and then LNR and I will both be able to conveniently play simultaneously.

At some point I plan to port DisOrder, though I'm not sure when I'll have time right now.

Patches and porting notes for some of the things above. Having a modern and relatively complete (once you've found Fink) UNIX underneath it all is a real boon.

I like the software side of the UI (on the hardware side I'm not yet convinced about the trackpad and, of course, the single button nature). Exposé is brilliant, in particular.