IPv6

I love playing with IPv6. If you don't know what that is, skip this entry. :) I got a free tunnel (two, actually, one for at work and playing with vpns and cross-site stuff) from Freenet6/Hexago. I set it up at home and work so that each IPv6 endpoint can route, so my wife's laptop (MacOSX with IPv6 pre-enabled) can ping my Mac at work, using my work laptop and a test server at work being the IPv6 routers. Mind, no real firewall is setup at this point - I need to get that setup. But still, is very very cool - I can now play with a real network and get familiar enough so that when IPv6 gets used for production I'll already know what I'm doing. Not to mention that now I can access my computers at work directly and not need to setup silly NAT forwarding.

To get into OpenFirmware when Cmd-Opt-O-F isn't working (like, say, you're using a USB PC keyboard): Open Terminal Type sudo nvram auto-boot?=false and give it your user password. Reboot. OpenFirmware will not auto-boot into OSX. To undo, do the same but put true instead of false.