I did implement a IPv6 network at home and since then I’ve been begging for some more Sixxs credits and received them. That way I could also hook in some servers at work for testing. To deploy it further I need another fight with ip6tables. Since the concept of NAT is gone in IPv6, I need to shield a segment of the network. Some forward rules should do the trick, just haven’t found the right set yet. After that I can do some checking if Mailody is IPv6 proof. I don’t expect any problems, but you never know.

I’ve also been busy at work converting our internal invoicing system to Latex. I never worked with it before so I need to learn a lot. Of course using Kile for that. We used to generate HTML and pressed on the print button of the browser, which worked quite well up to now. Only our current set of browsers can’t do the job anymore. Konqueror4 is the worst in that regard, it just places random bits everywhere, black squares in the middle, not honouring page ranges, and no way to select the paper tray. Does not matter much, will probably be sorted out in the future. Firefox3 is also not doing completely what I want, it puts some letters so close to each other that it turns out ugly, i remember that from kde3 printing days.

So I decided that the system needs a change, by using Latex, I can easily go to the printer, html-preview and to pdf, so I picked that one. But that means I’ve some reduced time for KDE currently and that’s fine. Stepping back a bit for some days isn’t bad. I spent to much time on KDE anyhow.