At the moment my thesis plan consists of implementing and comparing two high-availabilty firewall solutions. The first one will be linux, the second one will probably be openbsd. Grabbed one of the free Lehmans all-bsd-on-one-dvds and… it did not boot. Reverted back to net installation. I really dislike the installation process of openbsd, if you make a critical mistake you are forced to reboot and repeat all over. Did a minimal installation. I now have 4 operating systems on one single harddrive - Win98, WinXP, Linux and OpenBSD. Cool.

Besides that I compiled the ct_sync framework for this machine. It did not compile at first and needed some minor tweaks but I got a booting kernel eventually.

Also played with kde 3.3 and fixed my tpb issue. Problem was, that the xsession file was not executed anymore. Checking the Debian Bugtracking Database, revealed some hints, and implementing the workaround from bug #265865 fixed the issue.