It’s time again for that painful-yet-joyful tinkering, and this time the target is autotools. Back in the day I used to admire the configure and Makefile files in various open-source projects. I naively thought they were all handwritten by the project authors themselves, and I was full of awe for people in the open-source community. I couldn’t even understand them, let alone write them. Later I learned there is something called autoconf that can automatically generate these scripts. You still have to write some bits yourself, but it’s nowhere near as crazy as I had imagined.

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Some time ago I learned to use IP tunnel to build a tunnel so that machines without native IPv6 could use IPv6. I was itching to get IPv6 at home in advance as well, so I finally bit the bullet and bought the R6300v2 I’d been eyeing for a long time. With ddwrt on it, IPv6 worked smoothly.

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Back when I first started playing with VPS, I set up a blog, but abandoned it after writing only a few posts. Blogs are more suitable for technical articles; if I post about my feelings, who would come back to read them? But every time I finish tinkering with something, I feel exhausted. It’s really “tinkering”: I always run into all sorts of strange problems, and then I don’t feel like writing anymore. So how long I can keep this blog going, I honestly have no idea. Of course, I was also influenced by wjx. That guy has been really into blogging recently, doing it with great flair, link here, which got me wanting to do it as well.

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