I spent two hours trying to build Mono 0.30 release on my Linux box last night. I built Mono runtime successfully, but could not get Mod_Mono for Apache 2 to compile without rebuilding Apache 2. Since I’m still running RedHat 8, the RPM binary build for Mono 0.30 can not be used. I don’t follow Linux very closely, it always takes me a while to get up to the speed with the latest development, so I’m reluctant to upgrade to the latest distribution. My goal is to get Mono .30 and Apache 2 work on my Linux box without making any change other than Mono itself.

On the other note, my new multi-functional printer was delivered yesterday from buy.com. I orrder it first on buy.com, then found out that amazon.com had better deal. I cancelled the buy.com order and ordered one from amazon.com. However, amazon.com messed up my order and shipment, I had to email them many times to get full credit back. Finally buy.com had the printer at $375.99 again and I ordered it right away. I like everything I see from the printer except that it dims my home office’s light bulb when operating. It is a big power sucker drawing almost 1KW juice.