Inspired by a chat I was having with JD, I decided to make this an open question.

If people who work in an office are anything like a Linux distribution, what personality traits would they have?

Respond using the page comments.

The guys over at BIOSLEVEL are running a challenge to see whether or not they can ditch POTS and cellular phones in favor of Skype, a popular VoIP service. I assisted Tesseract with some of the testing and this looks very promising! I’m disabling comments for this posting, so if you wish to leave comments, please do so over at the BIOSLEVEL site.

I’m sure that you all have noticed by now that there is a new theme being used for this blog now. I am still ironing out some formatting bugs with it, so if my site is unavailable or temporarily hiccups while viewing within the next 2-3 days, I apologize in advance. Use the comments to voice praise, hate, etc. As usual, spams, trolls and flames will be > /dev/null.

After dealing with the second round of replacement hardware, the third iteration of hardware landed on my desk. Again, much to my dismay, no optical drives.

I was supposed to order three new laptops for work. I initially spec’ed out Dells online which would have met the requirements and included a 3-year warranty and presented the figure to my boss, who was disappointed with the 1-2 week lead time required and wanted an off-the-shelf, possibly retail solution. This was 6 or 7 weeks ago. This gets worse.