I was checking out my site server logs over my lunch hour today. (It’s snowing outside, what else am I going to do while sitting at my desk? *L*) I was puzzled by the sudden increase of people checking out Gnomedex pictures, so I started checking referers and found the Show Notes for Friday’s Screensavers…
My attempt to install Red Hat 8.0 did not go as planned. While the iso downloaded OK, and the MD5 Checksum matched, apparently the CD I burned for Disk 1 was bad. After a number of attempts to install either hung or spit back an error about being unable to read such and such, I…
I did get the Red Hat 8.0 iso’s downlaoded (all 5 of them) and 4 of the 5 have been burnt to CD, so I should probably get an attempt at installing on the new machine in this weekend. Tentatively, this is scheduled for tomorrow night, after dinner at my parent’s house. The weekend has…
There’s nothing that says “Be prepared for anything today!” better than driving to work in the quiet that comes from having a bunch of snow on the ground, passing two stopped cars, blocking two lanes of traffic, who obviously had just had an accident, although there was no noticeable damage to either car, so I…
Some more random thoughts on workplace monitoring: – Your relationship with your employees shouldn’t be antagonistic. They aren’t “out to get you”. They should have a vested interest in helping the company succeed, after all the company pays their salary too. At the same time understand that what is bad for the company is bad…
Specifically, let’s talk about work hours and home hours. Much is being made about this article, which quotes a new study that says that people with home internet access wind up spending more time working from home than they waste surfing at work. It raises some interesting points. Here, we understand that there is occasionally…