Journal iomud's Journal: Powerbooking 1
I sleep and think about work. When I wake up I immediately start on a course towards work. I work 10 hour shifts. This means that for four days I stay engrossed in work and nothing else. It's a bit frustrating for have to shove the rest of my life into my 3 days off. Maybe I still need time to adjust.
My workstation (at work) is now running linux, I'm pleased with it. It's SuSE which is acceptable but the box it's on has far too little ram and far too few cycles to run the likes of KDE with all it's eye candy. I run Gentoo on a mini shuttle itx box at home on an xp2500+ with 512MB of ram. It's fantastic, gnome and kde is as fast as I have ever used either desktop environment. I wish I could just bring in my powerbook and work from it instead. All I really require is a terminal client with which to ssh and a browser that runs java. OSX has this covered. Anyone have ideas on how I could swing this without me sounding like I want some preferential treatment?
productivity? (Score:2)
what are your work network policies? they won't allow any "foreign" computers to be plugged into the network? Since it would appear they've let you install linux on your own, i'll draw the assumption they at least trust you to some level. i don't get why they wouldn't want to let you bring your own laptop?
i work at a fairly large corporation (went down from 6K employees to 2K today) and since OS X 10.1 came out in 2001, most developers in my department have slowly migrated to powerbooks, i was the secon