OK I found a sort of bummer thing about my idea to play around with Knoppix. While I can access all the files on my C drive even when I’m booted into Knoppix instead of Windows, I can’t edit any of my MS Office files in OpenOffice. They open as read-only, and when I try to edit anything I get an “access rights” error. HTML, text, JPG, and other files open and can be edited fine, however. So there’s still some things I can mess around with in there. 🙂
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I spent a late night over the weekend trying to fix the problem with Angela’s current PC. Basically what happened is that back when we had the cable modem installed and there was a problem with it, the Roadrunner tech support folks, rather than believing that the problem was with their modem, had me uninstall…
Regular readers probably noticed about a week’s worth of silence around here. It started early last week when Angela tried to post something to her blog and had trouble getting it published to her site. Thinking it was probably just a temporary Blogger problem, she went about her life assuming it’d take care of itself…
By the way, the outage was not planned, someone screwed up when they were doing some router upgrades. I can’t complain because the email server definitely does seem much faster today than it had been! Besides, I don’t have the time, nor the bandwidth, to tell you about all the times I went to “upgrade”…
She mentions a round of layoffs as an example of breaking trust, and I’m glad she included that. All too often, when a round of layoffs occurs, senior management will return to talking about the culture or set of core values they expect all employees to follow without ever acknowledging that it’s different now. You can’t just return to talking about the importance of teamwork and diversity when you just canned 10% of the team as if nothing happened.