Uneasy Truce: Thinkpad T40, ACPI, Ubuntu 7.10

Sometimes an easy truce prevails but in this case, I’ve found a place where I can live with Ubuntu and its power management.  Somewhere with the changes to the driver, editing a variety of files, and explicitly defining the radeon driver suspend now works.  Why?  I don’t really know.  But I like it.  Perhaps my laptop had enough and decided to become the reed.

Now I can get back to merely enjoying evening computer use and let my work laptop govern my days and Linux drive my nights.  Gonna install Ubuntu Gutsy on one final box and all that will be left is my finicky T43 running XP.  I think I need a real XP box; but soon I’ll have a VMware server on Ubuntu running my vmware XP image which is almost as good.

Its all good!

Premonitions of a Great SCALE 6x

I started getting flashes of penguins and I think this year’s SCALE 6x will be the best yet.  A few friends are going and I’m looking forward to it.  I’ll be meeting with them, breaking sacred bread, and actually remembering a few people.  On November 15th or so, it will be a year since the DaveR left us.  I plan on having a service.  I still miss him buts gentler now. Tempered with understanding, time, and perhaps a point release of acceptance.

Most of all; thanks to the SCALE folks for providing a show of consistent quality and one that’s still fun to attend.  I always feel that its just the right mix of community, corporation, enterprise, and good old fashioned use.  I’ll be there starting on February 8th around mid-day.

Work Diligence

One more to go… Work.  Work evolves and revolves.  Roles change and shadows dart in and out.  Its been an interesting albeit painful few weeks with a reorganization that took us over.  What we did shakes things down to the core and makes things become re-invented, defined, and characterized.  I’ve been with Visa for 7 months or so now and its been very good to me.  Best thing I’ve done in some years.  I figure the one year at Levanta was a lost thing and I had to pay for the privilege of working where i am now.  I’ll resist saying anything about this news.  I will say congrats to the folks that still matter.  I wish you all the best.  You know who you are.  The other ones that don’t matter know who they are too.

Meanwhile Visa just rules at so many levels my work days.  I do the good work during the day and in all my months have never been bothered at night.  Its great to manage infrastructure and services and see how they expand and scale.  Thanks to everyone there.

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