A long day beckons, again

[slowfox]

It's the Residents' Association AGM this evening - for the 2008/2009 year; yes, it's a tad late, principally because the initial such was abandoned when hardly anybody turned up. My hopes for a significantly higher turnout today are not that great; once the one-way system had been implemented around the Dukeries, interest in the Residents' Association didn't so much dwindle as collapse.

Somewhat over-busy at work - I do find, though, that in general I'm more productive over here in Work II than in the former location, and that's no bad thing, for sure.

Have made a start on Haruki Murakami's After Dark, which seems pretty good, so far, and has the same feel as Hard Boiled Wonderland, A Wild Sheep Chase and some of the others.

Because I need to remote desktop into work machines from home, and work don't support doing so from within Linux, I've had to install Windows 7 on Ione, the home nettop/pc, which is basically a netbook masquerading as a desktop PC. Work only had the Windows 7 upgrade media - the trick with a clean install, then, is to do an initial clean install from the upgrade disc, but not to type in the product key.

Log into Win 7, then run the installation's Setup from the DVD, to 'upgrade' your Windows 7 installation to, er, Windows 7. And then you put in your product key. So far, this seems to have worked, but I haven't risked online activation yet - I want to see whether Ione actually has enough power to realistically run 7 before committing the product key to it.

ETA: props to glittertine for the linkage, Top Gear S14 Trailer is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D

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[aome]

We have Windows 7 installed on our desktop PC. It has some neat features, but I'm having trouble acclimating to the change in look and where-to-find-it arrangements.

What is making your new location more productive than the old one? Yay for getting things done. Feel like last week's hiccup is becoming forgotten?

What is AGM: Annual ... something ... Meeting?

[slowfox]

AGM = Annual General Meeting. Supposedly constitutional requirement of the Association that we have a yearly meeting to report the state of finances, memebership and other issues to all residents.

Moving from four people sharing an office to three has definitely made a difference, I think. Although I've been most ambivalent about the vexed question of, at one extreme, individual offices for each of us (my lack of enthusiasm for that prospect is mainly driven by the fatalist reasoning that there's no way it's going to happen) to completely open plan accommodation for all 41 staff in the department (I've worked in a similar sized open plan arrangement when I was in the civil service), I have to concede that the drop from four people sharing to three has been mostly beneficial in terms of the work environment thus generated.

Lasy week's SNAFU still bothering me, but things are currently coming in thick 'n fast such that I haven't really had time to dwell. Which is probably a good thing.

I'm finding Win 7 a little sluggish, and have been trying to tweak it to the max to see if that improves matters. But I *am* running it on an extremely low power PC, which is hardly helping. Ubuntu was definitely snappier.