[thechat] Suggestions?

Sat Dec 21 15:36:19 CST 2013

that's great news.

Good luck.

/elfur

On 21 December 2013 10:32, Martin Burns <martin at easyweb.co.uk> wrote:

> Oh, yeah, sorry. I've been super busy too.
>
> Story of 2012/2013 in very few words: spent last Autumn working with a
> team in Stockholm. Loved it more each time I went, and made a few good
> friends from the Lean/Agile community.
>
> Got dragged away from that to do work I hated for a customer I hated in a
> location I hated, so started to think about leaving IBM - also reckoned
> that after a decade, if I didn't leave soon, I never would. Changed to a
> better project but by then seed was sown of moving & started negotiating
> with a few options.
>
> And then IBM made me a redundancy offer - a good chunk of money to leave
> which I was trying to do already. Took the money & ran out of the door &
> took a local contracting role while I worked out what to do next. One of
> the previously discussing companies is based in Stockholm, & have a really
> fantastic role pretty much created for me - definitely not just a "fill a
> slot" one.
>
> So spent a week with family in October as a trial run to Stockholm - kids
> in school, riding the subway etc, house hunting. Family all agreed that we
> should move, with certain conditions agreed with them.
>
> So in January, we move lock, stock and kids to Sweden, and I start with
> Http://www.avegagroup.se
> As a Lean coach.
>
>
> Kind Regards/Med vänlig hälsning
> Martin Burns
> ___
>
> "If you are very strong, you also have to be very nice" - Pippi Långstrump
>
> > On 10 Dec 2013, at 02:10, Elfur Logadóttir <elfur at elfur.is> wrote:
> >
> > Martin's footer woke the giant ...
> >
> > "Kind Regards/Med vänlig hälsning"
> >
> > why are there Swedish words in your greetings, Martin?
> >
> > What have I been missing, being busy working ... ?
> >
> > /elfur
> >
> >
> >
> >> On 7 December 2013 10:17, Martin Burns <martin at easyweb.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'd agree with that (although I'm ex-IBM now). In 10 years constantly on
> >> the move with them, I never had a hardware related problem on a
> Thinkpad.
> >> Unless you're keen on a Mac, I'd recommend Lenovo every time.
> >>
> >> But yes, as always, wipe the vendor installed crap as soon as possible &
> >> replace with a clean Win/Linux image.
> >>
> >>
> >> Kind Regards/Med vänlig hälsning
> >> Martin Burns
> >> ___
> >>
> >> "If you are very strong, you also have to be very nice" - Pippi
> Långstrump
> >>
> >>> On 6 Dec 2013, at 18:02, erik mattheis <shockingelk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> After a lot of research and a budget of $2.5k or less last November, I
> >>> ended up with a Lenovo W530. I think it was $2.3k all told, including
> an
> >>> employee discount which is easy to find if you know someone who knows
> >>> someone who knows someone who works for IBM. My priorities were a great
> >>> screen, durability and better than average graphics card. I'm very
> happy
> >>> with my decision.
> >>>
> >>> Were I to do it again, I'd have done a clean Windows install as soon
> as I
> >>> got it as the vendor software has gotten in the way a few times. I was
> >> also
> >>> disappointed that it took over two weeks to get it when the shipping
> >>> estimate was 1 week. But overall, it was a good decision.
> >>>> On Dec 6, 2013 11:39 AM, "Luther, Ron" <Ron.Luther at hp.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi Gang,
> >>>>
> >>>> My home machine finally gave up the ghost this week.  She had been
> >> limping
> >>>> along for quite some time ... the sound card quit a long time back ...
> >> bsod
> >>>> once every month or two.  But now the hard drive boot seems to have
> gone
> >>>> completely pear-shaped ... soooo ... she's pretty much dead in the
> >> water.
> >>>>
> >>>> I have managed to wrangle a nice newish workstation.   (No no.
>  Really.
> >>>> She is one VERY sweet gizmo!  Shiny too!)   However ... she has a few
> >> ...
> >>>> "issues"; namely:
> >>>>      * She's a 'desktop' form factor, while everything else in the
> >>>> house (with the exception of my recently departed machine) is a
> laptop.
> >>>>      * She has no operating system whatsoever.
> >>>>      * Her BIOS is, most unfortunately, set up so that she can *only*
> >>>> boot from the hard drive.  You cannae point her to boot from CD-Rom or
> >> USB.
> >>>>      ;-(
> >>>>
> >>>> But hey!   Other than all that, she really is a crackerbox of a
> machine!
> >>>>
> >>>> <scratches head />
> >>>>
> >>>> Ummm, suggestions please?
> >>>>
> >>>> .
> >>>> .
> >>>> .
> >>>>
> >>>> BTW - I would especially appreciate workable ideas for how to make her
> >>>> "go" and do stuff!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> RonL.
> >>>>
> >>>> (So far the best suggestions have been --- "Why don't you go outside
> and
> >>>> have a nice run instead?" and "You know you really should spend more
> >> time
> >>>> playing your guitars!" --- which, while most encouraging, don't help
> me
> >>>> check FB or watch cute hedgehog videos.)
> >>>>
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Elfur Logadóttir
elfur at elfur.is
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