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Today I upgraded from my two 19" LCDs to 24" BenQ LCD panels. (Independently, Timo also picked a BENQ monitor too!) A nice addition to my desk.
I was fully prepared to do a bunch of xorg.conf hacking to get them working, so was a little bit surprised to boot my system after plugging them in, and everything "just worked".
The BENQ's are amazingly bright - I've turned the brightness all the way down to 0, and still the photos turned up completely washed out.
Six years ago, I was living down in California and I remember Dad sending me a clipping from the Oregonian about this new "Open Source Development Labs" starting up in Beaverton. Working on Open Source sounded like a dream job to me.
I remember my first day vividly. I rang the front bell and waited. There were only 6 employees (I was lucky employee #7): a handful of sysadmins and a manager. Christine came, opened the door to let me in, and the manager handed me an access card. Policy was fairly minimal. "Pick a cube, set up your computer yourself. Install whatever you want, as long as it's Linux." The floor had space for about 40 people, but it was almost entirely empty. There was a computer lab attached; the main occupation of all the employees was putting computers into the lab.
Today's my last day at the Open Source Development Labs (now called Linux Foundation).
I'll be starting in about a week and a half with Canonical to become Ubuntu's Xorg maintainer.
Here's some Halloween photos from last year.
Last year I got this blow up spider that everyone that came really loved, so this year I decided to do one better and make a web for him.
And no, the frighteningly messy garage is not intended to be part of the scare. ;-)
