http://www.eweek.com/it-management/deloitte-cio-says-it-should-be-cool-and-a-key-part-of-company-culture.html

Good article to point management to when IT gets the cold shoulder. Deloitte is a well respected business consulting firm.

http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/tropico-5-citybuilding-sim-to-release-alongside-steam-machines.3400

Lots of big name games are finding a place in the Linux world. Steam is really doing a lot to promote Linux-based gaming.

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/novena/

The former kit-only open source laptop is now something that you can buy!

http://www.zdnet.com/latest-ngnix-web-server-release-supports-spdy-protocol-7000027996/

NGNIX’s next release is out and the commercial add on includes the SPDY protocol! This is a major boost both for end users looking to host more efficiently as well as for the SPDY protocol as it looks for support to help get it established.

How inexpensive are we talking? Also, how hard would it be to move it to another location? About the same as a flat-screen TV? Now I kind of want one for homeschool...

It only has to last until my contract is up on June 14th.

Lol, yeah, that was my thought too Bill. I don't know that I would have done any troubleshooting at all on a brand new machine that should be working perfectly straight out of the box. I get indignant when new things don't work as they should!

I was a lazy poster, I meant that fingerprint readers give the perception of being extreme and big-brother, especially when it seems that certain people are being singled out to use them, while others are not required to do so. We have been talking about getting a fingerprint scanner lock for the front door for years. It would be so much easier than giving people keys to your house, and is much more James Bond than a combo lock.

Could you hear the hard drive spinning when you powered it on, or was it a SSD? I might have plugged in an external monitor to make sure it wasn't a screen issue and tried new RAM if available, but other than that, no ideas. Annoying that you now have to wait for them to send you a new one.

Clocking in and out is so problematic. The number of times that I've forgotten to do one or the other at jobs where it was required... I haven't had to do this in years, though. Finger print scanners seem pretty extreme, especially when only a fraction of the people in the company are required to use them.

My phone still only charges while it's powered off. Not ideal, but at least it's charging.

The batteries on the black box are only meant to last for 30 days, so there's a very good chance that if the plane is really in the Indian Ocean somewhere, it's never going to be found. They have less than a week to find the flight data recorder via the beacon it emits.

@chad-k Some Like It Hot is definitely on Netflix Instant, though. I LOVE that movie. One of my all-time favorites. So freaking funny.

I've tried different cables and adapters, all genuine Apple, and all had the same result. Tonight when I plugged my phone in after it died, it did not turn on by itself, so I'm taking that as a positive sign.

@tfl I've not heard that joke before, thanks for the link. I was chuckling to myself, imagining Hyacinth Bouquet reading that letter.

It was suspiciously close to the iOS update. I'm wondering if there was a firmware update or something that could have affected the charging port. A time-bombed manufacturing process really wouldn't surprise me though. We did have close to 10 broken 2-year-old Android HTC phones of the same model sent to my sister, one after the other.

I installed the latest iOS update on my phone, and about a week later, it started not recognizing any wall chargers, and turning off before it was fully discharged. I plugged it into my computer and it charged, so I thought it was just being quirky. I erased it and restored it and there was no change, so I lived with it being annoying, but then last night, I got an error when I plugged it into my laptop that the phone was malfunctioning and the computer couldn't recognize it, and the phone wouldn't charge. Yay. We plugged it into the PS3, and it charged about halfway, then wouldn't charge anymore. At this point, I was ready to dropkick the damn thing, but before I did something rash, Scott found a thread on the Apple support forum where people were talking about this problem, and a few people said that turning off the phone, then plugging it in, then turning it off again resulted in the phone charging. So I tried it, and when I woke up this morning, the phone was charged. Hopefully the issue is resolved.

@lance Here you go:
http://thenourishinghome.com/2012/04/our-favorite-almond-flour-chocolate-chip-cookies-gf/

@lance No matter what recipe you use, make sure you cream the butter and sugars until it's lighter in color and consistency similar to buttercream frosting. I always ha flat, crunchy cookies until I learned this.

Strawberries and cream scones