First day at CacheLogic
Well, now I’m working for CacheLogic — and a very interesting first day it was too! It’s odd having a proper job, I get an entry card for the building and an office key and all strange things like that, not to mention a telephone with a direct-dial number, and my own desk!!!
And the root password for my computer. ‘Install anything you like on it’ they said. So I did. Not entirely happy with the working environment, there are all kinds of little tweaks I’ve done to my home GNOME system over the time since GNOME 2.0 came out (which was the last time I had a fresh config), and I’m sure from work I’ll find more tweaks I can do to my home system as well. I just wish I could find a way to completely remove all traces of that nasty Bluecurve icon set (it’s a DeadRat box) — most of it’s gone, but the foot menu is still a red fedora and looks very silly next to the default GNOME icons! I’m actually quite tempted to download Ximian Desktop 2.0, but I don’t think that would be a particularly good use of the company’s 20 megabit/second Internet connection.
They do pay for volume, after all. So I satisfied myself with Evolution 1.4, and am considering Mozilla Firebird since I couldn’t get Galeon 1.3 to work (probably needs a new Mozilla RPM as well I would think, I hate RPMs!!!)
Still, I got to write some useful Perl today, and have lots more to write tomorrow. Good thing we’ve got the entire set of O’Reilly books in printed and electronic form really.