Last week was the first week I had to work with my home machine running Linux. While my work laptop is still running Windows 7, the integration between the two machines was very different.

I had been using synergy to share the mouse and keyboard between the work and personal computers. This has continued to work well, as synergy seems as well supported on Linux as it is on Windows. Normally, I would have one or two events where the mouse would get caught on the one machine or the other, and I would have to reboot my home machine to get it back. This hasn't happened, yet, with the current setup. Not that I would have work as hard to get control back, hosting the keyboard and mouse on the Linux box.

One problem I didn't expext to have to deal with support of my scanner.

Last year, I bouht a HP ScanJet Professional 3000. I have been very happy using the scanner, but there is no support at all for the device under Linux.

I started writing a post about coming to terms that I wanted to add something new to my free time. As part of putting that post together I revisited a few activities I had tried in the past or been thinking about trying. I now do not have a need to write that post; I found something to do.

About four years ago, after the end of an iteration of Myst, I had tried Eve Online. I only played 12 days of a 14 day trial before walking away from the game. I walked away mostly because of the bias I had brought about the game and things that had happened, both with the end of that iteration of Myst, and events that had happened meta around Eve.

When thinking about MMO, there were some things that I've thought should be available in the game: