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One might venture to ask, “Hey Karel, so what did you get out of today’s Novell seminar other than a T-shirt, a notepad, a pen, a demo CD and some pastries for breakfast?”

I’m so glad one asked. Novell’s latest version of ZENworks would make my job much more manageable, if not easier. The features I need are inventory, remote control and the ever-lovin’ application distribution. I can distribute apps now with the ZENworks 2 Starter Pack, but that version is no longer supported and has some serious flaws that I’ve been working around for years now.

The bad news is that I could never convince my local bosses to buy ZENworks for Desktops 3.2 or 4.0 when it comes out. The good news is that my boss at Corporate has been asking me about my opinions of ZENworks. Maybe I could lean on him a bit and make one of my dreams come true…

After hours and hours and hours of satisfying prerequisites and debugging compile errors, KDE 3.0.1 is sort-of installed on my Linux workstation at the office.

I’ll wait a while before tackling the rest of it. The base package took over an hour to compile, and I’d like to enjoy the use of my computer for a while before starting another huge session like that one.

If I had anything else of interest to post today, I would. Sorry. It was a Monday at the office, which means lots of small tedious uninteresting jobs that I won’t bore you with the telling of.

How to prove that a die-hard geek has turned into a devoted family man: Look at his Palm Pilot and see a grocery-list program installed.

We’re going to try out HandyShopper to see if it makes our grocery trips a little less chaotic. I’m sure Wendi is rolling her eyes at the prospect of using geek toys at the store, but I figure it beats spending a lot of time asking ourselves, “Now what is it we’re forgetting?”