I'm on fire.

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Work laptop talks to the office fine — intraweb, email, shared drives, SSH. I'm all set for an exciting weekend of ... sitting on the couch at home in case shit breaks. No, no 3G to connect from the pub. I HOPE YOU HAVE A REALLY WONDERFUL WEEKEND OUT. Bah.

They've adopted the sort of security one would need when giving people a W*nd*ws laptop: it's so insanely locked down it won't even talk to things on the local network beyond grabbing DHCP and sending and receiving pings. When you're in the VPN, it doesn't do the pings either. Trusted client, but breaking it would be Wrong. And resemble effort.

Windows XP is so insanely, ridiculously fat and slow. Kubuntu is much nicer.

I'm glad my laptop battery wasn't recalled.