I have a new setup, and I am liking it very much.

My main workspace is the 27" in landscape and the 22" in portrait. I have an older iPad that I use mostly as my music controller. My work laptop is on the right. I use it for meetings, remoting into it when needed.

Floating up on the upper right, is a 2015 iMac, which I picked up from the Oregon State surplus store. It replaced a 2012 Mac mini (the lime green box on the shelves behind my desk).

I moved my monitor stand up onto a short shelf on the desktop. It allowed me to hang the portrait monitor in a lower position. It also gave me more room for tucking small items and a place to put a light source, so I can see my keyboard in the darkened room.

I’ve been using the Keyboardio Atreus with my Macs, for the past few years. I really, really like them. They feel good to type on and my wrists are happier.

Most of the time I work on a Mac, but I do have a PC that I need to use. Usually, I’ll use it remotely, via Microsoft’s RDP app. But, sometimes, I’m over at my PC workstation and I really miss having that same key layout. So, I’ve purchased another Atreus from Keyboardio and set it up on my work PC.

The website claims that, out of the box, it works on Mac, Windows and Linux. Which it did, except one thing. I could not login. I was pressing the Control and the Alt and the Backspace key. Nothing happened. I opened up Chrysalis, the GUI configuration tool, and checked the key assignments. All looked good. Eventually, I figured it out.

I’m posting this as a reminder to myself, and in case anyone else runs into this same issue.

To send the Control-Alt-Delete command at login, you have to ALSO hold down the FUN key. The Fun key changes the Backspace key from "Backspace" to "Delete”. Subtle.

As I’ve mentioned before, our network at NAYA is busy. Dealing with network issues is one of our biggest headaches.

The students are doing their quarterly standards-testing. And once again, network traffic looks like it might be an issue.

This article, UNIX network performance analysis, came over Twitter as I was scarfing some gumbo between troubleshooting sessions.

Some good, basic tips for analyzing your network.

I also found a podcast, The Root Cause, which talks about system admin issues. I’m loading it up on my iPod shuffle. I’ll let you know how it goes.