Just thought of something to discuss on a friday ;)
What kernels are you running at work/home? And what patches did you apply to it?
At work, I'm running Con Kolivas patchset to 2.4 (http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ ) as well on my mini itx at home.
I was running 2.5/6 for a while with andrew morton's patchset and felt that I was being too far on the bleedin' edge ;)
C