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J. David Blackstone has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering and nine years of experience at a wireless telecommunications company, where he learned Perl and never looked back. J. David has an advantage in that he works really hard, he has a passion for writing good software, and he knows many of the world's best Perl programmers.
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amichan, my beautiful blueberry ibook, has been in shock (there's a sad pun intended here with what I think was the initial cause of the trouble) since late last year, and been dead for about four months. Today I found out it would cost almost as much to fix as it would to get another blueberry ibook.
I shopped around used and refurbished stuff and came really close to bidding on a graphite ibook in ebay before I finally convinced myself I didn't want to deal with another refurbished computer. Refurbished equipment always worked out well for me before this one, and I may try again, but not right now. So, for about $1000 I have a new snow ibook headed my way, now. I decided at first that I might as well look at Intel laptops since practically all I do is run GNU/Linux, but I was aghast at the prices. I never realized what a good deal an ibook really was.
I'm officially no longer buying Apple for hardware; now I'm buying Apple for price. (Oh, okay, and maybe for GNU/Linux compatibility; Apple systems and peripherals are usually a less diffuse target to hit for free software developers.)
I guess everyone whose bought an ibook has had trouble, huh? But I guess the price will keep us around. Who'd've ever thought Apple would take the developer world by storm, and that they'd be winning on price?
I'm starting my master's thesis this fall. In mynew job (as of December), I'm having to commute to Dallas. I considered mass transportation but rejected it when I saw it would add at least a half hour to my daily commute. However, my plan now is to take the train and use the time to work on my thesis on the laptop. Instead of this removing thirty minutes from my day, mass transit actually adds the hour and a half I spend each day back in for research purposes. Shoot, I never get any time to read any more
Update: Incidentally, I will probably be ebaying the old dead laptop. Estimated repair costs were $332; someone might want to buy it and see if they can fix it, or use it for parts. If I do auction, I'll try to post here.
--Donald E. Knuth
Not everyone's had problems (Score:2, Informative)
I'd get the extended care warranty anyway, if you've got the choice. It gives a ni
Re:Not everyone's had problems (Score:2)
Thanks. I'm glad to hear there was at least one person who hasn't had to have his ibook repaired or scrapped!
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
masters and laptops` (Score:2)
I've seen way too many folks use MS Word and it goes wiggy (yes, that's a technical term
As for laptops, I just bought a Thinkpad 600e for about $440, it'll end up being around $50 after
Re:masters and laptops` (Score:2)
CVS I know well. :) LaTeX and I are not acquainted, and unfortunately as my school goes away from UNIX more and more (with a consequent decline in quality of education) professors who might have used it in the past seem to be disappearing. I'll definitely look into it, though.
They seem to provide an MS Word template for my thesis; I hope I don't have to use it, because whether I use LaTeX or not, I prefer to stick with free software as much as possible.
I had Word for Mac go wiggy on me a few years bac
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers