Post #104,401
6/1/03 3:10:04 PM
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No powerbook for me
Well, nevermind. I would have loved to get one, but the truth of the matter is that I don't qualify for a loan right now, and I can *afford* to get a PC notebook that does everything I need for much, much less.
A Compaq Presario 2100 with an AMD XPM 2400 processor, a 15" SXGA screen and 1 gig of memory, and a 60 gig harddrive costs $1600... and I already have the software I need to put on it. A similarly tricked out Powerbook runs about $4500, or thereabouts. Sure, the powerbook would be a billion times cooler, especially the one with the 17" screen... *drool*... but it's too damned expensive.
Oh well...
"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"
- Edward Young
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Post #104,412
6/1/03 5:35:33 PM
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Sorry to hear that
Tom Sinclair
"Man, I love it when the complete absence of a plan comes together."
- [link|http://radio.weblogs.com/0104634/|Ernie the Attorney]
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Post #104,427
6/1/03 7:59:56 PM
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Re: No powerbook for me
Anyone who would spend $5000 on a laptop is either Todd, or out of his mind.
-drl
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Post #104,428
6/1/03 8:13:45 PM
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ICLRPD
Anyone who would spend $5000 on a laptop is either Todd, or out of his mind.
Peter
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Post #104,640
6/3/03 1:11:17 PM
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I spent about $3k
Item # Product # Product Description Qty Price Ext Price
______ ____________ ______________________________ ____ ________ __________
000010 Z07C01L4S PBG4 15.2/1GHZ/1024/60/SD/AP/L 1 3,099.00 3,099.00
With the following configuration:
Processor 065-3935 1GHz G4 w/1MB L3
Memory 065-4035 1GB SDRAM - 2 DIMMs
Hard Drive 065-3932 60GB Hard Drive
Optical Drive 065-3937 Super Drive
Country Kit 065-3928 Country Kit/Airport
Keyboard/Mac OS Language 065-3929 Keyboard/Mac OS
"One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination
of their C programs."
-- Robert Firth
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Post #104,910
6/4/03 10:02:54 PM
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That's still high
That' getting up there to 12" Meade LX-200 range.
-drl
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Post #105,003
6/5/03 1:22:08 PM
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Well worth the price
to keep Apple in business and compete with the WINTEL market and keep at least one person away from buying a Microsoft product. Right?
"If you're going to cheat, cheat fair. If there's anything I hate it's a crooked crook!" -Moe Howard
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Post #105,017
6/5/03 2:38:46 PM
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Well, I WANT one! but..
..I want a telescope more.
-drl
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Post #105,041
6/5/03 4:45:22 PM
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Make a wishlist
of all the things you want but cannot buy. That is what I used to do before I gave up wishing. I gave up wishing because I lost my income and couldn't possibly buy anything I wanted.
But as soon as I win the lottery.... Nah!
"If you're going to cheat, cheat fair. If there's anything I hate it's a crooked crook!" -Moe Howard
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Post #105,076
6/5/03 10:54:36 PM
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Re: Make a wishlist
Oh Norm, you have an income. If you had no income you'd be an outgo.
Anyway, computer jobs in infrastructure combined with programming skills, social skills, and integration skills will be in demand - esp. Samba knowledge. So hop to it.
A very strange thing has happened. The local machine is so powerful that we now have a server-client environment, in which this one crippled overpriced machine dominates an array of pitiful handmedowns. My shit is all new. IBM x225 which is very busy, and spends a minimal amount of time on my "clients", which are Thinkpads and NetVistas - let them print, let them share. I am busy. It's got this cool green SuSE sticker. SMP TOP is the very bomb. My network is shaping up. UNIX is winning, but I want my users to use, so they get Windows XP - and it is nice for them. They have 40g local storage and I am going to leverage this somehow for a traditional function. I have no faith in LVMs, this is a case by case thing.
More stores are going in, off to KC for the next leg of my 1-man w/lan.
Don't forget about the social skills.
-drl
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Post #105,187
6/6/03 9:42:26 PM
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Social Skills
Maybe you forgot, I am a typical computer geek with hardly any social skills at all. I keep to myself and only talk to other people when it involves work. I don't schmooz around to win brownie points or bootlick like most people do. Basically this irritates people and they form alliances against me, labeling me as antisocial because I don't go to happy hour with them and get drunk on Fridays after work.
I get stressed out too easy, especially when overworked or on a tight deadline or given a project and minimual information on what it is supposed to do. I freeze up, take my time, and get lost easily when stressed out.
I have an income, no job, disability which pays peanuts and my wife's salary. I spent the last six months without an income. It isn't much, so no wish list. Not unless I save up over years for it, or end up going back to work.
"If you're going to cheat, cheat fair. If there's anything I hate it's a crooked crook!" -Moe Howard
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Post #105,240
6/7/03 12:40:39 PM
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Re: Social Skills
That's why you have to work harder at it. You can go out into the world and interact with them. That's how you learn.
As for saving - a buddy in Denver lived in his van for 9 years before buying a house - with cash. He made about 12 bucks an hour as a guard. He was phenomenally cheap but to a good purpose, and was otherwise a good guy.
-drl
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Post #106,353
6/17/03 3:39:21 PM
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Typical computer geeks and such...
I am a typical computer geek with hardly any social skills at all. I keep to myself and only talk to other people when it involves work. I don't schmooz around to win brownie points or bootlick like most people do. Norman, I am an "a"typical computer geek. I am social and outgoing. I definately do not schmooz or bootlick, but I try like hell to make friends in the workplace. I have to spend more time at work than at home (minus the sleeping) so I try to enjoy the workplace. It's much easier to form friendships if you can find common ground with folks at work. If you share an interest in playing guitars or golf or watching bad tv, it's not necessarily schmoozing to talk to people. When you get your next position, try it. You have an opportunity to reinvent the "work you" each time you get a new job. Why not bring an outgoing Norman to your next position. Try it out, if it don't work, then go back to keeping to yourself. Just a few thoughts,
Screamer
But take your time, think a lot,
Why, think of everything you've got.
For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.
Y. Islam - Father and Son
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Post #104,546
6/2/03 2:23:25 PM
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Look again
[link|http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa|http://store.apple.c...ts/AppleStore.woa]
15" for $1,999, 12" for $1,599.
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Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
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Post #104,576
6/2/03 7:57:00 PM
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Apple just dropped prices
[link|http://news.com.com/2100-1044_3-1012074.html|http://news.com.com/...44_3-1012074.html]
They dropped prices by hundreds of dollars on some Powerbooks.
"If you're going to cheat, cheat fair. If there's anything I hate it's a crooked crook!" -Moe Howard
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