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A negative toy posting...
My nice new T42p was stolen by some loser at a PHP conference in Paris. It is amazingly inconvenient to lose a laptop like this. It was from inside the conference hall and there was virtually no non-geek traffic there. If a fellow geek actually stole my laptop from a PHP conference then there is something seriously wrong with the world. You can steal my car, my money, my shoes, I don't really care, but don't steal my damn laptop!
Now to determine what to replace it with. It took a while to get it configured nicely and I really don't have the time nor the energy to do that again. Perhaps a G4 Powerbook so I don't have to fiddle as much. Will be hard to give up that nice 1600x1200 Flexview display though.
My nice new T42p was stolen by some loser at a PHP conference in Paris. It is amazingly inconvenient to lose a laptop like this. It was from inside the conference hall and there was virtually no non-geek traffic there. If a fellow geek actually stole my laptop from a PHP conference then there is something seriously wrong with the world. You can steal my car, my money, my shoes, I don't really care, but don't steal my damn laptop!
Now to determine what to replace it with. It took a while to get it configured nicely and I really don't have the time nor the energy to do that again. Perhaps a G4 Powerbook so I don't have to fiddle as much. Will be hard to give up that nice 1600x1200 Flexview display though.
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Seems one of the creators of PHP got his nice shiny new laptop stolen at a PHP conference in Paris: My nice new T42p was stolen by some loser at a PHP conference in Paris.
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Sterling Hughes on :
Go powerbook! :)
At least then you can say "I owned one, and it sucked as much as I told you yours does." :)
Seriously, a Powerbook isn't a bad option. I don't find myself doing much "hacking" on my schlappy (lack of tools like valgrind is prohibitive, even if the mac does offer some equivalent garbage), but I don't really want to do that much work outside of the office anyway... I just want to check my email, read some news sites, purchase stuff and play music. The Mac is bar-none for all those things.
With that said, I did go a 8 month stretch doing all my coding (more than fulltime) on a Mac schlaptop... It wasn't "awesome," and I sorely missed stuff like valgrind (ssh + linux would've been the solution there, but still.) The terminals aren't nearly as good: hint, iTerm blows, and not in a good way... I use xterm for all my terminal needs these days, which is adequate. But what is nice, is unlike windows, I can do my work on it when I need to.
justin on :
C'mon folks - we've managed to make PHP the most popular language in the world, and made Linux the most popular development platform in the world - surely we could network together to find Rasmus's laptop. Just a thought...
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Mahangu on :
Seriously, if a geek took it, his root should be compromised, resulting in total data loss. :) I believe that what goes round, comes around..
Also, thanks for the excellent talk today. I certainly learnt a lot about php5, and what to expect in the coming versions.