stolen laptop

richard childers / kg6hac fscked at pacbell.net
Sat May 22 17:02:10 PDT 2004


I strongly recommend resisting the urge to buy the latest and greatest 
laptop, and, instead, to buy two (or more!) identical laptops, slightly 
slower, slightly less resolution, but much cheaper, per unit, as well.

This strategy of redundancy, along with some data replication 
mechanisms, can do a lot to buffer the pain that one feels when 
something like this happens.

And it doesn't need to be stolen for this to happen; it could get a 
drink spilled on it, or be dropped. They are fragile things.

One does not need a GHz CPU to run UNIX; just the opposite. And older 
machines are better supported, more stable. It's only an issue of you're 
doing development and need to compile kernel-sized programs in less than 
a few minutes, IMHO ... and at that point, you're better off logging 
into some Big Iron, anyway, so your work is backed up.


My sympathies ...

Regards,

-- richard


Dan Langille wrote:

>It's just so sickening. It gets me right in the gut.
>
>My laptop was stolen from my car today over lunch. It was an IBM 
>ThinkPad T22 (serial 786NKZP).
>
>It wasn't just the hardware. There was a notebook with it too. And 
>two wireless nics (Orinoco Gold and Silver), a PCMCIA modem, plus a 
>Linksys PCM100 10/100 Integrated PC Card. That's what sucks. It's the 
>little pieces.
>
>Ugh.
>  
>

-- 

Richard Childers / Senior Engineer
Daemonized Networking Services
945 Taraval Street, #105
San Francisco, CA 94116 USA
[011.]1.415.759.5571
http://www.daemonized.com

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