[geeks] Now what am I supposed to do with this?

Big Endian bigendian at mac.com
Mon Apr 8 13:22:31 CDT 2002


>Hrmmm.
>
>My IBM DeathStar 75 hard drive died on me a while back, and the Airborne
>Express guy just dropped off my replacement drive.  While the drive has
>been gone, my PC has been sitting around dead, and I've finalized leaving
>my previous job, which means I have an Ultra 10 and an Octane here.

MP3s on the U10?  75 gigs is nothing to sneeze at, even if it is IDE.

>Aside from playing games and vegging with the TV tuner card, I really
>don't miss the PC.  I do all my word-processing in XEmacs/LaTeX and all my
>coding against MIPSpro or gcc.

How hard is doing word processing in LaTeX?  For those of us used to 
things like Claris/Appleworks?

>I think my PC just became obsolete.  This sort-of bothers me, and I don't
>know why.

I've been trying to make my PC obsolete for 2 years now, I'm almost there.

daniel
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