Linux Desktop Trial
The disk on my WinXP laptop crashed for the second time this year. The new disk that crashed was a Samsung MP0603H 2.5″ 60GB HDD that I bought in mid 2005. It started making clicking noises after about 90 days, and I ignored this since, after all, it was a new drive. This morning, however, MS Outlook started getting flaky so I rebooted. Then the disk wouldn’t spin up anymore. Dead dead dead. Samsung MP0603H 2.5″ 60GB HDD: DO NOT BUY ONE OF THESE! Now I get to learn how good the manufacturer’s warranty is.
So now I’m running on a backup Linux (Fedora 4) laptop. Given that this is my 3rd disk crash this year, I’m going to try keeping all of my email online in a gmail account and to use Yahoo for my calendar. So far I’m very pleased with Gmail’s ability to handle multiple email accounts; you can set it up so that nobody needs to know you are using gmail.
May 1st, 2006 at 5:35 am
Dude,
Get get a 17″ Dual Core MacBook Pro. You can dual boot into Windows or OS X or you can just run Mac OS X full time with Parallels …
I think its high time that Chris Maeda returns to his NeXTSTEP roots ala Mac OS X. Oh by the way, your fellow CMU pal Avie Tevanian retired a few weeks ago.