> This is really bad that your laptop is dead.. > > but I personally always wonder how it can be that such over-qualified person > can't even earn enough money for a laptop?! I mean it's not a airplane... > I'm not a super hacker but I was able to get money to buy a pretty > PowerBook5,7 when I needed it... > > What's wrong with you guys?! :)
I am an OpenBSD developer, and I know Tobias. I have a pretty good grasp of how much time he spends on OpenBSD, as opposed to family life or other, non-computing, real life issues. Even though my area of work and Toby's are pretty orthogonal and we don't happen to talk much about code (because we are working on pretty different areas), I know he's a skilled person and his advice is always good to hear. So, even though his day job might be able to pay for a new laptop, I don't really care about this when he is asking for help getting a new one. I know what's he's being capable of, and - as far as I am concerned - this is more than I need to know to decide to jump in and give some help. Miod (who has a dayjob which allows him to afford a new laptop every few months, but nobody's making old iron based laptops anymore)
