Re: Laptop death...

2007-08-01 Thread bofh
On 8/1/07, Floor Terra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you asking why someone who spends so much time helping others > (probably you too, you use OpenBSD right?) does not get a "real" job?! Really, the question comes down to: Should a core openbsd hacker have to pay for the machine they do openb

Re: Laptop death...

2007-08-01 Thread Floor Terra
Are you asking why someone who spends so much time helping others (probably you too, you use OpenBSD right?) does not get a "real" job?! Floor Terra On 1-aug-2007, at 23:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is really bad that your laptop is dead.. but I personally always wonder how it can be t

Re: Laptop death...

2007-08-01 Thread Diana Eichert
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Miod Vallat wrote: SNIP 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) I should go out in the garage, oops it's not built yet, and make you a nice "portable" wood case for a Plextor. :-) T

Re: Laptop death...

2007-08-01 Thread Miod Vallat
> 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 ne

Re: Laptop death...

2007-08-01 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Thursday, August 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This is really bad that your laptop is dead.. It is unfortunate that it happened now. The timing sucks. > but I personally always wonder how it can be that such over-qualified person > can't even earn enough damn money for a laptop?! I mean it

Re: Laptop death...

2007-08-01 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 12:59:03AM +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 damn money for a laptop?! I mean it's not a > airplane... I'm not a super hac

Re: Laptop death...

2007-08-01 Thread yakov . zaytsev
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...

Re: Laptop death...

2007-08-01 Thread yakov . zaytsev
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 damn 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

Re: Laptop death...

2007-08-01 Thread Mike Erdely
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 06:57:53PM +0100, The King of Norway wrote: > Apologies for reviving an old post. If anyone is interested, there's a > discussion on this topic at the OpenBSD Journal. > http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070727210751 Thanks for all of the donations! We've gotte

Re: Laptop death...

2007-08-01 Thread Jack J. Woehr
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Re: Laptop death...

2007-08-01 Thread The King of Norway
Apologies for reviving an old post. If anyone is interested, there's a discussion on this topic at the OpenBSD Journal. http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070727210751 The article includes Paypal details. Sean. Tobias Weingartner wrote: Hi all, I hate doing this, but I'm in a tiny