<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Remind me and I will bring it. <div><br></div><div>You can borrow it until you figure out what you want to do.</div><div><br></div><div>Don.</div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 13, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Cameron Adamez wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><blockquote type="cite">What is the primary use? Are you the type of Mac user that likes to pull<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">up<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">a terminal window and poke at things or do you just want the standard<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">application and are happy?<br></blockquote><br>Well, I have two modes for myself - work mode and etc mode. My previous<br>laptop (an iBook G3 that went horribly awry after the backlight died) was<br>used for web dev projects, so I used Coda and terminal windows. In fact,<br>Coda works really well on a G3 because I constantly harassed Tim at Panic<br>Inc about the bugs and he ironed them out for me :) So while most of the<br>time I'm poking at things in the terminal, I also like to be lazy<br>occasionally and watch Doctor Who. The only Mac program I really need is<br>Photoshop, and I guess I could use Gimp... :/<br>A side note - I'm really used to the Mac's IME, Kotoeri, so while I was<br>contemplating having the laptop run Debian (which I've used before),<br>Gentoo, or FreeBSD, I would need to figure out how you use their IME.<br><br>I wonder what else my Intel "discount" is good for...<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">I will loan you my g3 if you are just needing something now.<br></blockquote><br>Actually, if any of you don't mind parting with your laptop for an hour or<br>so at the next Dorkbot meeting, that would help. I need to update my site<br>and the library computers don't run SSH. (Job-hunting time.)<br><br>Camo<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list<br><a href="mailto:dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org">dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org</a><br><a href="http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber">http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>