The Design and Implementation of laffer1

Caryn got a discount on an acedemic copy of VS.Net 2003. The cds are going to be shipped next week. That is so kewl. We are going to install it in VPC for the time being until i get my PC back.

Its the professional version with acedemic restrictions on use. Basically VB, C#, C++. Scary thing is i could probably use all three languages now. C# is a lot like Java only with subtle name changes. There are java to C# converters even.

I've been toying with getting a Pocket PC handheld. My first choice would be to get a laptop, but unless i find a good used one cheap i might as well hold out. I did see a nice one on ebay a few days ago. 200 bucks.. apple powerbook. It couldn't run OSX though. I do have a lot of classic apps still. It was like a 200 mhz or so. 10.1 might run with a processor upgrade. (only a 1.x gb hdd though) It had scsi, ethernet, 12 cdrom, floppy, etc.

My real eye is on one of the new iBooks. G4 with a radeon 9200 is NICE. Good gaming system right now. It would even run halo coming out this month for Mac.

Of course a 2.4 gig P4 laptop would be nice too. I could run FreeBSD 5.2 on that baby when it comes out. Linux emulation for ET and a dual boot of Windows XP Pro. I would need an onboard nvidia or ati card though to play games. Without gaming and wireless whats the point.

I like the alienware laptops on the PC front. There are a few centrino models lincluding a toshiba and compaq that are sweet too.

Even if i had the money today for a laptop, i'm not sure what i'd buy. I love Mac OS X, but FreeBSD is very sweet! its hard for me to pick between different BSD operating systems (except openbsd which sucks). I do have to say though that the founder of openbsd did great work on the netbsd sparc port in the past. If i had a sun machine, netbsd would probably be running on it. It makes solaris look like a toddler crawling to mommy compared to a formula 1 race car on I75.

Choices, choices.

I wish apple would stabalize the BSD subsystem in OSX. Software ports are behind and I can't get KDE on here anymore. Dual booting is not an option either (well maybe darwin). I'd want Netbsd or freebsd though.