Oh. Don't get me started ranting about those bikes. Have you ever tried doing field repairs on a faired bike while your 25KM from the nearest populated area? :P Even the spark-plugs are a bi**h to remove/replace. Still, for the Suzuki brand, I really like the Suzuki Bandit 650 ... unfortunately, Suzuki parts are hard to come by in the Philippines and ordering it outside is very-very expensive. Honda parts are really common here and Honda bikes are fast but Yamaha's have more power (generally speaking) which is more important since I'm not a medium built person.
Oh, I had to sell my Yamaha XJR last year (my grandfather got cancer) and I settled on just using a china knock-off 150cc scooter. Now imagine me, 5'9" and around 185lbs driving a 150cc scooter for 75KM per day. Hehehe. I had to return the bike to the shop for repairs after 15 working days because I got it to 1,000KM and it just plain died on me. Hahahaha. Btw, I'm currently using a Lenovo T61 with Vista Ultimate but this was really a replacement for my HP-Compaq NC6400. Oh man, that laptop is not for application development. Why, ... it's like this. Our system runs the following softwares so I had to install it on my laptop: 1. MS-SQL Server 2. IIS 3. Visual Studio .NET 2005 4. J 601 So, when I start debugging, I normally do the following: 1. Load visual studio and the project that I need to debug. 2. Load the Application 3. Attached visual studio to the application that I loaded. 4. Put a stop in the source code. 5. Run the application to the break point. 6. Code will go through all of the following: a. IIS b. Request data from MS-SQL c. Run J 7. I start stepping through C# / ASPX / J code then BANG! Everything freezes. For the longest time, our supplier keep returning my machine saying that its fine. So I asked all 3 of their support people to meet at their office and I showed them how to crash their laptop. You know what's funny? They gave me another one and the same thing happened. After that, although we didn't change supplier, but we're now using DELL and I'm stuck with a Lenovo (both brands passed the BANG! Test). I did try to convince the office to provide me with a 64bit machine then just asked if I can get a Mac. No go. So when my wife told me that I can spend 2,000USD on a new (pre-owned) bike after she took pity on me on my dinky scooter ... I'm thinking of getting a MacOSX. Wow. I already wrote that much? I guess Im not busy today. It's the chat forum anyways. :P -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gauthier Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 10:29 PM To: 'Chat forum' Subject: RE: [Jchat] 64bit Mac Laptops What about a suzuki GS500F or Katana 600 ? ;O) Nice list... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Rufon Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 2:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Jchat] 64bit Mac Laptops Hello guys, As a major purchase this year, I'm choosing between (sorted by level of priority): 1. Mac Book Pro 2. Yamaha XJR 400cc 3. Honda CB400 Super 4 version S Since I'll definitely be using J on it, I been mucking around the Apple website trying to find out how much a 64bit machine would cost. All I got is that MacOSX supports 64bit cpu's and all the blah-blah. So, is there really no 64bit Mac laptops right now? Thanks. r/Alex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
