On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:41:35AM -0700, Bob Beck wrote: > 2009/11/12 Bob Beck <b...@ualberta.ca>: > > > Kind of, but I don't really think it's got a future. It's kind of like > > advocating necrophila with a fresh corpse.. or maybe just doing it > > with a really hot coma patient. It might be really good for a short > > time but you know there isn't much potential there for a long term > > relationship. > > Or at least that is, unless you're into the old, messy, and unnatural. > We have people like that..
As a coder I like using a sparc64 (Ultra 5) as my primary machine at home. Running at 400MHz w/ 256MB RAM makes compile time and bloat very apparent. Writing to work on big endian as well as little endian, 64 bit as well as 32 bit, helps me do fewer stupid things. Doing sysadmin for my own little purposes I run amd64 or i386 in production. Weighing price/performance/power/whatever it's the best choice. Depending on what other software you need you may have to rule out even amd64 (or live with pain). The necro analogy is funny, but there's a time and place for these machines. Production machines are not it. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
