[Gllug] Programmer Wanted (scripter and compiler)

[Peter Corlett]

On 29 Apr 2009, at 12:18, Nix wrote:
> [...] I've spent fifteen years using the 'get an almost-obsolete  
> system, there's a huge markdown' philosophy,

It's a bit different from 1994, mind. RAM and disk space was small and  
expensive and CPUs were not featureful. These days, a gig of RAM costs  
less than a round of drinks, disk space is infinite for most purposes,  
and you have to go out of your way to not end up with a multi-core 64  
bit processor.

> and this time I looked at the top-of-the-line stuff too and it  
> wasn't terribly much more expensive, probably because the executive  
> fodder is all laptops now.

When I spotted a quad-core CPU, board and 8GB of RAM for £300, it was  
an easy purchase. Runs Debian like the proverbial off a shovel. I've  
still managed to push it into swap with some rather dodgy code, mind :)


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