Comments | joshbrown: A quick update

joshbrown

A quick update

Jun 18, 2011 07:02

For those of you who may not know this, but for the longest time, I have been having problems with my computer. Finally, my friend (and the guy I bought it from) Yehuda King took it back and said he would fix it. Well, a month ago, he was sent by the American State Department (he works for them as the IT guy in the Jerusalem embassyconsulate.) to ( Read more... )

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kmelion June 15 2011, 16:34:43 UTC

Does he at least have renter's/home owner's insurance that will cover your loss?

siliconshaman June 15 2011, 18:17:12 UTC

Hmm... I.T guy who works for US state department gets his storage area broken into and one of the things stolen is a computer... yeah, want to bet that someone is about to regret that pretty quickly. Assuming that it's just a random thief and not targeted.

shmuelisms June 15 2011, 23:20:12 UTC

Ouch! Sorry to hear about that, Yehuda.

Who's doing the shopping, you or Yehuda?
I also need a new box, and am presently SO out of touch with current HW that I'm just stuck on the choices. I know I want a machine strong enough to do serious SW development on.

Based on recent work-experience, I think I want something as powerful as the "Intel i5 2500" for a CPU. But what about the rest of the shit?

Are you coming for Shabbat, dude?