This is a self therapy rant:
I fell off a boat here Cairns, Australia about a week ago. The hard drive in my macbook failed while I was floating around Papua New Guinea. I was convinced that waiting a couple weeks would make everything easier. Hard drives in PNG cost about 300% what they should and I wasn't sure where to start looking for a copy of osx.
Australia had Sow Leopard for $39 and a 320GB drive for $125 but downloading xcode, backtrack 4, NeoOffice, all my MacPorts, Nessus, Wireshark, Metasploit on a 25KB/s connection makes my eyes bleed. To aggravate the Apple forces a login to ADC in order to download which often breaks the resume. I had to shell into my site5 account and use lynx do download it to my own web space before I could curl in down.
Snow Leopard doesn't suck. It comes with a *AMP stack capable of running Symfony 1.2 which is fine for me right now. I'm just afraid that I'm gonna have to recompile everything from macports when I need some apache mod that's not in there.
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