Re: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup]

[phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> for a bad back
>> an old laptop at work, that I use for writing notes at meetings
>> a cheap 14in laptop at home that I use most of the time there
>> a desktop at home that has largely been outdated, but which I will
>> probably put on some shelves so I have a stand up space at home also.
>> a netbook which I use when travelling because it fits between my stomach
>> and the plane/train seat in front.
>
> Sounds eerily similar to my situation (except that I use my home desktop
> regularly, and that the two home laptops are Thinkpads rather than
> cheap/netbook).


I used to but expensive laptops, but CPUs have got fast enough, now,
that the cheap ones are enough. And the expensive ones have gone all
SSD and I've eaten my way through every hard drive I've ever bought; so
the cheap ones are actually better.


>> I use unison and sync my file space.
>
> I prefer using DVCS to sync up my files.  Started doing that when CVS
> acquired its "remote access" functionality.

I tried that, but I dislike the explicit commit -- I move between
machines based on the rest of my life, not based on computing need. I
actually many of my DVCS working repos between machines; I might start a
feature on one machine, continue on another, then commit on a third.
Surprisingly this works, as most DVCS seem not to care which physical
machine they are on.

Phil