Monday, 24 May 2010

That's It - I Give In

OK, that's it, I can't take being held hostage by IT support services anymore. The only pragmatic approach from now on is to circumvent the blockers and literally become self-sufficient.

On the weekend I decided to take control of my own destiny on the Masters degree project and bought myself a shiny new laptop. I opted for an Apple MacBook Pro, which should be meaty enough to tackle the Java simulations and indeed should have enough RAM to still be reasonably quick in 3 years time when I'll be nearing the end of my PhD.

Even with student discount Apple's cost an awful lot of money, but to be honest the laptop is priceless to me if it means I will be able to FINALLY get on and do some work. I've not been able to familiarise myself with Java, Java3D or Ruby in 3 weeks, so I am now in catch-up mode.

Game on!
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous26 May 2010 at 19:49

    This university you mention sounds horrendous ;-)

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  2. careerchanger27 May 2010 at 12:10

    No, the University itself is actually a very pleasant place to study and perform research. It's the underlying policy and procedure infrastructures that become tiring.

    Yes, in the context of my experiences with support to date, 'horrendous' is probably an appropriate word to use.

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