Setting Up a Home Dev/Testing Environment? 136
An anonymous reader writes "I'm a Project Manager (hold the remarks) who recently decided that I want/need to get my dev skills more up-to-date, as more projects are looking for their PM's to be hands-on with the development. Looking around my house, I have quite the collection of older (read: real old — it's been a while) PCs — it's pretty much a PC graveyard. Nothing that would really help me set up a nice dev infrastructure for developing web/database apps. So, my question is as follows: Should I buy a number of cheaper PC's, or should I buy one monster machine and leverage (pick your favorite) virtual machine technology?"
Solution (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What do you call old (Score:1, Funny)
Jeez, you must not do much of anything at all. I have a 2 GHz Celeron at work. The latency on that thing is sometimes horrible. Especially when Firefox forces X.org to eat up CPU time when viewing complex pages. Especially when the product you sell is a web site with complex custom reports.
Vim and XMonad make a very nice pair. Still, I hate having to wait for Vim to exit Insert mode on Escs. Worse yet, the lag is intermittent. Very frustrating.