I’ve just finished setting up my older powerbook over the weekend. I bought it over 3 years ago and it is still running solid. With Tiger installed, it seems to run as good as ever. If I had to upgrade any part, it would be the hard drive. installed darwinports, ruby, perl, pugs, sbcl, various C++ and Java libraries. Xcode2 seems to be faster than the previous version and I’m might get the hang of programming in it. Eclipse runs like a dog which is unfortunate because I wanted to try it out a lot more.

Right now I’m trying out some of the boost libraries which lets me do wicked cool stuff like:

std::for_each(v.begin(), v.end(), std::cout << _1);

I want to find out how they got the _1 to appear as a anonymous variable.