My laptop’s Airport (wifi) is kind of flakey. It reports a good connection and gets a proper IP from DHCP, but then stops being able to talk to the rest of the network. I’m able to keep using it because while it’s at my desk I can plug it into the wired network.
But the laptop is still covered by AppleCare, at least for the next 60 days. So I should bring it in to get it fixed soon. But I can’t leave it at Apple because every day it’s away from me is a day I can’t work. So before I can take it in, I have to figure out how to do my work from my old Linux box, or if that doesn’t work, where to borrow a Mac to work on.
Let’s see, to do my work on a Linux computer, I’d need the following things that I don’t currently have:
- speakers (I think I have some around, I’ve just never configured them)
- microphone (I’ve never installed one on Linux, that could be tricky)
- Skype
- Dropbox
- Chrome
- Remote Desktop Client (if such a thing exists and works)
- VirtualBox and a Windows environment (which might take care of the Remote Desktop Client)
That will probably be enough to get me going. But it’s obviously not as nice as having my own MacBookPro, or even a loaner machine that I’ve cloned my TimeMachine backup onto.