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Techno'ed out

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Maybe it's all a bit too much, but is it?

I currently use:

A laptop with fedora (Heavyduty (for me!) computing, coding and writing)
A laptop with an ubuntu derivative (madbox) (experimentation with linux)
A laptop with a lean modded WinXP (communicating with the non-clued in world. Read: people who don't know what LaTeX and linux are, live in the past and deal with the painful M$hit word.)

A tablet with honeycomb and considering dual boot with ubuntu LXDE. (Heavyduty PDF reading)
A smartphone with Ice cream sandwich (Camera with panorama)
A smartphone with gingerbread (Alarm Clock with fancy tunes.)

At work:
A paleolithic machine with some ancient slow version of WinXP (good for pretty much nothing really, because its so slow and terrible).

I bet @paul has more devices (actually I would love to see your list, @paul. :)) and whatnots but what about you all?

149 words · edited Mar 9, 2012

💬 10 comments

  1. uncutsaniflush ·

    Here's I was thinkin that Buddy was talkin bout techno music, what a hoser, eh?

    I have:

    hexcore box Fedora 16 box that also has vmware images of Win98SE and WinXP.

    hp pentium 3.0 Mhz box that runs a modded PClinuxos. It's the box @leetee uses.

    G3 iBook with Arch PPC.

    eee 900A with Bodhi linux

    I also have some museum pieces: an original IMac, a Tandy, and a 900Mhz Compaq box.

    I have no smart phone. I have one of the last Nokia phones built for voice, the 6030.

    I was gifted a 6th gen (I think) Ipod nano that I don't really have any use for.

    It's not that I don't embrace new tech. I'm just a cheap bastard.

  2. paul ·

    I have one computer (linux fedora), one phone (android) and one tablet (ios).

  3. paul ·

    Oh wait I forgot the Dell 1950 server. Oh and in the tech graveyard I have the nexus one, the nokia n900 not phone, an old powerbook duo from the mid 90s and the old server.

  4. tinypliny ·

    LOL Both of you have more devices than I do so there is more scope for accumulation here. heh

    None of my machines is probably as powerful as some of yours (hexcore?! o_O what kind of rigors do you put it through? robotics and floating point computation? ) How much RAM do you have on your machines, e:uncut? I am especially curious about @leetee's box that runs PClinuxOS.

    And nexus one is my alarm clock. :)

  5. tinypliny ·

    you know, @paul, I thought you would totally have more!

  6. tinypliny ·

    Oh! And I forgot. I also have a non-smartphone Nokia phone somewhere in one of my drawers. I don't know the serial number but its not a smartphone - but you could go on some limited web browser if you had a data plan.

  7. tinypliny ·

    What seemed kind of unbelievable to me was that @paul and I had a nexus one at the same time! That blows my mind still. Of course, he has moved on to the finest and the greatest now! :)

  8. tinypliny ·

    Why don't you use your ipod nano? Isn't it a music player?? I thought you liked music?

    I have a beat up sansa. I kind of abused it so much, I first broke its clip, then I broke the headphones that came with it, then I bought and broke another pair of panasonic headphones for it, and then some of the screws that held together some other stuff on the sansa came loose and the micro-sd won't stay in anymore, its still holding on somewhat and I continue to beat it up. But yeah, its probably the most used device I have. I guess it should enter this list but it seems just so...you know commonplace and not very smart-web-like.

  9. uncutsaniflush ·

    @tinypliny - I do love music. When I listen to music, I listen to music. That's it. No multi-tasking or using using music as audio wallpaper. I'm old-fashioned. Other than listening to music sometimes when I'm doing computer stuff, I don't like listening to music when I am out in the real world. I find "music" in the sounds I experience as I go through my day.

    As to the hex-core, I know it's overkill. But I reckon it won't be obsolete for at least 6 months . It has 6 gb of ram. The pentium 4 3.0 mhz box that @leetee uses has 1.5 gb of ram.

  10. tinypliny ·

    man! that old madbox of mine is just 512mb, its terrible. They keep saying that some linux runs on low end machines but those flavors are just awful. if you have a low end machine, you are just out of luck. that's all.

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