My Desk

My desk at work. Which merely confirms my suspicion that I’m a hardware hoarder. First off, there’s a Dell Optiplex GX260 (2.4 GHz P4, 1 GB of RAM, Intel 82845G graphics controller), running Windows XP SP2 …

Then there’s a Dell Optiplex GX 270 with dual head monitors (2.8 GHz P4, 512 Mb of RAM, nVidia GeForce FX 5200 graphics controller), that’s running Red Hat Enterprise Linux …

Then there’s my own iBook (PowerPC G4 processor, 512 MB of RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 graphics controller), running OS X 10.4.4 ‘natch, sometimes seen lurking and up to no good with my 3rd generation iPod …

There’s also a docking station for my Dell Latitude something-or-other laptop. Does all this hardware make me a bad person?

Another Piece Of Bloggage By Gary

Self professed "geek with a life", geo-blogger, geo-talker and geo-tweeter, Gary works in London and Berlin as Director of the Places Registry for Nokia; he's a co-founder of WhereCamp EU, the chair of w3gconf and sits on the W3C POI Working Group and the UK Location User Group. A contributor to the Mapstraction mapping API, Gary speaks and presents at a wide range of conferences and events including Where 2.0, State of the Map, AGI GeoCommunity, Geo-Loco, Social-Loco, GeoMob, the BCS GeoSpatial SG and LocBiz. Writing as regularly as possible on location, place, maps and other facets of geography, Gary blogs at www.vicchi.org and tweets as @vicchi.

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