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The following section collects all geek informations, sometimes referred as a value to measure all activities of a computer scientist.
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I had many computers in my place in Milan, the most powerful of them was the less used. It was calypso, by which I watched television or listened to some music through a 5.1 surround equipment, more than enough for my 40 square-meter studio.
My most used computer was sweetdream, the laptop. She (yes it was a "she") was a GNU/Linux Debian-fluxbox-desktop-environment computer.
Another unused machine was my HP715-100 Parisc, RISC cpu and a completely useless HP-UX 10.20 installed on it.
All bits come from the outside through a 24h ADSL at 1200kbs by Tin.it Internet Provider.
When I found a job to pay the rest of my studies and my stupid vices as smoking a cigarette or go out for a drink without asking money to my parents, I realized that it was the time for changing my philosophy about open/closed source code and hardware stuff so i did it! I bought a wonderful Macbook Intel, falling in the pleasant trap of Apple.
What about the Software
Learning GNU/Linux as user then as administrator allowed me to understand all the backgrounds of simple computer tasks as downloading a website or writing an email or grabbing some pieces of movies from the tv-card. Sometimes I loved playing with another operating system, "Call of duty" :-).
When I was younger (and I can add crazy) I loved to surf with fluxbox, a very primitive desktop manager. Then with xfce4, then gnome, sometimes with kde.
When my macbook was already on my desk, i discarded all of that shit and concentrated on more conceptual stuff, leaving all the "hey-my-desktop-is-more-primitive-than-yours"-competitions.
I’m sorry not to write about all other vicissitudes, such as how i configured my emacs editor in lisp or how i spent my weekends compiling my own kernel to have a surveillance webcam that streamed on the Internet when i was at school.
Bad times!
But now everything is over. I’m happy with my macbook and with all one-click-and-do-whatever-you-want applications 
(once I understood them deeply, I’m happier to use now).