{"id":2073,"date":"2008-06-12T08:28:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T15:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2008-06-12T08:28:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T15:28:41","slug":"myarsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2008\/06\/12\/myarsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"My Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Flickr kids&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/code.flickr.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/29\/trickr-or-humanising-the-developers-part-1\/\">lead<\/a>, Rafe took a few minutes to detail <a href=\"http:\/\/rc3.org\/2008\/06\/11\/how-i-roll\/\">his toolkit<\/a>. Which I enjoyed, and immediately decided to copy. <\/p>\n<h2>Hardware<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sun Ultra 20, 30 Inch Dell LCD (Screencasting\/Testing\/VMWare)<\/li>\n<li>Mac Mini, 17 inch Princeton LCD (Mac stuff)<\/li>\n<li>Lenovo X300 (everything else)<\/li>\n<li>iPhone (makes every other phone I&#8217;ve owned look like a piece of crap)\n<li>\n<li>Amazon S3 (backup)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Operating Systems<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Image only: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Gentoo, Fedora, OpenSolaris<\/li>\n<li>OS X (testing)<\/li>\n<li>Ubuntu (primary)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Software<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bibble Lite (RAW image processing)\n<li>\n<li>Emacs (writing) &#8211; I use the &#8220;pretty&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/peadrop.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/pretty-emacs-reloaded\/\">build<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Firefox 3 (duh)\n<li>\n<li>Gmail (work and play)\n<li>\n<li>Google Reader (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nyuhuhuu\/2285836576\/\">Prism<\/a>)\n<li>\n<li>GNOME Do (more addictive than crack, only 5% less than nicotine)\n<li>\n<li>GNOME Terminal (works)<\/li>\n<li>htop (great machine process visualizer)\n<li>\n<li>Jungledisk (backup interface to S3)<\/li>\n<li>Pidgin (what Adium is based on, for you Mac people)<\/li>\n<li>Twhirl (shiny)<\/li>\n<li>Tomboy (I can&#8217;t quit you, Tomboy)<\/li>\n<li>WordPress (work, play, and everything in between)<\/li>\n<li>VirtualBox (On the laptop)<\/li>\n<li>VMWare Workstation (On the&#8230;you guessed it&#8230;workstation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A couple of related questions I get frequently:<\/p>\n<p><b>Q<\/b>: What do you use for offline mail reading?<br \/>\n<b>A<\/b>: Nothing. I no longer use Evolution or Thunderbird, and haven&#8217;t used an offline mail client for at least two years. <\/p>\n<p><b>Q<\/b>: Why don&#8217;t you use OS X?<br \/>\n<b>A<\/b>: One, because it doesn&#8217;t work the way that I want to. Two, because it doesn&#8217;t have a package management system equal to that found on Linux. Three, because many of the applications I need to test are Linux based. Four, because I like having flexibility in my hardware. <\/p>\n<p> But as always, to each their own. <\/p>\n<p><b>Q<\/b>: Do you really use your iPhone as your iPod? What about the space?<br \/>\n<b>A<\/b>: It&#8217;s something of a surprise to me, because I do. I owned a 30GB Video iPod prior to getting my iPhone, and I&#8217;ve since divested myself of the device b\/c I can&#8217;t be bothered to keep two devices charged. It&#8217;s amazing how nice it is to have your music with you everywhere, as well, because while I always have my phone, I only brought my iPod along sporadically. <\/p>\n<p>As for the space, I&#8217;ve never had an iPod big enough for my music collection, so operating off of a subset of my music hasn&#8217;t proven to be a problem. I&#8217;ve still got 2 of the 8 GBs free, in fact. <\/p>\n<p><b>Q<\/b>: You like the Lenovo X300?<br \/>\n<b>A<\/b>: You can take it from me when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Flickr kids&#8217; lead, Rafe took a few minutes to detail his toolkit. Which I enjoyed, and immediately decided to copy. 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