Ask HN: What do you use?

    I have a beefy workstation at home with 24" + 22" screens that I now 
    primarily use for resource intensive gaming that require a good GPU, 
    or ASM reverse engineering. The extra pixels really help keep 
    different aspects of the ASM available for a quick reference when 
    looking around.

    Next to that workstation, I have a dual quad core Xeon PowerEdge 
    server with Debian for serving up my side projects, and experimenting 
    with new languages & various web, load balancing, and DB servers. The 
    Linux server is connected to a 4TB RAID5 NAS for backups of the 
    server, my workstation, and my media files. I also have torrentflux 
    setup on Debian to download torrents to the NAS. All of this is 
    connected to a 30/30 FiOS connection with a gigabit switch for the 
    internal network so its a decent setup for production side projects 
    and backups.

    Until last month I was using a 15" i5 MBPro with 6GB of ram, and an 
    SSD for my day-to-day needs and development, but the weight was 
    starting to get to me. So following the recommendations a few weeks 
    ago in a HN thread about development laptops, I purchased a Lenovo 
    X201 for my day-to-day needs. I dual-boot between Windows 7 (for ASM 
    work, and other work that I need Windows for) and Ubuntu 10.10 (main 
    OS, sysadmin work, development work). For anyone else considering a 
    X201, do it! It's a great setup, the screen resolution is not a 
    problem at all (coming from someone who went to a hi-res 15" MBP from 
    a 13" for the screen resolution upgrade) and 10.10 worked flawlessly 
    out of the box.

    On Windows, I use InType for my texteditor, combined with ExpanDrive 
    for remote editing.

    On Ubuntu, I use Scribes as my primary texteditor, vim when working 
    in command line. No need for ExpanDrive in Ubuntu as Nautilus 
    supports SSH bookmarks. Tilda is a great utility if you need to be 
    able to pull up a Terminal window quickly, similar to Visor in OS X. 
    "Gnome Do" to replace Spotlight from OS X

I'm a developer and a Computer Engineering student at the public university in Uruguay.

What hardware am I using?

* 15.6 HP G62 laptop (Core i3 / 4 GB ram / 320 GB 7200 disk / around 3.30 hs battery life)

* OS: Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit + Xmonad with Gnome integration

* Emacs / Chrome / Dropbox / Gmail / Google Docs / google reader / Flickr / Python / Ipython / Amazon S3

For music:

* Sennheiser MX470 / Sennheiser HD 212

* I've used to use Amarok, but I switched to Rythmbox just for simplicity

For photograhpy:

* Sony DSC-H3 (my old legacy camera, I didn't have budget to buy a new one right now)

* Shotwell + Digikam editor

Phone: iPhone 3G

What Is My Dream Setup?

* A Lightweight laptop with the quality of Mac's but cheaper and with hardware 100% supported by Linux.

* A DSLR camera, just mid-sized to learn more about photgraphy.

* A nice Bang & Olufsen headphones + speakers.

* Two 24" monitors

Hardware: a 13-inch Macbook Pro MX Revolution Wireless Mouse Post-it Notes Regular iPod earbuds. I don't let myself enjoy music too much.

Software: Mind Node OoVoo Adium X Microsoft Office 2007 Google Chrome OS: Mac OS X (SOLID) On Bootcamp: Windows XP Pro SP3

I'm just a freshman at UCSD

    Code monkey that runs a modest software sweatshop in Orange County, CA
    and is constantly scheming startups.

    27" iMac i7 w/ 16GB ram
        - Best Mac I've ever owned, hands down.

    2.66GHz Quad-core Mac Pro w/ 8GB ram w/ 20" Cinema Display
        - Surprisingly don't use this much
          ever since I got my iMac. Mostly for testing third party hardware
          like videos cards, etc with what I'm working on.
     
    Dell Precision T3500 Xeon 2.4 GHz w/ 4GB ram
        - My guinea pig machine for random shit
        - Various Linux distros (FreeBSD, Ubuntu, and testing of new 
          builds of various)

    Asus Rampage Gene III 3.06GHz i7 w/ 6GB ram & AMD Radeon HD5830
        - Prototype hardware for a project I'm working on, picked for it's
          north/south bridges and socket.

    Tons...On Mac-native I use a ton of terminal/vi, Smultron, Xcode suite, 
    CS5 suite, and various others. VMWare and Parallels both...Some projects
    only work in either/or, plus I just genuinely can't make up my mind.
    Cyberduck for ftp. I use MAMP Pro to control a self-updated version of
    my web services (apache, php, etc)

    Don't know if you care, but of course I use all the normal command line
    programs any nerd does...and for repos I prefer SVN only cause I used
    CVS (don't hate on me yo) but I use git, hg, etc daily and love them
    as well. Ultimately I'd be happy if everyone would just pick ONE.
    I wouldn't care which cause they all have their strengths..
    
    Browser I use Safari for casual, Firefox for primary development
    (Firebug > Webkit Inspector) and I've got a verion of Chromium that
    a buddy of mine and I made some cool changes to, but I haven't used it
    recently cause it was forked from such an old trunk.

    Web apps I use gmail (for all my mail), google docs, and mobileme.
    Probably some various others from time to time.

    I used to have a Macbook Pro that got ruined in an apartment flood
    6 months ago, so I've been thinking about replacing it with one of
    those new 11" Macbook Airs. So sexy.

    I'm actually working on my true dream setup as a startup.  We've
    only recently begun so it's a little self-absorbed to report much
    more then that: http://mythologylabs.com

    Like jesusabdullah said, almost limitless internet would be great
    for a bajillion reasons.