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by jayphelps 5696 days ago
Who am I?

    Code monkey that runs a modest software sweatshop in Orange County, CA
    and is constantly scheming startups.
What Hardware Am I Using?

    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.
And what software?

    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.
What Is My Dream Setup?

    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.