I'm going to leave hardware out of this for the simple reason that given enough resources, as Paul Graham rightly said, we'd all want the fastest computer possi

I'm going to leave hardware out of this for the simple reason that given enough resources, as Paul Graham rightly said, we'd all want the fastest computer possible. - OS: ArchLinux 64-bit (personal), FreeBSD (servers) - Window Manager: awesome Awesome is a great window manager because it's lightweight, robust, and tiling. I can't even explain how much my workflow has improved since switching to a tiling window manager. Awesome is much less intimidating than xmonad, and uses Lua as the scripting interface. - Editors: vi for small edits, joe for bigger projects - Terminal: rxvt-unicode - As far as peripheral software, I use: lighttpd as my web server Ruby as my scripting language of choice nmap as my port scanner (RIP unicornscan) ncat as my netcat varient OpenOffice for reports (yuck!) - I prefer Xen to OpenVZ and VirtualBox to VMWare. - Oh, and I have an iPhone. - As a shameless plug, I also use http://sleepyti.me http://sleepyti.me every day to figure out when to go to sleep or what time to set my alarm.