Who I am: Computational physics grad student, former scientific startup employee Hardware: - Home: 6 core AMD desktop, 23" + 15" screens, really old Happy Hac

Who I am: Computational physics grad student, former scientific startup employee Hardware: - Home: 6 core AMD desktop, 23" + 15" screens, really old Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite - Office: 4 core Intel desktop, 8 core Ubuntu server, 48 core server being built - In between: Asus EeePC 900 netbook with 12GB of flash storage - An n node cluster on EC2 (n <= 250) Software: - All machines running some form of Ubuntu except Fedora servers on EC2 - Firefox and Chromium - Thunderbird + Gmail IMAP + university IMAP - Editor: gedit with lots of plugins, nano for small edits - Pidgin and Empathy for XMPP with Google Talk - Gwibber for Twitter - Texmaker for LaTeX (or gedit) - mercurial - Dropbox - Mendeley to manage citations/Bibtex locally and online - Ipython + Numpy/Scipy + Matplotlib - Inkscape for figures and making plots look nice - Bitbucket for private projects, Google Code for open source - Lightning (Google calendar inside Thunderbird) - Google docs - Lots of physics software.