ECN Forum Forums Technical Discussion Re: Computers and the Internet What computer programs do you use??

Here I go:

At home:
-a bad screen notebook with other screen,
-adsl,
-windasxp
-Messenger 6.2
-cam, headset

In the office
-P4 2,8 Ghz, 224 MB RAM
-any printer I can attach (see HP printer topic)
-Maxtor hdd
-SiS 650.... Acer screen LCD
-Infrared usb,
-WindasXP
-J2 (fax, etc)
-callserve, xpro voip
-Wifi, adsl
-Office 2003
-Messenger 6.2
-Norton AV (I'm not proud of it)
And I use synchronization with my T68i mobile phone to synch my notebook when I'm at home.

Mike (Trumpy),

Thanks for reviving this Thread!
Completely forgot about its existence!

Man, things have sure changed Big-Time since 03/2001 and 10/2004! (more than just Computers, too!).

Scott35

This is a quite interesting thread.

Here's my list. I suppose it is a bit different from a few of the others, but then I do a lot of software development.

Main system:
Sun Blade 100
UltraSPARC II cpu 500MHz
2GB RAM
2*120GB disks
Built-in frame buffer driving 20" trinitron CRT
LaserJet 4p printer
OS: Solaris 9
Applications/software used:
bash textutils, vi, TeX, and all the normal UNIX stuff.
JBoss
Oracle 9i
MySQL
Apache 1.3 and Apache 2.0
Perl 5.8
gcc 2.9.5 and 3.3
Java 1.4.2
Hercules (emulates IBM S/390 mainframe for testing apps and writing PL/I.)
Bochs (emulates Intel PC for running DOS and OS/2 apps that I still support)
Mozilla 1.7
Opera 5 (mainly for testing)
WingZ spreadsheet
OpenOffice.


Hi-Fi system (in living room):
iMac Graphite wired up to big Sony TV and home-brew things.
400MHz G3
512MB RAM.
OSX 10.3.5
iTunes, iPhoto etc.
mail.app
Safari browser
OSX DVD player
RealPlayer
Audio Hijack
iPhoto
Photoshop 7.0
Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional
Quark xPress 6.0
Adobe Illustrator CS 11
Adobe GoLive

The home-brew things are a titchy FM transmitter so that in the house I can tune in some of the old valve radios into iTunes, and a stereo amp.


Laptop 1.
IBM ThinkPad 760
128Mb RAM
linux SuSE 7.3
MySQL
Perl 5.8
GCC 2.9.5
Apache 1.3


Laptop 2.
Compaq EVON1015 Athlon CPU. Not sure of speed; think it is 1.7ghz. 256 MB.
Windows 2000
CygWin to run normal GNU tools, vi, etc.
MS Visual Studio 6.0
iTunes for Windows
Realplayer
LoadRunner VU-Gen.
(I don't use this one very much because I think Windows is slow and it doesn't work, so there's not much on there.)


Laptop 3.
iBook G4 12.1" 1GHz
512MB
Same software as per the Mac in the living room above
Also MySQL,
Aqua Data Studio,
Perforce 4,
xCode,
X-11
Microsoft RDC
Apogee)X Client
VNC client
(this computer is joined to me at the hip and goes everywhere with me)

There is also an old 133MHz Pentium computer which runs SuSE Linux and acts only as a NAT firewall/router to the ADSL connection.

In work they provide me with a pair of twin CPU G4 macs each with a 20" sony monitor and a 17" apple flat paned display, for coding, and a G5 mac with single display for benchtesting. Really amazing systems, those G5s :-)

Jooles - nice, very nice list of 'required equipment'
At work:
Hardware: AMD XP2400 cpu, 1 gig of DDR memory, 2 - 60 gig Seagate drives in a RAID0 configuration, DVD reader, CD burner, zip drive, a couple of USB hard drives, and a 21" Viewsonic monitor, Soundblaster Audigy card pushes the tunes out to a Boston Acoustics 2 speaker + subwoofer sound system.
Software:
Certin/TRF Estimating System for the heavy estimating. Excel spreadsheets for simple bids and things like panel schedules with load calcs, fixture takeoffs on multi-story buildings, tracking changeorders on jobs, timesheets. Scanlink for downloading and generating reports from copper/fiber testers. Word for writing proposals and the like. AutoCAD 14 and 2000i for doing design work, modifying files for shop drawings, detail drawings, and asbuilts (errrr 'record drawings') LYNX Digital Photo Management software to organize and store the several thousand photos taken on various jobsites, prebid meetings, vacations, etc. Netscape is / was my primary browser and email, but I'm really liking my test run of Mozilla Firefox, and I'm going to try the Thunderbird email program they have.
Protection Software: Kapersky Anti-Virus, Agnitum Outpost Firewall (with Blocklist plugin), Agnitum Tauscan Trojan Scanner, Pest-Patrol (spyware scanner),Adaware (spyware scanner), Cookie Pal, Ad-Subtract.

XP-Home OS, and all accessory apps within.

WordProcessor/Spreadsheet: Open Office

Basic drawing: MS Paint (and CAD).

Photos: PhotoStudio (came with my scanner).