My Tools (circa 2010)

Time capsule

This page is preserved from around 2010 and reflects the hardware and software I used at that time. It has not been updated. Consider it a snapshot of a working setup from a different era.

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Hardware

My daily driver was a Lenovo ThinkPad X301 with an SSD and extended battery -- a proper workhorse that really came alive once you installed the latest Ubuntu and hacked in better TrackPoint drivers. TrackPoint, good keyboard, high resolution, and a laptop that could take a beating were the main criteria.

I mostly worked on-site at clients, where various client-owned PCs sat at the different offices.

I also made heavy use of my own servers in a dedicated server room at Forskningsparken (the Oslo research park). The one I used the most was a Sun x4600 with 2 CPU boards and iSCSI SAN.

At home: 5--6 laptops (mostly ThinkPads, plus some EeePCs), Mac Minis as servers and HTPCs, and 24"+ screens at minimum full HD resolution.

Networking: built-in 3G in the laptop to avoid juggling WLAN configurations. WLAN/3G only as fallback.

Mobile: a Samsung Omnia HD at the time -- aging even then, but the battery life kept me from switching. Badly missed a better OS and keyboard.

Software

A heavy open-source user. As a developer, I always had a large collection of Apache-licensed tools in the toolbox. The one critical piece of commercial software: IntelliJ IDEA as my IDE.