It takes some...
• caffeine [lots]
• daydreamer's attitude
• goodwill, obstination
• anarchy, discipline
• passion, patience
• ergonomic biomorphic chairs
• sleepless nights
• few to no girls around
• culture, ethics
• memory, memories
• design, taste
• meticulousness [in excess]
• humour, anger
• hectic lazyness
• playful irreverence
• wording creativity
• a dropout diploma
• electrical power [plenty]
• messiest home offices ever
Some hardware
• AMD, Intel, Motorola CPUs
• Asus, Gigabyte motherboards
• Matrox, ATI, NVIDIA graphics cards
• Sony, LaCie, LG, Samsung displays
• Maxtor, Hitachi, LaCie hard drives
• TEAC, Pioneer, LG optical drives
• Sony, Kodak DVRs and cameras
• ZyXEL, USR, AtlantisLand modems
• Umax, HP, Epson scanners
• Logitech, Wacom input devices
• HP, Epson, Canon printers
• Sony speakers and microphones
• Sun Cobalt server appliances
• APC uninterruptible power supplies
Distributed Computing
• Seti@home > zorg
• Folding@home > zorg |
Some software
• SuSE Linux, Red Hat Linux, Debian GNU
• MS Windows 2008 Server
• MS Windows Vista Business
• MS Windows 2000 & XP Professional
• MS Windows Small Business Server 2003
• Mac OS, Mac OS X
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Macromedia Studio MX
• CorelDraw Graphics Suite
• Illuminatus Opus Pro
• Multimedia ToolBook
• VirtualDub, Premiere, Pinnacle
• World Construction Set
• Vista Pro, MapRender3D
• 3D GameStudio
• Blender 3D, POV-Ray
• Apache, MySQL, PHP
• Java2, Bind, Qmail
• Dreamweaver, HomeSite
• HoTMetaL Pro, Quanta Plus
• Eudora Pro, Pegasus Mail
• MS Outlook, Outlook Express
• Pine, NeoMail, SquirrelMail
• Mozilla Firefox, MS Internet Explorer
• Netscape Navigator, Opera, Safari
• F-Secure SSH Client, Putty
• WinSCP, WS_FTP Pro
• LimeWire Pro, GetRight, mIRC
• OpenOffice.org, MS Office XP/2003/2007
• FileMaker Pro Developer
• Ghostscript, Adobe Acrobat
• Acronis TrueImage, Backup Magic
• Nero Burning Rom, Toast Titanium
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus, eTrust EZ Antivirus
• McAfee SpamKiller, SpamAssassin
• Zone Labs ZoneAlarm
• ACDSee, WinZip, Beyond Compare
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