Andy BakunInterview
UNIX systems administrator
Adapted from Andy Bakun's interview on Uses This, published 20 August 2013. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
At home, it's a Dell UltraSharp U3011, which is a fantastic monitor.
I also run a Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24" in portrait orientation at home.
Performance Mouse MX+ 9 others
For input, use the Logitech Performance MX wireless mouse and I own three Compaq 104-key keyboards, one each for work and home, and a spare.
For looking up 80s trivia, settling bets while watching TV, and playing games against friends and family, I have a Nexus 7.
There's also an iPad and a Kindle Fire floating around the house.
Communication
For instant messaging, I use Psi.
Productivity
I leverage puppet pretty heavily to bulk manage the servers at work.
Browser
Notes
I also regularly use it to attempt to manage my schedule, for on-the-go note-taking and idea capturing, and reading ebooks.
Coding & Development
For terminal multiplexing on remote machines, I use tmux, often connecting to the same sessions in multiple windows.
Since many of the computers and files I'm working on are remote, either elsewhere in the house or elsewhere in the country, I use vim to edit files.
However, for larger projects where I need to study code and browse code bases, which isn't nearly as often as I'd like these days, I warming up to Sublime Text, but old vim habits die hard.
Media
Storage
Other
Red Hat Enterprise Desktop+ 3 others
I personally prefer Redhat/rpm-based distributions for personal stuff.