Damien MillerInterview
Open-source developer (OpenSSH, OpenBSD)
Adapted from Damien Miller's interview on Uses This, published 11 July 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 ↗
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Personal desktop: A recent beige-box Intel Core-i7 desktop system with some Intel SSD drives, a large amount of RAM and a Dell 30" wide-gamut monitor.
Both my desktops have IBM M-series keyboards and Logitech mice attached.
Work laptop: An aging MacBook Pro (~2008), that I mostly for work while travelling.
Personal laptop: A Lenovo x61s that I had upgraded with a SSD and maxed-out RAM.
I have an old QNap NAS that I use to back up my photos to and a small Commell LE-575 headless network computer running OpenBSD as my firewall.
Camera: A Nikon D800 DSLR and more lenses than I probably should have bought.
AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED+ 2 others
Mostly I use Nikon's 24-70 f/2.8G which, while heavy, is a practical, versatile and optically excellent lens.
If I'm intending to shoot a portrait then I usually use Nikon's 85mm f/1.4D, which can be both painterly and sharp.
AF NIKKOR 28mm f/2.8D+ 1 other
If I'm indulging in street photography, then I reach for my Nikon's 28mm f/2.8D.
Communication
Productivity
Browser
Personal laptop: Much like my work desktop, but OpenBSD as the operating system and Mozilla Firefox as the web browser (it's a bit more stable than Google Chromium on OpenBSD).
Notes
a conference paper) I'll usually use LaTeX.
Security
Coding & Development
In the terminal window, I edit code with Vim and usually have a bunch of ssh sessions open.