Firewall in my router.

Anti-Virus is bloat-ware crap. I have never run anit-virus longer than two days and I've never had a virus. Just be careful what you open and don't use file sharing programs. If I really need something bad, I hop on IRC and get a secure FTP transfer from people NOT in a channel where "warez" is part of the name.

That said;

GIMP
Firefox
Audacity
PuTTy
FileZilla
Winamp Pro

Pretty standard stuff for an old Interweb warrior.

deceptively simple but true. I also have never had a problem with virsuses by following the same basic rules

emacs!

Windows XP
Explorer
MS Office

photoshop is the do it all graphics program. have to know my way around avid and maya for work. bt never touch them unless a directors making me.

anybody have a copy of windows 2000, or 98 they'd be willing to part with? i live in an entirely mac environment. but need a PC operating system if i'm ever going to install the power commander on my bike.

MS Outlook
MS Office Word
MS Excel
Adobe Photoshop CS
Adobe Reader
Macromedia Dreamweaver
FTP Voyager
Kinnexus 3.2 - Realtor Software
Roxio Videowave 7 - DVD Builder
Norton
Spybot
Various software for some of my hardware (Scanner, Printer, Camera, Phone)

besides MS Office Apps and the usual Firefox, etc.
....

ArcInfo, ArcView, etc. - GIS software
Campbell - datalogger software
Systat or other - statistics software

those are the really essential things

Way too much of my computer and my time is spent maintianing and protecting said computer.

I used to run the hp BASIC software - which was absolutely amazing for a programming language and environment, but I "graduated" to not doing so much hands on research.

other than what installs with OS X:

Final Cut Pro
Aperture (v2 just came out)
Logic 8
Transmit (ftp)
Photoshop CS3
Flip4Mac
Adium (multi chat client)
Handbrake
Tubesock
TextWrangler

nostatic,

I am curious, why do you use both Aperature and Photoshop CS3? Do you use each of them for different things?

t.

Bloatware? You must only receive email from really smart people as well. Avast is worth it's weight in gold. The only time I ever know it's there is when it notifies me that it updated or in the rare cases where it finds something.

This can't be possible. We're told here all the time that there's nothing a pc can do that a mac can't do, and do it better.