Well I figured since everybody else is doing it, why not hop on the bandwagon. These are my tools of the trade: Hardware 2009 Apple MacBook Pro 13" running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. I got this not too long ago, and it completed my operating system trilogy. Dell Inspiron 6400 running Ubuntu 9.04. My lifeblood in university and still a solid laptop. Custom Intel Core 2 Quad desktop w/ 8 GB DDR2 RAM and EVGA nVIDIA 295 GTX video card running Windows …
You thought this would be some epic post? Well maybe later. For now, just some xkcd. Everybody hates the fact that Windows can't seem to estimate file transfers at even remotely well, and finally somebody has made it into something funny. Estimation
Speaking of git, you can get it on Windows, using msysgit. It works pretty well, in that I haven't had any problems with it, except some minor line ending things. msysgit Getting Started with Git and GitHub on Windows - Kyle Cordes
Who actually uses notepad anymore? Notepad++ is pretty much the bomb, so use it instead. .:: NOTEPAD++ ::.