I've been a GNU/Linux user for quite some time now, but it wasn't until 2 years ago that I became a fulltime user. Being a .NET and Oracle developer by day working for the Department of Education of NYC, I had a standard developer environment at my desk and nothing else. That means that I could not install anything else on my system, due to some extremelly archaic policies put in place by the employer (I couldn't even search for information online and was told I should do it from home and bring the results to work the next day!!!), but that's material for a different post. The one way I work around the limitations was by using some of those portable applications that can run off a thumbdrive, and for 2 years I was an avid user of Portable Firefox. I also used to save some of my code in that same thumbdrive so that I could work on it from home after hours (yeah, no remote access either). After a while, keeping bookmarks, code and files in sync between my Windows system at work and my G More
2010-09-12