Gawd, I miss Linux!

I'm here in a new workplace. The work is okay, so far (going on one and a half months now). Got several machines to tinker with. Oh, I do get to fuddle with Linux (Red Hat and Suse Enterprise, with Centos, Fedora Core, and Debian thrown in the mix), but not as full-time as before.

So, in one of my Windows boxes, I got me:

• Bash for Windows;


• Wget for Windows; and


• of course, Vim for Windows

I.T. policies are not that strict when it comes to what we can install in our machines, but there are obligatory software, on top of the only supported OS (Windows 2000 Professional and XP Professional) -- Outlook, for one. I have yet to find a way to get Thunderbird to authenticate via the company's Active Directory.

I've installed several open source software. Scintilla text editor works great (they prefer UltraEdit), but I miss the command line so Vim was it. I'll be doing lots of IM so I got me Gaim for Windows -- what better way to integrate all those protocols (I have accounts in AIM, Yahoo!, GTalk and MSN). Too bad, there's no integration for Skype yet. Of course, there's the ever trustworthy Firefox. FileZilla is in the mix, too, and so is Ethereal.

Now, I'm a bit more comfy in my cube. Back to my reading...