work management

thefreecountry.com has an extensive collection of free tools, in particular, a page of free programmers' editors and IDEs

here's an article from the Wall Street Journal on note-taking tools, a topic of much interest and some frustration to me

The University of Chicago CS department has good concise how-to docs for Linux management, including multiboot, how to make a CD, how to do wireless. One especially worthwhile suggestion: «Always have a small (suggest 2GB) FAT partition, to act as intermediary if you want to transfer data from one OS to another (Not all OS's read all file systems, but most OS's understand FAT-12,16 and 32).» Note that thefreecountry.com (above) has partition editors so that one can (supposedly) change partition sizes after the fact.