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I'll list mine off in the order that I had them.
 
nVidia TNT2 RIVA64 32MB AGP
nVidia GeForce4 MX 4000 128MB AGP
3dfx VooDoo 3 3000 AGP 16MB
S3 ProSavageDDR iGPU
ATI Radeon X1650 Pro 256MB AGP (GDDR2 I think)
nVidia GeForce FX5200 128MB AGP
AMD Radeon HD 6570 1GB
ATI RAGE PRO 16MB? PCI (low-profile)
nVidia TNT2 RIVA64 32MB AGP
nVidia GeForce FX5200 128GB AGP

ATI Rage Pro 2MB
3dfx Interactive Voodoo 3 16MB
GeForce 2 Ti 64MB
S3 Savage 2000 64MB
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB
GeForce 8600 GT 256MB
GeForce4 MX 64MB

Java: eclipse 
Why? Its was suggested to me and now I'm used to it.
 
C++: visual studio 2010 or code::blocks
Why? No particular reason tried a few different free IDE's and code::blocks just 'felt' the best, then I started using VS2010 when I got it through my school's msdn thing.
 
Editing text/config files, web languages, scripting languages, or in general anything that doesn't benefit from a full IDE: sublimetext 2 
Why? I can easily make it do/look how I want on any platform. I mainly develop on OSX at work, test on linux and at home I use osx and windows.
 
Edit: @OP
You are talking about being able to compile c++/c in sublimetext (or similar text editor) correct?
If so sublimetext does support building/compiling to some extent (in short its just running shell commands). Look at  http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5219 or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13670064/sublime-text-2-build-system-for-c-programming-language . These should hopefully get you setup compiling from sublimetext.

To patch security vulnerabilities...
 
Probably not a good idea
 
If windows updates didn't play an important role than the end of XP support wouldn't be a big deal, but it is because security updates are important.

Heroes of Might and Magic III: SoD. Best game ever. Still playing it time to time.

To me it looks like you really should have 2 lists...

Take a look at screen or tmux.

I arrive at work at around 10, there's no strict time you need to be at work unless there's meeting or something. Read/reply to emails get some work done - everyone have tasks assigned through Pivotal or Jira have lunch Read/reply to emails get some work done daily stand-up - share with team in short what you are doing/problems/next tasks get some work done Of course there's meeting with clients in between. And I try to work at least one day a week from home.
 
There is a 4-5 people teams but you do stuff individually but we freely discuss problems, design decisions or whatever  with other team members or even with other teams. Sometimes we do pair programing 
No one is really just on one project, but something like 6 months to year could be average. After that there is support phase for fixing bugs and minor features. Some projects are with ongoing development. Finished project sometimes is really finished when the application is taken down or rewritten
I use Sublime Text as editor, Sourcetree for git, oh-my-zsh as shell - this is like for every day stuff. There a bunch of other stuff like SQL Developer for plsql stuff/SVN, SoapUI etc.
I'm on OSX as I'm a Ruby on Rails developer but could easily use linux too. Windows is real pain for RoR development. Servers are running Red Hat so you have to be familiar with Linux and forget about UI here. Anyway it's not like there is THE OS in this profession, one is better suited for one thing another for other.
Yeah, I like what I do. I wish there where no deadlines Another thing that I sometimes hate is (gu)estimations - don't be optimistic or this will bite you.
For practical skills it gives almost nothing. There was a lot of math witch I personally don't have much use for but this could depend on field you are going to work. There was some good course about programming concepts, networking, databases, hardware and some other that shows the big picture which imho was the most valuable. Some courses felt out dated. So imho it's worth for getting bigger picture about the industry.

this is because just like android they will be making money off of whats happening in the OS so they dont have to bank on making money of the OS itself
Its likly because with openGL they can sell the game on windows, OSX, Linux, and SteamOS. The more places they can sell games the more money they can make.

please note that OpenCL and OpenGL are fairly low level API's so their going to far harder and more time consuming to program in than DirectX or even Mantle.

Thank you!

because DirectX isnt just directX anymore its been merged into Direct3D and huge parts of windows 7 and now even win8's desktop runs on Direct3D. you know when you watch a video in windows guess whats likely rendering the video and in some cases the audio?

you have a great point with the work vs game PC I dont want two when my system can easily handle both sometime at the same time.

its not designed to foprce people to use windows its a api developed by microsoft for windows. Yes new features to new stuff that is how everything works, im not saying its ideal but that is how basically every thing we are sold work. With the new thing you buy you get all the new stuff. Im guessing you just dont want to pay for the update which doesnt make sense since they spent money making it. To go to win8 was $40 or even just $15 depending when you bought your PC. And 8.1 upgrade was free for all windows 8 users.

I'm honestly asking for some real-world experience here. 
 
Throughout my entire education, every programming class I have had has given very little insight into what it's actually like doing this kind of work in the real world.  All projects can mostly be done on an individual basis, students are required to use Microsoft Visual Studio, projects are relatively small, etc.  I was wondering if anyone here on these forums could share their experience working as a real Software Engineer. 
 
1)  What was your typical day like from start to finish?
2)  How often do you work in teams?  Individually?
3)  How big were your projects?  (i.e. On average, how long did it take you and your team to finish a project)
4)  What systems and/or IDEs did you use most?  Is Linux the go-to OS for this kind of career? 
5)  Do you honestly ENJOY your job?  Are there any practices that you wish were different in this field?
6)  Do you feel your degree was well worth the money?  (Really looking for people with a Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent)
 
I'm coming from a C/C++ background.  Please no html/css programmers; I have nothing against web development, the fields just seem VERY different to me.  My goal with this thread is to get a nice collection of personal experiences that I, and others, can read and get a good understanding of what this field may require when employed. 
 
Also, if anyone can link any videos that give good insight on this topic, I'd greatly appreciate it. 
 
Thanks!
 
P.S.  I only want experiences from people who make a living off of this.  No students who have worked as an intern doing coffee runs, and no self-taught programmers working on their own freelance projetcs.  I want to hear from people who are employed by a company.  I feel this is where most of the work is at in the real world (I may be wrong, feel free to correct me if this is not the case).

Usually don't pay much attention to linked-in news but as I'm from Latvia topic about neighbor country caught my eye. Really impressing how far Estonians have taken their e-services. We have some quite nice e-services here but theirs are totally different level.
 
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140128232020-162988-estonia-the-little-country-that-cloud

Usually don't pay much attention to linked-in news but as I'm from Latvia topic about neighbor country caught my eye. Really impressing how far Estonians have taken their e-services. We have some quite nice e-services here but theirs are totally different level.
 
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140128232020-162988-estonia-the-little-country-that-cloud

Usually don't pay much attention to linked-in news but as I'm from Latvia topic about neighbor country caught my eye. Really impressing how far Estonians have taken their e-services. We have some quite nice e-services here but theirs are totally different level.
 
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140128232020-162988-estonia-the-little-country-that-cloud