Amon Tobin - Bricolage
Ninja Cuts - Funkungfusion
PJ Harvey - 4-Track Demos
Nirvana - Bleach
Kid Koala - Some Of My Best Friends Are DJ's
Beck - One Foot in the Grave
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Acme
Calexico - The Black Light
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
Lo Recordings Vol 1-4:
  • Vol. 1: Extreme Possibilities
  • Vol. 2: Collaborations
  • Vol. 3: United Mutations
  • Vol. 4: Further Mutations
DJ Food - Kaleidoscope
Flavornaughts - My Inbred Pedigree Chums

Amon Tobin
Nirvana
PJ Harvey
Calexico
DJ Shadow
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Kid Koala
Bonobo
DJ Food

Three books of Neal Stephenson:

Vurt - Jeff Noon

The Cuckoo's Egg:
Tracking A Spy Through The Maze Of Computer Espionage - Cliff Stoll
Das Parfum - Patrick Suskind

Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
12 Angry Men (1997) (TV)
Betrayal (1983)(by Harold Pinter)
Sleep with Me (1994)
Following (1998)
Memento (2000)
Repo Man (1984)

Unfortunatelly nowadays you need a lot of security software to protect your PC.

Security Software
Firewall: ZoneAlarm
Antivirus: Antivir, [free version] or AVG (Anti-Virus Grisoft)
AntiSpam: mailwasher [not free anymore!]
Spyware remover: AdAware & Spybot - Search & Destroy

My favorite server software is the open source combination:
OS: Linux
Webserver: Apache
Serverside Script Language: PHP
Database: mySQL

For listening
MP3 Player: WinAmp,
fav plugins: SidAmp v1.33 for playing Commodore 64 SID tunes (High Voltage Sid Collection);
fav skins: QUAD 33 Series Skin v1.0 & NUCLEO N-Log v2G BioSkin®)

CD Grabber: Exact Audio Copy (EAC), works with freedb.org
use EAC with LAME MP3 coded

Browser: Firefox + extensions:
Make Firefox faster (haven't tried it myself yet!!!!)
FTP Client: FileZilla
Archive Utility (like WinZip: IZArc, freeware that suports many archive formats