Setting Up Yet Again

I now have a Windows PC on my desktop — using the Mac laptop as my main computer was making my back and neck ache. Here’s what I’ve installed so far (in order):

• Firefox
• Thunderbird
• Microsoft Office
• Cygwin (including Gnu Make and MiKTeX)
• Acrobat (for reading PDFs)
• MWSnap (for screen captures)
• Eclipse (for Java, and as a memory stress tester ;-))
• Wing (for Python)
• Emacs (I know, I know...)
• A printer drive
• Putty
• SQLite

Everything else I need I got by checking out a repository from one of (quick count) four machines:

• One set of course notes
• Six CSC49X projects
• Five other projects for the Computer Science department
• The two books I'm working on
• The Software Carpentry notes
• My personal stuff (address list, photos, etc.)
• The web site for third-bit.com
• Some archival stuff that I probably don't need, but like to have just in case

Elapsed time: about two hours, during most of which I was reading mail and talking to people.

Later: I have since added:

• MiKTeX
• Ghostscript and Ghostview
• FreeRip
• PDFCreator
• Java 1.5
• MyUninstall
• Gnumeric (to read old grades files)