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)