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The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life. – Donald Campbell

My essential programs

When I get a new computer, what programs I need to put on it:

Standard apps (browser, e-mail, office, etc.)

Development tools (programming languages, text editors, version control)

Network tools (protocols)

Viewers

Operating system enhancements/utilities

Other things I need to do on a new computer

  • Newest version of all drivers (currently, Synaptic touchpad, Broadcom wireless)
  • Turn off as much of the Windows features that try to protect me (show hidden and system files, show file extensions, and so on)
  • Get rid of as much of the Windows crap as possible (Windows Messenger, Outlook Express).
  • Turn off the annoying Windows sounds at startup, shutdown, logon, and logoff.
  • Run Windows update first thing and get all the security updates.
  • Turn on the address bar and the status bar in Explorer windows.
  • Make sure to turn autorecovery on in OpenOffice the very first thing after you install it. For some inexplicable reason it ships with the setting off, and if you don't do it right away you likely you won't remember until you've lost something. And OpenOffice 2.0 is very unstable.
  • Set the console screen buffer to the max

Page last edited: April 12, 2006 (utc)

Index

A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P R S T U V W X

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A

  1. About
  2. Acno's Energizer
  3. Artificial Intelligence
  4. ASP.NET
  5. Atom

B

  1. Bash
  2. Belief systems
  3. Bookmarklets
  4. Build tools

C

  1. C and C++
  2. C#
  3. C++ Reference
  4. Calvinism
  5. Cars I want to consider
  6. CGI
  7. character sets
  8. Chess
  9. Christian Reconstruction
  10. Christian Resources
  11. Chronicles of Narnia
  12. Color tools
  13. Computer Science
  14. Cornelius Van Til
  15. CSS - Cascading style sheets
  16. CSSTabs

D

  1. Database
  2. Differencing programs
  3. Documentation standards
  4. Downloads
  5. Dualities
  6. Dvorak keyboard

E

  1. E-mail me
  2. Eclipse
  3. Eiffel
  4. Emacs
  5. Evolution
  6. Extension languages

F

  1. File extensions
  2. Firefox
  3. Formation: web form automation library for PHP
  4. Forth

G

  1. Greg Bahnsen
  2. GUI Toolkits
  3. Guns

H

  1. Hex editors

I

  1. Important articles or essays
  2. Installers
  3. Internet radio stations

J

  1. Java
  2. Javascript
  3. jEdit

L

  1. Linux
  2. Lisp
  3. Logical fallacies
  4. Lua

M

  1. Markup
  2. Miscellaneous Links
  3. mod_rewrite
  4. Movie theaters
  5. My comment policy
  6. My essential programs
  7. My resume

N

  1. Namespaces
  2. Naming conventions
  3. New Years 2000
  4. N^2 sort comparison

O

  1. Open Source License
  2. OPML

P

  1. Perl
  2. Philosophy
  3. PHP
  4. PHP Calendar (version 2.3)
  5. PHP XML Library, version 1.2b
  6. Pictures
  7. Postmillenialism
  8. Presuppositionalism
  9. Programming Fonts
  10. Programming languages
  11. Programming Resources
  12. Punta Cana
  13. Python

R

  1. RDF
  2. REBOL
  3. Reflex game
  4. Regular expressions
  5. Religion
  6. RFCs
  7. Robot Exclusions
  8. Roman Catholicism
  9. Ruby

S

  1. Scala programming language
  2. Science
  3. Shorthand
  4. Skydiving, August 28, 2000
  5. Software I've written
  6. SPAM
  7. SQLite
  8. StructuredText

T

  1. Tabs vs Spaces
  2. Tcl/Tk
  3. Tea
  4. Text Editors
  5. TextDrive
  6. The Big Bang
  7. The naked street
  8. Theonomy
  9. Tools of communication

U

  1. Unicode
  2. URL Design

V

  1. Version control systems
  2. VI text editor
  3. Virtual machines

W

  1. WeblogUrls
  2. Wiki
  3. WikiBlogIntegration
  4. World of Warcraft
  5. wxWidgets

X

  1. XHTML
  2. XML
  3. XML to PHP translator
  4. XML-RPC
  5. XML-RPC Library for PHP (v 2.5)

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