Thursday, May 15, 2008

New laptop

I'm getting a new laptop at work on Monday. Started a list of the things to do right after I get it. In the order they hit the electronic page (but not the order they'll happen -- more on that in a sec):
  • Create utils and docs folders
  • docs should be a junction of c:\documents and settings\tss04\my documents (powershell New-Junction c:\docs 'C:\Documents and Settings\tss04\My Documents'
  • bring over My documents and docs folder contents (currently separate directories -- fixing that w/ the junction)
  • bring over oreilly folder (put in docs?)
  • install ant
  • install perl
  • install filezilla
  • install firefox
  • install powershell and power shell community extensions
  • install vim, configure _vimrc, vimrc_example.vim, mswin.vim, john.vim, filetype.vim
  • bring over utils
  • selectively bring over d:\ftp
  • bring over d:\powershell
  • bring over notes journal, archive
So the obvious out of order one is that I'm using PowerShell to configure my docs directory as a junction of My Documents before I've installed PowerShell... Reading the list, I know I've missed cygwin and all of my firefox add-ons, bookmarks, profile, etc. Oh, and VMWare -- that's going on this time. Maybe 7-zip. Maybe...

What's the first thing you install on a new machine? What are you going to leave off when you replace your current box?

2 comments:

BabyBokChoy said...

Picasa?

John McDevitt said...

Probably. Pictures are mainly on the home machine, but still...

added ghostscript and RedMon for my print-to-pdf printer, although I may try dopdf this time around (http://lifehacker.com/software/pdf/download-of-the-day-dopdf-windows-242311.php)

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