Software installed or to be installed on my LaptopComputer. Things that work!

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Safe Hex

• [http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 AVG], Trend Micro, or [http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2004/7/10/163331/710 other] antivirus -- I've come to think that [http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2005/4/8/13247/63408 Norton is a virus], of sorts, itself.

• I use XP's builtin, but ZoneAlarm or Kerio (or Tiny Personal) firewall might give more control.

Ubiquitous Tools

• [http://www.vim.org/download.php gvim] -- common text editor for all platforms

• [http://www.winzip.com/ WinZip] -- I've been a registered user since version 2.0

• [http://www.cygwin.com/ Cygwin] -- unix command-line tools

  • adjust home directory
  • softlink c:/bin to ~/bin
  • add c:/bin to path
  • add softlinks in c:/bin to needed commands

• [http://www.petri.co.il/add_command_prompt_here_shortcut_to_windows_explorer.htm Command Prompt Here] -- Windows Explorer context menu choice

• [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html PuTTY] -- SSH and related tools

• [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ PDFCreator] -- a print driver to create PDFs from any program.

Office

• [http://www.mozilla.org Firefox]

  • FirefoxExtensions

• [http://www.mozilla.org Thunderbird]

• [http://openoffice.org OpenOffice]

Software Development

Ruby

• [http://agilemaryland.org/moin/CodeProject_2fProjectInfrastructure Ruby on Rails environment]

  • [http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-4.1/mysql-essential-4.1.14-win32.msi/from/pick MySql Windows Essentials]

    • [http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/4.1/installer.html about the Windows versions]

    • [http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/index.html online documentation]

  • [http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl Ruby installer for Windows]

    • [http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126 RubyGems] is included in the one-click installer, above.

      • gem install rails --include-dependencies

  • [http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/index.php Eclipse]

    • [http://subclipse.tigris.org/download.html Subclipse SVN plugin] use these [http://subclipse.tigris.org/install.html installation instructions] to download within Eclipse

      • check out the project

    • [http://www.napcs.com/howto/railsonwindows.html#_Toc111133461 RDT Ruby Editor plugin]

Java

• [http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads/index.html Java JDK]

• Eclipse

• MyEclipse

• ...

Entertainment

Photos

• Shoot 'n' Share for albums, slideshows -- XP isn't terrible, itself.

• [http://www.gimp.org/ The Gimp] ([http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/ for Windows]) for editing

• Pixid WhiteboardPhoto for capturing written information.

Audio

• [http://www.videolan.org/ VLC Media Player] has replaced [http://www.winamp.com/ Winamp] for audio/video playback

• [http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ CDex] for ripping MP3s

• [http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audacity] for recording and editing audio

Other things that need to be done

• Password: Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Change an Account -> Change my Password