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First Ten Programs on New Install?
reddigitaldragon asks: "Some people re-install once a year, but if you're anything like me your machine is formatted at least once a month. After the OS is in, then come the favorite/must have/most used programs to install. My first installations for Windows (I use it; get over it): Trillian, Winrar, Firefox, Winamp, SmartFTP, Azureus, NMap, GKrellM, PowerDVD. What are your First 10 installed programs?" What are the first 10 programs you would install on a Windows machine? How about for a Unix machine?
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Real men don't install programs, they write them.
-1 : TACO! WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?
Easy.... all of those wonderful Claria (Gator) products!
eWallet - Give you personal info to a spyware maker!
Dashbar - I don't know what it does, but it must dash!
WeatherScope - I've got to know my weather!
PrecisionTime - I've got to know exactly what time it is.
DateManager - How else do I know date it is?
WebSecureAlert - Who else to trust your security to than a spyware maker?
and then...
AOL 9.0!
Internet Explorer 6.01
Windows Media Player 9.0 - DRM Special Edition
Pr0n
Casual Games/Downloads
I use 7-zip, it is free (speech and beer) and reads and writes most archive formats, including zip, rar, tar, tgz, etc.
Did you mount a military-grade, variable-focus MASER on an unlicensed artificial intelligence?
so I can get FP on Slashdot!
Might I suggest adding a calculator to round out that list?
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
bash less enlightenment wget vim screen nmap phoenix/firebird/firefox Eterm xmms
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Bonzi Buddy's pretty high on my list; not only that, I don't even have to ask to install it! Friendly lil thing ends up there on its own.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Thats about it, everything I install after a reimage of my machines!! Other things get tagged on, but those are the core!
If anyone has suggestions for alternatives, im open. But they have to be good! Im currently looking for a new .net IDE as sharpdevelop has a few bugs, and since its written in c#, i cant help fix em :(
As for UNIX, I use OpenBSD so its got a pretty sane base install. I usually drag in a few custom admin scripts ive developed over the years, and my .profile for ksh, but thats about it. The box then gets configured for its custom job.
Emacs. Hell, that is ten programs. And it is as big as one hundred.
Laboratree - Scientific collaboration based on OpenSocial.
Firefox, OOo, Putty, WinSCP, Winamp, AIM, DeadAIM, Apache, MySQL, PHP... Plus all the usual accessories...
Linux!
TweakUI is the first thing I install. I can't stand the default Windows Explorer setup.
I think you missed Windows security fixes, Adobe Acrobat and WinSCP.
Follow your Euro bills at EBT
Maybe if AVG/Mcafee/FProt/Norton Antivirus was among those 10, you wouldn't need to reinstall every month?
Updated drivers followed by Antivirus and Mozilla is what goes on my Windoze boxen first.
Well, I use my PC as a game box with some browsing only (with SSH if I need to access one of the unixish machines) so here's my stuff:
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Trolling is a art,
APserver
Winamp
Mirc
FlashFXP
Powertoys
DivX
Ethereal
Photoshop
Nero
ATI MMC
Windows:
m ;)
Firefox
30 or so patches and 1 service pack
Trillian
bersirc
Office
visual studio
Thunderbird
Nero
C&C Generals: Zero Hour
gvim
Linux:
gnome
evolution
firefox
thunderbird
vim/gvi
synaptic
gaim
xchat
dashboard
xbill
In the long honored tradition of slashbots, we must all mark him as foe and shame him for using an OS different from our own. For shame! For shame! How darest thou useth Windows, and how darest the Editors post a story that proclaims that windows is a good OS!!! Mark him as foe, mark him as foe I say!
For those who are wondering, I use Linux, but have many friends who use windows because, quite frankly, they have no business using Linux. All they do is play games. Windows is great for certain uses, just not any of my uses... uh, I mean, FOR SHAME!
Cygwin
Why the hell would anyone need to reinstall an entire OS every month? I mean - I know Windows is bad, but come on - its ridiculous.
I have 4 computers that I work on and all of them have not been formatted since I first purchased them. Am I strange or something. I'm using Linux, Win2K and Mac OSX on the various machines. Am I odd?
On Windows (I hate it)
Spybot
AdAware
Symantec Antivirus
BlackIce Firewall (if the poor chump has no hardware firewall)
CleanSweep Uninstaller
Ghost (so I can image the machine to reload later)
Cygwin (for a REAL command line)
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Thunderbird
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
Hold up a second there! I thought we were talking aobut an Operating System!
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
I _race_ furiously to download and get a firewall installed, then do the windows updates. I've had machines be comprimised while downloading the firewall for the first time, damn those subnet scanning kids move fast :)
on a Win box for clients/friends: Norton AV Corporate - WINRAR - WINACE - VNC - Google Toolbar - TweakUI - RegVac
- SpyBot S&D - Ad-Aware - Messenger 6.1 -
On windows,
putty, gaim, mozilla
On linux,
aptitude, ssh, joe, gnome, gaim, epihpany-browser
Need a Catering Connection
Why are you reinstalling your machine every month? I've reinstalled once in about 3 years and that was because I put in a new motherboard and upgraded from Windows 2000 to Windows XP Pro and didn't want crufty driver issues popping up down the road. What the heck are you doing to your system that you need to reinstall it so often? Regular spyware scans and a good antivirus program has kept my machine running like a top. Sometimes I really wonder why people bitch about Windows since it's been running great for me on my hardware.
And how about on OS X? For the most part OS X includes many good programs already. One extra program I would install right away would have to be Adium though..
windows 2000- 1. Winrar (does zip AND all the other ones) 2. office 2003 3. photoshop 8 4. dreamweaver mx 5. ultrafxp 6. mirc 7. nero 8. Radmin 9. Winamp 10. serv-u yes i'm a corporate popular program lackey please reply with insults
I've switched from Winamp to iTunes...because syncing with my iPod is the killer app. plus the smart playlists and the play counts/ratings are not only efficient and no-brainers, but they also sync.
Surely these two (along with repeated clicks of the windows update link) should be firmly at the top of the list ?
No Norm, those are your safety glasses; I'll wear my own thanks...
0. OS updates
1. Putty
2. Firefox & extensions
3. Thunderbird
4. gVim (The 'edit with vim' that gets attached to context menus for all file types is one of my favorite tools)
5. RealVNC
6. Acroread/Flash/Java/etc.
7. Trillian
8. Norton Corporate Edition
9. SpyBot
10. Cygwin
viml pheed
openssh
lftp
zsh
nethack
fortune-mod
sy
mplayer
rhythmbox
openbox
I didn't do this, now did I?
Norton Ghost
Even if I was such a disaster-ridden buffoon, I would simply make an image of the system onto DVD, tape, or even another hard disk and restore my system every month.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Dude, you need to find a girlfriend or something. Seriously.
Then again, maybe this is Windows thing. Last time I re-installed my OS on my Mac was about a year ago....
best news reader and poster for windows out there
I also reply below your current threshold.
Trillian replace with Gaim
Replace WinRar with WinIMP
But normally my install procedure works like this
1. Turn off retarded services that are buggy
2. Install all patches, updates, drivers
3. Install a free virus scanner
Then
4. Turn off attachments and HTML preview in OE
5. Add googlebar and turn on popup blocker
6. Install Cygwin, Winamp and Gaim
Then at this point I'm normally bored and go do something else.
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Of course this only applies to programs which require them.
-- ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space!
What 10 windows programs do you try to UNinstall?
Kerio Personal FirewallE dit
Firefox
Thunderbird
4NT
Putty
Ultra
SmartFTP
WinAMP
AIM
VirtualDub
When installing a Windows PC, it's a good idea to have The OpenCD handy. It includes (among other things) CDEx, Mozilla, GIMP, PuTTY, TightVNC and WinPT.
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but if you're anything like me your machine is formatted at least a month
This makes no sense. Perhaps you are mildly retarded?
..but for *NIX I only need one. /sbin/lart
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
My first ten for windows:
0. Security updates
1. Firefox
2. Gaim
3. Thunderbird
4. Cygwin
5. Openoffice
6. 7-zip
7. X-Chat
8. Nero
9. Visual Studio
10. VNC
Yes, it's 11, but security updates aren't really a program.
I reinstall an average of two or three times a year, for various reasons.
I don't feel the need to regularly reformat and re-install linux or unix based systems. My primary motivation for doing it in Windows is that considering the registry and the other tangled parts of the structure (like file interdependencies), it takes less time to re-install then to actually clean or optimize manually. With *nix based systems, all the things are cleanly laid out and manageable, and I spend a decent amount of time tweaking things which I wouldn't want to have to redo, particularly since there should never be a reason that it would need to be redone. I'd think considering the aura around uptime, the general feeling among the community is similar.
I don't try to be right, I just try to make people think
gnaughty from sf.net
this is one
j/k.
who uses windows (while u're not working) anyways?
is to verify you have all your needed licenses before you reinstall... 1 ) SCO license... oh heck with that let the flipping of disks begin :)
First I set up my e-mail. Then the top ten programs just install themselves!
1. Magistr
2. MyDoom
3. Badtrans....
Love your country always, but respect your government only when it deserves it. -- Mark Twain
1. XP Autopatcher
2. Firefox
3. does pr0n count as a program?
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
So this applies to my Win32 installs:
Any current XP updates
Tons of drivers + apps for TV card
TweakUI
Winamp
AntivirXP
WinZip
WinRar
Textpad
Opera
Trillian
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
Many things already mentioned, and then add Ethereal, PasswordSafe, TerraTerm, Vim.
(at least, for windows boxes)
Pound! Bang! Bin! Bash! is this a shell script or a Batman comic?
The two most important tools by far, I think, are PuTTY and WinSCP.
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
- Suns Java
- JEdit
Still have installed anything else on Mandrake 9.2 that I did over christmas. Thats many because I must use the worlds best text editor all other are crap </joke>Grey (Chris Lusena)
is linux!!!
Why don't you set up Norton Ghost or VMware and save yourself the trouble of reinstalling every month?
God, that'd be the most awful thing ever.
I always get Bit Torrent, and from there Office, Photoshop, etc.
http://www.aaplblog.com/ - News about Apple Inc.
Virtual CD
V MWare
Daemon Tools (to install games/utilities from virtual CD's and ISO's)
Panda Antivirus
Windows update
Firefox
Winamp
Kazaa
StarCraft
MBM5
... I haven't done the reformat thing in a few years. I use Windows XP (yeah yeah, go ahead and laugh).
I would say the first 10 programs I install are:
- Service Pack 1 (does that count?)
- my Via 4-in-1 set
- MS Office 2003
- MS VS.Net 2003
- Firefox
- WinZip
- Winamp
- Desktop Sidebar (b/c it pwnz)
- Half-Life
- Warcraft 3
On my Slack 9 box (which pretty much gets nstalled with next to nothing to start)
- Apache 2
- PHP 4
- MySQL
- Samba 3
- firehol
- Python
- Berkely DB
- Half-Life dedicated server + HLstats
I think that wraps it up... =]
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msblaster nachi welchia netsky are all installed for me! just by simply plugging in to the 'net
Here's what I do:
:D
--> (enable Windows firewall)
- Norton AntiVirus
--> (connect)
- Zone Alarm
--> (update Norton)
--> (update Windows for 2 hours)
- Firefox
- OpenOffice
- Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne
- play!
What I do on a new install;
:-) )
.doc file, I open it under Linux. How's that for weird? :-)
Turn on firewall;
do all updates, sans DRM crap.
Install:
Firefox (using it now, huge step forward in browsers)
Spybot SD (spyware removal)
Winamp 5
EZ-CD Creator Pro (although I use a cdrecord under Linux a lot, my DVD burner is on the Windows machine).
NewsRover (I download many television episodes from Usenet: NR is the best way I've found to make this easy. Awesome program. Also good for porn, of course.
QuickPAR (handles both PAR and PAR2 files)
WinRAR
WinDVD (for DVDs and MPG files)
K-Lite Codec Pack (for everything else)
SecureCRT (SSH client, best I've found in Windows, but costly)
There are quite a few more programs I would install on my main machine, around 20 total, but those would normally be the first 10.
Interestingly, I do not run any kind of Office application. I hardly use paper for anything, and my printer doesn't get used much. I have a perfectly valid license for Office 2003, and I don't bother installing it because the security holes aren't worth the risks. If I need to read a
the filthy filthy porn...
I'm amazing. You aren't. SUCK IT
The first 10 things you install probably say a lot about you as a person and developer. A programmer will probably install their favoured editors where an artist will install photoshop/GIMP and their favourite peripherials. For me: 1. Replace NotePad with EditPad 2. Firefox/T-bird 3. Trillian 4. 3d Studio Max 5. GIMP 6. Visual Studio .NET 2003
7. TortoiseSVN
8. Cygwin
9. WinDVD
10. WS_FTP
besides the usual Microsoft Hotfixes and service packs, I usually install.... 1) Mozilla 2) WinZip 3) FileZilla 4) F-Prot Antivirus 5) Nero 6) Quicktime 7) Acrobat Reader 8) The GIMP 9) Winamp 10) VMWare Workstation
Do yourself a favor: next clean install, apply XP-SP1, then Clean=(Delete LocalSettings\Temp, Windows\Temp, Defrag) & boot Knoppix and backup your partition with Partimage (to a network location mounted with NFS), if needed.
.reg file or something. Imaging with 3 or 4 gigs of apps to back up takes a long time and gets to be a pain in the ass.
Then apply all Windows Updates, and image again. Then install your drivers, and "core apps" (be very conservative), and tweak your profile a little, and image again.
Then restore one of these three images as needed, and update as needed. Install your games on a separate partition.
It gets tricky if you actually use your XP partition for real work (MSOffice, VStudio) instead of just for video editing and games and use the much superior Debian Sid for web browsing, email, and programming. Unlike games, its hard to put apps on a separate partition and simply "install" them with a
One of the first things I install on a windows machine is putty. Can't live without it...
Of course cygwin provides more of environment and the added benefit of remote Xwindows connections (without annoying cripple ware).
On unix.. thats the first thing .. so i can edit files with out fighting with VI.
On windows, i would hope your FIRST application to install is some sort of antivirus... then service packs....
After that you can add trillian, xmanager, putty, vnc, etc, etc...
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Trillian
WinAMP
CuteFTP
WinZip
PaintShopPro 5 (better than Gimp in ease of use but I don't like the newer versions with the vectors in it -- too complicated)
and then:
AbiWord or OOo
RSSOwl (and required J2EE)
FireFox
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Palm Desktop
CuteHTML or HTMLKit
And then some other little apps as the time goes by.
That's it I think.
So now I just do my mini-backup, revert to ghost image, apply pending windows/app fixes and upgrades (with a text file on my desktop to keep track as I do them the first time), install any new "needed" software, clean up stuff etc, and then make me a fresh image of that for next time.
Neowin AutopatcherXP!!!u ardian ;-)
Quake II
Unreal II
Unreal Tournament 2003 & 2004
OpenOffice
Firefox
WinRaR
CloneCD
PeerG
DC++
Is the juice worth the sqeeze?
May I also suggest (seeing that it IS windows) that you install a good virus scanner... This is the FIRST program I install before I even venture out on the net after a new install.
Before I get rid of a PC that has just gotten too slow, I always install NetBSD before I unplug it for the last time and go out and bury the CPU in the back yard.
Found this a few months ago and LOVE IT.
http://www.7-zip.org
7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL
Supported formats: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB
Would be Ghost or something like it.
Seriously... If I were reinstalling every month (and why would you want to), the last think I would want is to waste all that time individually installing all those apps, not to mention installing Windows and all those updates in the first place.
On my machine it takes about 1.5 hours to install Windows and get it completely up to date from Windows Update, then I'd probably take another 1.5 hours to install the next 10 apps and get them configured the way I like.
Copy the drive from a fresh install, then restore it to that state any time in just a few minutes.
Article X: The powers not delegated... by the Constitution...are reserved...to the people
That is fricking hilarious ... well to me anyway.
hehehehehehehe
Game Machine:
1) Motherboard Drivers from CD
2) Updated mobo drivers from web once NIC is working
3) Critical / Security patches (winUpdate)
4) Mozilla / Firefox
5) Latest DirectX
6) Video drivers of choice
7) Latest usable FRAPS
8) Battlefield: Vietnam to test (/cough)
What comes next depends on why I reinstalled. A development machine is similar, except:
7) Java/whatever SDK
8) Eclipse/IDE of choice
9) WinAmp
0) OpenOffice
-lw
Mods: Disagreeing with me != my post Offtopic / Flamebait.
World without hate or war, invaded. Tragic?
Well, I decided to reformat my PowerBook's drive just for the experience. It wasn't at all necessary, as it is with Windows after a few months of use.
Heres my list of programs installed since the reformat a month ago:
LaunchBar
Yep, thats the beauty of the Mac: a rock solid system that doesn't necessetate reformating, and a good suite of software preloaded.
-- Fighting mediocrity one bad post at a time.
I install Mozzie first, then I download and run Spybot Search and Destroy and run the cleanup/immunize functions, and then I install AVG. Nothing else is an "absolute" but I usually install them. (I don't install Visual Studio on other people's boxes, of course!)
John
Or might I ask, why are you installing apps replacing functionality that's already included with the OS?
Oh my goodness, I'm in pain just thinking about re-installing every month. I apologize for this not being a direct reply to your question, but it is (I hope) a piece of very useful advice nonetheless.
If you're re-installing on the same hardware every time, or even on identical but different hardware, I would very seriously recommend buying Norton Ghost. The personal edition is relatively inexpensive. Then, you can get your system installed in a fresh, clean way, patched up as you like it, with whatever programs you choose, and make an image of it. Store the image on a remote server, a DVD-R, split up across CD-Rs, whatever you like. The next time you want to reinstall, just boot up off the Ghost disk and restore the image.
It will save you so many painful hours of waiting, downloading patches, rebooting, downloading drivers, rebooting, rebooting again, installing programs, rebooting, rinse, repeat.
First Ten:
* LaunchBar - fast key-stroke based launcher
* OpenOffice.org
* IntelliJ IDEA - great refactoring IDE
* FireFox
* SubEthaEdit
* xcode
* Carbonized GNU/Emacs (insert joke here...)
* Propellerhead's Reason
* Omni Graffle Professional
* NetBeans
Most of the other stuff (unix tools) is already there.
The first things I install on a Linux machine, in no particular order, gvim(gtk+-2), gnome, galeon(requires mozilla), kde(mostly for konqueror), rhythmbox, mutt, and gimp.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
1) AntiVir Gaurd (a great, free (as in beer) anti-virus program)
:)
2) FireFox
3) Thunderbird
4) Open Office (why hasn't anyone said this yet?)
5) WinAmp
6) Trillian
7) Kazaalite
8) Bit Torrent (not picky about the specific client)
9) Ad-Aware
10) Cdex
and then come the games.
For Windows, I'd recommend a few:
1) Firefox. Obviously.
2) Spybot S&D (and AdAware, just to be safe).
3) Agnitum Outpost Firewall (or equivalent).
4) AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition (unless you already have some commercial one).
After you've got that sorted, you'd be free to mess around with Winamp, Foobar2000, Powerarchiver, Azureus, Emule or some such.
You need a hobby. Perpetually reinstalling your OS does not count.
Total Commander... can't live without it :) Then, WinAmp, UltraEdit, ACDSee, Opera, divx/xvid/vobsub (let's pretend it's one), Kaspersky AV, WinRAR, Nero, Acrobat Reader.
itunes
norton antivirus
ws_ftp
putty
open office
editpad
netscape
nero
quicken
acrobat
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
1) Winzip
2) Adobe Acrobat Reader (you DO read docs for the rest of the software you are installing, right?)
3) driver updates
5) antivirus software
6) Lavasoft adaware
7) ssh.com windows ssh client
8) putty
9) Mozilla and friends
10) OpenOffice
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Unix -> gcc, lynx, ncftpd, ncftp, mkisofs, gzip, tcpwrappers, sshd, apache, gnu make, top
A lot of these are there by default now, at least on Solaris and AIX. But I still prefer to build my own, just so I know what the opetions are.
win32 -> Winzip, ntp client, pfe
That's about it for windows. I don't use it for day-to-day stuff, so Office etc isn't an issue.
Fink
Sendmail
Bring Perl Current
SpamAssassin and SpamAssassin Milter
Microsoft Office (Yuck! Please get us an Aqua Native Open Office!)
Mozilla Firefox
RealMediaBurner (as close to Nero as you're going to get)
BitTorrent
MultiDesktop
CarbonCopyCloner
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
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Cygwin
... only 8, and it seems like enough.
Emacs
Mozilla
Visual Studio 6
Winamp
DLL Depends (depends.exe)
Acrobat Reader
VNC (client & server)
sheesh
Geospatial Programmer for Rent
On Windows it's definately the Cygwin suite. I guess it's really many programs, but they come with a single installer.
On 'nix, it's definately vi or vim. Bash is a close second.
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www.n1ywb.com
On Linux or FreeBSD:
ratpoison, rxvt, irssi, Links/lynx/ELinks, nvi/vim/elvis or emacs.
On Windows:
Nothing - I don't install things on other people's computers.
Well, first off, my Windows first 10 is: Windows/Windows driver/IE Updates and plugins Norton Antivirus Ad-Aware MS Office and Updates GMud Trillian gvim Adobe Photoshop Alcohol Snood What I'd be more curious about is what the first 10 apps I should install under Linux are. I'm considering converting back to Linux after I learned about OpenOffice saving to PDF files for free in a recent /. article.
Some people re-install once a year, but if you're anything like me your machine is formatted at least a month.
No, we're not like you. Why waste time re-installing the same crap every month?
Your fortune cookie says: You will be replaced by a shell script
The next "Ask Slashdot", Don't you have anything better to do?
My install list includes (in addition to your above list):
1) quicktime
2) divx
3) kazaa lite
4) office 2003
5) mirc
6) ACDSee
7) AIM
8) Nero
9) Mcafee's entire suite
10) winamp
My complete install list is much larger, but with so many computers in the house, I just built a Ghost image and take care of it that way. =)
Good for you. What makes you think anyone gives a shit?
the Cygwin installer.
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
After a base my Slackware Current Install:
(1) FireFox
(2) Mplayer
(3) Xmame
(4) XMMS
(5) Ethereal
(6) Blender
(7) OpenOffice.org
(8) XCDroast
(9) Audacity
(10) THe newest version of GIMP!
"your machine is formatted at least a month"
I thought the poster was talking about formatting his harddrive for a month! I've heard of long format times, and pedantic byte zero-ing but a month is a helluva lot of time to format your harddrive. Unless you had some sort of crazy 400 terrabyte multi-harddrive system on a Pentium 100 that didn't allow you to format simultaneously.
---- The geek shall inherit the Earth.
Winamp, BSPlayer, Nimo codec pack, eDonkey and Kazaa Lite.
:)
What?!?!??
Before I connect to the network to get anything, I have to follow my cheat sheet of programs to turn-off, un-install, or otherwise secure. Windows AND Unix.
Once that's finally finished, I have to start filling my browser's cache with pr0n!
This one gang kept wanting me to join cause I'm pretty good with a bo staff.
AIM
A dobe Acrobat Reader
MSN
ICQ
Winamp
Mozilla
Winzip
Textpad
MS Office
Nero CD Burner
But I guess I'll try and pick the top ones. I'll assume this is a desktop machine.
m pd ... I guess. I also left out X and a window manager, and ssh, since I'm thinking of "applications," not really just "software."
screen
vim
firefox
less
aterm
gaim
gimp
python
scrot
pythono ffice
zope
emacs
cvs/arch
vnc
mozilla
open
freeamp
ncverilog
jeda
Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Office 2000 FireFox Adobe Acrobat Winamp SSH Secure Shell AOL Instant Messenger DeadAIM Ad-Aware Kazaa Lite GhostScript/GhostView
didn't it occur to you to do THIS after a virgin install???????????????
http://slashdot.org/~GuyFawkes/journal
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
The first ones I install are:
AVG - one of the best free antivirus' out there
SpyBot - gotta keep all that spyware off
Google Toolbar - Yeah, I know, but it's one of the best and least intrusive ways of blocking pop-ups I've found
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -RAH
I'm more interested in hearing why you feel compelled to install a clean OS every month. I've been looking at just changing to a different user on my OS X laptop (for network compatability at work), and that itself is a major pain.
Every month you back up your essential files, install, patch, install over 10 software packages (keep those serial numbers handy) then finish off by configuring your software? In my world that process takes several hours. That's several hours that I can be:
Writing.
Spending time with my girlfriend.
Teasing my cat.
Working.
Having a beer with friends.
Volunteering.
Hiking.
Talking to my mother on the phone.
Sleeping.
Taking pictures.
Installing an OS over and over again? What a colossal waste of time. If the stability of your OS is dependent upon reinstalling, it's time to do a quick cost/benefit analysis and figure out if you're really using the right OS.
The middle mind speaks!
...so I can unplug the monitor and get back to work at my main machine and control all of my other machines.
Then, it's usually Winzip, Textpad, blah, blah, blah. But VNC is always first.
I realize this is directed as windows / unix, but i'm throwing out my 2 cents for the mac.
BBedit, transmit, cssedit, mysql, php, ircle, AIM, photoshop, dreamweaver, ms office
http://www.rustyrazorblade.com
What about Quicktime? Do you wanna be slow? What about Realplayer? Do you wanna be fake?
Don't forget cygwin, so you can actually get some work done.
hmm I usually just go O I need $PROGRAM and then I go digging through my big pile o CD's or my install files folder I keep on a separate hard drive.
in no order
Office (open or MS)
Nero
alcohol 120%
msn
miranda( no need to reintstall just run it)
outlook(don't shoot)
at least two firewalls (turn the XP one off)
virus scanner if I feel like it
media player(s)
I installed collegeLinux on another machine I still haven't seen everything that comes on that CD
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Ghost rules.
Just use the oldest CD you have for the flavor of Windows you want to install, and plug in a cable or DSL modem. You'll have more than 10 apps installed in no time without lifting a finger!
666-607: 6th floor apartment of the beast
1) Zone alarm
2) AVG
3) Spybot
4) Ultimate Zip
5) Acrobat reader
6 thru 99) All of the updates.
I'll count all the god-awful service packs and security patches as #11 as they take just about as much time to install as the rest combined
For my own I always install opera as it deals well with things that break ie, but i find most other people aren't too comfortable with it.
Commercial client - for a generic office use machine I just don't see any need for much anything other than these:
tweakui
acrobat
ms office
mcafee
ad-aware (they have to pay though)
winzip (not the best, but well known)
adaware
multimedia: (real flash quicktime shockwave winamp various codecs)
bittorrent
mozilla
acrobat reader
dvd player
pscp putty
winzip
yahoo messenger
Not sure if it counts as an installation, but before anything else I go into the registry and completely disable remote procedure calls over TCP/IP. Why rely on the patch when you have no use for the feature to begin with? Then,
n Zip
:D
All the fixes from windowsupdate.com
Mozilla
Office
mIRC
AIM
Wi
SSH
XWin
Visual C++
PowerDVD
The Gimp
Then the real reason for having a computer, all my games
For great justice.
Install:
Firefox
WinRAR
Bit Torrent
DVD X Copy Platinum
Unreal Tournament 2004
My Windows machine is very barebones, I will never install 10 things.
Norton Antivirus
Nethack
Opera
Thunderbird
Winamp
Photoshop
DiVX Player
Firefox
MobyDockDX
TweakUI
Cygwin. I would go insane in sort order if I had to use a windows machine for something other then games with out cygwin and all the the lovely stuff it brings on to a windows box.
1) SQL Server 2000
2) Visual Studio 6 (to supporting old apps)
3) Visual Studio .NET (to develop new apps)
4) VNC
5) PHP
6) MySQL
7) Firefox
8) Acrobat
9) Office 2000
10) OpenOffice
Bonus Apps:
11) GIMP
12) WinAmp
13) PokerStars
anyone ?
This paid my last vacation, it mi
nethack Gnome 2.6 XMMS XEmacs + auctex Firefox Thunderbird gaim GIMP giFT + giFTcurs Enemy Territory
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On my linux desktop, I start with the basic stuff and go from there...
1. ncftp
2. wget
3. telnet (client)
4. emacs
5. X11
6. Gnome
7. Mozilla Firefox
8. XMMS
9. Evolution
10. Gimp
Norton AntiVirus
V ideoLan Client
XP-AntiSPy
Ad-Aware
Scite
ffDShow
Power Archiver 6.11
MS Office
FileZilla
Firebird
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
After installing/updating Windows... (1) Norton AV (2) Dreamweaver/Flash 2004 (3) Adobe Photoshop (4) SSH client (5) Winamp (2.8) (6) Japanese IME those i'll consider to be my essentials, then: (7) Red Hat (8) Open Office it changes from there on out I suppose. hmm, from there it's different every time
1.) Mozilla FireFox -- do people still use IE?
2.) WinZip -- although with XP this is less essential
3.) Adobe Photoshop -- this is absolutely essential, but CS is not
4.) Adobe Illustrator
5.) Adobe After Effects...if only I could afford Combustion
6.) Alias Maya--This is my main app, but it takes forever to install, so I install it later
7.) Macromedia Flash MX 2004 -- love hate with this one, but I need it for work
8.) PuTTY
9.) Spybot S&D
10.) Norton AntiVirus
about $5k worth of software all told...my job has a lot of overhead.
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My latest favorite distro - Fedora - is pretty complete already meaning I don't have to install very many other apps. Of the ones missing, I'd say the most important to me are
Synaptic
Firefox
Gkrellm
Gentoo (file manager)
Audacity
Java and other plugins
. Ergo sum cogito - Yoda
I am surprised that this got accepted as a Slashdot article. Reinstalls the computer every month? Why? I mean if your computer gets so effed after a month of use, you REALLY need to re-evaluate the OS you're using or the way you're using the OS.
I would have more expected this to be a slashdot poll and not a full-fledged article. Must be a slow "news" day.
--JLockard - "Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps." - Emo Phillips
The OS.
What an ugly list. I shoulda previewed first. Here it is, this time formatted.
I install Firefox right off the bat too. Here's my list:
And for Linux:
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Didn't know anyone did this anymore.. I figured everyone was like me and just maintained an "unattended install" disc with the lastest versions of all their favorite programs... /me wonders how many ghost users still have mirc or other older (more vulnerable) programs on their image...
sure ghost is quick.. but it also is quick to become dated..
I'll stick with unattended installs.
http://unattended.msfn.org/
On OS X -- MS Office, Mozilla, FruitMenu or similar utility, Furthur client and Shorten, X-chat Aqua, Toast, Jewish Calendar, NewsWatcher -- beyond that, I don't need that much.
Hmmm, I see there's now an OS X version of PopChar, though.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Wouldn't this guy's time be better spent reading a "Computers for Dummies" book so he wouldn't have to re-install every month?
I installed everything on my windows box till it included what I need (and was still stable, well, for a windows box). Then I went into linux and zipped C:\program files and C:\windows
When I want windows to be fresh again, I just back my important stuff up, rename C:\windows and C:\program files to C:\windows_old and C:\program files_old and I unzip the archives.
Reboot and I'm done. Maybe fix a few little things (like putting my desktop back). But it takes less time than installing everything separately.
Win2k SP4
Hotfix KB837001
Hotfix KB835732
Hotfix KB828749
Hotfix KB828741
Hotfix KB828035
Hotfix KB329115
Hotfix KB823182
Hotfix KB823559
Hotfix KB824105
-- Bird in the Bush: The Renewable Energy Blog http://www.birdinthebush.org
...don't need to be reinstalled if you have a spare HD. Just drag the important stuff over, reinstall on the main drive and drag it back.
Of course, since I've only ever had reason to do this once since OS X came out(new HD), YMMV.
I don't like 7-Zip, there are some compatibility issues I've found with encrypted Zip files, and the user interface is really clunky.
Instead, use the other free alternative, IZArc. It handles everything, plus 7-Zip, actually. The user interface is very clean and contains at least as many features as WinZip. Gets a full recommendation from me!
...
Install Windows Server 2003, No hazzles, fully working GUI, standard window manager, drivers availble for all modern hardware, nearly an industry standard and safe by default.
but best of all, no need to configure SAMBA.
Ok, I just reinstalled two days ago, for the first time in years and years. Here's what I had to do to make it useable:
;) ;)
0) Install all my drivers (I ended up adding this to the list after the fact)
1) Install all service packs and hotfixes
2) Install McAfee and update it
3) Download and install Opera and import my old mail
4) Download and install geOShell to stop using explorer
5) Download and install gaim
6) Download and install MUSHclient (gotta mud!)
7) Download and install winamp
8) By this time I really needed to put Battlefield: Vietnam on
9) Ok, I haven't gotten to this step yet since I installed BFV, but I need to install exceed (not-so-free X server), and map all my network drives, then I should be at a completely usable state.
Is this basically like everyone does?
This space for rent, inquire within.
iLife '04 (5 apps really)
XChat Aqua
Gimp 2
BitTorrent
Backup
VLC
And that's all that I really need to add.
Antivirus (PC-cillin) ... ... ...
Firewall (Kerio)
visit windows update, get critical patches.
all new drivers (dat-files, gpu-driver, "cpu-driver", soundcard-driver, etc.)
Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Mozilla
Leech FTP
Winzip
Apache (2.38?)
Adobe Acrobat reader 6
Quicktime
MS ImageComposer (pirat)
hex-editor
"games"
ah yah, and unbind NetBIOS from TCP/IP, plus
disable DCOM and intall NetBEUI from XP CD
used to have mIRC and Realplayer too, but not safe, so out they go.
...there are operating systems out there which dont require a ridiculous number of tools to be installed to let you get productive. :)
i mean really, install third party software just so you can talk http, ftp and ssh?
but of course, i have been there
so heres my incomplete list:
net|open bsd:
bash
screen
nmap
sudo
osx:
bbedit (editor)
vlc (media player)
colloquy (irc client)
fire (im client)
gpg (crypto suite)
This does not include all the stuff that comes with the system (Safari, Mail, etc.)
.avi filesn (IRC Client)
1.NotePad Deluxe -I loved Note Pad on OS 9 and this is a great replacement
2.BitTorrent - Gotta get those anime fansubs
3.Mplayer OS X 2 -Need to play
4.Video Lan Client -Plays some files better than MPlayer
5.RealONE Player -Just use it for Real streaming video.
6.BBEdit Lite -A great text editor.
7.Web Dumper X (Pr0n retriver)
8.Pacifist
9.LimeWire
10.Conversatio
I will install.. Nothing ! it's
already there. Ok, not quite.
1. Firefox
2. Thunderbird
3. Jin (chessclient for ICC)
4. Azureus
5. Apollon
6. Mplayer
7. Xine
8. Scid (chess again)
9. K3b
Happily running Fedora Core 1, soon Core 2.
gentoolkite n-office
emacs
xorg
kde
mplayer
amarok
op
gimp
Though I cant really remember, since Im one of those strange guys that dont reinstall their OS once a month.
Ultraedit
Winamp
WinDVD
Mozilla Firefox
Gaim
Winrar
Office
Nero
Norton Antivirus
Paint Shop Pro
Besides what was stated in the news story, and what is grabbed on Windows Update...
Miranda
Lightweight ICQ/IM app with plugin support for IRC/Jabber/etc..
FilZip
Free zip, rar, etc... util
PuTTY
Best SSH client for windows, and it's free
WinSCP
SFTP/SCP Client, free
Crimson Editor
Text Editor / IDE, supports color-coding source code and such. Very handy.
Mozilla
FireFox is nice, but I need a decent mail app and I like Moz for that.
Media Player Classic
Best. App. Ever. As long as you've got the codec installed, this handy thing will play the media files for you. This includes QuickTime, RealPlayer, and even Flash movies.
Nimo Codec Pack
A compilation of video and audio codecs as well as stream switchers, extra directshow filters, and nifty bits. Rather than hunting down individual codecs for XviD, 3vix, OGG, etc... this pack does it all in one operation.
Maybe if you weren't running windows you wouldn't have to reinstall your OS once a month...;)
Total Commander. Miranda ICQ, Eudora, Opera, Winamp, mIRC, putty, EditPad Classic. Forte Agent, ACDSee old version, Webster's dictionary.
1) 7-zip. Like WinZip but Open source!
2) Mozilla. 'nuff said
3) SciTe. Excellent text editor. Open Source
4) AutoIt. Scripting/automation language for Windows, also open source.
5) FinePrint. Best shareware Ever. N-up printing, universal print preview, extract to image, text, metafile
6) rjhExtensions Add "Copy Path to Clipboard" and "Command Prompt" to right-click menu.
7) IrfanView good freeware image viewer
8) Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.1--because I hate 6.0 and GSView is not quite good enough yet
9) Microsoft Office.... yeah I know, I know
10) TweakUI
OpenOffice
Crimson Editor (programmer's editor; free, not open source)
Audacity (WAV editor)
CDex (ripper)
Firefox
Thunderbird
Navicat (MySQL admin tool)
MySQL Snap (MySQL backup tool)
Top Style (CSS Editor)
Photoshop (Gimp ain't ready for primetime yet. Sorry.)
That's 10. Next up: WinAmp, WS-FTP, AdAware, and 17 million IE/Win patches.
1. Mozilla
2. Filezilla
3. Token 2
4. WinSQL
5. Cygwin
6. WinMerge
7. WinCVS
8. JAJC
9. iTunes
10. PHPTriad
Most people install all sorts of half-working crap. All of you with Trillian probably have no idea how to run a secure system (rule number one - never log on as root/administrator unless you need to do something administrative).
So, ranting aside, here's my list. Might go to more than ten:
1 Windows Media Player 9
2 Media Player Classic custom (includes a bunch of codecs too, packaged in a nice normal MSI)
4 Windows XP Powertoys (most of 'em)
5 WackGet (wget-based HTTP and FTP download manager)
6 Office 2003
7 Miranda IM (custom package with plugins)
8 NoPopIE
9 daemon-tools (virutal image->cd drive driver)
10 uxtheme.dll patch (so I can use free themes)
Here is a list of crap that will never be on one of my systems:
flash/shockwave: nonstandard security-hole-ridden garbage. I don't have space to list the ways this annoys me, and I miss nothing of import.
anything adobe: All crap. They don't seem to know how to use a window manager, instead making their own slow custom interface. For everything.
Trillian: I tried discussing it with the authors, but they don't care about how to make something that works with any speed, or works right on NT. They'd rather spend more time messing up their sloooow custom skinning code (which you can't turn off).
Spybot/adaware/et al: I don't get it. You idiots can go on running your web browsers as local administrator and download the latest exploit daily. Personally, I know how to use a computer.
funny munging
A fine text editor!
Here's what I do: Bitty Browser & Andromeda
I can't believe you have to reinstall that often, either you're totally incompetent or you have some kind of fetish.
I've been running the same XP install for almost two years and it works fine my only two issues are my shoddy ATI drivers and my Wacom tablet drivers.
I'd say 90% of bad windows cruft is from morons installing stuff they shouldn't be and then not un installing it propery (for example they use the uninstaller heh)
In install this and that, other things and my apps, I use my computer for roughly 12 hours a day for development and entertainment. The frequency of your installs is directly proportional to your incompetence at operating a computer. And I've yet to meet a problem with 2K or XP that actually required a full reinstall if you know what you're doing, that includes corrupted MBR and Kernels.
Go buy a Mac
I'm impressed... noone cites a firewall in their top 10 list (for windows)...
This should be the first priority.
So my list would be:
1. Sygate Firewall pro
2. Norton antivirus
3. Acrobat
4. Scientific workplace (yeah.. no OOo or MSoffice)
5. VMware
6. winrar
7. winamp
8. emule
9. ABC (bittorrent client)
10. firefox (wow, I almost forgot...)
On a windows box:
Hotfixes
Firefox
Trillian
change music file associations to open with WMP6
Warcraft 3
On a Linux box:
nano
[lynx|links] - depends on my mood
screen
mpg123, ogg123
Emacs
X
Sawfish
Firefox
GAIM
GKrellM
Xmms
aterm
On a Mac:
Firefox
Developer Tools
It's sort of interesting that I use most of the default programs on a Mac, but not on Windows (and Linux, of course, doesn't have defaults)
Xine
Mplayer
gnuCash
Open Office
JEdit
Audacity
Evolution
Firefox
KDevelop
LAMP
Of course, a lot of these already come with most distros anyway...
(I had too)
Linux scumpuppy 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl #1 Wed Jan 7 13:08:26 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[scumpuppy]$ uptime 15:01:37 up 36 days, 2:12, 15 users, load average: 0.46, 0.36, 0.35
1- Midnight Commander
2- WinZIP
3- Winamp
4- Java SDK
5- Fire[bird|fox]
6- Visual Studio
7- MS Office
8- Adobe Acrobat
9- Ghost[script+view]
10- My \utility directory with a few hundred command line utilities, lviewpro, wfetch, and a bunch of other simple utilities.
Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. --Nietzsche
TweakUI, configure many useful hidden settings in Windows.
Open Command Window Here, useful for getting to the command prompt from any window you happen to be in.
Power Calculator, a great graphing calculator with built in function support. Very handy.
Online ClearType configuration, an online extra-powerful setup for the excellent ClearType subpixel font system in XP.
Then also turn off all the "hide extensions" and turn on "classic view".
Aside from that, the basics... AVG antivirus, FireFox, etc. But its good to see Microsoft actually providing some good extra utils for their OS.
I can give you the first few...
f fice
f fice
OSX:
System Update
Firefox or Camino
Development Kit/Package
Latest Acrobat
PhotoShop
vnc
OpenOffice
Solaris 8:
Latest Recommended Patchset
ufs logging
jass
ssh
screen
tripwire
Newest firefox/mozilla
acrobat
ImageMagick
vnc
OpenO
Solaris 9:
Latest Recommended Patchset
ufs logging
jass
screen
tripwire
Newest firefox/mozilla
acrobat
ImageMagick
vnc
OpenO
1. Moz Firefox (browser)
2. Photoshop (graphics)
3. Homesite (HTML/PHP Editor)
4. FileZilla (FTP)
5. PuTTY (ssh)
6. iTunes (media player)
7. Gaim (instant messenger)
8. SETI@Home (find aliens)
9. Java (excellent)
10. UT2K4 (ULTRA-KILL)
Common sense isn't.
I don't need to install anything. Windows XP ships with everthing I need.
(Don't ask why I posted AC!)
1. Windows update (But I do splitstream an XP SP1+hotfix install onto a CD anyway).
2. Latest video card drivers
3. Latest Sound Drivers
4. 7-zip (covers lots of compression formats)
5. Kerio Personal Firewall
6. Cygwin tools (for openssh and a few other things)
7. VanDyke SecureCRT. I know it's not free, but I like it more than Putty
8. iTunes
9. Gaim and the gaim encryption plugin
10. Firefox and the Tabbed Browser Extensions
After I install the OS (Windows XP) and security updates:
.NET
1. Office 2003
2. Visual Studio
3. SQL Server 2000 Desktop Edition
4. FileZilla
5. MSN Messenger
6. RSS Bandit
7. Photoshop 7
8. ActiveSync
9. Adobe Acrobat 6
10.BitTornado
Programs that come convienently bundled with XP
1. Internet Explorer
2. Windows Media Player
3. Folder Compression Zip Utility
Most answers will be the same I guess to a large extent. Everyone'll have browser, email client, media player, office suite, some utilities, games and something specific to their field of work.
For the record:
Firefox
Thunderbird
WinZip and WinRAR - I know I don't need both but...
WinAmp and iTunes - Winamp for video, iTunes for music and iPod synching
OpenOffice - so much better than MS Office for me, I wouldn't care if the prices were reversed (well maybe a little - but I'd still choose OO.o if MSO was free)
Audacity and CDex - Music editing and CD ripping, I got these from a previous ask slashdot on free Windows software
FileZilla - The best FTP program I've found, feel free to educate me
KaZaA Lite K++ - couldn't find this last time so I had to get Limewire to find the K++ installer!
And because of what I do, Apache, PHP, Opera.
Why is anything anything?
1) OO.o because I refuse to use MS Office now 2) Winzip because I'm a tool to the system 3) AdAware because Claria are a bunch of hosers 4) Photoshop 5) Illustrator (both are legal, thank you very much) 6) WinAmp 5.x because it makes me happy 7) EphPod because I like to circumvent the DRM on my iPod 8) ws_ftp because i love its simplicity
It's not stupid. It's advanced.
- Cygwin - get the POSIX environment on!
- PuTTY - the only terminal I've found that handles colors and stuff right.
- TightVNC - get to some other computer
- OO.o
- vim - I'm not even a VI guy, but it's fast and has nice hooks into explorer and I'm too lazy to deal with registering TextPad or whatever. JEdit's also nice, but way too slow for casual use... I usually go straight to emacs for that kind of editing.
- Mozilla / Firefox / etc. - and the plugins:
- Flash
- Acrobat Reader
- StumbleUpon toolbar - it's like having your own personalized fark (not that I read fark, but this is probably why)
- Winamp - get the groove on
- MPlayer - it handles just about all the codecs
- MultiDesk - usable multiple desktops for Windows... like getting that 10% productivity improvement for having dual monitors without having to pay 100% more in displays. If only it had a visual pager...
- Windows PowerToys - because every little option matters
Usually hit windowsupdate several times first, of course.More on Linux and MacOS X later, I guess...
VNC. Nothing like remote control of my box and the boxes in QA. Great for work at home; it's a bit slow over a modem, but you can do EVERYTHING over VNC.
Acronyms Obfuscate
On Windows:
Mozilla
OpenOffice
JEdit (just the most useful GUI text editor)
Python
Xitami (for a simple CGI web server)
BoaConstructor
MySQL
ZoneAlarm
Quicktime (plugin for Mozilla plays vids in browser)
The ZipWizard/UnzipWizard (shareware I didn't mind buying, works nicely)
As for Linux, I'd update some of the programs listed above, if necessary. But a lot of equivalent stuff (such as Apache) comes standard.
Always look on the briight side of life! (whistle, whistle)
I don't ever reinstall the OS. If the OS gets crufty, it's time to buy a new computer anyway (that comes with the OS). This might be marked as funny, but I'm serious!
In that case I'm not anything like you. I installed Red Hat Linux 9 in april 2003 and kept using it until I upgraded to Fedora Core 1 in april 2004. You asked for the first ten programs I installed, well I haven't installed ten programs yet, because Fedora Core 1 has almost everything I need. What I have installed is:
- netscape-communicator
- mplayer
- ogle
- xine
- xmms-mp3
And most of them I downloaded from freshrpms.net. And the reason I can tell you exactly what I have installed is, that I can just grep ^rpmDo you care about the security of your wireless mouse?
0a-Bootlegged Copy of WinXP 0b-Every single update on Windows Update, including driver updates, .NET framework,
1-Bootlegged Copy of OfficeXP
2-mIRC (with registration crack, hate having to look at Khaled Mardam-Bey's face everytime i use it)
3-FileZilla (just found this little FTP app a while ago on sourcefourge. Very nice, i like it ALOT)
4-Nero (with registration crack)
5-WinRAR (with registration crack)
6-Bootlegged copy of PhotoShop 8
7-FireFox (Use webmail, don't need an email client)
8-Ad-aware by Lavasoft (the free version)
9-Call of Duty (I actually purchased this one!!!)
10-Steam with CounterStrike (I actually purchased this one as well!!!)
"Some people re-install once a year, but if you're anything like me your machine is formatted at least once a month."
and
"Windows (I use it; get over it)"
You use Windows AND frequently re-install your system? What are the odds?
XNEWS & Porn Viewer... don't need anything else.
2+2=5 for extremely large values of 2
God has Windows become so bad now that you feel you have to reinstall every MONTH now??? When I used Windows 2000 I was forced to reinstal every year because the system would degrade, but every month?
I use Mac OS X and that means that I only reinstall on major system upgrades (yearly) and the reinstall is optional. But a reinstall on OS X that means something completely different than a reinstall under Windows.
Reinstalling the system on Mac OS X does not require reinstalling any applications. It does not require resetting any preferences. The reinstall leaves the users and applications just as you had them. The whole process takes only as long as it takes to copy the files off of the CD, no fuss no bother, a brand new system, with all of your stuff as you left it.
Why put up with anything else?
Windows Update Sun JDK Delphi MingW w/ shell utilities UltraEdit CutePDF Writer Adobe Acrobat Reader Daemon Tools WinAmp Nero
A antivirus for sure especially since u are on windows. -Cygwin (X-windows + ssh + gcc) -Gaim -CloneCD, BindWrite, ...
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with this list --
Besides common sense (proper hardening of the host), personal firewalls and
up-to-date Anti-Virus signatures, here's my favorite tools. Most (all?) are
freeware; some have commercial counterparts or upgrades. Just about all will
run on the entire Windows family (9x thru 2K).
#1 - Bootable recovery CD's and floppy's -- great for recovery and forensics
F.I.R.E http://biatchux.dmzs.com/
Knoppix http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
Linuxcare Bootable Toolbox http://lbt.linuxcare.com/index.epl
LNX-BBC http://www.lnx-bbc.org/
Trinux (w/ appropriate FAT/NTFS packages)
http://trinux.sourceforge.net/
#2 - Cygwin -- gotta have the familiar tools under 'doze!
http://www.cygwin.com/
2.5 - gvim -- for those times when vim under cygwin isn't enough.
http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc
#3 - Ethereal -- best dang (cross-platform) network & packet analyzer. PERIOD.
http://www.ethereal.com/
#4 - snort and IDSCenter -- Best Intrusion Detection
http://www.snort.org
http://www.snort.org/dl/contrib/front_ends/ids_ce
#5 - nmap -- best port scanner
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
5.5 - NessusWX -- Windows client for nessus vulnerability scanner
http://www.nessus.org/
http://nessuswx.nessus.org/
#6 - GPG -- encrypt files and email between incident handlers.
GPG http://www.gnupg.org/
Outlook and other Windows mail plugins
http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/related_software/fronte
#7 - Trillian -- encrypt IM traffic between handlers (esp. during an
incident)!
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/trillian/index.htm
#8 - PuTTY -- ssh terminal for when cygwin/OpenSSH isn't available.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
#9 - AdAware -- a scan everyday keeps the spyware away!
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
#10 - TightVNC -- great remote control of desktops. Improves on the original.
http://www.tightvnc.com/intro.html
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
-- brianc (too lazy to login)
The first program I always install on Linux is sshd/telnetd. So I can access the system and configure it some more through a usable GUI environment like MacOS or Windows.
Yeah, pretty boring. But with my setup, distcc approximately triples compilation speed. And yes, the wait is definitely worth it.
So I got that going for me, which is nice.
IWARS.
People, in general, disappoint me. Politicians even more so.
Trillian, Winrar, Firefox, Winamp, SmartFTP, Azureus, NMap, GKrellM, PowerDVD
Pirate much? Those look like the perfect apps for making a HUGE pr0n collection. No wonder he reinstalls so much.
"Hey, Johnny, I need to use your computer tonight."
"Yeah, no problem, Mom. Let me just format and reinstall really quick."
distcc
ccache
firefox
openoffice
evolution
gaim
xmms
mplayer
tvtime
nmap
That ought to last more than a month
no god is good
My wife's XP box got zapped by too much spyware so I decided to rebuild. Thus far my install CDs are:
Windows XP Professional
HP Deskjet printer drivers
Mozilla
Norton Internet Securtiy 2004 (includes Antivirus and Firewall)
Office2000 premium
PalmZire install CD (Palm Desktop)
iTunes for Windows
This is all I am allowing her to install (thanks "admin" rights) unless she is willing to try out OO.o
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
gcc, without it how can I build up all the rest of app from my ports tree
windows
1. winamp
2. gaim
3. firefox
4. thunderbird
5. gimp 2.0
6. abiword
7. nvidia drivers
8. more nvidia drivers
9. sound blaster drives
10. other drivers
linux
1. firefox
2. gaim
3. xmms
4. mplayer
5. gimp
6. abiword
7. thunderbird
8. gkrellm
9. nedit
10. xfce4
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Usually after patching a xp-pro box I install:
Acrobat
Open Office
Gimp
Ad-Aware (and update and run it)
Core FTP Lite (for SFTP)
Firefox
Thunderbird
Then I start adding the costly stuff according to the client/user:
McAfee/Norton/Whatever (I prefer McAfee)
MS Office
Photoshop
Etc
I set as much stuff to autoupdate and install nightly (Windows Update, Virus Software). I instruct the user to run Ad-Aware periodically.
I try to gently nudge them off Outlook for security reasons. Like get them to try Firefox/Thunderbird as default programs instead by trying to sell the cool features like blockup blocking, tabbed browsing, google search bar, smart junk filter, but really I just want them to move off Outlook/IE more for security reasons, but that's a hard sell.
Then I start removing as much system tray stuff as makes sense, and check the registry for background processes we can do without. I set some performance settings (fading menus, etc) for faster user experience, and turn off all instances of personalized menus I can.
Oh and I make a back door support account on machines for when I have to work on them when they aren't there, or when they forget their password.
I used to do disk imaging a la Norton Ghost, and Drive Image, but with XP it's more work maintaining the image than it is to rebuild a machine. If I were back in a more uniform large install base I would probably go back to imaging, but maybe not. XP can be pretty stable. I love XP/OS X soooooo much better than the 9x and os 9x days. Those were crappy OS's in terms of stability.
1. Windows Updates 2. AIM 3. DeadAIM 4. iTunes 5. DivX 6. Microsoft Office 7. WinRAR 8. Newest ForceWare 9. Windows Media Encoder 10. Diskeeper
When I get a new system/rebuild a system I install:
:)
1) Linux (Fedora Core 1 at the moment)
2) apt
3) vim-X11 (gotta have gvim!)
4) guarddog
5) cvsps
6) patchutils
7) PyQt
8) dia
9) graphviz
10) wget
Then we start getting into 'depends on the task' with such things as a2ps, xdelta, rdiff-backup, etc.
I'm starting to think about making a script that grabs apt, installs it, and then installs all my favorite toys. Then, do a fresh minimal install and see what happens.
1) Photoshop
:)
2) Illustrator
3) GoLive
4) MS Word
5) Mozilla
6) RBrowser
7) BBEdit
8) Director
9) X Code
10) Flash
The rest of my toys come with the default OS X install
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
Windows
1. Norton Anti Virus
1b. Live Update NAV
2. Windows Patches (all)
3. Google Toolbar (stop popups)
4. MS Office or OpenOffice
5. Mozilla
Linux
1. apt (On a Fedora Core Box)
1a. apt-get dist-upgrade
1b. kde-redhat
1c. clamav
2. Firefox
3. mplayer & codec pack
4. mplayerplug-in
Total Commander (Windows Commander) => http://www.ghisler.com/
Can't use Explorer and I really like that the interface/functionality is similar to Midnight Commander and good old Norton Commmander.
CDBurnerXP Pro is a great free
CD and DVD burning software for Windows.
Screw Roxio.
I actually have to reinstall XP pretty soon, so my list is ready.
(Sure you can say I'm wrong, but I like knowing I can read all the formats)
1. Everything on Windows Update
2. KaZaA Lite Mega Codec Pack (Includes G-Spot, 4CC and Media Player Classic)
3. Quicktime
4. Real Player (Like I said, it's good to have it when you need it)
5. Trillian Pro (Pay for it people)
6. True Launch Bar (.com, TLB is an overhauled Quicklaunch bar with menus and a bunch of other stuff. I reallllllllly recommend it)
7. JavaRTE 1.5 whatever
8. WinRar
9. WinZip (You need both. The built-in Windows crap is junk)
10. Winamp
That should you get you running on 99% of websites. Since SP2 adds popup blocking, I'm able to fit more programs in the 10 without ALSO recommending the Google Toolbar.
On a PC (not in order):
1. Flash Desktops
2. Eclipse
3. Oracle Client (maybe Server)
4. PL/SQL Developer
5. Cygwin (and Cygwin Here)
6. XEmacs
7. PuTTY/psftp/pscp
8. JDK (latest)
9. Weblogic 8.1
10. Perforce/cvs/subversion
Share and Enjoy!
Black Ice is a ridiculous product with many security issues of its own. Do your own Googling.
The best of the worst in software firewalls IMHO is Norton Internet Security. Good support, and if it hoses your TCP/IP stack (like most any software-based firewall has a tendency to do over time...), there's at least well documented support.
If they're a dialup user, security patch the hell out of the box and be done with it. If they're broadband, figure out a way to put a hardware solution in there. Don't compromise the stability of the TCP/IP stack with software filtering. I don't know how many machines I've had to rebuild the stacks on because of shitty software-based firewalls for Windows.
And, as always, YMMV.
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but if you're anything like me your machine is formatted at least once a month
It's pretty sad when your computer is reformatted more often than you get laid
- Suse Linux default install (there is almost anything i need, maybe just install mplayer from sources to avoid SuSE's policy on some file formats)
- Mandrake Linux default install
- Mepis default install
(not including Fedora just because i don't tried it)And that's it. Anyone of those alternatives already have most i could want, including most what was suggested here (well, no antivirus, no adblocker, etc that have no meaning in linux). Maybe i would install some spam blocker (i.e. popfile is an easy one that is not in the default installation of those distributions), maybe add some alternative choices (opera is nice, and if well all those have their own firewall, i could choose another one i.e. shorewall), but by default the system gets installed pretty well.
Not counting a zillion Patches
1) Winzip
2) Office
3) Adobe Reader
4) Mozilla
5) CD Burning Software
6) AD Aware
7) My Work Stuff (Development Tools)
8) Anarchy Online
9) Unreal Tournament
10) A Picture of my dog for wallpaper
(If at first you don't succeed, do it different next time!)
I think there are only 6 really critical programs I need, besides everything bundled already with windows:
- WinRAR: compression utility
- SecureCRT: ssh client
- Emacs: text editor
- PSI: jabber client
- Palm Desktop: contact management/treo syncing
- FlashFXP: ftp client
After those, I guess I'd install these:I guess if I could install more I'd then get eMule, acrobat reader, powerpoint, Yahoo Intellisync, XBConnect, XIso, FireFox, Daemon Tools, and Win994a Simulator!
Dude, just buy the shareware that you're using, so you'll get the full versions, it will stop bitching at you, and you'll be supporting software shops other than The Microsoft. Or set your clock back, don't keep reinstalling Windows.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
On recent installs of OS X, I have usually gone with: XCode MS Office (it sucks, but I am on a Windows campus) Photoshop TinyFugue Roxio Toast NetHack Leechster BitchX Fink iTerm Now you know!
You can kiss a nun... Just don't get into the habit.
Besides drivers I install:
:(
I try to only install freeware, check out THE best freeware site that exists: www.pricelessware.org
1) Startup Monitor - Catch programs trying to add to your startup
2) Zip Genius - freeware unzipper
3) Mozilla
4) TextPad and gVim - freeware txt editors
5) Java SDK
6) iTunes, WinAmp and Nero - for music
7) Symantic Anti-Virus - free through work...
8) WinDvD - no good freeware out there
9) OpenOffice
10) NETHACK! and other games...
...VMWare and create 50 virtual machines on it.
.. sorry, no, not Os X, just Darwin, if you want, but that is already covered in part by BSD, the 10 first on the japanese version of windows, the 10 first on the polish version of windows, the 10 first on OS2, the 10 first on BeOS, and using emulators, the 10 first on Apple][, the 10 first on ...
Imagine, 50 full install a month, a dream come true...
And you could compare the 10 first on Windows, the 10 first on Linux, the 10 first on BSD (how long will it be dying ?), the 10 first on solaris, the 10 first on
Get a life, dude.
$ uptime
15:30:52 up 172 days, 1:48, 1 user, load average: 0.14, 0.13, 0.12
perhaps you *should* switch your OS if you waste that much time reinstalling every month.
I am not going to say linux because if you have read here and still don't use it then you have linux-fear.. try mac, that sounds more like your speed.
anime+manga together at last.. in real time.
(Windows update), Spybot S&D, Startup Cop, TweakUI, Editeur (or another good notepad replacement), a set of DOS-compatible unix command line utilities (tar,gzip,etc.), Mozilla/Firefox, Eudora, 4dTime (NNTP time sync), WinZip, and an SSH client (SecureCRT).
aterm
gaim
mplayer
firefox
nedit
rox
sylpheed
xmms
grip
irssi
Time makes more converts than reason
Mirc
Firefox
Newsbin
Winrar
Clonecd
Clonedvd
Alcohol 120
Nero 6 ultra
Instant copy 8.05
Blindwrite 5
A decent file manager:
midnight commander for win32
windows commander
1) Firefox
//start feeling human again at this point
2) Winamp
3) Trillian
4) Winrar
5) Motherboard Monitor
6) 3DMark
7) PowerDVD
8) Thunderbird
9) Photoshop
10) Visual Studio
I generally reformat about once every 6 months. I used to reformat once a month when I ran Windows 98, but XP is stable enough that I am usually able to go a few months before it starts chugging.
joe of course. A person can not live without joe.
(this is after bootstrap and emerge system are complete)
01) vim
02) Xorg (used to be XFree86... but, you know)
03) Enlightenment
04) gAIM
05) Eterm
06) irssi
07) XMMS
08) Firefox
09) Ximian Evolution
10) Never Winter Nights
Jeepers, if you are formatting that often why not install your apps, make sure everything is running fine and then make a Ghost image at that point? Then when things go wonky with your system, Ghost it.
Voila! 5 minutes later you won't have to re-install anything except whatever you installed after you made the Ghost.
I have Windows installed on one partition, and most of my apps on another partition. This keeps the Ghost size down.
Because my programs are on another partition, even if I do have to format the Windows drive a lot of my apps don't even have to be reinstalled, I just make a new shortcut to them.
nobody asked, but that won't stop me from answering :)
For AIM: Adium
For a tweaked OS: Cocktail and TinkerTool
For a better OS: my collection of haxies for Unsanity's Application Enhancer (ClearDock, FruitMenu, Metallifizer, Mighty Mouse, ShapeShifter, SharedMenus, Silk, WindowShade X)
For privacy/security: NetBarrier, PeerVanguard (not because I trade P2P, but because I wear a tinfoil hat), Little Snitch
Helpful apps: Butler, QuickSilver, DragThing
For everything else: VLC, SBook5, Transmit, Path Finder, Apple Dev Tools
it's more than 10, but those are all put almost instantly on every fresh OS X install I touch.
If you get nervous, just remember that there are a few billion other people who don't really give a damn.
The list of the top 10 in the story and the top 10 of other posters with...
what the IT department puts onto new machines.
It's, like, different.
"Provided by the management for your protection."
Windows: Firefox Thunderbird Gabber 2 WinRar iTunes NAV corporate edition Ethereal nmap Linux: Firefox Thunderbird Gabber xmms nmap ethereal bittorrent (the-shadow or ABC) aterm screen
I'm a developer (win32, linux)
;)
So here's my install list:
1. Cygwin (www.cygwin.com). That gives nice cvs and ssh. And gcc on win32.
2. Far file manager (www.farmanager.com its origins is russia, so there's cyrillic). Supports windows explorer context menus through plugin. I mostly use it for file management, cvs checkins/outs
2. TortoiseCVS (nice plugin, allows to do all CVS stuff with context menus)
3. TortoiseSVN: the same for subversion
4. WinCVS
5. WinMerge
6. VMware workstation 4.5.1 (I have OSes on my computer: 4 Linuxes - varios flavour, 1 freebsd, 2 win3k2, 1 win2k, 1 win98, 1 win95). And yes, I have licenses for them (through company's MSDN subscription) and license for VMware Workstation too.
7. Ethereal & WinPCAP
8. Visual C++ of course
9. ActivePerl
10. MS Office (that's just a question of interop)
- Arwen, I'm your father, Agent Smith.
- Well, you're just Smith, but my father is Aerosmith!
Well, when I install linux I usually have everything I need. However, when I move to a new Windows machine (at work, for example) there are some things I need to install:
Later on I eventually end up installing:
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler
If (or when) I need to reinstall the OS from my Windows box, I always export the local_machine\software and current_user\software registry keys, take out the "Microsoft" subkeys (so it wont screw up the new windows install afterwards), then delete my windows directory, and after installing a new copy I import those keys to the fresh Windows install. After that all the programs I had installed before still work fine and there's no need to reinstall those.
in no particular order....
d
vim
firefox
xmms
nicotine
xchat
thunderbir
gaim
aterm
tightvnc
openoffice
I usually reinstall every 6 months but that's because I like to download a lot of new apps and try them out. Dlls left behind from uninstallers, extra fonts and spyware take away from the life of my Windows installation.
:) Maybe time for a new base ghost image too!
This is what I put in (after I do the million window updates for W2K and add my scanner/camera software and media apps (Quicktime, winamp 5, shockwave))
1. McAffee antivirus + updates
2. Office 2003 + updates
3. BitTorrent
4. Ultra Edit 10.10c
5. Xfire (to keep track of what and where my buddies are playing online)
6. ACDSee 6
7. Station Ripper
8. Nero 6.x.x.x
9. Ghost (and then make an image of that puppy)
10. Games of the day (Far Cry, Painkiller, COH at the moment)
Interesting to see what other people are using.. think I'll be doing some digging again..
First 10 Programs -
Mozilla
Office 2000
WinAmp
Symantec Anti-Virus
Adobe Acrobat (Full not just the Reader)
Boinc (Was Seti@home)
Winrar
Alcohol 120
Emule
Forte Agent
Ok that's 11, But that's everything
Audiograbber (With Lame)
1. Proxomitron - awesome web filter.
2. mSys+mSysDTK+MinGW (extremely useful *nix tools that don't require a Cygwin shell)
3. Winroll -Next best thing to a useful Windows desktop manager
4. Sysinternals utilities
5. Vim!!
Of course others, but they've been mentioned above.
- MS SP & critical updates & TweakUI
- Proxomitron (this is old now, might look for sommat else?)
- Firefox, Thunderbird & Java runtime
- 7-Zip
- Daemon Tools
- foobar2000 and plugins (mmm sweet)
- Media Player Classic, and QuicktimeAlt and RealAlternative, ffdshow and ReClock (the video package)
- BitTornado, SoulSeek & eMule (the P2P package )
- IrFanView (mmm sweet)
- OpenOffice (pain to set up) & MS Office
I just had a primary hard drive die so I had to think about this todayThis is my Sig, this is my Gun. One is for Slashdot and one is for Fun.
- HT Editor
- Far on Windows / Midnight Commander on Linux
I guess you can find them on every computer I ever worked.- gentoo linux
- FreeBSD
- bash
- vim
- perl
- ruby
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Apache
- PHP
- links www browser
- wget
- K Desktop Environment
- Mozilla Firefox
- xchat
- gimp
- Openoffice.org
slashcode has some weird funky rule that makes only lets this code post if i type in this line of fillerbrowser: firefox
firewall: zonealarm
music: winamp
zip util: winzip
IM client: trillian
text editor: editplus
ssh client: putty
music utils: mkwact
images: photoshop
security: ad-aware
La via sola al paradiso incommincia nel inferno
If you're a developer, I'd recommend checking out this list of must-have tools: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/content/radiostories /2003/09/09/scottHanselmansUltimateDeveloperAndPow erUsersToolsList.html
gaim and winscp go on my windows installs pretty quick.
tasty electronic music vittles
1. Office XP
2. Spybot
3. Adobe Photoshop
4. Zone Alarm Pro
5. Firefox
6. Trillian
7. Nero
8. Norton Antivirus
9. Winrar
10. Snood
I have win2000 pro, and I never have to reinstall it. Had the same install for over 18 months now without a hitch.
- 4NT
- Photoshop
- Cygwin
- FlashGet
- Winzip
- Visual C++ 6
- SCiTe
- etc...
Anyways I have not reinstalled for years, only refresh a installation to fix a side effect bug.
-Woof woof woof!
\\COW has been up for: 108 day(s), 20 hour(s), 20 minute(s), 41 second(s)
I know people have problems with Windows but c'mon.
1. Zone Alarm Pro (software firewall)
2. Ad-Aware (spyware killer)
3. Sophos Anti-Virus (anti-virus package)
4. Opera (browser that Mozilla, etc play catch-up to)
5. Eudora plus Hotmail Popper (email client, plus applet that allows POP3 access to Hotmail)
6. Winzip / WinRAR (compression tools)
7. Winamp (media player)
8. Adobe Reader (PDF reader)
9. dBpowerAMP (fantastic audio ripping tool)
10. Azureus (Java-based BitTorrent client)
In fact, that set up is what I would consider to be "bare bones". Some people might prefer different applications (AVG instead of Sophos, Firefox instead of Opera, etc) but those are the tools that every PC user should have.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Mozilla - So I can see the web without ActiveX and with tabs
MS Office 2000 - The gold standard. No calling the mothership.
Cygwin - So I can actually do something on the console
ImageMagik - batch image work for auction pics
Quicken - gotta keep track of cash
Palm Desktop - 'Cause of my Palm
AdAware - Because my wife still uses IE
That's it!
Actually that's what ends up on the home laptops (not including wireless network drivers etc...) because they are basically internet kiosks for me, the wife and kids. Other "working" machines (Linux installs, desktops...) are loaded up with what they need to do their function. Games, video editing software, development tools, Apache, etc...
Of course work is different...
=Shreak
... the (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/07/20332 53) last time this question was asked.
-j
Network drivers
AC97 On Board sound drivers
Display drivers
SB Live Drivers
Hauppauge WinTV Drivers and applications
Drivers and Applications for my other TV Tuner Card
WinXP security updates
(not really an installation) Spend about 90 minutes configuring my system
DivX Codec
Ok, I confess, I have a LOT more
AC3 ACM
AC3 Filter
Winamp 5
Office 97 (I know, I am a cheap bastard)
CoolEdit Pro
EXT2 File System Driver
Visio Technical 5.0 (before it became a MS product, I actually found this online)
WinBatch
Ad-Aware (Funny, I don't actually NEED this anymore)
MSN Messenger
DVD Decrypter
XMpeg
I haven't been in the Linux world long enough.... The only packages I install at this point are XMMS and Wine.
Better yet, I have WinME installed on my slave with Norton Ghost installed on it so I can back up/restore my XP and Mandrake Partitions.
Calling atheism and agnosticism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.
I've yet to reinstall OS X on my iBook after 2 years but if and when there are several that are amazing and essential.
Quicksilver- by far the most elegent (free too) app launcher and more. It's having the ability to launch almost anything from the keyboard. An iTunes playlist, email an address book contact, launch a webpage and so on...
Transmit- best FTP program on any platform, better than Smart FTP on Windows
Net News Wire Lite- great free CSS reader
xPad- its like a notepad but a million times better and useful
Slim Battery Monitor- take back your menu space while still getting the same information
Weather Pop- So simple it should've been a part of OS X
The good people over at OSnews.com wrote a great article about the Mac OS X Applications You Can't Live Without last Dec. It's missing Quicksilver but has some good suggestions of some damn good applications.
1. Generals
2. Generals - Zero Hour expansion
3. Rise Of Nations
4. Warcraft III
5. Age Of Kings
6. Command and Conquer Red Alert 2
7. CnC Yuris Revenge
8. Battlefield 1942
9. MotoGP
10. Superbike 2001
That usually gets me started.
Of course, the only time I've ever reinstalled was when I upgraded the HDD in my notebook a couple of weeks ago. And that was essentially just copying ~/ off the old drive from a USB enclosure.
- Firefox
- Plucker Distiller
- Up-to-date PyGTK
- Nicotine
- Pan (if I forgot to select it on the initial install)
- Grip (ditto)
- EasyTag (")
- Nano
- DamnSmallLinux (Okay, not a "new program", but I try to grab a fresh ISO whenever I can.)
Hmmm... looking at this list, it looks like a substantial number of my must-have apps are GTK. Which is wierd, because I prefer KDE as a desktop environment. Go figure.
hang brain.
I always install Fprot antivirus, ethereal, nmap, and gftp. Installation of linux isn't complete without these tools. I use Nmap to test the firewalls on my network, Ethereal to look for unwanted traffic or communication problems behind my router, and gFTP is a nice GUI FTP client that never seems to come with default installs. Although, Linux isn't as susceptible to virus and trojan issues, it's nice to at least have a scanner available.
wow, this A/. is getting a record amount of trolling
on my windos box
1) Drivers (this could be all 10)
2) PPPoE dialer (not too selective on what one)
3) Winamp
4) VideoLan
5) FireFox
6) ThunderBird
7) SpyBot S&D
8) Trillian
9) Visual Studio
10) Nero
On my Slackware box im pretty happy with what it comes with, I pretty much just install OpenOffice then spend the next few hours configuring everything how I like it.
FileZilla ( http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/) is fantastic from my point of view. I once was a hige fan of SmartFTP like the reader and the majority of posters, but once I've started using this I haven't gone back. And, as opposed to being Shareware, it's free (beer & speech!)
Well, I run Windows on my home PC and reinstall every second year. (Oh, i'm Anonymous Coward..) Hey, it's true! I mostly game on my pc, sometimes new games forces me to fight new graphics drivers and ActiveX into submission, but it hardly requires reinstalls to get it back in shape.
Current OS is W2k, installed on 21. june 2002. Time for a reinstall, it seems. And my first 10 installs will be:
Service packs
Hotfixes
Winzip
Winamp
Office
Adobe Acrobat reader
VMware (whoops, work thingie)
Ethereal (more work, duh)
Battlefield 1942
Warcraft 3
Hmm. I won't need many more programs, thanks.
0. Install service packs, patches. .jpg viewer
:
:
1. Adobe Acrobat
2. Acdsee -
3. AdSubtract - popup stopper
4. Diskeeper - advanced defragger
5. WinZip
6. ZTree - www.ztree.com - CUI file manager that faithfully replicates XTree Gold 2.x
7. WS_FTP
On beefy machines I will be using for work or intense fun
8. MS Office
9. Visual Studio
10. VMware
If it has a burner
11. Nero
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
My List: .Net - software dev
Slickrun - by bayden software, floating command prompt
Trillian - im client
FireFox - web browser
RealVNC - client/server each box needs remote admin
Azureus - mmm bittorrent
FileZilla - ftp client/server, sourceforge
MS Visual Studio
WinAmp - tunes
OpenOffice
Thunderbird
Of course this dosen't include the numeriace tweaks/patches to the system, like disabling systemrestore/remote assiant/messenger or using hacks to remove MSN Messenger. Also missing are games.
I wish I could say all of this was shareware/freeware, but it's not... this is how I make my money:
Adobe Creative Suite
Quark - If you can get through the serial number BS
VLC
Microsoft Office X
Macromedia Dreamweaver
NetNewsWire Lite
HandBrake
Fugu
Keynote
StuffIt
I use Linux, so I format maybe once a year and pretty much any program I could want is already included. However, there are a few exceptions, mostly including non-open source software. Here is the short list:
1) Mplayer
2) LimeWire
3) ebmsync (for my ebookman)
4) VMWare
5) Opera
And that's about it. There's probably a few things that I'm missing, but these are the important ones.
Linux:
- Midnight Commander
- Firefox
- Thunderbird
- MPlayer
- XEmacs
- GQview
- Inkscape CVS
- GIMP 2
- Links (perfect for daily news sites check)
- UnRAR (have lots of old DOS archives in that format)
Windows:
- FAR
- Kaspersky
- CygWin
- Python & Perl
- Firefox
- Thunderbird
- BSPlayer (sorry MPlayer for windows does not run as smooth yet, although more convenient to use)
- Xemacs
- IrphanView
- Inkscape
Within the same 10 apps limit, Windows has to spend a few ones on just making the system barely safe and usable. And among the remaning ones, the best apps are usually on Linux, Windows ones are ports or imitations (one exception is FAR which is still better than mc).
iLife '04 ;)
Blender
JEdit
NeoOffice/J
XCode (dev tools don't install automatically)
BitTorrent
iDVD Hack
Fink
CyberDuck FTP
Python
Freecell (use to be a Windows user)
0. Cygwin
1. JDK
2. Eclipse
3. GVim
4. Firefox
5. OO.Org
6. Acrobat Reader
7. PowerArchiver
8. WS-FTP
9. Ad-Aware (which is then run)
-m
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# Modus Ponens
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- X11
- Mac OS X Dev Tools
- Fink
- AdiumX
- FireFox
- Civ III
- Studio MX
- GraphicConvertor
- OmniGraffle Pro
- Transmit
I've only had to reinstall once (after un-partitioning my drives), but that'll be the order once I get my new Powerbook.(Do those count? They come with the OS, but you kinda have to install the seperately. Oh well.)
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
0a-Bootlegged Copy of WinXP
0b-Every single update on Windows Update, including driver updates, .NET framework,
1-Bootlegged Copy of OfficeXP
2-mIRC (with registration crack, hate having to look at Khaled Mardam-Bey's face everytime i use it)
3-FileZilla (just found this little FTP app a while ago on sourcefourge. Very nice, i like it ALOT)
4-Nero (with registration crack)
5-WinRAR (with registration crack)
6-Bootlegged copy of PhotoShop 8
7-FireFox (Use webmail, don't need an email client)
8-Ad-aware by Lavasoft (the free version)
9-Call of Duty (I actually purchased this one!!!)
10-Steam with CounterStrike (I actually purchased this one as well!!!)
I hope that by formatting, and reinstalling you mean, restoring a disk image? Ghost is the best I've found, not free (beer or speech), but saves you _a lot_ of time. If anyone knows a free equivalent let me know. Oh, and as someone else probably have mentioned, Ad-Aware and Spybot might save you the trouble...
0.nvidia drivers
1.amsn
2.firefox
3.mplayer+codecs
4.ogle
5.btdownloadcurses.py
After that I restore my porn/mp3 collection. I can usually go for several weeks before having to install anything else. As I need them, I install..
6.RealOne player (to listen to BBC 2)
7.WineX
8.$Nes_Emulator
9.mpgtx (for joining mpeg files)
If there's some reason I can't install Linux natively, I install VMware and install Linux inside that. Though my preference, by far, is to install Linux natively (and run Windows in VMware if necessary).
If I absolutely had to run Windows, I install Mozilla, GNU Emacs, Cygwin (or MinGW/MSYS), SecureCRT, TortoiseSVN, 7-Zip, OpenOffice, Acrobat Reader, and sometimes Ghost.
I've had mine a year and I haven't had to once... I've barely had to reboot!
-MacOSX
Hey, whaddayaknow, that's ten.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
I haven't read all the comments so this might be redundant but, are all y'all nuts? Reinstalling the OS once a month or even once a year? Holy shit! My current box is 4 years old and I've never reinstalled the OS and hope I never have to.
1
norton antivirus 9 (enterprise)
2
all windows updates on XP
3
ad-aware
4
mirc
5
office 2k
6
aim (new one with no lovely wild
7
yahoo messenger(the new beta)
9
emule
10
aol client (they stuck me on in a 6 month commitment, after my free 1 yr trial that came with dell) BBB should come to the rescue anytime.
- Fink - get the GNU POSIX environment on!
- OSXVNC - get somewhere else
- OO.o
- Mozilla / Firefox / etc. - and the plugins:
- Flash
- Acrobat Reader
- StumbleUpon toolbar - it's like having your own personalized fark (not that I read fark, but this is probably why)
- MPlayer - it handles just about all the codecs
- WS Manager - Multiple desktop manager. I'm too cheap to pay to upgrade from OS 10.2 to 10.3 for Exposé, even with my wife's educational discount.
Of course there's all the stuff from their autoupdater too. Heh, notice it's a bit smaller than the Windows listOpera, Xemacs, ActiveState perl and Cygwin.
Nothing like free market research, eh? :-)
After installing all the appropriate device drivers, the first ten items on my list would be -
1. Symantec Drive Image 2. OpenOffice.org 3. Sygate Personal Firewall Pro 4. NOD32 Anti-Virus 5. PestPatrol 6. iolo System Mechanic 7. WinRAR 8. Mozilla Firefox 9. UltraEdit 10. Nero Burning ROM
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
In addition to the standard patches and virus scanner: 1. Visual Studio .NET for Enterprise Architects
2. MSDN Library
3. Microsoft Office System 2003 (Word, Excel, FrontPage, etc)
4. SQL Server 2000
5. Microsoft Sharepoint
6. Visio for Enterprise Architects
7. Virtual PC
8. SharpReader
9. The GIMP
10. Google Toolbar
1) Firefox 2) Eudora 3) Winamp 4) PowerArchiver (my personal fave alternative to WinRAR and WinZIP) 5) AdAware 6) Wordperfect 7) Irfanview 8) Trillian 9) Filezilla 10) Azureus
Its hard to hate a company named claria. Partially, because its so easy to mistake it for the name of a pharmecutical. If you didn't remind me that they were gator, I wouldn't have remebered. I guess I remebered gator so easily because I had to remove all their spyware every couple of weeks from my parents computer when I was living at home. I suppose that I would grow to hate Claria just as much If I still lived with them. Now I just reinstall windows every month or so. Hey, maybe Claria is why this guy is installing windows every month!
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Among the first things I do after an install is generally tasksel -s -n, which installs far more than ten programs. Either that or I edit the apt configuration files to select the Sarge distribution and an apt-get dist-upgrade which, again, installs far more than ten programs.
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Open mind, insert foot.
Norton
Adaware
spybot
and spyware blaster
Then you are ready for the other stuff.
ah forget all that pain just get a real OS such Mac OS X or Linux
1st, the "asker" did not have to specify that he used Windows. To my knowledge, that OS is the only one that needs a booster shot every 12 months or so. Disclaimer: I don't know much about Windows, but I did use it for a while a few years ago. Anyway, the top 10 software installs are very different depending on who you are, and I would guess that you know better than I or anyone else what you need to install.
On windows, can't you just do a print screen or something with the "Installed Applications" section of the control panel? Go through that list and simply put a check besides the ones that you "need" and chalk the other apps as something that was just an experiment. You could also take a look at your "Program Files" folder if thats any easier or different than the control panel.
I also found it interesting what programs you picked to install. I havn't heard of Trillian, Azureus, GKrellM, or PowerDVD. Most windows users throw Office on there in minutes of an install. A small percentage install a more featurefull web browser. Many throw a bunch of games. On a Windows system, I personally had to install VIM, UN*X toys like ncftp, cygnus, Perl, and whatever the latest mozilla variant that does web stuff. Of course Putty so I can go to other machines too. Oh yeah, I also think its necessary for windows to have antivirus software and that antispyware stuff too. (Fun!)
Instead of asking millions of strangers what software you should install on your computer that you use all the time and apparently have been for multiple years to know what kind of maintence that you have to do to keep your system running, maybe you should ask yourself if its really worthwhile to spend this much time annually to do such a thing. I have never reinstalled Solaris, Linux, or anything for that matter besides Windows and DOS. I have only done minor OS/kernel upgrades, its not worth my time to upgrade or fix somthing that is not already broken. I get a new personal machine every 2.5-5 years, and spend about a month or two tweaking it to how I want, and its a pain. During that time I'm always finding something that I missed, and need to go out to download it. I like getting new hardware, but I hate the time spent to get it up to par. So, can anyone else help this guy figure out what software he needs to put on his computer? (Ask Slashdots are getting worse here laterly).
on my 2k box:
1. Service Packs and hotfixes
2. NAV
3. ZoneAlarm
3. TweakUI
4. StartupCPL (from mlin.net)
5. WinSCP & putty
6. mIRC
7. Winamp
8. Unix32 tools & 2k Resource kit
9. Cygwin
10. 4NT
Can I light a sig ?
I primarily use my machine for programming .. so:
...)
MS Visual Studio
Borland Builder
Cygwin
ActiveState Python
ActiveState Perl
(AS's implementations integrate nicely with WSH)
MIT Scheme
MinGW Developer Studio
AIM
Gaim
FireFox
MS Office
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Strokeit (excellent mouse gestures program)
A _ton_ of libraries (boost, wxWidgets, SDL
Kerio Personal Firewall - great software firewall, a must on any Windows box
F-Prot AntiVirus - another must have, antivirus software
Tray Wizard - extentions to 2K system tray
DAEMON Tools - mount ISO images off your harddrive to virtual CD drives
FlashFXP - FTP Client with loads of nice features
UltraEdit - must have text editor, nice features such as syntax highlighting
IrfranView - multi-format image viewer
Media Player Classic - replacement for WMP that blows it out of the water
WinRAR - multi-format archive app
PuTTY
Other than hotfixes...
... not to mention it's free
Firefox
Thunderbird
SSH
Java 1.5.1 beta SDK
Jedit (the the text editor for coding I've ever used
Ruby
Trillian
GNU Utilities for Win32 (about 120 handy command line tools for Win, like ls, tar, diff, wget, less, you know, all the stuff you try typing at the cmd prompt in windows realizing, after you hit enter, that it doesn't work)
Okay, so thats not ten... but those are the first. I should also mention that one of the VERY first things that gets done is the _uninstallation_ of MSN Messenger.
I primarily use Linux, and with sane package maintenance/upgrades, etc. I only usually install once every few years, generally to get new features. Mozilla, OpenOffice, etc. all get installed by the distro these days, so last time the first things I installed were a set of older tools to get at older files and then some commercial software:
- The Andrew User Interface System (for ez)
- WordPerfect 8 for Linux
- xv
- Crossover Office
- Loki games
- Oh, and a custom kernel
I reinstall XP on my Windows partition pretty much every time I need to use Windows; it's the only way to keep the damn thing working properly. So then, the list goes:
- Reinstall XP
- Install whatever program I was planning on using
A day or two using XP and IE and the thing is already full of spyware and things are beginning to break (in the XP install that I did last week, Windows Media Player will no longer start, for example).
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
You reinstall that often exactly because you use Windows.
If you used a more solid system, you would quickly realize how much time you waste installing the same things over and over again.
I used to do a _lot_ of installations of various Linux distros and such OSes as BeOS, AtheOS, VSTa and QNX. They were different each time - installing one I had seen already simply wasn't interesting enough. At some point, even installing Yet Another Linux Distro wasn't interesting enough, and I shifted focus no getting actual work done.
Occassionally, I try a new Linux distro to see what's happening in Linuxland. None of them have managed to move me away from Debian.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
1 reset5.02/xp antispy
2 opera
3 zonealarm pro
4 norton av
5 ad aware/spybot
6 winrar
7 acrobat reader
8 trillian
9 winamp
10 tweakUI
Mac OS X:
SideTrack
Firefox
Roxio 6
Office v.X
Gimp 2.0
fink
darwin ports
Ettercap
EtherPeg
MacStumber
Etherpeek
Linux:
XFree86
Fluxbox
Ettercap
FireFox
crossover office w/ office 2000
xv
gimp 2.0
rxvt
bash
vim
Quake3 w/ OSP
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
Sylpheed, Pan, html-helper-mode.el, Opera (OK, it's not FOSS, so what?), Firefox, chkrootkit, the Red Carpet setup, OOo, Bittorrent, sclj, and my ~/bin directory.
This sig no verb.
If your formating your machine once a month, just ghost it.
I've got all of the lab machines where I work set up so that we ghost them every other week when stuff breaks. Its great.
So yeah, the first program I install, is Norton Ghost.
-- Page
We don't need an "overrated" so much as we need a "you completely missed the parent's point, dumbass..."
I port to a lot of different Unix systems...
1. gzip
2. wget
3. bash
4. less
5. gcc
6. gdb
7. flex
8. bison
9. m4
10. emacs and everything it depends on
My list goes way beyond 10...
I used to be a PC weenie, but damn if I haven't become a Unix weenie.
Once I had my system running the way I wanted it and had it locked down. I tarballed it. So now, if I suspect a breach of security, I only have to format my drive, put it on /mnt and do a tar -xvf blahblah.tar. Done, just like new.
Nobody's mentioned Lavasoft's Adaware and Grisoft's AVG anti-virus programs. These are both free.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
I can't beliee the answers I am seeing here. Any sortware installed first after the OS, should be to securre the box. I don't care what OS is runnning. If that machine is going to be on a network, make sure the damn thing is secured. After that, you can install all your toys whatever they may be.
I am Lord Snowbeam. Heed my call!
Here's mine:
:)
1. LiteStep - Because the default shell included with Windows is horribly inefficiant.
2. Metapad - Slightly enhanced version of Notepad, it has a few features I've grown to love. And it's only 90k!
3. Miranda-IM - I used to use Trillian, but it's gotten way to bloated lately.
4. Mozilla Firefox - Because anything less is uncivilized.
5. Mozilla Thunderbird - No more worrying about catching a virus while downloading email.
6. PuTTy - I've yet to find a better SSH client on Windows.
7. Foobar2000 - More features then you can shake a stick at, and the simple default UI is great.
8. Daemon-Tools - The only time I ever put a CD in a CD-ROM drive is when I make an image of it.
9. Azureus - My favorite Bittorrent client.
10. FileZilla - Nice and simple UI, loads fast, supports SFTP, and it's open source! What more could I ask for?
11. 7-zip - Nice small archive program that supports a boat load of compression formats.
12. XnView - Image viewer that supports a boat load of image formats.
RaGe
We're all just noise on the wires..
1) Kerio Personal Firewall - Everyone has thier own personal favorite firewall. This is the one im using atm.
2) StatBar - Very usefull little program, allows you to see how much recources windows is sucking up, also a few handy things like time syncing and winamp control.
3) WinAmp 2.95 - Since I keep my winamp minimized in the systray most of the time i dont need a pretty interface, this works just fine for me.
4) mIRC - Being an irc netadmin, I need this, or else I die from withdrawl.
5) WinRar - Winrar, need I say more?
6) Putty - SSH Client to login to nix shells.
7) FlashFXP - Handy FTP client.
8) SpyBot S&D - I think we all know what this is.
9) NewsBin - Newsgroups reader.
10) Nod32 Antivirus - Everyone needs antivirus.. well, on [relatively] unsecure windows boxes at least.
These are not in the right order, just threw em up there as i thought of them.
This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is mine.
WinSCP, PuTTY, VNC and let's not forget the now free MS SFU (Services for Unix).
Makes it a little more comfortable in a strange sort of way.
firefox xmms gaim evolution gtk-gnutella xine
No, he said what do you install after your operating system. ;)
1 PGP
2 Mozilla full suite
3 SSH
4 Daemon Tools
5 Videolan
6 Cygwin
7 Ultraedit
8 All non spyware p2p apps
9 Samurize
10 Skype
in no particular order (except mozilla, which needs to follow PGP, so Enigmail can get with it)
and sooooo many others!
ATH0 Bitcoin: 1DnwFLXczVZV8kLJbMYoheUrpqHesjxrSi
Gnome-Desktop, Mozilla-Firefox, MPlayer, XChat, OpenOffice, Screen, Links, Discover, Hotplug, ssh
After Office and all security updates.
1) pagedefrag(http://www.sysinternals.com/
2) WinRAR
3) Cygwin(http://www.cygwin.com/)
4) TweakUI
5) Firefox(and then shockwave, flash,java for it)
6) adaware
7) Spybot S&D (My wife loves IE)
8) WinAmp
9) Quicktime
10) Real Player(Love those proprietary codecs)
as this is Windows, it would tempt fate not to install some kind of anti-virus utility.
MS Office X, and Stuffit Deluxe.
but that is all since I have everything else I need, and I only did it once since that is all I have needed to do .
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
windows patches, critical updates .NET
winrar
winamp
media player classic (k-lite codec pack, real alternative, quicktime alternative)
cdex
dvddecrypter
myie2
visual studio
textpad
bittorrent client (bittornado or novatorrent)
jed www.jedsoft.org
1- service packs and any updates
;OP
2- microsoft office
3- mcafee virus scan
4- trillian/aim/yahoo
5- google toolbar
6- winamp 2.81
7- adobe photoshop 7
8- games
9- games
10- more games
try modding me down for THIS!
fact: microsoft > linux
How could anyone be such a 'L4m3r' that they would need to actually reinstall their OS every month... What kind of m0r0n is this submitter?
(Now, in typical Slashdot fashion, I expect two, nay! Three or Four Rebuttals with remarks about being a developer... Another because someone is 'Just learning' and so on and so forth...)
If you ignore the other uses of a tool, does that make the tool less useful, or you less useful?
Because most of the time 1. you do not need to wipe and restart and 2. you are running a distribution you like because it includes the applications you like. Most Linux distro's will have the "must have" applications already there. That is one of the beuatiful things about free software. The distros can include popular applciations.
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In fact Linux users are much more likely to have a top ten of applications they UNINSTALL after a fresh upgrade. I'm not that paranoid on my home PC, but I do nuke a lot of applications on the public servers I run.
Back to the post, when I used Windows regularly it was about once a month before I needed a clean install. I've been running Linux exclusively for about 6 years now, and have never had to do a regular "clean" install becaus of clutter ( a couple of times when I was a newbie, and fsck'd up though ). Now the only times I do "reinstall" are when the hardrive fails, or when i am exploring a new distribution.
As of now I am favoring Knoppix, which includes most everything out of the gate. I find the only things I "MUST" add are:
1. custom scripts i've written that help make it easier for me to maintain my quirky ways.
2. my data
3. custom configs for name servers, printers, X config (I run dual headed, so I usually have to tweak the X settings) etc
Since the internet and debian make installing things so easy, and Knoppix out of the box is pretty complete, I find that I don't have to install "must haves" until they are actually needed.
It really is nice when the desktop has an uptime in the 200-300 day range. I still get to go through the regular scheduled hard drive flushes vicariously through my Dad or brothers who have yet to seriously consider Linux. Their updates usually include a fair amount of swearing as drivers no longer work, and for some reason his network never works after a fresh install.
I usually hear about it when they call me to try to help, and I patiently explain for the umpteenth time that I have not used Windows for years, and this is a fine example of why (AKA I TOLD YOU SO). Then I offer my limited windows expertise and we generally get the system in question hobbled back together for a month or two until somebody else's computer is doomed to repeat the scenerio over again..
Oh well, that's just my $.02
-MS2K
-IE 6.0 (just use it for flash stuff, Firefox for everything else).
-FireFox (Tabs rock.)
-Thunderbird (for mail)
-Acrobat (to read and create PDFs)
-InDesign 2 (to do layout/production)
-PhotoShop 7 (For photo editing... general screwing around)
-The Font Thing (free app, to find a font for whatever i'm doing)
-Word '97 (haven't found any new features/reason to updgrade!)
-Dreamweaver 4 (w/O'Reilley's HTML, CSS, and Javascript reference built in)
-KaZaA lite K++(no spyware)
-iTunes(to sync with my iPod... and to listen to MP3s)
-Windows Media Player (to play video... mostly stuff downloaded from BT...)
-ICQ (IM)
-WS FTP LE
-Notepad
Discluding Windows Update stuff, this is probably close to it:
.NET 2003
1. NVIDIA Apps for multiple desktop, etc.
2. Opera
3. Visual Studio
4. Office XP
5. MySQL
6. PHP
7. Kazaa
8. DAEMON Tools (lets you mount ISO, etc. as drive)
9. MSDE (always a pain to get isntalled for some reason)
10. WinRAR
Windows: Diskeeper, McAfee VirusScan, WinSCP, PuTTY, WS_FTP LE, Winzip, VNC, Ad-aware, google toolbar, either MS Office or OOo depending if it's a home or work PC. Linux: expect, McAfee VirusScan, chkrootkit, (and if it is a Desktop) VNC, OOo, Mozilla, conntrack, firestarter, macromedia Plugin (for Mozilla), and j2sdk or j2re (j2re if just for Mozilla, j2sdk if I'll be programming for my classes)... That said, expect, OOo, VNC, and Mozilla all come straight of my distro these days; so really I don't even install those... As for a server; the less the better; the way less the way better...
I couldn't come up with a witty response, but I do want to be ub3r-c00l and use the word 'boxen'. Is that okay? On my Windows BOXEN (am I cool now?), I install:
.net Enterprise Architect 2003
1. Norton Internet Security Pro. 2004. The firewall sucks ass, but better than nothing, I guess. Lookin to use BlackIce. Anti-virus is a must as a frequently dabble in warez and.. well, you never know!
2. Winzip/WinRar
3. Visual Studio
4. SQL Server 2000 Enterprise
5. Apache
6. MySQL
7. PHP/Perl
8. Firefox
9. Thunderbird
10. P2P apps (Shareaza, Kazaa Lite, WASTE, Freenet, etc)
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!
Fist of all update the OS and drivers, then:
e w ;)
Kerio Firewall
AVG
Mozilla
OpenOffice
CDex
Irfanvi
Nero, if you want to burn CDs
7-Zip or Powerarchiver
VideoLan
Winamp lite
TweakUI
AdAware
Emule
If you can spare the money, try 2000Lite/XPlite from litepc.com, it helps to remove all the crap that you wouldnt use anyway
"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds !"
1. Mozilla Firefox
2. Mozilla Thunderbird
3. Cygwin
4. WinRAR
5. Zoom Player
6. UltraEdit
7. Gaim
8. Spybot S&D
9. Adobe Acrobat
10. MS Office and/or OpenOffice
Hmmmm...
After a Debian install is up and running, the first thing I apt-get is "less".
And as for reinstalling? How about never? Installed my Debian system at home about 3 years ago, and I just keep dist-upgrading.
Windows users: Don't forget Total Commander!
;-)
Kicking Midnight Commander's butt any day too.
Don't forget to look at its plugins either. If you're still looking to extend the functionality after that list, look here too.
It's not free (in either meaning), however it's one of those software packages I'm prepared to buy. And if you don't, you can at least still use 100% of its feature set for as long as you wish. There's just a nag dialog at startup.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
See also: This post on diveintomark.com called How To Install Windows XP In 5 Hours Or Less.
Can ah have a program?
No, ten> programs??
CAN AH HAVE TWENNY PROGRAMS?!
0. Everything checked at install (minus KDE and OO)
1. JDK
2. Eclipse
3. OO.Org
4. Firefox
5. Apt-Get
6. Php-mysql
7. Wine
8. Pygame
9. Lame
-m
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# Modus Ponens
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GraphicConvertera de
BitTorrent
DragThing
WindowSh
FruitMenu
Toast
MacTheRipper
Latest Surfer's Serials (I only use it for medicinal purposes)
Hotline (yes, I still use it occasionally)
ICQ
MT NewsWatcher
MP3 Rage
Mail Siphon II
And a bunch of other stuff, too. CMMs and the like. I just can't think what any of it is. I tend to delete or prevent the installation of the iApps, excepting iTunes, mostly because I just couldn't give a shit, and anyway iPhoto is slower that molasses running uphill in January. No, really, it is. I've checked.)
On my new WinXP machine I installed:
as many security updates as it had
IE6 update
SP1a
7Zip
WinAmp 5
iTunes (can never have too many MP3 apps, right?)
Mail Siphon II (which is apparently no longer publically available for Windows?)
CuteFTP
And again, stuff I can't recall right off hand. Mostly drivers for the MoBo & video card, as well as games (Serious Sam 1&2, Deus Ex, Far Cry).
Wasn't that fun?
first 10 for Win XP:
1. ALL THE DARN UPDATES!
2. winrar
3. norton system works
4. drive image
5. reg cleaner
6. tweak ui
7. mozilla
8. all my favorite Video codecs
9. bs player
10. ms office
first 10 for linux:
1. debian stable distribution (woody)
2. grub
3. upgrade stable to unstable
4. x & kdm (preferred over gdm or xdm)
5. gnome & tools (my display manager)
6. kde & tools (her display manager)
7. samba
8. open office
9. mozilla
10. gimp
*windows is very zen, it is not about what to install but about what you will not...
1) Zone Alarm (before connecting to the network)
2) Every patch shown in windows update
3) Drivers, Firmware, etc for everything in system
4) Adaware
5) Up to date JDK/JRE
6) Mozilla
7) OpenOffice
8-10) Missing Plug-ins (Flash, Acrobat, etc.)
Format as NTFS, then:
:)
1) WindowsXP Pro, SP1a
(Plus MS Security Update CD, then let run for a couple of trips through Windows Update)
2) Microsoft Plus! for WinXP
3) OfficeXP Pro (plus hotfixes)
4) iTunes 4.2 w/Quicktime 6.5
5) Trillian
6) K++ Codec MegaPack v1.0 (GO GET THIS NOW.)
7) Norton SystemWorks
8) WinRar
9) Quake3 and 4GB worth of maps and mods
9a) UT2004 and extra maps - soon to supercede 9.
10)Google Toolbar
Finally: Latest drivers for all devices (including mobo chipset), one last run at WindowsUpdate, Defrag system drive, and enjoy your "new" system.
Essential software:
1. Norton SystemWorks
2. MS Office
3. Mozilla
4. Borland Delphi
5. Borland Starteam
6. MSDN Documentation
7. Programmers Notepad
8. Serious Samurize
9. Maple
10. The GIMP
I've had XP for nine months now, virus-free since the first week, and the only problem I've had was when I corrupted my NTFS partition trying to resize it with Linux, which I dual-boot. Norton Ghost put my previous image right back, and my computer was normal in half an hour.
...but first thing I stick on a Windows machine is Geoshell, presuming it's a personal machine (e.g. I don't have to share it or use it at a job or something). If you've not heard of it, Geoshell is a fantastic shell replacement. Stabler, takes less memory, and much more configurable (custom hotkeys galore) than Explorer. Besides that, your list looks pretty good, though personally I'd replace SmartFTP with WinSCP (SFTP client), throw in Putty (SSH client), Irfanview, DC++, and AVG Antivirus. Oh, and probably Adaware for good measure, even though you can avoid spyware if you just have a brain about what you install.
Besides that, I still run Ultimatezip instead of WinRAR, frankly I'm going with it because it's the status quo and it works fine. And I run Zonealarm, even though it's become a bit bloated. Oh, here's one thing you forgot: a good codec package. And BSPlayer to play videos... oh and Quicktime and an old version of RealPlayer (preferably RP8 or something). And then Cygwin for a nice *nix command line, and Nero to burn cds. There, I think that's about it.
Besides all the Windowsupdates:
.nfo files
- DC++ -> to copy new warez
- Copy Handler -> to copy new warez
- FlashFXP -> to copy new warez
- WinRAR -> to uncompress all my warez
- WinAmp -> to play all my mU54K
- distributed.net -> cuz I'm a cow
- Nero -> to burn all my warez
- UltraEdit -> to read the
- Daemon Tools -> to install all my warez
- MSN Messenger -> to chat with all my Fr13nD5
You use windows and you reinstall it once a month? I thought Gentoo users put a dent in their productivity for no good reason but that takes the cake. Whatever, it's your Mom's eMachine, do what you like, kid. The rest of us have better things to do with our systems.
On XP, it goes like this:
Firefox - Can't stand IE.
GIMP - Mmmm...
Metapad (to replace notepad) - Always have something getting coded in there. Thunderbird
PuTTY - So I can SSH into my Slack box.
Trillian
Semagic - For updating my lj.
Winamp 2.91
SmartFTP
McAffe Internet Security - It *is* a Windows box, and I only trust my router firewalls so much. Java SDK (gotta get my coding on)
You are DEAD without .rar. Besides, Linux DVDrip uses rar for subtitles.If you want to rip DVDs under linux, you need .rar
If you haven't played Half-Life yet, it's a great way to try it out (especially since stores still seem to be selling it for $30).
If you are into the online games, that means you can also play Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress Classic, or, my personal favorite, Natural Selection.
I haven't tried it, but you can also try installing steam under Linux, using WineX
Corporate Gadfly
Jonathan Archer: the most beaten up Enterprise captain in Star Trek history
Tiny Personal Firewall FireFox Thunderbird WinAmp Dead-AIM Anti-Virus Semagic VNC CoolEdit Office
I keep these in a folder and burn CDs to pass out to folks who I help with computers. In no real order, winRAR/winZIP, OpenOffice, AdobeAcrobat, Mozilla/Firefox, iTunes, bluelight (I have DSL everyone else wanted a cheap ISP). There is probably another program or two. I could use a fun, uncomplex, free game. There aren't many of who like easyBridge and JaGO and the GNU go server.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
Doesn't this article belong under "Tell Slashdot"?
WHAT non-retarded editors? ZING! POW!
I wouldn't reinstall at alll... I'd use Ghost. :p
I'm assuming it's my machine, and I'm moving licenses, so...
ZoneAlarm
Norton Antivirus
ActivePerl
WinZip
Lavasoft AdAware
Microsoft games from an ancient Home Essentials disk (Rat Poker!)
Office 2000
Acrobat 6
UltraEdit
SecureCRT
Design for Use, not Construction!
I install the following first upon building / rebuilding a machine:
.app folder. Very few conflicts or issues.
Any MacOS X updates & application patches
Any required hardware drivers not in the OS (Kensington mouse, scanners, printers, etc)
Palm desktop & synchronization software (I don't use the Palm provided stuff, but you've got to have it to use iSync on top of it)
PGP or GPG & my keyrings and Mail.app plug-ins
Flash / RealPlayer / any other generally useful browser plug-ins
Usenet news reader (Hogwasher for me)
Roxio Toast (more full-featured CD / DVD burning)
MS Office OSX (not my favorite, but more-or-less necessary since a non-X11 version of OpenOffice isn't really ready for prime-time on OSX IMHO)
Konfabulator and favorite widgets (gotta have some nice desktop widgets!)
Gimp, Photoshop, or any other necessary photo-editing software
That's it for 99% of my usual daily work (and my wife's as well).
You can get an OSX box running amazingly quickly and painlessly for two reasons IMHO (compared to my (continuing at work) years of Windows and Linux use):
1) Installs are usually very straight-foward drag-and-drop affairs. Libraries and any bits usually included in the
2) Lots of useful stuff is already built-in (iTunes, Safari, etc). Not much need to install replacements unless you don't like those or need something else.
In no particular order:
0. Developer's CD
1. Fink
2. VLC
3. mod-php
4. MySQL
5. oo.org
6. Eclipse
7. Ant
8. NetHack
9. X-Chat Aqua
-m
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# Modus Ponens
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I see your list is pretty similar to mine. However, in place of MultiDesk, might I recommend Virtual Dimension. It's another virtual desktop manager for Windows. It includes the visual pager you desire, as well as adding the ability to set shortcuts for paging, making windows always-on-top, exist in all desktops, minimize to tray, make arbitrary windows transparent, etc. Combined with allSnap to give windows snap-to-edge behavior, I don't long for KDE quite as much on my Windows machine anymore. :-)
SuSE Linux 9.0 Professional
1. Opera 7.x
2. StarOffice
The thing I love about SuSE is that almost everything else I'll ever need is already there. Mozilla, GAIM, XTERM, XMMS, Gimp, GQ View, etc. It's just a matter of moving all my data back over.
unix based OS's need not be reinstalled EVER! reinstallation equates to giving up.
Since most new software (and almost all MS) requires activation and will only activate 2 times, how do you work around that?
Even Photoshop does it now.
1. WinXP-SP1/Windows Update 2. AVG 6.0 3. MSN Messenger 6.1 4. Microsoft Office 2003 5. Spybot Search and Destroy 1.2/Ad-Aware 6.0 6. Yahoo Messenger 5.6 7. K++ 2.5 8. Winamp 5.02 9. Nero Burning ROM 6.0 10. Visual Studio .NET 2003
Am I an MS freak or what??? lol
Try Volkov Commander, It might be few years old, but it's still the king. Like the Original NC, but supports long file names and more. http://www.egner-online.de/vc/en/intro.shtml
First thing I'd install on a Windows machine:
Linux.
It actually varies based on what the function of the machine is:
Firewall:
1. Latest Kernel (custom compile with console on serial port support. Who needs a video card in a firewall anyway?)
2. Port Sentry
3. Host Sentry
4. Log Sentry
5. Snort
6. Tripwire
7. Not a whole hell of a lot else
8. Not a whole hell of a lot else
9. Not a whole hell of a lot else
10. Not a whole hell of a lot else
Home Server:
1. Latest kernel with Pre-emptible kernel enabled for better desktop performance
2. Latest X (or now Xorg) server (custom compiled)
3. Latest VNC 4.0 beta built into X server and used with gdm to provide remote persistent desktops, unlike XDMP.
4. Latest GNOME
5. Latest Xscreensaver (lots of cool new modules that you don't see in the distros)
6. Latest stable Mozilla
7. Latest stable OO.o
8. Latest MPlayer
9. XMMS with ogg and mp3 support
10. W.I.N.E. (for those games and a few silly apps that I still use from Windows)
There's also the Internet Server (web, mail), the VPN server, (OpenVPN on Linux), the File and Print server (SAMBA and CUPS), the Media Server (Hooked to my Telly) and a whole lot more.
Who is Twirlip of the Mists?
What are the first ten applications you REMOVE after installing Linux.
After all, it's about choice, but we all know that nobody uses 5 different mp3 players...
1: Spybot S&D with updated definitions.
2: Mozilla Firefox, set to default browser.
3: SpywareBlaster with updated definitions.
4: Grisoft AVG with updated definitions.
5: Ad-Aware 6 with updated reference file.
6: ZoneAlarm and set the access limits.
7a: Thunderbird (only if using "normal" mail; webmail is better)
7b: Media Player Classic
8: Winamp 2.8.1
9: Sun Java Machine
10: IE-SPYAD
Striking fear in the authors of godawful fanfiction, I am here, appearing in darkness, Tuxedo Jack!
When someone accidentally lets me use their system, I install.
patches
adaware
mozilla firefox, opera, netscape 4
filezilla
cacheman
java sdk
openoffice
cygwin
k9 (spam filter)
irfanview (good for batch image operations)
The least likely to apps/options to reinstall:
1) Gator.
2) Bonzi Buddy.
3) Microsoft Bob.
4) Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6 (the one that broke TCP/IP and led to the rush release of SP6a).
5) Any recent RealPlayer release chock full of adware/spyware.
6) Any release of Microsoft Outlook Express.
7) Microsoft KB835742 Security Update (the recent one that causes random Win2K boxes to reboot to a BSOD or have 99% CPU utilization).
8) The Microsoft Office "Clippy" option.
9) Microsoft Outlook Preview Pane.
10) Universal Plug n Play.
Windows:/
:)
- Cygwin (I'll count it as one, but it is, as we all know, many) http://www.cygwin.com/
- GNU Emacs http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
- Frefox http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
- Winkeys http://www.admiton.com/
- PuTTY http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
- Java http://www.sun.com/
- XXE and XFC from http://www.xmlmind.com/
- Tcl/Tk (the ActiveState ones) http://tcl.tk/
- PostgreSQL http://www.postgresql.org/
Linux/*BSD:
- X11
- PostgreSQL
- GNU Emacs
- Tcl/Tl
- Firefox
- Mutt
- AOLServer
- OpenOffice
- tcsh if it is not there
- RXVT
- Sodipodi
- The Gimp
--AP
Usually some obscure version of the blaster worm is the first thing to be installed ;)
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#1 cygwin
#2 mozilla
#3 putty
#4 paint shop pro
#5 fedora
Just enable the built-in firewall before connecting to the net. It is in no way the best firewall but it will protect you from blaster and other RPC worms. Then download your updates, all (enter number here) megabytes of them.
Nmap huh? Now why would that be one of the very first programs you need to install? Perhaps you are a sysadmin concerned with the security of your internal network. Or perhaps j00 h4v3 a bur|\|1ng n33d to f1nd s0m3 n3tw3rx t0 h4X0r.
vim screen lynx wget openssh mutt tetex firefox gimp snes9x
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All of whose base are belong to the what-now?
0. All updates (including perl and the dev software) 1. Fink ('cuz you're not really a geek without it) 2. MS Office ('cuz you're not compatible without it) 3. Adobe CS Suite (yeah, yeah, more than one app) 4. VLC ('cuz DVDPlayer sucks) 5. Cyberduck ('cuz Apple still can't do FTP right) 6. iLife 4 (never spent a better $49) 7. Firefox (because gMail doesn't support Safari yet) 8. Fire (now 1.0! Woohoo!) 9. iJournal (offline LiveJournal app) 10. PandoCalendar (innocuous and functional calendar widget)
I'd have to say Office 2003, Dreamweaver MX, and Photoshop, and VisualStudio.NET because I use them for work... followed by Mozilla and iTunes because I love them... Finally, NewsGator because I can't live without it.
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regardless of the fact that there is no need to reinstall your windows OS every month (even if you are a developer), would it not make more sense to install hyperOS and use that? or even just create a disc image?
/. front page?
Does this guy like wasting time?
besides which, how is this newsworthy of a
So far:- 1. Anti-virus 2. Firefox 3. Thunderbird 4. Java Run Time 5. WinRar (coming off soon, as have found a .net winzip equivalent).
6. Nero burn.
Next up are:-
7. Open Office
8. Paint Shop Pro
9. Pinnacle video software
10. #develop
30 days max? my window 2k3 box has been up for 33 days now.. www.personal.utulsa.edu/~satwinder-singh/web_image s/uptime.gif
been hammering it everyday...
anyway.. I posted my list as a reply.. but for my work computer
windows 2003
Visual Studio .NET
MSDN
Photoshop
(the rest I build with the above)
God is real unless declared as int
Probably the nth post saying so - but what the hell are you doing to your machines that you need to reinstall every month?? I run Linux, WinXP and OSX and I never need to reinstall. I just maintain my machines properly. I can only conclude that you do unspeakable things to your OS that ruin it. Methinks that the first ten programs you need should include spyware scanners and antivirus programs...
----- One learns to itch where one can scratch.
Windows:
...Ithink thats it I generally don't that much extra I need for my Linux systems. Its really more of a configuration thing.
1. AIM Gotta communicate
2. Ultraedit Gotta Edit stuff
3. putty Gotta talk to those Unix Boxes
4. Mozilla
5. FTPPro95 Tpp cheap to buy a new license
6. Office 2003/Open Office.org I use em both
7. Visual Studio 6/2000/2003 I count 'em as one
8. Winamp
9. Nero/EZ CD Creator again I count them as one
10. Unreal Whatever version is current
Linux:
1. Postfix since its not part of Slackware which is what I use
2. Custom config of apache/php/mod_gzip/etc
3. mtrr
4. Openwebmail
5. TMDA (Tagged Message deliverly agent)
6. shoutcast
7. config samba (does that count as an install)
8. proftpd
Power Corrupts,Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely, leaving one person(group)in charge is absolutely corrupt.
Trillian iTunes (for my iPod) Drivers, Asus motherboard monitors Semagic MiRC FireFox Open Office Palm crap Winrar for all my stuff thats .rared up
Nero
You have been sig'd
I'm coming close to perfecting the windows install. It's not perfect yet, but it's close. I believe it depends greatly on the order you install stuff, as almost everything you install will screw with your registry. This is a bit more than 10 programs, but will guide you to an extremely stable windows install.
.NET and updates
Here goes:
"The core"
1. Windows Updates, all the criticals, and most of the optionals
2. DX9 (if not one of the win updates) and update all drivers, esp vid card.
2. Visual Studio
3. Microsoft Office and updates
4. Tweak UI and/or reg hacks
5. Defrag 2x to consolidate all of these files together at the beginning of the HD
Those three are the most essential to do first. I'm almost certain Microsoft makes core changes in the operating system and adds many system files while doing so. As such, the rest of the programs don't matter nearly as much to core system stability.
"The services"
6. Apache/PHP/MySQL
7. FTP server (Filezilla)
8. Anti-virus (Symantc...anything but McAffee)
9. Ad-aware and/or Spybot S&D
10. Defrag 2x
"The essentials"
11. Alternative browser (Firefox)
12. Alternative mail (Thunderbird)
13. Archive program (7-zip)
14. Chat client (Gaim)
15. FTP client (Filezilla)
16. P2P apps (WinMX)
17. Bit torrent app (Azureus)
18. Media Player (Winamp 5.x)
19. CD ripper (CDDA Ripper XP)
20. Codec Pack (KL codec pack v 2.25f)
21. Adobe Acrobat Reader
22. Defrag 2x
23. Run BootVis.exe a few times to optimize boot time
That should give you an extremely stable Windows install. After you do this much, I would reccomend finding a way to image this, to make your future installs easier. After this, install all the other programs (games, tools, etc). Then run your virus scanner and adaware and you've got a stable windows machine for at least 4 months.
Considering the frequency with which I reinstall, here's my list for Windows (post-driver updates):
Mozilla Firefox - a must. even if it's not a necessity straight off as a browser, popup blocking makes it worth having immediately.
Trillian - what friends don't enjoy the logging on and off every 2 minutes as you have to reboot your comp for new settings to take place
SmartFTP - as a web developer this is a must, can't pretend to work without an FTP client.
Winamp (5) - I use it for everything media now. I'm an addict.
WinRAR - I know it's shareware but I still like it's ease of use and modifications to the Windows context menus.
Nero - my burning software of choice
ConTEXT - my editor of choice; see SmartFTP
Google Toolbar - unfortunately, I end up doing a lot of testing in IE and without this, I might as well kiss my peaceful browsing goodbye.
Spybot Search & Destroy - not so much of a necessity immediately, but the immunization qualities are great to set up from the get-go
Ad Aware - see Spybot
When I install OS X, it immediately gets:
- Developer Tools
- fink, and then:
- $ fink install nmap;
- $ fink install osxutils
- Next is Carbon Copy Cloner,
- Transmit or some other ftp file browser.
- Finally, to make it "home", I'll install Windowshade X and Xounds.
- Also will edit my
.bash_profile, naturally, and have been known to put a fnorder in the login script.
Everything else is default, cause why not? Can you beat Apple's own email, web browser, media player? Apple's own PDF viewer is better in some respects than Acrobat Reader.Oh, I did forget to give the beast it'd due, although really, the only thing I used Word for is to write up my resume and look at HR stuff.
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$tar -xvf
The last would have to be opera... never got used to the 7.x versions, so I keep using 6, but the new 7.5 is superb... check it out.
On Windows
:-P)
1. AVG scanner (come on, #1 priority is scanner)
2. WinRar (to unpack all the other stuff)
3. Mozilla Fire???? (browser, because IE doesn't cut it)
4. ACDSee Classic Edition (for viewing graphics slideshows, the only way to fly)
5. WackGet (queue up downloads in order)
6. BSPlayer (play MP3/AVI -- gotta have my crack)
7. MinGW32 (because a box w/o a compiler isn't really a box)
8. Japanese IME (because cutting/pasting kana/kanji doesn't cut it)
9. XVI32 (cool binary editor)
10. Windows games (cause Mother's gotta have her Spider Solitaire crack, too
On Linux, it's hard to tell. I usually install a boatload of packets at once, so it's hard to say which 10 go first. I'd say GCC and dependencies, if I had to pick, though.
Textpad - the anti-IDE I always come back to
ActiveState Perl - essential.
Komodo - the Perl IDE I'm learning to love
Trillian - universal IM client with logging
SecureCRT - SSH with lots of tunnels to protect POP, HTTP, SMTP, IM conversations from prying work eyes. Unlike putty, saves passwords quickly and easily.
Cygwin - worst. installer. ever. still, must-have linux/unix tools for windows
Photoshop - I always end up needing it.
WinKey - unfuck your Windows key
Eudora - still my favorite email client.
and for Linux - postfix, squirrelmail, screen, apache, mysql, squid, php, courier-imap, rsync, cvs - in no particular order
posted this list at my blog too - First Ten Programs
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On Windows:
- WinRAR
- IrfanView
- Cygwin + rxvt
- The GIMP
- PuTTY
- Vim
- OpenOffice.org
- Mozilla FireFox
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Winamp
- ActivePerl
And of course updates, drivers, j2sdk, and so on
I think I forgot some, I'm Linux-only for about half a year now...
On Linux (Slackware):
- Dropline GNOME
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Vim
- OpenOffice.org
- Eclipse IDE
- Rar
- NVidia drivers
Any linux distro comes with so much stuff, I don't think there are even 10 things that I install after I'm done the OS install...
I'll grab bittorrent (official client), firefox, thunderbird, and I think that's about it.
1) Virex
2) Log analyzers
3) iLife
*
*
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7) Photoshop Elements
8) Twain (driver?)
9) iSync
10) Backup
Sounds like you don't use your computer for anything useful.
The very first program I install is VNC. I have all my software on one computer on my network. Once VNC in installed, I connect from my laptop and finish setting up the computer from the couch. While programs install on the new computer, I can actually *do* something on the laptop (or just veg in front of the TV).
On Gentoo, that would be:e verwinter Nights
X
KDE
XMMS
Kvirc
VMware
Pan
Azureus
N
Unreal Tournament
Gxmame
"Klaatu, verada, necktie!" -Ash
Since /. decided to post this story, I guess they really badly want to know what software I use. So here goes.
I only use operating systems that will run the bulk of software developed for Linux and/or *BSD. I'm assuming that compiler toolchain (cc, make, ld, etc.), net utils (ping, ftp, etc.), ssh are installed.
screen (terminal multiplexer)
netcat (tcp and udp from the command line)
elvis (lightweight vi clone*)
Some X11 implementation (usually XFree86)
WindowMaker (window manager with efficiency)
Mozilla Firefox (great web browser)
mutt (fast and versatile mail client)
Gaim (multi-protocol instant messenger)
wget (download over http or ftp)
* I personally think vi is a prime example of horrible interface design, but it proved hard to find a text editor that is similarly efficient and powerful as elvis. I only with they would get rid of the HTML (and Latex?) view mode and just show me the source so I can edit it.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Obviously
screen
microemacs
nmap
netcat
modify syslogd source to accept random high port source for log entries
ntop
OK, that is only six
I am very easy to get along with, but I don't have time to waste being nice to people who are being stupid. -Theo
Because Linux, and X suck the bag.
How about my first 10 when I install Linux.
7 year old sound card driver.
6 year old video driver (doesn't work)
5 year old video driver (doesn't work)
4 year thunderlan (not supported unless experimental is good enough)
3 year old video driver (doesn't work)
2 year old video driver (doesn't work)
1 year old video driver (doesn't work)
1 month old Firewire card driver (not supported)
6 month old sound card driver (not supported)
1 month old video driver (not supported)
Result: uninstall, unless you want to replace your video card with my old ATI VGA Wonder in non-accel mode, as well as revert to using your old machine.
You guys are all losers, fighting a losing battle. It's pathetic how little things have changed in so many years.
Y'all should get jobs and stop wating your time writing software that looks identical to favourite Windows apps, and yet only work half as well, and that much, only half the time.
If Windows sucks and Linux and X are great then why do all Linux/X developers blatantly attempt to copy every feature in the Windows counterpart, just look at all the lame-ass IDe's that are being developed, sharpdevelop etc, all blatant ripoffs of the company and OS that you apparently hate so much ---- why ? Jealous maybe. Oh yeah, X really does suck, KDE is a kludge and Gnome is just plain lame.
And it will never - ever change.
Heres an Os X user's list
That was actually hard. So much comes with Os X, that it REALLY is a great Os right out of the box. Anything else at the end of the list is just little apps that really aren't important. Also, i just don't format as much as i used to when i was on Windows, which was a little more conservative than the poster at about every 3 months.
As it has been so long since I last had to reinstall on this /linux/ box. ;P
ok, here goes. In no particular order:
1> Winamp 5
2> Python
3> AVG
4> AdAware
5> SpyBot S&D
6> Sygate Personal Firewall
7> Firefox
8> Trillian
9> Pyboticide
10> Irfanview
I'm surprised more people haven't mentioned Irfanview - it's free and it kicks ass.
** Chigusaaa!!! You're the coolest girl in the WORLD!!! **
1 - K3b (cd burning) ;-) )
2 - Gimp 2.x (image editing)
3 - KMess (instant messenging)
4, 5, 6 & 7 - Xine libs + libDvdCss + codecs pack + Kaffeine (Media / DVD player)
7 - QDvdAuthor (DVD front end creation)
8 - BitTorrent (as if you didn't know)
9 - XMame (word processor
10 - Juk (mp3 juke box)
1. Total Commander. The no1 file-utility www.ghisler.com
2. WinRAR www.rarsoft.com
3. Winamp www.winamp.com
4. TextPad www.textpad.com
5. Xvid / Divx codecs www.doom9.org
6. Media Player Classic www.doom9.org
7. Ventrilo, excellent voice chat program www.ventrilo.com
8. Steam ( Counter-Strike )
9. Mozilla Firefox, browsing www.mozilla.com
10. Mozilla Thunderbird, e-mail www.mozilla.com
- Notepad
- FireFox
- Photoshop
- PHPDev
- VB
- MSN
- Windows Media Player
- An ISP I won't mention for fear of my post being deleted and me being exiled from
/. and thrown into a firey flame pit for all eternity
Of course I will use other apps a lot too, just nowhere near as commonly as the above.The first ten dependencies on the long road to installing MythTV. :-)
It was a joke! When you give me that look it was a joke.
1) Service Pack 1
...
2) Service Pack 2
3) Critical Security Update
4) Critical Security Update
5) IE Security Update
6) Service Pack 3
7) Misc. Windows Driver Update
21) Cygwin
22) Firefox
23) Profit!
I also have a plethora of small homebrew tools (most done in perl) and other apps that I play with - but the above are the main ones I have and use on a very regular basis. They likely won't stay constant (ok, perl likely will - but I am playing on and off with python as well), as I have noted I am seeking/do seek alternatives as time and need allows...
Reason is the Path to God - Anon
My standard configuration has everything allowed to talk locally, Mozilla allowed to connect outward through my local proxy server (Privoxy) but not via 80, Pegasus allowed to connect out on POP3 and SMTP, Popfile allowed out on POP3, SecureCRT on 22, etc. A few applications (Privoxy, Media Player Classic, Sam Spade) are trusted to make any outbound connections they want, but most are defined with only specific ports allowed.
If I was setting it up for my father or someone I knew was prone to opening possibly-infected email, I'd set it up similarly but have it set to silently block outbound connections from any other applications.
fencepost
just a little off
Why the hell would anyone need to reinstall an entire OS every month? I mean - I know Windows is bad, but come on - its ridiculous.
That's easy -- to wipe out all the demo/shareware timeouts! I know people who have been using Dreamweaver, Flash, Quark, etc., for YEARS, by simply reloading their OS every two weeks or a month.
1. Mozilla Firefox
2. Microsoft Office
3. PuTTy SSH Client
4. WinRAR (will check out Izarc too)
5. WinAMP
6. POPFile, an Email Filter
7. SmartFTP, gonna FileZilla a try though..
8. IrfanView, a free picture viewer
9. NetTransport download manager, also downloads media streams
10. Windows Media Player 9-- its actually pretty good!
http://www.s4biturbo.com/
This should get re-posted about once a year. Nobody has time to track down all these useful programs, it's great to have them all listed, discussed, compared, & critiqued all in one place!
1) Mozilla FireFox
2) MSN Messenger Plus! (non Microsoft add on for MSN Messenger that removes the Microsuck ads and gives all kinds of cool features)
3) Quicktime
4) Photoshop
5) DirectX 9
6) Starfleet Command 3 (what use is Windows for besides the games?)
7) All my Macromedia Apps like Flash and Dreamweaver MX
8) All the rest of my games...
9 & 10) More games
Gotta love them games!
Well you put in the CD and run the installer and then Software Update, and basically get:
Mail
Safari
iTunes
iMovie
iChat
iCal
iSync
iPhoto
I suppose you might want to install the Dev Tools option.
After that, you install REAL APPS! Imagine that..
Office X
iLife 04 = iDVD / GarageBand / iPhoto
Adobe Creative Suite
Macromedia MX maybe
Final Cut Pro / Soundtrack / LiveType
But of course, if you are reinstalling OS X, you are probably misinformed or rash. I'm using the same install I started with using 10.2, upgraded to 10.3 and updated over the last year and a half. And I just copied the whole thing over from my PowerBook to my new G5, which might not be optimal but it works flawlessly.
Who has time to install shit and dick around with 3rd party apps to get basic functionality (playing DVDs? Listening to music?)
Linux is like having a motorcycle from the 60's - you have to put it back together and rebuild it after every few rides. Windows is like a motorcycle from 20's - it burns your ass and tries to kill you at every turn. OS X is like a new motorcycle: you pay attention to the road and scenery and going fast rather than having to worry about bolts falling out the back end and how important they must be.
1. debian base 2. newest kernel (say 2.6.5.1)
3. kde 3.2.2
4. evolution
5. firefox
6. gftp
7. kpackage
8. pan
9. mplayer
10... don't reboot until June (or the next kernel)...
lol, Windows
A properly configured firewall will protect you from a lot of things, but there are still ways of getting infected that a secure OS would prevent (ie all the IE holes). An email or popup ad can infect you through IE with a firewall in place and without you doing anything dumb (besides using IE or Outlook).
The same thing could conceivably happen to a linux/firefox user (if a firefox hole were targetted with code that executed on linux), but the malicious code would have to also find a local root exploit to do serious damage. Why? Because Linux/Unix properly seperates user space from everything else.
1) Nullsoft Winamp
2) WinZIP
3) Microsoft Office 2000
4) Allaire Homesite 4.5.2
5) Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe 6
6) Adobe Photoshop
7) DeadAIM
8) Adobe Acrobat
9) Cloudmark SpamNet
10) FlashFXP
I'm a programmer, so my normal installs tend to be more coder-oriented. And of course, I patch the hell out of everything once the core sfotware is installed.
10. Mutt
9. LYNX
8. cdrtools
7. anacron
6. java
5. Batik (see #6)
4. Pico
3. Firefox
2. Thunderbird
(some people need to see what their html/mail looks like for someone in console mode!)
1. MARATHON:ALEPH ONE
(I loved it on my first Generation PowerMAC [BHA 7100/66] and it is all I need now.)
Networking
/. login Cookie
VNC
Putty
"Remote Desktops" Term Svcs Client (From Win2003Srvr CD)
GuildFTPD
SmartFTP
Instant Messaging Client (AIM with Aimutation)
System/File Utilities
Norton Antivirus
Spybot
Nero
Ultraedit (Possibly replacing with SciTE)
Acrobat
Ghostscript
Other
Halo :)
Winamp
WinDVD
Realplayer, Quicktime, (Each program is currently configured to turn off as many spyqare/snooping options, probably replacing with Media Player Classic next time)
Productivity
OO.o (or MS-Office depending on licenses)
The GIMP
-- In Soviet Russia, radio listens to YOU!
This whole concept is pretty alien to linux users, most everything you want is already installed when the OS is.
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
...done!
Calculating dependencies
[ebuild N ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r5
[ebuild N ] kde-base/kde-3.2.1
[ebuild N ] net-www/mozilla-firefox-0.8-r2
[ebuild N ] net-mail/evolution-1.4.5
[ebuild N ] net-im/gaim-0.75-r10
[ebuild N ] media-gfx/gimp-1.2.5
[ebuild N ] app-cdr/k3b-0.11.9
[ebuild N ] media-video/mplayer-0.92-r1
[ebuild N ] app-office/openoffice-1.1.1-r1 [1.1.1]
[ebuild N ] games-arcade/frozen-bubble-1.0.0-r3
three days later... woo hoo!
Vim would be high on my list whether it's Unix or Windows. It's a good editor all around, and once you're used to the vi key layout, going back to junk like Notepad is downright painful.
I dual boot XP & Debian. I Install FIREFOX & GAIM on Both Operating systems. On the XP I install: CYGWIN ADAWARE SPYBOT S&D NORTON ANTIVIRUS OFFICE 2003 (Work Requires it) GAIM WINZIP 8 LEECH FTP CISCO VPN CLIENT With Debian I install: PINE Open Office & Evolution KDE 3.2 PAN GIMP WEBMIN
* Drag Thing: A highly addictive replacement for OS X's Dock. Really improves productivity.
* MS Office: Open Office isn't ready for prime time on OS X. I'm not sure it will ever be ready for professionals who exchange complex documents, though it's great if you have a small shop and use OOo's default file format.
* Toast 6: The most convenient disk duplication suite I have ever used.
* Fink: There aren't many Linux programs I *must* have on OS X, but this will get 'em.
* Photoshop: I have an older iBook with a small drive that gets GIMP instead.
* Corel Graphics Suite: Gotta have it for layout. Now that Corel has abandoned Mac, however, I'll be moving to Adobe Creative Suite.
* Thunderbird: I'd probably use Thunderbird fulltime if the Mac version were to be integrated with the OS X addressbook. But it's pleasant to play around with.
* Mozilla Firefox: Safari is my default, but it's a very young browser. Firefox renders whatever Safari won't.
* Starry Night: An entertaining and useful program for backyard astronomers. You needn't own a telescope to appreciate SN. Explore the universe from your armchair.
* Updated iLife suite: I've become addicted to iTunes and use iPhoto to organize my personal snaps.
This is my post. There are many others like it. If you don't like what you read here, go try one of the others.
Server:
fluxbox
O ffice
iptables
sshd
emacs
mysql
apache
php/perl
Desktop:
iptables
emacs
KDE
GAIM
Mozilla
sshd
Open
Windows XP is the designated OS for my Workstation. So, not including the billion or so security patches that has to be installed, this is the list that I install the first (in order of installation):
1. Norton Internet Security Professional
2. Norton Antivirus
3. PuTTY
4. Miranda
5. Winamp
6. FireFox
7. Media Player Classic
8. PowerArchiver
9. Nero Burning Rom
19. oDC
This is my sig, this is my gun. This one's for flaming, this one's for fun.
1. zsh - the best shell out there
2. joe - easier to use than vi, and less bloated than emacs
3. postfix - why oh why does fedora still default to sendmail
... hmm, that's pretty much it - the rest of the stuff i have already picked in the install process
Windows:
The only Windows I use is Windows XP Professional as a unix admin in a corporation, so some items may be notably absent. My entire Windows list is software that can be used royalty-free for commercial use )with an obvious emphasis on Free Software).
For example, I use XFree86 shipped with Cygwin for my X server, WinSCP for secure file transfer, Spybot S&D (and not AdAware, which is another excellent product, but would require a licensing fee be paid).
I don't use Winzip at all, since that functionality is built into the explorer interface in Windows XP Professional (don't know about the others), and is also available through Cygwin.
On the occasion I'm visiting a friend who runs Windows on a personal desktop, I also recommend Zinf, the audio player, since it's free software and just plays the music without any corporate spyware tie-ins, eg., contacting a server based on mp3 header fields as WMP and Winamp have started doing.
Off topic, I know, but why on Earth would anybody regularly reinstall their OS of choice once a month?
3 is more than enough:
VIM,PERL and SSH (to connect to *nix boxes)
in order to run some real work....
Putty Winamp Office Dreamweaver Photoshop SQLYog Nero DC++ Acrobat (ugh) Some Virus Scanner
Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
I havent had to reinstall Windows XP Pro since the day I installed it back in 1992. Here is my top ten list. 1. .NET FrameWork SDK
2. Borland C# Builder
3. Windows Services for UNIX
4. GAIM
5. GIMP
6. OpenOffice.org
7. MingW
8. Stuffit
9. A firewall
10. Avast AntiVirus System
winzip
realvnc
ad-aware
html-kit
irfanview
zonealarm
kazaalite
subspace/continuum
prime95
weatherbug
google toolbar
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
This is for my primary use computer, rather than my secondary gaming computers: 1) UT2004 2) Half-Life + (Currently only The Specialts) 3) MS Office (get over it) 4) WinZip 5) Kohan: Ahriman's Gift 6) Warcraft III 7) UT/TacOps 8) Real Player 9) Patches, Patches, Patches 10) Mechwarrior Black Knight
That's gotta fit into your schema somewhere
1.Firefox 2.Winrar 3.Avast (anti virus scanner) 4.Open office 5.CDex 6.Winamp 7.Winscp 8.Mindterm 9.AIM 10.Spybot S&D
WinRar
a registry cleaner
Firefox
WinAmp (actually iTunes now)
Openoffice.com
TweakXP
Cacheman
Spybot
and finally some game
I had them all backed up and compressed on some backwoods compressed partition on my second HD, alonng will all my documents, patches, and other install as needed progies. The main step is UNINSTALLING all of XPs crap, meaning many trips to safe mode.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -edward abbey
By the time I moved from Windows to Linux full time last December, I had created a system that used mostly all the same programs. The first ones to be installed right away, thus, would be:
1. Open Office
2. Firefox
3. Thunderbird
Everything after that is gravy.
On my Linux box today, I imagine the list would further include
4. Unreal Tournament 2004.
5. Audigy (audio editor I use to put together a radio newscast I do every week)
6. Crossover Office/Plugin, mostly for the QuickTime plug-in for the web browser, though. I need my Apple Quicktime movie trailer site.
When SUSE 9.1 comes out, I'll be upgrading and rearranging my entire system, installing a new larger hard drive, and formatting over the Windows hard drive completely. So this is what, in my mind, would constitute a dry run. Everything after it would just be gravy.
-Augie
winrar
visual c++
mirc
firefox
thunderbird
gaim
winamp
quake 3
openoffice.org
filezilla
I'll get over it, and maybe forgive the author for using Windows. I've been using RedHat 9 on 2 machines, RedHat 7.3 on a few others, and OS X on 3 machines. One Linux box (at work) has been up for more than 9 months. The other (home dev box) has been up for maybe 4 months. The OS X machines have been running/upgraded without re-install since Jaguar became available. I have no stability problems with any of them, and I don't ever feel the need to re-install monthly. I don't really understand this impulse, maybe stability issues are forcing the author to re-install all the time? Seriously, if I had to wipe my hard drives and start over every month, I'd never have time to do anything.
OS X:
(Mostly audio stuff)
Logic Audio Platinum (DAW)
NI Battery (drum synth)
NI FM7 (FM synth)
ReFX Slayer (Elec.Guitar synth!)
VST-AU Adapter (AU wrapper for VST plug-ins)
A few other soft synths
Pro-tools
MacMAME (arcade game emulator)
Mozilla (safari still sux)
TallGreen CMS hosting
Those keep me sane -- I still remember all of my windows commands for when I have to work on someone else's box, but it's so much more familiar to use ls and rm than dir and del now.
got standards? --- http://www.w3.org/
Linux, Mozilla, ethereal, etc...and of course the almighty rsync!!!
NAV
RSLinx
RSL5K
RSNetWorx
RSLogix5
RSLogix500
PanelBuilder
ControlFlash
MSOffice
Opera
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick
I guess it's obvious that I'm using Windows primarily for gaming.
Fight hunger. Filet a politician and send him to a 3rd world country of your choice.
On top of this I have a set of configuration files archived for several of the above programs (i.e. fvwm2 and NEdit) and general system setup (fstab, XFree86, and bash/sh profile).
...if you're anything like me your machine is formatted at least once a month.
What's wrong with you? Why do you reformat your hard drive so often? Why not just try a defrag and a chkdsk every now and then instead? Man, you sure wast a lot of time managing your hard drive!
Here they are: Q299444 Q304158 Q305929 Q312895 Q313829 Q318138 Q320206 Q323172 Q326830 Q328310 And I won't even *THINK* about Q329115 until *AFTER* all ten are in and locked down.
What's that? Oh, yeah -- it's something I do when I buy a new computer.
Though i do not format like that guy once evry month , i do it twice in a tear (Win98). Does repeated formatting and OS installation cause damage to hard disk?
Why does yahoo do this
In no particular order:
vim
lynx-ssl
surfraw (very, very cool!)
screen
ncftp
slrn
mutt
abook (address book, works with mutt)
aumix
mp3blaster (plays mp3 & ogg)
But in actuality I'll install a whole shitload more console tools. At least 50 or so packages that aren't installed by default in Debian. Stuff like mikmod, timidity, bitchx, hdparm, mc, netcat, tcpdump, wget, zgv, fbi (framebuffer image viewer), mplayer, all kinds of compression/archive tools, all kinds of Perl modules, a few games (notably Rogue and Doom), a whole bunch of local packages (stuff I grabbed from freshmeat and packaged myself), and lastly a minimal X11 setup and a small number of GUI programs (blackbox, rxvt, acroread, vnc, rdesktop, vmware).
I prefer to do all my stuff in console whenever possible, in a 75 Hz refresh, 1024x768 framebuffer. Never really liked the GUI thing (except on my Amiga, but that was ages ago).
Who cares what you install first, why the hell do you reformat your machine once a month? Does the spyware you install and the hourly virus infections get so bad that re-installing is your only choice?
Yeah, when counting 1 through 9 doesn't get you to 10, try 0 - 8... you'll get there eventually.
VLC -, like you mentioned, Free media player is a great media player, it blew me away. Better then Window's media player, and I know that my porno viewing habits are not going straight to Bill Gates.
One you didn't mention is Filezilla which is a good GPL ftp program instead of SmartFTP if you want to try another one out. (I must confess I use LeechFTP since I haven't gotten use to Filezilla just yet, although if you are into hosting files Filezilla is even better).
Windows XP (not counting service packs):
1. Norton AntiVirus
2. ActiveState Perl
3. WinRAR
4. Download Accelerator
5. Winamp
6. Outlook 2003
7. Photoshop
8. MySQL-Front
9. GVim
10. Xchat
Linux
1. Xchat
2. Evolution
3. SETI@Home
4. Mozilla
5. XMMS
6. Perl
7. Flash
8. vim
9. Gimp
10. mysql-client
Sounds like you are a candidate for VMWare workstation or Microsoft Virtual PC. Maybe you could save yourself a reload or twelve by saving your disk image.
Have you Meta Moderated t
Better yet, if you need to reinstall every month, just use Knoppix. Sheesh. Every month?
I can see doing it for fun, trying out different distros and whatnot, but my main machine is Redhat 7.3 w/some updates. My main Windows machine is Win98, which only gets booted up to burn a DVD or to play a game. I have a few other machines that I do some distro experimentation on.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Some people replace system administration with system formatting. Given the ass backwards nature of these people, I doubt the OS they're using really makes much of a difference in the situation. It just so happens that Windows probably appeals to them more for whatever reasons. In any case, after getting this p4 I decided to switch back to Windows (I had been using slackware and subsequently redhat on my previous boxes). Windows 2000 Professional gives me uptimes limited by my power company's reliability, so the grandparent's post about monthly system wipes can't possibly get pinned on Windows. I have no firewall, no anti-virus. I sit behind a NAT and don't open email attachments that I'm not expecting. And I get by for months at a time. At full load (f@h). Playing DirectX games. Running apache httpd. So if you want to make fun of Windows, find some legitimate reasons. Windows works -fine- for me; if it craps out on you, you're a retard.
Thunderbird
TightVNC
iTunes
Java Runtime
OpenOffice
Cygwin
WinGIMP
Acrobat
The Ur-Quan Masters
MetallicBurgundy
- putty: ssh client - Cygwin: linux emulation - Avant Browser: tabbed ie browser - Norton Utilities - Norton Antivirus - Vitrite: transparany/allways ontop tool - Tray it: minimise to taskbar - Feedreader: rss feed reader - Deamon tools: virtual cd drive - TightVNC - Jcreator - Jdk - wincvs - winamp - mirc - vlc and graphedt - Firefox
Cygwin on my Windows boxen.
Kevin
"It's not the cough that carries you off, it's the coffin they carry you off in" O. Nash
I am disrespectful to dirt! Can you see that I am serious?!
(assuming I already have a bootloader, kernel, and init, etc. ...)
bash
links (with graphics)
ncftp
openssh
nmap
perl
mutt
tcpdump
vim
sudo
oh, and gcc, if by some chance It isn't already there.
That's really all one needs, isn't it? :)
WTF is this flamebait shit? Mod parent UP.
IZArc is only free to distribute (for now), you can't modify it AT ALL.
FREE as in BEER != FREE as in FREEDOM.
*time to backup maybe, methinks you due for a failure ;)
This is my Sig, this is my Gun. One is for Slashdot and one is for Fun.
Funny, once I moved beyond a 500Mhz p2, I found it to be just as fast as any other graphical editor I've used. And on that note, jEdit is in my top 3 programs, right next to mozilla and putty in windows, and galeon and *-mp3 in linux (I'd have more in linux, but fedora seems to install everything I'd want except for mp3 support)
Do you really need reason for beer? Wingman Brewers
I remember myself on Win98:
1) Windows
2) ICQ
3) M$Office
4) *crash*
5) *Reboot*
6) *Hell breaks loose*
7) Windows
8) ICQ...
0. Turn on firewall 1. Windows Updates 2. Norton 3. QuickTime 4. Adobe 5. Cygwin for ssh, lynx, etc. 6. Mozilla 7. Office (OO isn't there yet for my needs) 8. a Win Emacs distrib (yes, I know it's overkill) 9. Perl 10. Roxio 11. iTunes
No firewall software. My router does a good enough job, so I don't bog down Windows with redundant functionality.
Here's what the list would be for my Mac, if I had to reinstall the system (Mac OS X "Panther"). Again, I'm leaving out device drivers and system software updates:
Finally, my Linux boxes. This is a bit weird, because most of the apps I use come with my distribution, so many of these are effectively preloaded. But I'll see what I can come up with, leaving out stuff that clearly belongs in the category of "system software".
- Mozilla (downloaded - the ones that come with distributions are usually out of date.)
- Development tools (gcc and related packages) (bundled with the distribution)
- Emacs (bundled with the distribution)
- cdrecord and related packages (bundled with the distribution)
- Sun Java VM
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- TiK (my favorite UNIX-based AIM-client)
- mikmod (am I the only one left who still listens to MOD files?) (bundled with the distribution)
- OpenOffice
- xv (bundled with the distribution)
It really says something about Linux that of my 10 must-have apps, 5 of them come bundled with my distribution and probably come bundled with everybody else's as well. This is one of the few systems where I can be productive using nothing but software that's available as free downloads.emacs, bash, a custom kernel, python, wget, kde, apache, mod_python, gimp
On Windows boxen:
Symantec Norton Antivirus
Spybot Search & Destroy
Adaware
Spywareblaster
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Thunderbird
Sun J2RE
OpenOffice.org
Winamp
Anachron
and then...
Mandrake in a separate partition.
No one gets a box from me without Linux installed on it.
I just finished creating an automatic install DVD of Windows XP Pro. On this DVD it installs Windows XP Pro, installs my programs silently, and automatically installs all patches and hotfixes. This saves me a bunch of times from doing this the manual way. Right before I wipe Windows and reinstall, I move all my important data to my second hard drive.
.NET Framework
;)
For more information please visit the MSFN Unattended XP CD at http://unattended.msfn.org/index.htm.
In keeping with the direction of the first post, here is my list of my first 10 installed programs...
1. Hotfixes and security updates galore!
2.
3. Windows Media Player 9
4. DirectX 9.0b
5. Office XP with Service Pack 3
6. TweakUI
7. Winamp 5.0.3a (no video codecs)
8. K-Lite Mega Codec Pack
9. WinRAR 3.30
10. ETrust Antivirus 6.0
I have a bunch of other installed programs on the DVD, but I thought I would share only a couple.
Cheers!
In no particular order
1. Mozilla
2. Live http headers (livehttpheaders.mozdev.org)
3. Prefbar (prefbar.mozdev.org)
4. Ethereal
5. Putty
6. WinSCP
7. WinMTR
8. CygWin
9. WinZip
10. some internal tools...
If I could only slipsteam directx9, an ASPI layer, my more recent nvidia/ati drivers, VIA 4in1's, Windows Media Codecs... Those are usually my first 5 installs and my first 4 reboots. I run win2k and still haven't installed any service packs. I got 1 IRC virus (somehow) through my old IRC client, other than that, i just install most of the critical updates and i've been secure. No firewall, just some tweaked services.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
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I left out commercial software, but none of it would have made the top ten anyway. Many of the standalone freeware programs don't even need to be installed; I just copy over my standard "Apps" directory.
1. Firefox (or whatever it's called that month)
2. GnuPG
3. Fire
4. Fugu
5. wget
6. BBEdit
7. Adobe apps
8. MPlayerOSX
9. BitTorrent
10. Beholder
"Let him go, Ralph. He knows what he's doing." --Otto Mann (simpsons)
Gonzo Granzeau
"Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.." -Roy Batty
1. PuTTY.
2. Civilization 2
3. WarCraft III
4. Too busy playing Civ or WC3.
steve
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
Windows (on a Dell Inspiron 5150):
:)
0. OS/Driver Updates (I don't count these)
1. Firefox
2. SSH Secure Shell
3. EditPlus
4. Cygwin/NASM
5. Bochs
6. Gaim
7. NetStumbler
8. Kazaa K-Lite K++
9. Gimp
10. WinAMP (w/Milkdrop of course)
If it was a desktop I'd install UT2004 as well.
Linux (desktop):
1. NVIDIA drivers
2. Firefox
3. Synaptic
4. Bochs/BFE
5. Azureus
6. UT2004 (gotta love this
7. Pine (yes, I know I've heard it all before)
8. gIFT
9. gkrellm
10. iptraf
# fuser -v
#
Unfortunately, Solaris comes in a pretty much unusable state. First few programs are: gzip gnu tar gcc make tcp wrappers prngd openSSL openSSH
First thing I install is winrar just because I have it and it works. Then Imad's PGP 6.58ckt7 and zone alarm.
The rest doesn't need install. I just drag shortcuts to mozilla, proxomitron, winamp and the rest to my desktop and click.
If you don't use IE or outlook and run proxomitron behind mozilla, there's not many ways bad stuff can find you behind a decent firewall.
"Trillian, Winrar, Firefox, Winamp, SmartFTP, Azureus, NMap, GKrellM, PowerDVD."
I'm somewhat alarmed by the fact that no anti-virus software was mentioned anywhere in that list. Or personal firewall software, for that matter (although the firewall in XP is probably sufficient. Assuming you remembered to turn it on.)
I used to be a Windows person - and I still am (as one of my job hats) a Windows network admin.
But now I am addicted to my Powerbook and OS X, so the thought of Windows or yet another damn install makes my stomach churn (I have done far too many this year alone... hell, just on a few horribly misused servers that were here prior to my arrival).
But were I to list the must-haves of the OS X world for me (too lazy to put in any order of desire/importance):
1) Quicksilver - MUST have
2) Synergy
3) Fugu
4) SubEthaEdit
5) Audioscrobbler
6) FireFox (I use Safari as my main browser, but for website testing, FireFox is key for me)
7) Photoshop
8) NetNewsWire
9) MenuMeters
10) Tomato Torrent since the binary for the "original" BitTorrent no longer works on my machine.
I would like to also say Eclipse, but it occasionally (frequently) doesn't work on OS upgrades, so I am trying to wean myself off of it.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
1] PuTTY
2] WinSCP
3] McAffee VirusScan Enterprise
4] Moz Firefox
5] WinAMP
6] WinZIP
7] SciTE
8] MS Office
(I'm familiar with OO.o and StarOffice, but from what I've seen, MSOffice is the hands-down winner for me and is primarily what keeps me on Windows).
9] Adobe Acrobat 6.0 PRO
10] DBDesigner 4
And that about rounds out the list. After that, I reboot and hot-patch the box with locally stored patches, reboot, THEN connect for new patches.
I install these programs first on new Windows machines.
VNC, Emacs for Windows, VMWare, CDEx, Vorbis Tools, DaemonTools follow. I like Photoshop but as long as it's crippled (currency watermarks) and activated I'll never buy another license for it.
I don't reinstall Windows very often (only when hardware fails) but here's my usual recipe:
:)
0. Windows Update, drivers, etc.
1. AIM
2. Unreal Tournament
3. Visual Studio.Net
4. Studio MX
5. WebSphere
6. Office
7. Acrobat Reader
8. Ad-Aware
I also use OS X, but since I haven't reinstalled that, I wouldn't know.
-ftp voyagere sktop sidebar
- emeditor
-alcohol 120%
-colorset
-emule
-winamp
--dfx
-ps cs
-indesign cs
-opera
-firefox
--adblock css
-divx
-ac3
-xvid
-brockhaus
-encarta
-d
-trillian
-mirc
-xnview
-joe
-lame
-adobe audition
-flashget
-DScaler
-babylon
-winrar
-nero
-du-meter
-topstyle
If you buy an preinstalled system (Dell, HP, Gateway, etc.) the first thing I do is remove at least 10 programs. That includes several advertisements for online services, a few trial programs that lock you into saving a file that you can't open after 30 days, and then the complex OEM products that are more easily handled by freeware equivalents.
IMHO, manufacturers should package vanilla systems and let users learn to install applications they want, rather than have a start menu that is so large that the user must scroll to get to their office application. With XP, many users don't ever go beyond the MRU list on the start menu - so they only see
Once I have anti-virus, I install an eDonkey client like eMule, then surf to one of these pages to find the apps I want.
The last step is to fire up my WiFi and download the apps I selected over somebody else's DSL.
duh, this is satire
I love you.
One annoying thing with Cygwin is that they expect you to install it from the Internet, which can be slow depending on your connection. They don't tell you how to install it from a CD, but it is possible. I finally found out how to do it (bookmark this link -- for me it was very hard to find, even with Google! :). After
discovering how to do this life is much more pleasant.
in this particular order... 1. firfox 2. thunderbird 4. Emacs 5. JDK 6. Eclipse 7. openOffice 8. Gaim 9. (iTunes | XMMS) 10. the WVU Deskmate
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lost Sheep to Shepard, you got your ears on?
CK
The first thing I install when I sit behind a terminal in a public internet cafe is putty, so I can make a ssh connection to my linux box at work. Sitting behind a computer without a (useful) shell is unacceptable for me :-)
Actually, I don't install it, I just execute is from the download page.
Daisy (Hotfix utility) Norton AV/Systemworks/Firewall/PCAnywhere Xp ANTI-SPY Ad-Aware SpywareBlaster Spybot S&D WinRAR OpenOffice Trillian Winamp
bash, strace, lsof, screen, windowmaker, mozilla or firefox, wget, xdiskusage, mplayer, netcat.
Anytime I get an account on a new Unix machine, if any of these programs are missing, I build them myself.
If I have root on the box, it also gets tcpdump and nmap.
1. Trillian
2. MS Office (Outlook)
3. Cygwin
4. PowerDVD
5. SecureCRT
6. Xemacs
7. Google Toolbar
8. SETI@Home
9. McAfee VirusScan
10. WinZip
...is a non-issue. Just check `everything' in the installation and you'll never have to install anything ever again. ;-)
I use PowerArchiver
I run Linux and reinstall the machine every... erm every time I have an unrecoverable hardware failure.
/.
Straight after installing I have my top 10 or maybe 100 programs all ready to use. OK I might restore some data files I suppose.
So what do I do with all my time? Spend it being productive and reading
but if you're anything like me your machine is formatted at least once a month
Why do so many people reformat/reinstall so often?
I only reinstall when I want to replace my current operating system with a new version (Windows 2000 to XP, etc). I never manage to mess up my system such that I need to kill everything. It's really a waste of time to reinstall, especially when a few extra minutes of system maintenance can keep it running nicely.
The 1st thing I install on windows (for about 10 years, I was using it in win31 also) is TotalCommander, which was known as WindowsCommander before, it mimics the good old NortonCommander3/4/5 I was using under DOS, it can do almost everything in windows.
Then I install tweakui, winace, winamp, and of course all the windows update...
BTW I never reformat, I just delete the c:\windows or c:\winnt folder and reinstall from the setup files I have copied on my HD, I keep my favorites, cookies, and clean up some folder in c:\progra~1 before re-installing.
"Science will win because it works." - Stephen Hawking
Media Player Classic (search for it on sf.net) is simply the best media player for any platform. It contains statically-linked parsers for all media types, including DVD, AVI, OGM, etc. so there's no need to waste time with that new machine searching for CodecX. Ditch PowerDVD once and for all!
Oops, maybe I shouldn't leave this comment because you don't have to INSTALL it at all... it's just a bare 1.2 MB EXE.
when you install *linux* you typically install from a distribution which gives you much more by default than a windows install cd. so when i install redhat, i click on the "everything" button, which comes with licq, gimp, apache, ssh (server + client), compilers, editors, open office, koffice, kde, gnome, xwindows, etc.
/opt which is on it's own partition, i dont have to reinstall anything really. it's much nice that when i used nt.
so the first thing i do is install redhat. since almost everything else i use, that doesn't come with redhat, i have installed in
-- john
Try Acronis TrueImage. Makes backups while Windows XP is running. Has scheduler.
Normally I do not need any further instalations after I finish my OS install.
A tipical GNU/Linux Distro comes with hundreds of applicatives, including but not restricted to 3 different office suites, an Image Manipulation Program, 4 or 5 different media players for audio and video, and another such bunch of web browsers.
Besides that, tehre is no need to anti-virus, and security related software is also included. (firewalling, port mapping, etc)
That is, if one cares to select All Packages, taht will ammount to about 5GB - not much in an 80GB HD world.
Wake Up and smell the coffee winDOS users.
-><- no
Windows XP Unattended Install
Check this site out if you want to create your own OEM-type Windows XP installation CD. You can quietly install applications at the time of the OS installation, as well as all those Windows XP hotfixes.
Re-installing why would you ever need to do that, let alone every month? Oh... Wait... I see.. You're running windows... Oh well.. Then the obvious first programs would be putty (to acess a real machine) and/or linux.
Isn't it telling when almost every single one of the posts +4, where there is actually a list of apps, is a Windows user? Man I'm so glad I don't have to deal with reinstalling all my crap all the time. The sad thing is, Windows users honestly think this is normal "maintenance".
In my gentoo box, I usually pick a list of just 2 or 3 softwares to install. Usually, when the install is finnaly done, there are new releases of this programs, so i start over and over again, ad infinitum
1. Trillian (I love chatting) 2. McAfee virus scan (I hate virii) 3. AdAware (I hate spyware) 4. Daemon Tools (I love to steal) 5. Sortpicts (I love pr0n) 6. Visual Studio (generally handy) 7. Photoshop (My friends love being edited into pr0n) 8. SmartFTP (generally handy) 9. IIS (I love pain) 10. SubVersion (is way better then CVS)
Hikery.net - The best hiking site ever. Made by yours truly.
running OS X:
Microsoft Word and Excel X (out of necessity)
OmniOutliner
Propellerhead Reason 2.5
Bias Peak 4.1
Adobe Photoshop 7
Transmit
on Win infected computers, I FIRST use fdisk and add a a 82 and 83 partition...
After that, using lynx, I install:
-Firefox
-any weird drivers I might need (that doesn't come with Slackware).
-Alsa
-Wine
-Open Office
After that, it's whatever.
Your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
Sometimes I really wonder how much time people have to waste.
Okay, I'm a student and quite busy, but I can't imagine that people have nothing better to do than reinstalling the whole system once a month. This wastes +/- one day every month!
How about doing a trip with your family every 2nd month and reinstalling every other 2nd month? or if you haven't got a family to care about, how about investing 1 day every 2nd month in finding the right woman? Or learn something, join any club, do sports, clean your flat, whatever, but don't just waste your time with really really stupid things like that.
To speak for myself, I haven't formatted my Powerbook for 18 Months now, and it still runs flawlessly.
this sig is useless
I use Linux and my list is less than ten?
C|N>K
Norton AV TweakUI UltraEdit putty RealVNC
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
Win2k is the least obnoxious OS from the Windows family.
A lot of people are giving you flack for not putting WinXP in the reliable category. But I must agree that WinXP does belong in the "obnoxious" category, no matter what you think of its stability.
Any OS with Fisher Price colours that pops up warnings saying "you have unused icons on your desktop" when you are trying to work is obnoxious. I know that XP can be made to be less annoying (so basicaly more like 2K) with a little work, but the defaults bad.
Point yum (/etc/yum.conf) at my isp's yum repository, also add references to Dag Wieer's repository and rpm.livna.org.
sudo yum check-update
then
sudo yum update
Then install java and flash player.
Eric S. Raymond has authored a nice guide entitled: Fedora Multimedia Installation HOWTO
USB memory keychains (any size 64MB or greater) with common tools (soft firewall, SSH client, etc.) are really useful to get the system up to a "usable" state before exposing it to the network.
After dealing with funky windows issues that occur after software upgrades or funky DLL's - I finally got smart.
Since my PC is a dual-boot (windows/linux), I wiped out the XP partition, reinstalled from scratch and put all my base programs on, plus patches,drivers:
GAIM
Winamp
Putty
EMule
Firebird/Thunderbird
Filezilla
WinSCP3
Openoffice
CDex
VirtuaDub
Audacity
Hardware-related (SBLive EAX panel, etc)
PowerDVD
Nero
Those last few came with hardware or at a cost...
Now... one of these days I may have to do it all over again. Rather than dealing with that, I booted into 'nix, revved up partimage and built an image of the drive in 500MB chunks. They're small enough to fit on a DVD - and I keep another DVD-RW with software updates for stuff like GAIM and others.
Should XP ever go down in flames, I can leave partimage doing a restore, come back, and I'm fresh to go.
Well, I guess my list would be:
1. Firefox
2. Thunderbird (for news - Mail.app is great for mail)
3. VLC media player
4. Mplayer (for the few files that VLC doesn't like)
5. iTerm
6. CocoModX (gotta have a dose of Liljedahl et al)
7. Adium (multi IM)
8. Darwinports
9. NeoOffice
10. Cuppa - so I know when my tea is done.
I don't even need most of that as I could stick with most of the stuff that came with my computer if I wanted to (Quicktime, iTunes, iChat, DVD player, Terminal.app etc.)
1. Trillian Pro - I use AIM, Y!, ICQ, IRC, and MSN chat clients. I use Trillian to notify me of updates to RSS feeds. I also use it to check POP3 e-mail accounts and Y! and HoTMaiL accounts. I also order my buddy list into Groups and Sub-Groups. Trillian also logs all chats which comes in handy on occasions. I also download the Aikon3 skin for Trillian. Trillian support secure profiles in case you have multiple people using the same install of Trillian.
..., validates, and so much more. Save a lot time for the web
devs. The "EditCSS" extension is cool because you can run your own CSS on other
people's websites (make Slashdot fit your blog theme). Oh, and the Mozilla Google
Toolbar for Firefox is a "must install". (I also install the Google bar for
IE).
.exe and GUI eyedropper utility. Use the eyedropper
to get the HEX or HTML value of any pixel on screen. I don't think there's any
current support for this app. Still, it's very handy and takes up little screen
area with the right skin.
Trillian website
Aikon 3 website w/Trilliain screenshots
2. Firefox - Light-weight, pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing rocks. And the plugins are very useful. All web designers should use the "Web Development" extension for Firefox. It allows you to automatically resize any webpage, disable images, cookies, java,
Firefox website
3. Microsoft Powertoys for XP (TweakUI) - A Microsoft download that allows for extra and powerful control of XP. Basically, it allows you to make some neat changes to your Registry that allows for increased productivity and usability. Tweaking XP made easy.
Microsoft Powertoys website
4. Versaverter - a neat little units converter that came in very helpful during my Engineering education. It has virtually every unit imaginable.
Versaverter website
5. Winamp5 - Light-weight MP3 player. Also play other media formats both audio and video. Skinnable, scalable, dockable, and extendable. I use only this program to playback MP3's. I like docking my Winamp screen at the bottom of my monitor. It's only about 20 pixels high. I also like right-clicking an MP3 folder and selecting Play in Winamp.
Winamp website
6. BS Player - Light-weight Video player. Playback video in half-time, double-time, resizable video screen, skinnable, commandline support, and more. My favorite video media player as I haven't found a player that gives me more control of the video I am watching.
BS Player website
7. Colorpad - tiny little
Colorpad @ Deviant Art
8. Winzip - compress and decompress files. Duh.
Winzip website
9. TravelAxe - Find cheap hotels from around the world. Puts information from popular travel websites into a sortable spreadsheet. Sorts by price, 1,2,3,4,5 Star rating, and more.
TravelAxe website
10. Musicmatch Jukebox - The only reason I install this software is to convert my audio CDs into MP3 archives. That part of this software is powerful and flexible. Don't use it for anything else.
Musicmatch website
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I use norton ghost, so all my programs are installed after the 4 min reinstall
I love norton ghost
You know what, nevermind the *nix list. It changes depending on the distribution... Most if it's already there.
Windows (2000)Windows Update...
Nvidia Drivers
ZoneAlarm
Norton Antivirus
Spam Slammer
Winzip
Halflife
Steam
Natural Selection
Cheating Death
The problem is that so many people use the default "Administrator" account that they end up with these problems. Linux is just as insecure when morons load up KDE as root and start surfing the web and such. It's trivial to create additional local users on 2K and XP, which you can easily not give admin rights to and thus prevent those sorts of problems.
On Windows it used to be:
1) All Patches and Fixes (a lot more than 10)
2) AVG Anti-virus
3) Ad-aware
4) Spybot
5) Mozilla
6) Winrar
7) MYOB (for business)
8) OpenOffice
9) Adobe Acrobat Reader
10) MS Money
I haven't had to do that in awhile because now I run Windows 2000 on top of Linux using VMWare. In fact, I didn't even need to install the first 4 items on my list last time around, because when I'm done, I just click "revert" and it goes back to the way it was.
For Linux I installed this (which was over 2 1/2 years ago):
1) vim
2) firefox
3) evolution
4) VMWare (to run Windows)
5) XMMS (WinAmp equivalent)
6) Ogle (to watch DVDs)
And that's it! Anything else I need I install when I need it by typing "apt-get install [app name]". I setup a server about 3 years ago seperate from my workstation which rsync's a copy of the i386 Debian distribution. Whenever I need to update my machine, I just type "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" which in one shot checks my local mirror for updated packages, then upgrades everything. I've _never_ had to reboot my machine after an upgrade, and in over 2 years, I just don't have problems anymore, especially with Windows.
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(aside from windows updates and drivers)
;p
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Thunderbird
Hotmail popper
iTunes
Nero burning ROM
WinRAR
ACDSee (image processing)
Photoshop
Cute FTP
Forte Agent (Usenet client)
And then come the games
If you can't see the value in jet powered ants you should turn in your nerd card. - Dunbal (464142)
On windows:
0. all updates
1. putty.exe
2. mozilla
and I'm all set - I don't really use windows for anything significant, but this covers all the contingencies.
On RH/Fedora Linux:
0. apt
1. all updates
2. nvidia video drivers
3. openvpn
4. Sun jvm
5. mplayer for DVDs and other multimedia
6. mplayer plugin for web-based video
7. Frozen Bubble
8. ut2004 & other FPS
9. update to latest version of the gimp
2. PuTTY - the only terminal I've found that handles colors and stuff right.
Do you know if it is possible to use putty as a replacement for cmd/cygwin locally?
/Esben
"Nobody really checks their email any more. They just delete their spam"
Windows XP
1. All Patches/Service Packs/DX9
2. Norton Anti-Virus
3. Updates to All Drivers
4. Winamp
5. Eudora
6. Crimsion Editor
7. Nero
8. mIRC
9. Current Game 1 (UT2K4 at the moment)
10. Current Game 2 (Hitman : Contracts)
Find Escorts, Strippers, Massage Parlours, Swingers
- Windows Updates
- Office
- iTunes
- UT 2k3, soon to be 2k4
- Quake 3 Arena
- AutoCAD
- Filezilla
- You know... I cant think of anything else I really use very often on a Windows Machine
Mac-It seems Windows users install their system quite often from scratch, in order to be so familiar with their top ten.
in order(I think) on my windows box
Install offline
1. outpost(firewall)
2. norton(A/V)
-Install all patches and drivers here
install online
3. firebird(browser)
4. SSH(www.ssh.com which is also free)
5. spybot
6. trillian
7. MS office
8. winzip
9. MS outlook(I'll phase this software out someday)
10. winamp
for linux I use debian and I haven't reinstalled in a really really long time. Since I select all programs to install at install and dpkg downloads and installs the packages automatically it is impossible to, or rather not feasible to install one program at a time. If I were to it would be something like:
firebird, OpenOffice, avview, Xfree86, x11amp, alsa, opensshd and openssh, wireless tools, nmap, snort ect. I suppose there is quite a list.
There is or can be built a machine that can simulate any physical object. -Church-Turing principle
I don't install very often because I use a Mac running OSX. When i get a new machine though, here are my top ten:
1) Menu Meters -- I couldn't live without it
2) SQLGrinder -- great DB programming tool
3) SubEthaEdit -- great editor, supports collaborative development via Rendezvous
4) Little Snitch -- lets me know when a program tries to go out on the network on its own.
5) BBEdit -- the ultimate editor. How does anyone ever live without it?
6) Timbuktu -- great for managing all those Macs and PCs remotely.
- Vincit qui patitur.
After that, it depends on my OS. For most of the Linux installs I do, the next few things I install will be MySQL, OpenLDAP, Apache, and PHP, which takes care of most of my needs. My Windows box (which, I admit, I use at home) is a little more fun:
2. iTunes
3. Whatever freeware Shisen-Sho app I can find
4. Starcraft
5. Several games later, OpenOffice.org
Let's be honest: does a computer really need anything else? I certainly don't think so.
Another one bites the dust
I have some serious "cruft" creeping into this Win2k box. I'll rebuild soon. Here's my list:
... there's a long list following ...
WinZip
JPSoft's "Take Command"
D4Time
VirtuaWin
cvs
Mozilla 1.6
HTML-Kit
FileZilla
Acrobat reader
Paint Shop Pro
So i'm assuming you meant the 10 programs you install after the 100 bazillion updates and patches you install right after windows finishes installing....
My first 10 programs after Windows are:
1) MS Office
2-5) Macromedia Studio (Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Freehand)
6-9) Adobe Design Studio (Photoshop/Imageready, Indesign, Illustrator, Acrobat)
10) Quark Express
Then after a few more essentials like AutoCad 2004, CuteFtp, and various plugins for the above listed appz, comes things like Trillian and PowerDVD....
Guess my Priorities are just WAY off.....
Ave Molech Setting
If you have to reinstall everything once a month
you're doing something terribly wrong. You're
wasting your life repeating the same tasks over
and over. Don't you have anything more productive
to do with your time?
-- Programming with boost is like building a house with lego. It's a cool but I wouldn't want to live in it
You must have fewer needs than I do...
* i-Installer (with associated TeX packages)
* TeXShop
* Xcode (and associated applications)
* R
* Swarm
* SubethaEdit
* Snapz Pro
* Goban
* TechTool Pro
* Mplayer OS X
Royal PITA....
Integrate Keynote and LaTeX
you use Debian or OS X, and haven't needed to re-install an operating system in several years.
HOSTS file from
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts
No one uses a WM anymore i guess :)
p
FVWM
Firefox
Gaim
sylpheed-claws
aterm
nma
ethereal
gtk-gnutella
mpg321
mplayer
everything else is in base.
MY first focus is generally making sure the machine is a good 'net citizen', has what I need on it to be able to get to it remotely or get stuff to it easily, and some common office things.
Windows:
Cygwin
Java (j2sdk 1.4.2_03)
OpenOffice
Mozilla
mprime (www.mersenne.org)
updates
aim
tightvnc
Linux (Red Hat 9):
Ximian Gnome
Java (j2sdk 1.4.2_03)
OpenOffice
mprime
aim
upates
sshd (shutting off most other services)
tightvnc
I've gotten used to having to fix other people's computers. As soon as I get on one I have a set list I always install ASAP so those people won't bother me anymore.
Spybot Search and Destroy
Ad-Aware
Mozilla
McAfee VirusScan Home
Gaim
BSPlayer
uxtheme.dll
Then I remove the 40+ icons on their desktop and put the important ones in their quicklaunch bar, that goes at the top of the screen.
Then I tell Windows it should automatically update for them.
Then I smack on a MacOS theme and they feel better because they think I gave them MacOSX (Sad, but true.)
The most important part to the whole install is setting the Mozilla link so it has the IExplorer icon.
It has always been safe to set the programs I install as default or so they are disguised as what the user is used to. I've never been able to talk people off of MusicMatch in favor of anything without offensive memory problems, and replacing MSOffice with OpenOffice causes hysterics.
Our department of computing (university) suggests people use the underground version of Kazaa Light over Kazaa but at the same time they prosecute users who share too much music, so I've been showing people bittorrent. When that doesn't work I show them some free porn websites.
--Townsend
Direct away from face when opening.
I just reinstalled the OS on my laptop (WinXP Pro) after a year of constant operation. Here's what I did:
Office 2003
Photoshop CS
Trillian
Video decoder packs (DivX 5, XviD, etc)
SmartFTP
Nero Burning ROM
CloneCD
Grand Theft Auto Vice City
mIRC
and of course, the Goldfish Aquarium. Can't live without my fishies!
"Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steve Wright
I'd have a tough time coming up with any more than these as "must haves". Of course, with Debian you install exactly once/machine (even if your disk fails, just get /etc and /var from backup & apt-get takes care of the rest).
Ah, bitter dregs.
I always install:
p aranoiar oftpd
mozilla
sendmail
openoffice
mpack - easy to use
perl
python
openssh
openssl
cdrecord
cd
nmap
pine
pinepgp
mcrypt
ethereal
p
libpcap
samba
apachee nssl
java
tomcat
postfix
imap/pop
sshd
op
bastille
postgres
pine
I can't stand the default locations for some of the webserver/network stuff.
Dude, I think it's time to move out of your mom's basement.
See also the Debian popularity contest.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Thunderbird, Mozilla, PuTTY, EditPlus, Winamp
links - console web browser
zsh - awsome shell
pdksh - good shell
bsdgames - unfortunatly, not standard on every computer ever
nmap - for legal purposes
ircii - chat client, not that I ever use it
setiathome - because they are out there
wtf - so I can understand the enlightening conversation on slashdot.
Thats it. No 9 and 10
1) LastServicePack+Updates+Drivers
2) DiskKeeper
3) Norton Antivirus for NT4.0
4) ZoneAlarm
5) AdAware
6) RegCleaner
7) FinePrint
8) SSH_WinClient
9) Winzip
10) PsExplorer & TCPView
(www.sysinternals.com)
then some audio and ripping tools
like DartPro, AltoMp3,
then possibly kazaalite,
we are ready for the "serious" apps,
and some office productivity tools
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history - Tom Veneziano
I recently purchased a new Dell 4600 after my
.emacs file - the most important single
old computer's hard drive had difficulties with
large numbers of bad blocks. My installs were:
1. Linux (Fedora Core 1)
--(anyone want to buy a dell OEM WinXP cd
That I *paid* for?)
2. 865patch
--Dell BIOS has a problem with the video memory.
After hours of searching, this let me
get a decent resolution in graphics mode
3. Figured out how to get red hat NOT to
boot in graphical mode. (Prefer text mode
login by far - after all, I'm a linux user!)
3. my
file install ever!
5. Sawfish
6. Modified sawfish lisp scripts so it works
with the current gnome panel desktop selector
(I keep meaning to send my modification in
as a patch to the sawfish folks....)
7. Latest stable freeciv
8. Modified freeciv client code to allow
settlers to stay on autosettler when there
is no work to do.
No installs 9 or 10 yet. They will come, I
am sure.
Ok, ok, so 5 and 7 weren't really installs,
but they took quite a while to do, not
being familiar with the code and all, so i am counting them anyway.
I do a fresh OS installation every 6 months, on May 1 and November 1 - that's when new releases of OpenBSD come out. 8-)
For the record, my first 10 programs installed are:
if i'm a grammar nazi, you're an illiteracy nazi.
The first ten things you un-install.
The point of reinstalling at least every 6 months is to ensure the stability and freshness of your system. It helps organization, helps clear out files you'd never think to delete normally, helps keep your skills honed for even doing this sort of thing.
;)
Plus it's the best way to kill spyware that you missed with all your scanners and such
All your base are belong to Google.
TextPad
Eudora
Agent
Mozilla
WinZip
Porn
Porn
Porn
Porn
Porn
Porn
(I know that's 11, but I really like porn.)
Intellectual Property
Intellectual: of the mind
Property: that over which one has control
Debian:
:
:-)
Sudo (get, make new user, add user to sodoers, log out of root and log in as user); move system to testing, upgrade everything that's already present... after which, mysql, php, imagemagick, perl libraries for imagemagick. Anything else I need when I need it. SSH keygen; edit ssh config file for common hosts, move DSA key to common hosts.
OS X
Copy functioning and broken-in classic environment from previous workstation (containing Photoshop 5.0.2 and a few other must-haves, as well as the CPU meter from Jaguar, which I like much more than the Activity Monitor); Quicksliver, Photoshop CS, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Dreamweaver MX, Fireworks MX, Toast, Wacom drivers, BZFlag, and then mop up the install with current DIVX codecs, VLC, MPlayer, SSH Keychain. Grab Fink for the sole purpose of GNU File Utilities. Spend the time during the install from optical media configuring the sytem how I want it (terminal preferences, login items, activate root, turn auto-login off, grab Matrix GL screensaver, configurw energy settings, set finder defaults). Run SW Update, reboot. SSH keygen, edit config file for common hosts, copy DSA key to frequently used accounts.
Work complete.
Assuming the target hard drive is formatted and partitioned how I want it, I can typically get a debian box up in 1/20th the time it takes to get an OS X install where I want it. But then, I don't use X Windows on linux.
Windoze box (game/tinker box):
.ppt, .doc, .xls etc. files - instead of XML, HTML, comma delimited, or other plain text formats)
1. EMACS (Editor+ - to replace MS Word)
2. PFE32 (Editor - to replace notepad for 'one off' writing)
3. Python
4. Perl
5. FireFox (browser de jure)
6. WWIIonline (best battlefield simulation - bar none)
7. Battlefield Vietnam (best FPS bar none)
8. MS Train Simulator (okay - I like trains...so sue me)
9. Close Combat A Bridge Too Far (oldie, but goodie)
10. IL6 (flight sim - sometimes the urge to fly overcomes me...)
+ more games as the mood hits me...
Linux Server:
1. Emacs
2. Python
3. Perl
4. Zope +modules
5. MySQL
6. Apache
Linux Workstation:
1. Emacs
2. Python
3. Perl
4. TheGimp (Graphics)
5. FireFox (www Browsing)
6. OpenOffice (MS equivalent office tools - use mainly to read due to clueless individuals who send me
7. Gnumeric etc...(more productivity tools as needed - I like some of the functionality found in gnumeric vs. OpenOffice spreadsheets)
Most of the things I use are already present in most Linux distributions - so I usually don't have to load them in manually, unless I need a specific update.
Lodragan Draoidh
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. - Mark Twain
1- X-Master 2- Category Hack, Entropy Hack, TimeOnContrast (hack) 3- BigClock 4- FileZ 5- Newpen 6- CryptoPad 7- STRIP 8- TiBR lite 9- Roll Em 10- Misfortune Cookie
1.Netcraft confirms:In Soviet Russia all your base welcomes a beowolf cluster of CowboyNeal overlords. 2.? 3.Profit!!1!
let me think...
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sp1.exe
sp2.exe
hotfix1.exe
patch1.exe
patch2.exe
patch3.exe
patch10.exe
Privacy is terrorism.
Is an OS, lately Fedora.
However, If I am forced to run a Microsoft OS (like at work) I need the following:
1. Mozilla: This lessens my vulnerablity to virii [sic] (I like this spelling, you pendantic speller!) and gives me a better WWW experience.
2. Cygwin: This gives me a boatload of UNIX tools I can't live without, in particular: vim, ksh, ls, find, grep, sed, perl and ssh.
3. Norton AV: Norton antivirus (or one of it's competitors) is required for running a Windows box.
Snak (IRC Client) Adium (AIM client) Photoshop In Design Microsoft Word (Until a native version of OO.o is produced) Garage Band Thoth (Newsreader) Roxio Toast (DiscBurner) VideoLan Client DVD Backup/DVD2OneX (For backing up DVDs. Not encrypted DVDs because that would be illegal)
I've had uptimes over a year on my normal desktop machine, so no I haven't reinstalled in awhile.
My Windows boxes at work probably get reloaded about yearly though.
If you're not installing a firewall and antivirus program immediately after the OS (and before connecting to the net), I dare you to post your IP and email addresses. Someone out there will illustrate the importance of those two little steps.
Well I have build a basic config for my system and then I made an image of it with "Norton Ghost". With one install everything is done in a couple of minutes.
What I have in my basic ready Windows install Ghost image file:
1 - Windows fully patched and updated
2 - Firewall - Zonealarm (installed offline)
3 - Antivirus - Mcafee virus scan (installed offline)
4 - Spyware Trifacta : Ad-Aware/Spybot/SpywareBlaster (installed offline)
5 - Zip/Rar Utilities - PowerZip - 7Zip
6 - Winamp
7 - Irfanview (JPG viewer)
8 - Video Codecs (Divx, Real alternative, Qick Time Alternative etc)
9 - Hardware drivers/software (scanner, video capture, etc)
10 - CD Burning Utilities
Installing the other bigger utilities it's a one by one case that I can do as I am needing them.
Yahh, hiii haaaaa! -Major Kong, from Dr. Strangelove
Windows: WinRAR, FlashFXP, WinAmp, Firefox, Thunderbird, several dozen patches & updates, then games since that's all Windows is good for.
Linux (Mandrake): Firefox, Thunderbird, XFCE, gAIM, and uhh.. well it comes with everything else.
I SysAdmin a significantly sized heterogeneous network and to my dismay, I often have to set up new Windows machines and/or reinstall Windows machines.
As an aside, in sysadmin-land, the general rule is to reinstall a machine after someone leaves and/or every two-three years max. Any longer than that and the machine's OS & registry gets too clogged up with crap (among other things) that the machine goes so slow and a complete & clean reinstall is the only way to really regain that lost productivity.
Anyhow, the first 10 or so programs I install on these (primarily w2k) machines are as follows:
I would not forget an essential for all browser and some network apps, the J2SE Jave Runtime Engine J2SE-1.4.2_04
After only 1 1/2 years of use, right clicking on ANYthing would take at least 3-4 seconds to bring up the normal windows right click pop-up. My poor registry has had probably way too many file-program asocciations installed... the only clean way to fix it was for me to reinstall WinXP. ;)
I've tried running various regisry trimmers/cleaners, but they never seem to work that well and they just cause random crashes along the line as well.
I've found that 1 1/2 years is a good time to refresh and 'clean house' on my HDs as well. No need to keep those FAQ's for FF9 anymore
0- Eamonman Proud member of DNRC
Software firewalls are actually okay, just not any windows ones. IP Tables/Chains, pf, and everything thing else are nothing but software firewalls. They're just better done.
After installing Windows and all available patches/hotfixes I immediately install:
...and maybe some other game, like Hitman II, Comanche 3, America's Army, etc.
1. ZoneAlarm
2. Norton AntiVirus
3. LavaSoft AdAware
4. MS Baseline Security Analyzer (to find any security holes I might have missed when configuring Windows.)
5. WinZip
6. Trillian
7. WinAmp
8. Google Toolbar
9. Acrobat Reader, Flash, ShockWave and QuickTime plugins
10. ACDSee
Step 1-4 in that order, the rest in no particular order. After that, I install programs I actually USE:
* MS Office
* Macromedia DreamWeaver, Flash and Fireworks
* Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat
And/or if the b0xen is for development:
* MS ASP.NET Web MAtrix
* SharpDevelop
* WinCVS
* WinMerge
* HTML-kit
* TCL and Python
* documentation for languages etc (such as VBScript documentation, DotNet Framework dokumentation, etc.)
And/or if the b0xen is for games:
* Half-Life
* Steam
* Counter-Strike 1.6
* Additional maps etc for Counter-Strike
*
Other crap I usually install:
* Nero Burning Rom
* DC++
* Ventrilo
* Some DVD player
* NetLimiter (excellent for limiting DC++ bandwidth use while playing Counter-Strike)
* WinTasks
* StartRight
SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!
What are the first 10 programs you would install on a Windows machine? How about for a Unix machine?
How about for a Mac? Oh, that's right, Mac don't need reformatting on a monthly basis. Nevermind.
And on that note, I'd like to add--
*smack*
What the--
*smack*
Ouch, damn it! What the heck? The mods are smacking me down to Troll! No! No!!!!
*smack*
Okay, that was for offtopic, which I admit, I deserved.
Ah, heck, here goes. :)
Windows:For working:
- WinSCP: free secure ftp client to move work around
- PuTTY: free SSH client as mentioned above
- MinGW & MSYS: free C++ compiler and environment, with useful things such as grep
- Matlab: student version of linear algebra sofware. Mostly used for visualization these days
- Miktex: fantastic distro of LaTeX for Windows; for writing homework and scientific papers
For additional productivity:- MS Powertoys / TweakUI: free download to specify documents folders, etc., and tweak other behavior; available at MS's site. Also "command prompt here" powertoy, etc.
- Google Toolbar: iexplorer is good enough for me (might as well use i0t, since it's already in system memory) when coupled with the google bar and popup blocking.
- Norton AntiVirus: not dumb enough to open attachments, but it's good to scan downloads before unzipping
- stanford folding project: great for testing stability of the overclock while contributing to a good cause
For fun:- Flavor of the Month Game Demo: I'm too cheap to buy most games, but I'm getting a lot of fun out of the Halo and FarCry demos at the moment.
Linux (gentoo build from stage 1):For working:
- X: because X tunneling is nice
- OpenBox: I like their no-nonsense window manager
- xv: great for quick viewing of graphics files
- Intel's C++ Compiler: free C++ compiler in linux, and beats the pants off of G++ for fast-running code
- Matlab: student version of linear algebra sofware. Mostly used for visualization these days
- LaTeX: for writing homework and scientific papers
For additional productivity:- Firefox: You all know this one.
- nvidia drivers: gives better performance in matlab
- stanford folding project: great for testing stability of the overclock while contributing to a good cause
For fun:OpenSource.MathCancer.org: open source comp bio
I'm surprised no one has mentioned mplayer for windows yet. Yes, it exists! (I used to use VLC on windows until I found mplayer.) No, I will not submit the site to a /.-ing! find it on your own, or better yet, mirror it!
Well if it's a Windows box my first install is a Linux CD...what are the first 10 apps that load there?
NETWORKING
* Mozilla Firefox
* Firefox extensions: RadialContext, User Agent Switcher, bookmarklets, Magpie
* Filezilla (an ftp client that looks a lot like CuteFTP)
* Klipfolio (a news ticker / rss viewer)
* Trillian (an instant messenger, with the microscopic skin)
* PuTTY (a set of SSH clients)
* Cygwin/X (a port of X11, including an X server)
MEDIA
* BSplayer (a media player that handles DivX files well, even on SMP machines)
* foobar2000 (an audio player, uglier but leaner than Winamp)
* AC3Filter (a DirectShow filter for decoding AC3 audio)
* Subtitle Workshop (for converting between subtitle files of different formats)
* HACP (a lightweight cd player that understands CD text and online CD databases)
* IrfanView (an image viewer similar to ACD See)
* XnView (another image viewer)
* Exact Audio Copy (an excellent CD audio extractor)
* Real Alternative (a replacement for Real Player, without the bloat)
UTILITY
* Ad-Aware (for finding and removing spyware from your computer)
* Spybot - Search & Destroy (another spyware removal program)
* AVG Anti-Virus (not crashy like Norton AV, but updated less frequently)
* IZArc (an archive & file compression utility similar to WinZip)
* pdf995 (for easily converting your documents to Adobe PDF files)
* ListXP (a lightweight raw file viewer modeled after Vernon D. Buerg's list for DOS)
When I am setting up a Debian Linux or Fedora Linux desktop all updates and packages handled through APT (except JAVA/Moz/Plugins) , so keeping ALL packages up2date with bug fixes and security patches is easy. Also installing software is simple. I could install everything on this list in just a few moments:
fwbuilder (with iptables support in kernel)
vncserver
KDE 3.2 (with desktop sharing on top of XFree86)
Mozilla recent nightly
(all components with calendar, adblock & deep-sender)
Kterm + openssh + ssh-key-agent
Kopete
Korn
superkaramba w/ liquid weather, cynapses monitor
Rdesktop & tightvnc viewer
OpenOffice
K3B
xmms
adobe acrobat
flash-player (mozilla plugin)
SUN Java JRE (for mozilla plugin)
Community Supported REAL Player Client (and mozilla plugin)
VLC (Video Lan Client)
GIMP
NMAP
iftop
tcpdump
ethereal
nessus
ntop
bash & fileutils & findutils & perl
When I am setting up a windows box, (which could take all day!)
Remote Desktop Sharing
Norton Anti-Virus (with live update)
Norton Utilities (run once a week)
Zone Alarm (with auto-update)
Ad-Aware (with auto-update)
SpyBot (with auto-update)
OpenOffice ( I usually have MS Office too, I switch back and forth)
putty (suite, with pageant)
winscp3
recent nightly of Mozilla (with Calendar, adblock & deep-sender)
cygwin X-server & ssh server & cron daemon & bash w/ perl
trillian
MusicBrainz
winamp
Flash/Shockwave/Java/QuickTime
ethereal
nmap
nessus client
gimp
www.sysinternals.com free Windows Utilities
Unfortunately at my company we are forced to use MS Office from time to time, and we are also heavily invested in Remedy, Netcool & Exchange.
I reinstalled my sons Win2k box, (dual boot Linux) applied all patches, defragged, and shut down.
Booted into Knoppix, made a bz2 compressed image of both his installs in ~5 minutes. Burned to 2 CDs.
Wrote it back to disk, worked fine. Took ~3 min to overwrite.
For Win98 2nd edition: EditPlus, WS_FTP95 LE, Winamp, Adobe Reader 6, Panda Titanium Antivirus, Norton Utilities (not the antivirus), Irfanview, Pixie, mIRC, and the old DOS utility program List.
Yes, still the first one
ssh
g krellm
wget
build-essential
bzip2
X11
fluxbox
Eterm
mozilla
xchat
P.S. All those apps I listed above are freeware.
Does modifying your XF86Config count?
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But seriously, I usually install updated video drivers first. Following by XMMS, Xine with DVD support, RioUtil (for my mp3 player), JDK, and various mozilla plug-ins. Pretty much everything else comes already packaged.
I first format and install Windows, Wait about 10 minutes for all the viruses/worms to come in so I can watch it die just for the hell of it and then install a real OS like linux.
Has anyone clocked how long it takes for a new install of xp to be infected with a virus? My latest install was 3 minutes
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1)Miranda (http://www.miranda-im.org)
2)MPlayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu)
3)Winamp (http://www.winamp.com)
4)Waste (http://waste.sf.net)
5)Ad-aware (http://www.lavasoft.de)
6)Spybot (http://www.safer-networking.org)
7)Dev-C++ (http://www.bloodshed.net)
8)Nero (http://www.nero.com)
9)Xvid codec (http://dvd.box.sk)
10)Winrar (http://www.rarsoft.com)
Miranda is for sure the best messenger that currently exists. It blows trillian and every other messenger away. Somebody should make something similar that works on open source os' (gaim sucks balls by the way. you don't think so? try miranda for one day, and you will realize that gaim is more gay than aol, and aol is very very very fag homo gay *#^$*@). Did I mention that miranda has support for every messenger protocol and that you can change it to be exactly the same way as the original ICQ client (docking, shortcuts, etc). And its only about 500kb download. This is a most awesome program!
Mplayer is for sure the best media player there is. It plays every possible format there is. And also it will encode anything with its encoder (mencoder) that comes with it. There is a windows binary on mplayer's ftp site. It just doesn't get any better than that!
Dev-C++ is a very good open source IDE for C/C++. Very nifty I must say. Up until just recently (before KDevelop was released) it was better than any other open source IDE.
If you run windows, there is a simple solution. Have three partitions on your disk. Have one for the windows system and installed software (a small one), another large one for data, and documents, media, ...., and a third, maybe small linux partition. Just tar and gz your whole windows file system on a fresh install with all of your installed programs. Then just periodically delete all of your files on the windows parition and untar your perfect partition from linux. This can automate the standard make-windows-work-again problem.
Why the heck would you go through the process of reinstalling an entire system? Just get Ghost and make an image of your system!
And the first 10 apps I install are:
a bulator
Butler
Vim (Cocoa)
Firefox
Fugu
GPG
GPG-Mail
Fink
Konf
X-Chat
Thunderbird (for newsgroups)
Network Utilities
Non-Linux Penguins ?
i usually do the reinstall dance every 3-6 months. the steps remain relatively constant, unless i find a new app to replace a former favorite.
on Windows:
1. Adaptec drivers to access installations kept on cd-rw media
2. Kerio Personal Firewall
3. AVG Anti-Virus
3. PowerArchiver
4. gVim
5. Firefox
6. AbiWord
7. Acrobat Reader
8. Python
9. JDK/WTK
10. The Sims
on Linux:
1. grub
2. blackbox
3. rxvt
4. gkrellm
5. Firefox
6. Thunderbird
7. Python
8. JDK/WTK
9. (rebuild stock kernel)
10. (build latest 2.6 series kernel)
on Mac:
1. Apple Developer Tools
2. X (Apple)
3. Firefox
4. Fink
5. blackbox
6. apache2/berkeley db/subversion
7. mysql
8. php
9. SubEthaEdit
10. ArgoUML
After Office + Visual Studio + Services Pack, setting up services configuration and playing a bit with TweakXP, a defrag and a ghost here's what i generally end up with:
Coding: ActiveState Perl & Python (+ wxWindows), Borland Command line tools, IDA, Masm + Nasm + Tasm, Most of Sysinternal tools, MS Visual Studio (and various SDK/DDK), NUMega Smartcheck (sometimes), NUMega SoftICE, Ollydbg, PEExplorer, ProcDump, ProcessViewer, Several API viewers, STrace, StructLook, The Customizer, Various decompilers (java/vb/swf/...), WDasm
Files/Harddisk/Command line: 4Dos, BCWipe, CloneCD/DVD, Cygwin, Daemon Tools, DiskData, FileRecovery, FSRaid, Ghost, McAffee, Nero, PowerArchiver, QuickView+, Total Commander, Win/DriveImage
Games/Emu: BZFlag, CCS64/CB64/Frodo/Vice, Mame, Snes9x, Tetrinet, Tibia, UAE
Media: ACDSee, ArtGem, AudioCatalyst, Codecs Pack, Cool3d, CoolEdit, Divx Player, DVDShrink, HyperSnapdx, ListFonts, MicroAngelo, Modplug, PaintShop Pro, PhotoImpact, Photoshop, PowerDVD, QuickTime, RealPlayer, RipPack, SIDPlay, SmartSavers, VirtualDUB/NANDub, Winamp, WinDVD, YAAVIInfo, ZoomPlayer
Net: Bookmark Converter, Copernic, Ethereal (+winpcap), FlashFXP, Get Right, Hyena, Internet Anywhere Toolkit, Inzider, mIRC, Netcat, Newsbin, Newsbot, NMap, Opera, ProxyTools, Putty, Retina, Serv-U, Teleport Pro, Trillian, VNC, Xenu, ZoC
P2P: Direct Connect, EMule, Kazaa, Morpheus
Tools: Acrobat Reader, AdAware, Advanced Administrative tools, Automate, Babylon, CopyPaste, Mathematica, NTReskit, Passware, PDF Creator, RegHance, TI Calc software + emulator, TweakUI, UltraEdit
And of course a little ghost after that. All in all I takes a little over a day to have everything up and running, I generally dont need to install anything for 6 month after that. Just restoring images once a month (30/40 minutes max), and keep up to date with patches.
apt-get install fluxbox xmms mozilla-firefox mozilla-thunderbird gaim irssi-text emacs21 gimp eterm nicotine
Well the first program i install solves all virus and 95% of "hotfix" issue, and it is known as MAC OS X (10.3) Hey look mommy! No antivirus! (for those who dont know - there are no known viruses yet for Macs and the only thing the virus scanners do is search for PC viruses lol)
:P), Safari, iChat and Microshit Office.
O thats right there is no blaster.
The other 9 programs i install are installed for me... the iApps (iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD, GarageBand) Apple X11, Apple Xcode, MSN Messenger (that will be replaced soon
One nice thing about OS X is the list of stuff I don't have to install.
Top 10 items that I am glad are already installed out of the box for me:
1. ssh
2. pdf viewer (preview whips acrobat reader)
3. Safari (I like better than Firefox, my opinion)
4. iTunes
5. firewall (disabled by default)
6. Mail.app (works with pop, imap, MS exchange)
7. Quicktime
8. Java SDK and VM
9. Apache Web Server
10. iPhoto
VirtuaWin - Virtual desktop manager
PuTTY - SSH client
WinSCP - GUI-based SSH file copier
Mozilla - The Web browser
CygWin - UNIX-like command line tools and environment
FuhQuake - QuakeWorld client with advanced rendering.
Vim - text editor extraordinaire
VoodooLights - screen saver (alas, no longer supported or available)
TweakUI - Allows tweaking of various Windows UI details
DeliPlayer 2 - music player, including support for "MOD" formats
Schwab
Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions
While not Linux:
1 - Blackbox for Windows (explorer != good shell)
2 - ObjectDock (Windows taskbar != good interface)
3 - WindowBlinds (XP default theme == waste of space)
So by the time I'm here on my list, my computer no longer looks like a Windows box. (As much as I like Macs, I can't afford one. And I need Flash MX compatibility so no Linux--it doesn't run very well under WINE.)
read the bunni comic
put a password in the administrator account:
W indows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserLis t
regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
Create the following entry:
Administrator: REG_DWORD
Assign a value of 1.
Close Registry Editor.
Reboot.
assign password
if you want put the 0 value to hide again the admin account.
then go with your usual 10 progs.
Mine: winzip/gaim/winrar/winamp/eudora/ms office/coreldraw/photoshop/cuteftp pro/opera
NEOCA - Custom LED Flashlights
I guess I've forgotten how flakey windows is. I have several machines with Linux/FreeBSD/OSX and I have only reinstalled them when I get new hardware.
I guess I used to reinstall windows far more often, but it's been a loooooong time.
plurvert
Many days I don't use many more programs than these.
I'll then add the following:
Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5 (I like it better than the new one)
Proxomitron Naoko 4.5 (June version) (an absolute must)
MKS Toolkit
Stuffit Expander
Putty
Ethereal
Adobe Acrobat
Force ASPI
K-Lite mega codec pack + Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative codecs
PTFB (Push The Freakin' Button)
-- Kaz
I keep a 250MB USB flash drive loaded with these installers for when I go to my friends and families' houses and have to fix their computers. This, plus a Bart's PE WinXP boot disk and a SP1-slipstreamed XP install disk pretty much can get me to the point of pulling down anything else I need from the Internet. Which ten are most important depends on the computer and the person I'm helping.
If I can get a bigger thumb drive, I would add PowerDVD, the XP SP1, all the hotfixes, Audiograbber, Mozilla Thunderbird, a VNC client and server, Retrospect Desktop and one game. I'd like to add Partition Magic and Ghost but can't figure out how to use it and stay legal under the licensing. I will also add an OpenOffice disk when I get a moment.
If I encounter Win9x I make them upgrade before I will help them (I'll perform the upgrade if they ask.) I make them pay for the licenses for anything I use though. I also make sure they have a backup protocol and run at least one backup so I don't have to repeat my work.
-- Gary Goldberg KA3ZYW 301/249-6501 AIM:OgGreeb Digital Marketing Inc., Bowie, MD
Honestly a Mac comes with everything one needs and I would seriously have to debate if the 1st 10 programs I would need aren't already installed from the default DVD or CD restores:
1) iTunes
2) AppleWorks (reads my word, excel and creates them too)
3) DVD Player
4) Quicken
5) Safari
6) iPhoto
7) Garageband
8) Quicktime
9) iMovie/iDVD - same purpose so lumped together
10) iChat AV
Of course my decent CD burning software is built in.
Those are my first 10 - but then there's Photoshop, Toast, Real player, Windows media Player, Graphic Converter, Salling Clicker and other stuff.
Yell & scream & rant & rave... it's no use... you need a shaaaave ~ Bugs Bunny
I mentioned IrfanView! haha. give me the karma ;) btw does it bug anyone else that in a multi-user XP environment they have to modify the install (e.g. I do INI_Folder=%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\IrfanView in program files\i_view32.ini) to keep MRUDs seperate? Still i'm grateful to the IV author of course.. wouldn't view porn slideshows with anything less! :D
This is my Sig, this is my Gun. One is for Slashdot and one is for Fun.
No need to tell us you use Windows... Why else would you want to reformat once a month? Unless you are like so many of the kids who plague the venerable field of Eletronic Data Processing (as it should still be called instead of IT or the buzzword of the moment) for whom the computer is a toy. You know, you need to have the latest biggest fastest hard drive, the latest fastest memory, the latest processor; you will happily fork out a few hundreds of dollars for that extra decimal point on you processor clock. You don't care what you're going to do with it, it's new and you want it. Kids, gotta lov'em!
First and foremost, I despise being locked into the Acrobat-only interpretation of the format. Not that I hate Adobe { you PostScript love if {honk} } but I don't want a separate viewer just to look at stupid text files.
I have dozens of programs that I'd rather use, all of which don't have GUIs that suck as bad as Acrobat. I don't like having to click to accept a license agreement I have no intention of honoring. I don't like Windows launching yet another process to show me a friggin' web page. I also get to spend far too many seconds watching a useless splash screen list off dozens of hated software patents while unneeded module after unneeded module loads up, consuming 16MB in the process, just to display a 65kb file that contains less than 4,000 actual characters. Finally, Windows keeps the lame-ass process hanging around like an ex-girlfriend until I close my browser! Adobe also flagrantly violates the Microsoft GUI guidelines, for they obviously know better than Redmond how people use mice and keyboards on Microsoft's own products. Whether you like it or not when you're in Rome you better do as the friggin' Romans do.
I also want to be able to manipulate any and every file I receive. That means copy, paste, shuffle, paint, edit, everything, anything. A reader-only is a complete waste of both bytes and braincells. And a mostly-opaque file format prevents me from working the way I'm used to working. So, I occasionally have to put up with Acrobat. So I always end up fighting the cursor in Acrobat, trying to make it work the way every other program works on this box. Why does Adobe think they're better? I don't care about the cross-platform experience, I don't give a sh!t how it works on a Mac or on Linux. As a Windows user, it should feel native, and it doesn't -- not by a long shot.
And no thank you, I don't want, nor will I use, an open-source module to display PDFs in Ghostscript. It's still a separate viewer, and I still have most all of the problems listed above, just fewer that say Adobe when loading. I really simply want PDFs to go away, forever and ever. Failing that, if they were handled natively in Mozilla, I might not bitch as much. :-)
Of course that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
John
windows 2003 server standard (updates ofcourse next then chipset, audio and video drivers then tweaking stuff so things run right and taking out the annoying shutdown log etc) nav coporate avant browser Trillian palm desktop (tapwave zodiac) everquest nero dvd shrink ITMS power dvd (need my kill bill vol 1 backround ;-) )
this is usualy done with major hardware changes and or every few months (im holding out for my athlon 64 board and chip before doing it next)
Get rid of Windows entirely.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
1. Acrobat Reader
2. XP Antispy
3. Mozilla Firefox
4. Mozilla Thunderbird
5. OpenOffice.org
6. Crimson Editor (one of the best free Windows text editors)
7. WinAmp
8. SSH client (from SSH com, my university has a campus license)
9. IrfanView (Image editor/viewer/thumbnail browser)
10. TweakUI
Don't drink and sudo
The first thing I do on ANY box is goto every option there is and set it back to the way I had it! then I install all my drivers, updates, and programs and set all thier options correctly. It's a really big hassle on a windows box.
Steps and programs: 1) Windows OS and all Updates. (though I am currently working with a program to install the patches along with the OS in an unattended Install using a version of CDIMAGE) 2) Ulitmatezip (I like it better for GUI reasons) 3) Adaware 6.0 4) Directx 9 5) Updated Drivers for all the hardware 6) Any other OS patches not found earlier 7) Daemon Tools 8) TweakUI 9) Powerstrip 10) Ghost (and make a Image for future Reinstallations)
If firefighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime, what do Freedom fighters fight?
After I install FreeBSD...
cvsup-without-gui
portupgrade
8)))))))))))))))
./revolution
I install grub... How else can I get work done after playing Counter-Strike?
I hear that gets rid of "reality distortion" fields.
This reminds me of a few weeks ago when we got our new computer from Dell. The first thing I did, while he was asleep, was gut the bastard of pretty much all of their "optional" software - I freed about 5GB total, not to mention countless hours of headaches. Then from there I had explicit instructions not to get online - but of course I had to, seeing as the shipped version of Norton was several updates behind. Of course all hellfire broke loose after he woke up and, god-forbid, found me online!
"Why the hell are you online! I haven't backed-up the system!"
"Back-up? It's a new computer! It came with the install disk! What would you have to back-up?"
"Really? Well, still, I don't want this thing to get any viruses!"
"I've only been downloading patches."
"Still!"
"Are you suggesting Norton Anti-Virus is going to infect us with a virus?"
"You never know!"
Needless to say, I try to keep away from him as much as possible. And if this is off-topic, may the mods strike me down fully.
PS: I didn't have the heart to tell him Windows XP auto-connected to the internet to register itself upon first boot.
on W2K Mozilla Filezilla OpenOffice Gaim 7zip XnView Foobar2000 Media Player Classic PHPEdit ...and Emule plus
I use Mandrake. It contains and installs everything I need. Office tools, browsers, email clients, xine, cd burners, etc..
I pity people using windows, when they are done installing the OS they have a useless system and are forced to make top 10's with usefull software.
On windows its Firefox, Gaim, Thunderbird, Filezilla, KazaaLite (yay oldversions.com) and Photoshop. Pretty much in that order. On Linux it really depends on the distro (because they all come with random stuff now) but usually Mplayer, Java, Limewire, and CrossOver and then all the stuff I put in Crossover.
Matt
You have 1 Moderator Point! Use it or lose it! Is that a threat? -vapid
In linux:
none, everything I need comes with Suse or Red Hat. Things I want: firebird, download and install.
In Windows:
1. F-Prot the best AV.
2. Norton Systemworks
3. Mozilla
4. Open Office
5. Battlefield 1942, R to R, SW
6. Battlefield Vietnam
7. Medal of Honor AA, S, B,
8. Harry Potter for the kids
9. Enigma Rising tide
10. other games
After all real work is done in a secure environment and games are played on toys.
Professional Politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
My Ten must have Windoze programs are
1. Eudora
2. SecureCRT (SSH, SSH2, Telnet etc)
3. F-Secure Anti-Virus (Thanks to all the e-mail worms flying about)
4. PowerDVD
5. iTunes
6. UltimateZip
7. NetScan Tools
8. WS FTP LE
9. ICQ
10. Insert violent video game of choice here (Have to do something to burn off the stress created by having to rebuild due to M$ bit-rot)
iTunesi e ... oh wait.. those are already there! How about these...
f fle
iPhoto
TextEdit
iDVD
iCal
iChat
iMov
Terminal
Safari
Mail
Apple Dev Tools
Adium
OmniDictionary
MacJournal
OmniGra
WeatherPop
GeekTool
NetNewswire Lite
For a Windows machine:
(1) Patches. If I'm lucky, these complete before I've caught a virus.
(2) Mozilla. Never use IE again.
(3) PuTTY. Remote login to my unix machine.
Done!
For a Unix machine:
(1) joe
(2) LyX
(3) octave
(4) IceWM
Everything else I need is usually preinstalled.
1. Mozilla
2. Mindterm SSH (er, and the JRE I guess)
3. Exceed
3 1/2. Adobe Acrobat Reader
Note that the above turn Windows into an excellent dumb terminal. (-:
5. TextPad
6. LaTeX
7. Matlab
8. vmware
9. MSVC6
10. OpenOffice
In Windows, I generally try to keep a nice clean image of my system that I can blast with the important software already installed. Some of the most important programs are:
Most of what I need in Linux gets installed with the OS, but I do tend to add PureFTPD and elm, and sometimes recompile some of the other packages with options other than the distro defaults.
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For a long time now i've been looking for/dreaming of a site that lists _good_ free software/web tools Something similar to those listed on this site, but all on one easy to navigate site, with reviews of what they do, direct link to download, and _one person_ overseeing it all - eliminating the crud. on my desk by monday, thanks.
I think this is what your looking for: Order the Windows Security Update CD.
ps- I found the link by typing windows update CD in the search box on microsoft.com
0. Microsoft patches/fixes
1. Mozilla Firefox (and lots of extensions)
2. Spybot - Search & Destroy
3. AVG
4. MS Visual Studio NET 2003
5. cygwin
6. WinAmp 5.0
7. InfraView
8. DivX (codec only)
9. Open Office
A. Eclipse and J2SE 1.4xxx
B. TightVNC
C. MySQL admin client
D. Ultra Edit 32
E. Python
F. PuTTY
10. Trillian
Windows machine:
1. Windows update
2. Gvim
3. Mozilla Firebird
4. IrfanView32
5. Sun's Java VM
6. WinAmp
7. VNC Viewer
8. IM client
9. FrHed (Hex Editor)
10. Half-Life + CounterStrike
Linux Machine (provided that it has the basic GNU packages):
1. Kernel update and drivers
2. Curl or Wget
3. X and drivers
4. Mozilla Firebird
5. KDE
6. Gvim
7. Sun's Java VM
8. Gaim
9. XMMS
10. Wine and Windows games (see above)
Windows Service Pack whatever
Office XP
WetSock
Acdsee 2.1
Macromedia Studio
Adobe Acrobat
Paint Shop Pro
PowerDVD
WinDAC
well ok Linux:
djbdns
qmail
openoffice
apache
ehh.....can't think of any more....why did I even bother posting? who knows. this mishmash will be lost in the other 1097 posts anyway.
12:50 - press return.
Fink
T ex-Edit Plus
Fink Commander
Cocktail
FireFox
Thunderbird
Gimp
OO
GraphicConverter
Mu Commander
photosMy Photostream
Hi, I'm a linux user.
l oad - save as.. C:\windows\putty.exe
When I sit down at someone else's windows computer, I do the following:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ - the download link is in the top left corner
http://www.google.com/search?q=putty+down
After these two pieces of software are installed I can almost successfully ignore I'm on a windows box. That is, until I realise I've either got to use the rodent or alt-tab to switch programs.
Alt-tab is my No.1 reason for hating microsoft (and don't bother suggesting lots of different interface shells I could install, because all the windows machines I use are OTHER PEOPLEs - if I wanted to install something sane I'd install debian).
A little overkill never hurt anybody.
Reinstalling is too complex. I keep a battery of little Firewire external hd's and a set of system image backups. Much quicker, and reformatting-restoring has the added benefit of defragging as a side effect.
``Tension, apprehension & dissension have begun!'' - Duffy Wyg&, in Alfred Bester's _The Demolished Man_
I just created such a list last week in anticipation of an OS reload: http://web.csuchico.edu/~ka58/software.htm
FoundNews.com - get paid to blog.,
1. Full install of all FreeBSD distribution sets
2. elm
3. XFree86
4. The Gimp
5. ImageMagick
6. Xscreensaver
7. setiathome
8. nedit
9. mpeg_encode & mpeg_play
10. my collection of custom programs and utilities
RegSafe will backup, diff and rollback the registry. Worth every dollar after you've installed 100 apps and the 101st app decides to trash your OS.
Official instructions from Microsoft.
enough people give a fuck to make this the most replied to story i've seen in ages..
Obviously I'm assuming that using Ghost doesn't count, so here's the list: 1. Drivers, Windows updates 2. Total Commander 3. AVG Antivirus 4. EditPlus 5. Mozilla 6. DScaler (TV) 7. Nero 8. MinGW and Cygwin 9. Java SDK 10. Acrobat
W32.Bugbear.A@mm@ mmy .Y@mm3 2.Slime
W32.Bugbear.B@mm
W32.Bugbear.C
W32.Bugbear.D@mm
W32.Bugbear.E@mm
W32.Netsk
W32.Mydoom.I@mm
Gator
W32.Beagle.W@mm
W
hmm.. maybe I should install a firewall first?... NAHHHH
Sendmail (milter)
libsnert
dcc
razor-agents-sdk
razor-agents
milter-spamc (spam control with milter)
antiword (sometimes you just want the facts)
snort
acid (snort)
Yep, that about does it!
Windows Service Packsy
AVG Anti-Virus
BlackICE Firewall
GAIM
Winzip
Firefox
OpenOffice
Putt
eMule
Sun Java 2 SDK
There is an interesting "feature" of Windows 2000 that will not let you make a bootable image of the OS. To put it simply, when you make an image the OS doesn't give root access to the swapfile. So when it goes to startup it can't access the swapfile. The catch-22 is that with win2k you can't load the shell without a swapfile and you can't fix the swapfile without the shell.
The only fix is to either move to WinXP and turn off the swapfile or change a registry setting to delete the swapfile on shutdown and recreate on startup. And this problem happens with Partition Magic (my tool of choice), Drive Image, and Ghost.
"Trying is only the first step towards failure." - Homer
Unix: Considering the fact that I use Gentoo, and the installation only gives me a core GNU system, some "extras" like OpenSSH, and the Linux kernel, I would do:
-Vim
-An X implementation
-nVidia proprietary drivers (forgive me Linus, for I have sinned... I mean it)
-KDE
-XMMS
-Mozilla Firefox
-MPlayer with codecs
-OpenOffice
-XPDF
-X-Chat/irssi
Over 2 years with the current Win2K install (what the hell is the original poster doing?), and it's behaving relatively well (touch wood), but if I had to start from scratch tomorrow I'd probably do something like this:
AdAware would follow soon but isn't critical to getting up and running - I recently ran it for the first time and had only a handful of nasties (single figures).
Other stuff would get downloaded and installed on a Bint (Bollocks! I need that!) basis.Heh - as I was typing this Norton caught a copy of Netsky inbound. Can't believe I used to work without AV or firewall, what the hell was I thinking?
Winace, winamp, Sound forge 5, Cool Edit Pro 2, Photoshop 6, Dreamweaver 4, Simcity 4000, Civilization III, Fruityloops - I mean FL Studio, and last but not least Waves Gold plugin bundle.
Yes I know I'm using old versions. I like them better. (I mean sound forge 6 is just a one-track version of Vegas).
Guess I'll post anon so nobody rat-finks to the BSA...
It used to be called differently when we used it on OS/2 but the rar archiver is not new.
I prefer it over any other when using winblows.
Nothing comes close to winrar for winblows. And if you're too cheap to buy it steal it like other
winblows thiefs or get a life.
When using a decent Operating System I use
tar with gzip and bzip2
and sometimes zip
I have content on my HD from 10+ years ago. Formatting is simply nuts, I would rather purchase a new HD, copy the content of my old HD to the new one then format.
...most of these are already installed for me in the standard installs of the various distros I try, but I consider these ten pretty crucial:
1. Mozilla
2. OpenOffice.org
3. Straw (RSS Aggregator)
4. Thunderbird (w/ Enigmail)
5. Evolution (which may soon be replaced by the amazing Mozilla Calendar)
6. Gaim
7. Gimp
8. XCDRoast
9. xmms
10. Xine/gXine
Like Digital Freedoms? Then donate to EFF before they're gone.
The only thing I use that machine for is gaming. I dislike the propspect of calling MS to re-register (I reformat once every two months, or so it seems), so I use the Corporate version. After that, it's just important to make sure that it doesn't get hacked immediately.
Everything else happens under Gentoo. I know that I could run NWN, UT, and Q3A in Linux, but the 3-D acceleration isn't as good (different hardware.)
You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button.
Windows
1. IDLE
2. Quake 3
3. MoZilla
4. iTunes
5. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
6. Adobe Photoshop CS
7. Open Office
8. Ad-Aware
9. mIRC
10. DevC++
Linux
1. NMap
2. AOL Instant Messenger (AIM > GAIM)
3. MoZilla (Firefox)
4. WineX
5. Steam
6. Dev C++
7. xIRC (If it did not come preinstalled)
8. AutoFTP
9. Doctor Web
10. LimpOo
But of course, I go on to install about 20 more...
"Instant gratification takes too long." - Carrie Fisher
When I set up windows machines for friends:
1. Cygwin
2. VNC server
3. Bash script for cygwin to SSH tunnel to my machine so I can access VNC server.
4. Gaim (so I can chat while waiting for #5 to download)
5. OpenOffice.org
6. Firefox
7. Flash plugin
8. SpyBot
9. Winamp (version 2)
10. Realplayer (free version 8)
The masses are the crack whores of religion.
I use ghost but if I had to install from scratch. Zonealarm Norton Systemworks (including ghost) Partition Magic Visual Studio 6 Visual Studio .NET
Sql Server 2000
Office XP developer
Crystal Advanced Developer 10
Crystal Enterprise 10
Winamp
my 10:
N etbus
BonziBuddy
Gator
Wack-a-mole
Backorfice
DoubleClick
MSblaster
KaZaa
Hot bar
Comet Cursor
I use windows exlusively as a toy, and as a consequence, my first ten, if I even get to ten, looks like this:
1. Starcraft
2. Broodwar
3. Unreal Tourney
4. Neverwinter Nights (wait, I just remembered this runs in linux very well, guess I'll go switch over.)
5. Sid Meijer's Planatary Pack(sadly, the linux version doesn't seem ot like newer version's of glibc, and I cannot play it over the network in linux anymore)
the rest is whatever game I feel like playing at the time. The above are always installed.
On a unix machine for serious work, the universal constant's are:
1. vim
2. ettercap
3. nmap
4. bash2
5. curl
6. ntp
7. bzip2
anything the stock install didn't include: gmake, autoconf, etc.....
--Nuintari
slashdot : where an opinion can be wrong.
w0w!! My first ten installations are exactly the same!!
Trillian - to hook up with fellow warezd00dz!
Winrar - for decompressing my warez!
Firefox - it lets me turn off pop ups so I can surf to warez sites!
Winamp - so I can listen to all my uh... legally purchased mp3s!
SmartFTP - for warez, obviously
Azureus - bittorrent 0wnz for getting warez!
NMap - so I can find unsecure b0xen to put warez on!
GKrellM - Chixx0rz dig status monitors!
PowerDVD - so I can watch all the movies I got off bittorrent!
-- r . m o s q u i t o --
I used to live in fear of backing up, now -- dorky as it sounds -- I enjoy backing up. Seriously.
Here's what I do: Bitty Browser & Andromeda
This is a great idea for a thread. I'm assuming this is after I've downloaded the eight jillion patches for Windows I need, but in no particular order:
Winrar
Smartftp
Win32pad
Warcraft III
Dark Age of Camelot
Mozilla
Call of Duty
Teh Gimp
WinDVD
Audacity
Until Doom III comes out, thats pretty much all the software i want on my box...
*nix
-------------
mozilla FireFox
GNU stow
subversion
emacs
ntp
screen
for BSD:
bash
GNU findutils
GNU make
winders:
--------------------
mozilla FireFox
Cygwin (_all_ of it)
PuTTY, Pagaent
TortoiseSVN
VNC
On any machine, I might install Privoxy, if that machine cannot connect to some other machine on which Privoxy is already running.
First off is the usually OS visual and functionality tweaking. Then upgrading the Media player.
Ad-Aware
Norton Antivirus Corporate Editon
SpyBot
Kazaa Lite(I have a backed up copy of an older version)
Office 2000
Virtual PC
Winzip
Winrar
FireFox
WolfET
For a Linux box generally I can get everything I need except Enemy Territory installed durring the install.
Some of it comes with the base debian install:
/etc/modules with whatever soundcard module you have)
/dev/input/mice
GCC,G++
<flamewar>vim/emacs</flamewar>
links-ssl/curl-ssl-wget
ssh
Perl
Then a whole lotta debs for Gnome/KDE...
Then the actual desktop GUI:
GDM
IceWM
Idesk
Endeavour 2
Then the base apps
Anjuta (C++ IDE)
Gedit Notepad
Mplayer + plugins
XMMS + plugins
ALSA framework
Frozen Bubble!
the GIMP
Open Office
Thunderbird+Firefox
GAIM
Gnome-meeting
And the latest 2.6.x kernel
I've created a CD which will give you all the above in one disk. Automatic installations. Just create a linux/swap partition, and it will install to the largest available 'nix partition, also adding any windows partitions to the lilo.conf
ALSA Sound support is ready (though you must edit
X GUI starts in SVGA mode (best to xf86config and choose your GUI)
USB mouse support through
I'm considering putting it up online, but at about 620MB for the ISO I'd need some decent hosting space for that. So far we're using it at work to convert windows desktops to dual-boot... it's XP themes so the windows lusers can figure it out rather easily.
It's also configured to build the base menu structure when a user logs in... and idesk will mount a CD+browse with endeavour on doubleclick, or unmount+eject on a right-click.
To clear out the kludge or more usually to go to a larger HD,
MacOSX includeing Developer tools, QuakeIII, Urban Terror mod, Photoshop elements, X-Plane, MS Office. Mostly everything is then in-place or waiting to be used on my second HD, No extra installs needed. I only have OS and essentials on the main HD, incase of a crash.
There was an unknown error in the submission.
The rest is just decoration and glitter (and that includes Office, Acrobat [spit] etc.), or I can write it myself given the above.
Does copying over my bookmarks, docs, command line utils etc count ??
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. - George Best
So, you have a Mac, and run a Windows emulator on top of it, then run a unix emulator on top of that....
Do you, by any chance, run a Mac emulator on Cygwin?
"Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded."
I bought a Mac so I wouldn't have to do that anymore. And I haven't - not even with the upgrades from 10.1 to 10.2 to 10.3.
WinSCP for secure FTP and remote scp.
Good old classic WS_FTP32 also, just because it works great and has that cute "Uh-Oh" sound when it errors.
Don't forget your favorite news aggregator. I use NewzSpider.
Does anyone know of a good website that tells you how to build a new computer, with emphasis on what parts one should buy?
Sorry I know this is offtopic, but help would be appreciated!
You can take your gratis (free as in beer) software all you want:
Will it have viruses in it? Back doors? Will it fuck up your computer? You won't know.
Making the distinction between free samples and freedom is important. Thats what the parent was talking about if need to buy a clue.
MailWasher
Ethereal
FooBar2k
AATools
KaBOOM!!
PSP
Opera Bork edition
PowerPost
CloneCD
VB6
WinZipC VS
Firefox
Thunderbird
FileZilla
Tortoise
WinMerge
Dev-C++
CDex
Syn
MP3BookHelper
I intend to install a life once I find one that doesn't crash every time I try to use it.
Microsoft Winxx Service pack yy
H otfix
Hotfix
Hotfix
Patch
Patch
Hotfix
Patch
Patch
Patch
I usually get around to installing userland stuff after... hmmm... the 6th reboot.
help me i've cloned myself and can't remember which one I am
Win2k3 2-10 in no real order. The only rule is hotfix checks before and after most MS installs. 1. any Windows hotfixes/patches 2. MS Office 3. Visual Studio .net
4. SQL Server 2000
5. IM Clients (Trillian, ICQLite, MSN)(3, I know. ICQLite lets me SMS)
6. CDEx
7. Photoshop
8. Nero (native IMAPI burning with w2k3 i know, just havent looked at it)
9. AVG
10. my editted HOSTS file (all users should do this)
11. any Windows hotfixes/patches
also of note; MSDN, Cooktop, Adobe Acrobat, Nethack (still play that when work gets me down), Sourcesafe and Kazaalite.
Does re-'installing' my music folders count?
The only thing I'd really like to add to this thread is my No. 10 - my HOSTS file.
first ten after windows:
1. Windows updates
2. Audigy and Detonator drivers
3. Winamp
4. StudioMX
5. Photoshop (since I don't have the desire to learn FireworksMX yet)
6. Wacom drivers
7. Gordian Knot
8. FL Studio
9. Office 2000
10. Halo
I use Linux, all what I need is normally there after a fresh installation.
And then I don't re-install for years unitl I get a new machine (honestly, I have installed Linux ony 3 or 4 times since 1996, each installation paried to the purchase of a new computer).
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Well on my XP box, after Installing all security updates, of course, the first 10 apps are (In no particular order):
1. iTunes (www.apple.com)
2. Gaim (gaim.sourceforge.net)
3. Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (www.adobe.com)
4. DCOMBobulator, UnPNP, and SocketLock (www.grc.com)
5. Palm Desktop (www.palm.com)
6. Firefox (www.mozilla.org)
7. Thunderbird Mail (www.mozilla.org)
8. Nero Ultra Edition 6.0 (www.ahead.de)
9. OpenOffice.org 1.1 (openoffice.org)
10. Norton SystemWorks Pro 2003 (symantec.com)
Windows:
Winkey
Spybot S&D
Mozilla
ZoneAlarm
OpenOffice
ZoomPlayer
Filezilla
Gaim
NoteTab Light (for web designers)
Emule (for downloads)
Shad0w's Experimental (for downloads)
Bersirc (IRC Client)
Linux:
Firefox
Thunderbird
OpenOffice
mp3blaster
the Gimp
Prozilla
Mozilla Mult-Window shell script (My own creation)
Kate or Gedit
gftp
Gaim
1. a shitload of porn
2-10. whatever
I just recently loaded windows 2000 on a new machine and found an application for windows that I can't live without:
http://gordianknot.sourceforge.net/
It allows you to go to the video store, rent a bunch of DVD's, spend an hour or so ripping them to the harddrive, and then queues them up to be encoded to divx format (2-pass) creating kick ass "backups" of dvd's. Oh and it's open source. I nominate it for something!
- mozilla
- cygwin
- PuTTY
- TightVNC
- JAJC
- Openoffice
- WinCVS
- JRE
- WinZIP/WinRAR
Last time I installed on my desktop, 4 years ago after an "apt-get remove libc6", I probably added some stuff like mozilla, but I dont have that good a memory. Last program I installed was bind so I could keep track of domain names on my internal network.
Now my shiney new laptop with suse9 was
1) Suse 9
2) Update from the web
3) Profit.
Everything I use is here.
For every problem, there is at least one solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
For a Winders system:
G aim
Opera
Winamp
CDex
BSPlayer
Audacity
Nero
mIRC
Sygate Personal Firewall
Daemon Tools
WinRAR
AVG Virus Scanner
Drivers
DAMN NFO Viewer
FireFox
Adaware/Spybot
Media Player Classic
XviD/DivX/AC3Filter/Realtime(Drivers Only)/Quicktime(Drivers Only)
Macromedia Studio
Adobe CS
btw, for those who dont know, Media Player Classic is not related to Microsoft Windows. Get it HERE
I dont know if deleting all the crap that Windows comes with is a 'install' as such, but I cant live without doing that aswell.
So you're the one writing all those buffer overfloaws huh?
Nerd: Derogatory term typically directed at anybody with a lower Slashdot ID than you.
colorlsz illa-firefox
emacs
gnupg
jdk-linux
mergemaster
mo
mutt
vim
wget
windowmaker
Been running Win 98 at home for 5 years with no reinstall! Still working fine since I clean up registry take out ALL the trash regularly and keep AV and OS updated. Anyone beat that? Looked at XP, -smells like a sweaty Telly Tubby suit. Blackfoot Brothers
DOS Prompt Here
It's M$, so I'm assuming security patches are an implicit "0" item.
- Cygwin (is this cheating? [grin])
- Firefox
- Textpad
- WinDVD
- VideoLAN
- Xshell
- Xmanager
- ActiveState Perl
- iTunes
- Acrobat
Mind the gap...
- Office 2003 Professional (yay Excel... I suppose I should switch to OO someday)
- Visual Studio
.NET 2003 Professional - Windows Update (lather, rinse, repeat) and Office Update
- TweakUI (incl. 'google', 'msdn', and 'mskb' Search Prefixes)
- EditPad Pro (best text/hex editor ever, IMHO)
- F-Secure SSH (just like it better than the others)
- 7-Zip
- WinAmp 5 (no video)
- Norton Anti-Virus (paranoia: I read my mail on FreeBSD and am well firewalled)
- Google Toolbar
Other Stuff:Unless, of course, scissors can't cut rock...
What's this format and reinstall dance you talk of?
The joys of having an Apple...
Never. I don't talk to people that uses Windows. :)
Customer-provided WinXP desktop- putty Cygwin - with WindowMaker Mozilla Gimp Java2 JRE/SDK QuickTime RealOne AdAware Home/Business Debian install Just had to do this... :(
emacs
tetex-*
octave
maxima
auctex
fetchmail
postfix
bsfilter
Slashdot: Where nerds gather to pool their ignorance
Firefox (use from here on out to download the rest)
Tolvalen Eraser
Ad-Aware
Spybot Search and Destroy
Spyware Blaster
IE-SPYAD
TrueCrypt
eMule
Forte Agent
Irfanview
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Me.
I've found four new utilities that I find very useful reading this discussion.
Any other questions?
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
1. vim - Best. Editor. Ever.
2. zsh - with apt-get completion this makes apt-getting the rest of stuff nicer.
3. screen - start a screen session.
4. iptables - secure the machine
5. irssi-text - irc is a good way to kill time while you're waiting for things to install.
6. bzip2 - for kernel.
7. kernel-package - upgrade to the latest stable kernel the Debian Way(tm).
At this point it really depends what I'm using the machine for. Is it a firewall/router? Then probably nmap, snort or some other security utils.
If it's my desktop probably gnome2, python, gcc, gdb, valgrind, etc.
"Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness." --Eric Blair
Seemingly 90% of the posts I looked at were some sort of joke as to viruses and service packs. It gets real old, real fast. Just answer the damn question! After installing drivers and such, this is my list:
Trillian
Winamp5
K++ / K-Lite Codec Pack
Real Alternative/Quicktime Alternative
Opera
FileZilla
PeerGuardian
MS Office
Photoshop
WinRAR
Nero
ActiveSync
Once a month ???? Is this masochism ?
I've installed a Debian Woody 2 years ago. Now it's a Sid. But I've never reinstalled it..
The first 10 things I install on a new computer ? Well : apt-get dist-upgrade && apt-get install gnome
Ploum.net.
I use Linux, Mac OSX, Solaris, and Windows. On every computer I install the same programs:
- bash
- ssh
- unison
- vim
- latex
- ghostview
- a JDK/JVM of some sort
- eclipse
- Firefox or Opera or Safari
Unison makes my life much easier. I have a file tree with all of my current working data *plus* my configuration files. When I set up a new machine, I just use unison to replicate my file tree onto it, and then create a bunch of symbolic links into it for the various configuration files (eg, bashrc, vimrc, etc). Then every machine I use has basically the same environment, regardless of OS: at least my shell, my editor, my type-setter, and my programming environment are all the same. It's just annoying stuff like printing that differs from OS to OS.
This is also useful if some program isn't available on a particular OS: I just ssh over to some other machine that has it, synchronize my files, use the program, and synchronize back to whatever machine I'm physically in front of.
This unison setup also gives me lightweight version control and distributed backups of my current files. So unison is always the first thing I try to get going, regardless of whatever OS is on the machine.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
I install (win2k + patches + drivers)
Virus/firewall (Trend Micro)
cygwin
Hummingbird exceed
putty
lemmy
Visual Studio
Mozilla
winzip
vnc
divx
quicktime player
Windows media player
trillian
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
Must be Windows ME.
Seriously though, somebody get this guy some UNIX/BSD/OS X. Fast. The concept of a "reinstall" exists only for massive software upgrade, or massive hardware failure (or massive sysadmin failure, in some cases).
-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
sp4v xlight
direcx9b
via 4in1 (athlon)/infinst/iaa (pentium)
radeon cat's
winrar
gaim
bittornado
vnc
mozilla
di
If you don't count drivers as programs, then you can add dvd decrypter, autogk, photoshop, dreamweaver, dvdshrink, etc...
JJ
Windows:
Dreamweaver
MS Office (whatever version i can find lying around)
MS VB 5
Zone Alarm
Putty
The program for my minidisk player
Any media player i think of at the time, other than real jukebox
vmware tools for vmware guest operating systems
Slackware:
hotwayd (hotwayd.sf.net)
open office
riaarip (my mates program to rip cd's and stuff)
opera
wine (just incase)
mlDonkey
slapt-get and slapt-gui
vmware
I use MacOS X. I don't have to re-install my crap, you insensitive clod!
Why not format as usual one time, put all your favourite programs on, and then make an disk image and burn to CD/DVD ? Remembering exactly what I want installed and changing on a windows system is so easy to forget that I just gave up doing it, and spent a week after a format and reinstall getting everything right then putting an image onto a DVDR. Being so cheap, I can update the Ghost image every 3-4 months as necessary :)
For XP install...
1) Drivers (for everything not incl'd in XP)
2) Windows updates
3) Browser (Netscape/Mozilla)
4) Email (Eudora)
5) Usenet clients (for anonymous leech downloadings)
6) Anti-virus
7) Acronis True Image (and do first full boot partition backup so next re-install is easier)
8) Mass codec install
9) Open Office
10) Games
I've never done a *nix install that didn't result in four hours trying to get the video configured correctly and then ending up installing some version of windows. I'm hoping Xandros will change that.
What a waste of time!!! Go to the beach, watch paint dry, get a life. But stop wasting your time pushing disks!!!!
1. Patches
2. Antivirus -- Antivir
3. Anti-adware -- Ad-Aware
4. Images -- IrfanView
5. Sound -- Winamp
6. Video -- Media Player Classic with RealAlternative and QuickAlternative
7. Email -- anything but Outlook Express; I use Eudora
8. Adobe Reader -- I like the antialiasing...
9. MS Office -- Yeah, I know...
10. FTP -- WS_FTP LE
Make cheese not war 8:)
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My first 10 for WinXP, besides driver updates and
bug/security fixes:
directX
Apple Quicktime 2.1.2 16-bit and 32-bit
Apple Quicktime 3.0.1
Netscape 7.1
RealOne Player
Apple Quicktime 6.3
Macromedia ShockWave, Flash+Authorware Player
OpenOffice 1.1
Ssh
TightVNC
Just enough to run games, educational softwares,
and occasional remote GUI connection to linux.
For Linux (again besides security/bug fixes and
drivers):
phpgroupware
phpMyAdmin
Macromedia Flash player
RealOne player 8
cabextract
msttfont
Adobe Acrobat Reader
avview
dvgrab
kino
BTW, most of what I need are auto-installed by
initial linux distribution installation, so I only
listed what I had to install afterwards.
Most slashbots use Windows -- just look at the site statistics. Only a few of us aren't paying lip-service to free/open-source/alternative systems and actually using them.
Install OS Remove bonus bits Install Patch's Install apps Create Image of System Put image of system on removable media such as DVD or USB Hard Disk
After Windoze, I install:
1 Office
2 All updates and patches
3 RTV Reco to avoid those annoying "Are you sure..."
4 Anti-Virus and updates
5 Naviscope
6 BlackIce
7 Sygate
8 E-mail program (I Never use Outlook*)
9 Exceed (to access Linux and Solaris)
10 The graphics, music, video and other Multi-media software.
Banjo - The more I know about Windoze, the more I love *nix
I hate Windows, so I'm still waiting for a port of UltraEdit to Linux.
Oh yeah, and my fourth program is Quake II, which I like to play at night sometimes. I don't know how to set up games on my real computers.
Second, my list. Almost all of my favorite programs are already mentioned in the +5 posts, so I won't list them all (there are a lot). Here's what's left of my top 25 or so programs I definitely install on a fresh Windows reinstall, in no particular order. Everything is free, unless otherwise noted. I don't think any of these are open-sourced, though.
you might consider changing your physical partitioning such that the things you add over top of the standard distro dont get munched when you do a reinstall. Though individual results may vary, I think even M$ can handle this - it is just more difficult. You just remove the physical drive holding your add-on apps (like "/usr/local/" or "/opt" or "/data/" or "/mp3", etc.. from your old machine and place it in your new. Then on occasions that you make changes to a physical partition, you back it up to CD or another spare hard drive - in the event the hard drive goes south.... Started doing this along time ago with SunOS and it has always worked like a charm..... Dont really ever re-install anymore though, I generally just update packages...
:)
I remember someone somewhere said that standard windows desktop administration consisted of the three Rs:
restart, reboot, reinstall....
It's not free anymore. You are asked for a CD-key after the preliminary install, and if you don't have one, no game for you.
On Windows: 1. 7-zip (vs. Winrar) 2. FileZilla (vs. SFTP) 3. Mozilla 4. Irfanview (best image viewer ever) 5. WinAMP 6. Jedit (editor) 7. MingW (compiler) 8. TortoiseCVS (CVS client) 9. AIM/Gaim/or TerraIM And now, get ready to start bashing... 10. Microsoft Office On Linux: Hmm, everything pretty much everythig I need comes installed. Of course, I must note that reformatting every month is a complete waste of time. Generally, the people who need to reformat are those who don't know how to organize stuff into folders neatly or how to DELETE stuff they don't need. So, eventually, their computer becomes such a mess that they would rather format and reinstall than bother organizing. I haven't formatted my hard drive in over a year. Oh, and if you DO decide to format your hd, do the smart thing - partition it. Put all your data on one partition and your OS and programs on another - that way you won't have to spend hours backing up next time you need to reinstall/upgrade your OS.
TerraIM - my pet AIM client project.
Every time you post an article on Slashdot, I kill a server. Think of the servers!
You insensitive clod! Real WOMEN code, too.
- foobarsoft-base
- foobarsoft-configs
- foobarsoft-desktop
- foobarsoft-gnome-environment
- foobarsoft-openoffice
This allows me to get new computers setup in a matter of minutes, and to keep them all updated if I change my mind about which applications I like to standardize upon.Whatever I find absolutely essential on any Debian system.
Fills /etc with my favorite settings and environment variables.
X with IceWM and favorite commandline tools.
GNOME plus every GUI application I need for maximum comfort on a desktop.
My favorite selection of dictionaries, spellcheckers and localisation files for OpenOffice.
Software is not supposed to be about how to work around a useability issue. - Ken Barber
I'm more of a user than a coder or anything so here's the list of the average folk.
1) MS Office (Select edu. discount at my school means it was ridiculously cheap and OO looks tacky on my ibook).
2) Fire instant messenger
3) bittorrent
4) VLC
5) blank
6) run mac update once (that's sort of an application)
7) ummmm... is resizing the doc an application?
8) blank
9) blank
10) blank
- some kind of DOS (one or more)
- partition commander
- msdos 7.1, windows 95, windows 98, os/2 4.5.2, winnt 2000, etc.
- 4dos, 4os2, or 4nt
- regina rexx + mcphee's dll's
- most utilities via script-install. Most shell icons and tree layout gets hacked in the script-installs as well. A multiboot makes this useful in any case, so it's not hard to get in the habit.
Once one has a desktop, one can do a clean install of some OS, and thenOS/2 - because choice is a terrible thing to waste.
which is a Tungsten dub-ya PalmPhone:
WeSync - wireless and wired multiuser autosyncing of calendar and address books
5N Launch - assigns 21 apps to one hardware button
HandyShopper - mutliple databases, not all of which need be shopping lists
jPluck - capture web sites automatically, refresh at every wired sync
Mobipocket - eBook and eNews reader
1TouchTimer - quick handy reminder
EudoraWeb - text browser well suited to GPRS use
YAHM - the best hack (OS extensions) manager for Palms
Documents To Go 6 - read/write Word and Excel files better than PocketPCs
Mapopolis - all my state's maps on hand, always
Oh, and all but the last two are Freeware.
There is nothing wrong with yr Internet. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling the transmission - NSA
Everything else is on the install CDs.
A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
2. Mozilla Firefox(bird, marsupial, whatever) - Much nicer way of browsing... I also install several extensions but I won't count them here
3. Startup Control Panel - Makes managing what loads at boot from various sources simple to manage
4. UltraEdit - Makes editing configuration files/reading *nix formatted files much easier on the eyes.
5. ShellEnhancer - Allows me to more effectively manage my windows... toggle 'Always On Top' and make windows and/or menus semitransparent. Also replaces the Alt+Tab manager
6. Spybot - Search & Destroy - It's like Mr. Clean for your computer...
7. Binary News Reaper - Don't ask... don't tell
8. Gordian Knot codec pack - So I can view all the stuff I download with program #7 <whoops... forget I said that>
9. Media Player Classic - this is a kickass lightweight media player. It even works with tuner cards
10. Nero Burning Rom - So I can make cds/dvds
Also of note is that I install Windows Media Player 9 because there is no way to uninstall WMP 8, but there is an undocumented way to uninstall WMP 9.
I also tune the services on the computer to only what is needed... This includes disabling the System Restore service. The only time I've found that the restore service would have been useful is when the computer fails to boot into windows. Unfortunately MS didn't have the foresight to allow restore points to be used from the install cd so the feature is useless.
The first ten thing are patches that fix all the bugs.
My install is fairly dull. Must be my low threshold for entertainment. 1 - winrar
2 - Borland C++ Builder 6
3 - winhex
4 - numega driver studio
5 - photoshop
6 - eudora
7 - cygwin
8 - emacs
9 - Civilization III
10- trillian
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
I set up Windows business systems _very_ often, and I have a set list of free software that goes onto each one.
service pack 4;
software drivers (video, etc.);
all relevant patches from MS (several re-boots);
winzip;
java runtime;
quicktime;
real 7;
mozilla;
acrobat reader;
openoffice;
winamp;
okay, so that's more than ten... sue me... it's also a complete system load.
+++++++
"Look, dear, it's a crazy hairy scary man!"
Do drivers count? I am going to assume they don't. On windows 2k pro (yuk, I know) it's Winzip Zonealarm ACG Antivirus free Adaware 6 Winzip Firefox Thunderbird Winamp 5 WinMX Rise of Nations
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
-- Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
Format the drive monthly? Windows there?
I make sure I have periodic bare metal backups and build personalized systems of increasing complexity over several years between reinstalls. And I always try an upgrade first -- dust bunnies be damned! I've had four stable desktop installs since '95. One reinstall was "recommended" and another seemed the easier path because of hardware funkyness and bad backups.
I have a removable XP drive on another machine. I loaded it with the OpenCD.
Does nobody else install Cygwin, Bash, PostgreSQL, etc. first?
Also, how many people on UNIX systems reformat their systems often enough to make this question meaninful? Of course maybe this shows how different the UNIX and Windows worlds really are.
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
WindowsXP:
Before I get on the net, SP1 and MS RPC Patch 824146.
AVG
Get on the net and update AVG antivirus definition file. Scan the whole machine.
Then I begin patch reboot, patch reboot, patch reboot... cycle.
When I'm finished patching:
Netscape 7.1
Kohan Immortal Sovereigns
Halo
Uh... that's about it. I don't use windows that much.
Linux:
After installing Gentoo and getting booted to shell:
emerge sync
emerge svgalib
emerge links
emerge mc
emerge bitchx
emerge kde
emerge java (whichever one is current)
emerge sdl
emerge mplayer
emerge k3b
emerge kdevelop
emerge acroread
emerge postgresql
emerge webmin
emerge gkrellm
emerge xmms
emerge pgaccess
filerunner, openoffice, netscape7.1, etc... etc... etc...
YMMV
Codifex Maximus ~ In search of... a shorter sig.
If you're using XP or 2k... How did you get System Shock 2 to work? I've been trying *forever* to get that to run on my roommate's XP box.
Karma: Contrapositive
Preview on 10.0-10.2 was awful in terms of both performance and features. Preview on 10.3 is the fastest PDF viewer I've ever used, and has enough features for everyday use (such as searching, finally).
After all the service packs and criticals, on a Windows box that's going to be out in the world, generally in this order:
1) Sophos
2) ZoneAlarm
3) Spybot S&D
4) AdAware
5) Firefox
6) TweakUI
7) Xteq X-Setup
8) NotePad+
9) HTML-Kit
10) TopStyle lite
And usually ghosted.
2) Trillian
3) Pueblo moo client
4) Lotus SmartSuite
5) Steel Panthers
6) East Front II
7) Open Office
8) Perl/Win32
9) E-Trust EZ Virus
10) More Games
Dawn of the Dead
Hmm, sounds neat... Unfortunately, the only thing I could think of is to set up cygwin's sshd with sshd-config and ssh to localhost :/
I'd rather use Cygwin's ssh client than putty - plus cygwin can give you an ssh server for your Windows machine as well.
** The opinions expressed here are my own, and do not reflect those of my employers - past, present, or future**
1. ATI Catalyst 2. Visual C++ 3. Intel C++ 4. VTune 5. Source Offsite 6. RenderMonkey 7. gvim 8. Mozilla 9. WinRAR 10. Pretty much in that order... :)
1) Zone Alarm
2) Putty
3) Cygwin
4) TweakUI and the other Powertools
5) Tiger Woods Golf - 99
6) Ghostscript and the rest
7) WinZip
8) Ethereal
9) Nmap
10) NetStumbler
If VISTA is the answer, you didn't understand the question
1. Mozilla Firefox
2. Mozilla Thunderbird
3. IrfanView
4. putty
5. OpenOffice
6. one of the free zip utilities
7. one of the open source IRC clients (XChat for Windows, Xircon etc.)
8. Spybot S&D
9. winamp
10. Adobe Acrobat Reader
"I love my job, but I hate talking to people like you" (Freddie Mercury)
My top Windows programs I install after a reformat include:
Norton Antivirus
Spybot: Search and Destroy
The Cleaner
Spysweeper
Sygate Personal Firewall
Any other Malware remover I can find.
If you are using Windows, and have Internet access, get used to living with Malware because eventually it will find its way on your machine.
Remember, Slashdot does not have a -1 disagree moderation, and no, troll, flamebait, and overrated are not substitutes.
WinSCP? It's the Godsend of the heterogeneous Linux/Windows environment IMHO.
Also PuTTY, Symantec AV, Firefox, Thunderbird, Sun J2RE, Ghostscript, GSView, VNC Viewer, Yahoo! Messenger.
DrQu+xum: Proof that the lameness filter doesn't work.
Here's my top 10 list.
1. Sleipnir - Greatest tab browser, made by a Japanese guy, there's an English translation, if you haven't tried it and been using other IE based tab browser, you should give it a try. It's IE engine only. (For those who'll have trouble navigating Japanese web page, here's the download link to English version)
2. PuTTY - Just like others
3. Exact Audio Copy - Very good audio ripper for CCCD.
4. Adobe Reader - Though getting like a bloated software with Printme ad, I encounter PDF just about everyday...
5. GIMP - I thank GIMP team for such a great freeware tool.
6. VideoLAN (VLC) - Great media player + rich network functions, can play DVD (with libdvdcss, check your own law) without any commercial licensed softwares.
7. EmEditor - This is the best text editor I've found to date (tried, textpad, editplus, ultraedit what have you...but I'm not a emacs/vim guy). For what's better, it's free for academic use! It's got regular expression search/find, keyboard mapping, document tabs and all the feature you'd expect on a good text editor. I used to use EditPlus(registered) before this, but I switched.
8. ffdshow - Codecs for DivX, Xvid. No more need for official ad-full DivX codec installation.
From here, I don't have them installed, but these are worth mentioning.
9. burnatonce - A great tool for writing CD/DVD media. It's actually a Windows frontend for cdrecord and ProDVD, small and efficient.
10. DVD Shrink - To extract DVD data and back it up, no writing function, but good for storing it on HDD.
I could go on...but I've reached ten =)
i keep /home under version control, with parts of /etc
install screen, beep, ratpoison.
who needs the other four?
Keep your packets off my GNU/Girlfriend!
once a month?? once a year even?? do people *REALLY* re-format their drives this regularly?? what could possibly happen to them that requires this???
/usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh .... :) (how did we live before gentoo??)
/dev/zero all over hdc1 instead of hdd1 (black keyboard, dark room, about a half slab of beer; you work it out) :) and the time I borked all my system libraries with a foolish build flag (long story). But mostly any damage I do can be --unmerged, vi'd or otherwise corrected without resort to reinstallation.
Even if you buy new drives, cant you just dd (or windows equivalent) the old primary drive onto the new one, add a new swap partition and reboot (takes maybe 20 minutes and you can keep using your system as if nothing was wrong).
(Note, I am not a windows user and never have been, except for the windows lapdog work provides me )
I mean, I occasionally rebuild X (or replace xfree with xorg-x11, stupid nazi license felchers) or my kernel and, even less often, reboot; but this isnt reinstall or reformat, this is a simple case of running a background task and then hitting ctrl alt backspace when you are done... But hell, Id be lucky to reboot my primary PC once a month, once a quarter maybe, let alone reinstall; my last re-install was slackware to gentoo on my old promary box a few years back now. I did a fresh gentoo build on my amd64 box when I got it last October, but that was because I wanted a true 64bit system.
As for apps, I think Id start with gcc and glibc, then add xorg-x11 and gnome et-al and then open orrifice; that has to be way more than 10 apps. Naturally Id whack in all the basic tools, mans gotta have vi and sed. but when I install software on a new system, its simple.
Boot (live cd)
(setup hard drive)
emerge system
emerge sync
emerge -U world
emerge xorg-x11
emerge gnome
USE="sandbox" emerge openoffice-bin
etc...
I always thought people overstated windows tendancy to unrecoverable bloat, is this guy serious??? I cant think of ever *needing* to re-install...
ok, the time I dd'd
wierdness.
jak.
Surprised none of you mentioned AdAware and AdWatch...
James
Be True, Unbeliever
GLUTb e4D
Open Inventor
LyX
Haskell
Hugs
PHP
MySQL
MagicCu
vi
- Mozilla
- Proxomitron
- Eudora
- 7-zip
- VNC
- OpenOffice.org
- Nero Burning
- Pop-Mouse and Xmouse2k, but not on a gaming PC
- MusicMatch (for my iPod)
- Diablo II
And some anti-virus software. The last two bullet points are more for home PCs than anything I might setup at work. I also have a C:\programs folder of applications that don't need to be installed, just copied onto the hard drive. That folder just gets copied across wholesale.I'm looking for a good WinXP disk defrag utility if anyone can suggest one.
Just as a closing comment, why do some people feel the need to re-install Windows so often? All of my Windows XP PCs are still using the first install. The oldest is just under two years old.
Assuming a sufficiently Unixy system (where Windows or OS/2 with their respective open-source POSIX-ish layers count), I usually go with, in no particular order:
This is all kind of moot on major Linux distros (which are what I mostly use) since you get everything you could ever possibly need with those and I just install it all instead of wasting time picking the packages I want.
Under the SysV Unix systems I've used, the core utilities are usually good enough for my tastes as is the C compiler (although you often have to buy it separately). Getting a decent web browser has been tricky so I make do with lynx or an old version of Netscape, depending. Perl is mostly standard these days.
Under Windows, I don't bother with firewalls or antivirus software. I just use an external router to block all ports, then make sure to never, ever use IE or Outlook Express. This has worked for me so far, although I don't use Windows very much and so it could just be the law of averages in my favour so far.
Here's what I do after installing my distro (I use Fedora)...
1. Newer Up2date - Up2date now works as a client for Yum, Apt, RHN and local directory repositories. The betas I find from Rawhide are generally more stable than the final version, particularly for the non-Yum repository types. I use directory repositories a lot cause I can just save a package somewhere and then use it to satisfy dependencies without having to regenerate index files - this is really handy.
2. Synaptic - Up2date is nice, but it lacks a GUI, and Synaptic's got better search features.
3. Gimp 2 - Actually makes Gimp pleasant to use. Someday this will come with my distro.
Firefox - Simple, uncluttered, yet packaged with features.
3. Evo 1.5 - Though its not really better than the older version. I keeping hoping for a three column view.
4. Multisync - To Sync Evo to my SonyEricsson mobile phone via Bluetooth.
5. Driftnet - I sometimes use my box as a router for other people - and I want to know what they're browsing with it.
6. Beep, and its mp3 plugins. A GTK 2 replacement for XMMS, which I'll then uninstall.
7. GtkPod, for my iPod. I'll use the automounter to handle the mounting.
8. K3B. Makes CD/DVD burning on Linux pleasant. Wish there was a Gnome workalike.
9. NX - X compression that's on par with Citrix. Makes my box a whole lot easier to work with remotely. www.nomachine.com.
10. Nvidia driver packages from rpm.livna.org.
1. BlackboxLean - Swank fork of BlackBox4Win
2. Opera - My favorite browser for years
3. Directory Opus - Easily the best and most customizable file manager I've ever used
4. Miranda IM - Nice lean IM client
5. AllSnap - All windows snap to each other
6. Media Player Classic - Light media player
7. Virtual Daemon - Virtual CD software
8. mIRC - Crappy IRC client
9. Winamp 2 - Too lazy to upgrade
10. Photoshop 6 - God I hate the GIMP
I'm using Preview on 10.3, and it most definitely does have search capability.
In order:
Windows 2000 SP3
The rest of my drivers (Example: Logitech mouse)
WinZip
Office 2000
Adobe Acrobat
PHP4
MySQL
SecureCRT SSH
PCAnywhere
WinMX
I usually turn it off, since files I'm looking for are rarely indexed when I'm looking for them.
click-clack, front and back. I'm not moving this car otherwise.
first:y ware Blaster
Norton Antivirus
ZoneAlarm
Opera
Ad-Aware
Spybot
Sp
then:
BitTorrent
S**ls**k
K-l*t*
fr**M*s*c
xpy, firefox/thunderbird, 7-zip, nettime, winamp, mpc, gaim, mp3ext, textpad, nsis hope that were ten ;)
1.OO.o-Office stufft p-ssh/ftps sion
2.Matlab-numerical methods
3.Opera-browser
4.Gaim-aim
5.Putty/wsF
6.CygWin-Unix-like environment for programing
7.Paint Shop Pro-grafix
8.Homesite+ -website development
9.PowerArchiver-compression/decompre
10.WinAmp-music
i usually end up downloading and installing adobe acrobat reader soon after that, the firsst time i need to use it.
cheers!
-=gabe2=- macbook dual 2.0
DirectX
Everquest
I have 3 machines done that way. Damn I'm a loser =(
What the heck is a 'sig'?
"Ghost doesn't make disk images, it only copies files into that monolithic .gho."
Is this the case with Ghost these days? I know when I used Ghost years ago it had both options, either copy the files it saw on a disk to an image file, or copy the entire disk to an image without caring what the filesystem was. I used to have to do exactly that before Ghost supported NTFS natively, and you could also tell it whether or not you wanted to do that with something it did support, like FAT.
It would be strange to me if that functionality was removed, but I'm sure it's entirely possible.
I'm a developer and a previous textpad user... but I switched to jedit, which has all the features (via extra downloadable plugin modules) and it's completely free. I've never looked back. Even beats bbedit on mac in my opinion.
Meh.
I'm a gamer, so my list is really geared towards getting good FPS and a stable, long lasting build.
I install from a slipstreamed SP1a CD, so I don't need to include SP1a on my list. Here goes:
1) Autopatcher XP (March is the latest)
2) Drivers (Detonator, Catalyst, 4in1's, Nforce drivers, whatever is appropriate)
3) Opera (Still the fastest)
4) Trillian
5) Mailwarrior (No HTML mail => No HTML mail exploits)
6) Ad-Aware (I keep this because other people use my PC sometimes, although I do have a domain policy that prevents iexplore.exe from running)
Actually that's all there is. I have a server to handle firewall, NAT, file downloads and other security stuff.
All the rest is games, games, games.
I am government man, come from the government. The government has sent me. -- G.I.R.
ssh
vim
less
wget
links
crawl
bzip2
screen
mpg321
centericq
All I'll ever need for a console desktop.
Instead of Trillian, I install GAIM for win32 (GPL).
Instead of WinRAR, I install 7-Zip (LGPL).
Instead of WinAMP, I install foobar2000 (BSD).
Instead of SmartFTP, I install FileZilla (GPL).
Instead of PowerDVD, I install VLC Media Player (GPL).
I really need to switch to GNU/Linux.
Phillip
I'll take Filezilla over SmartFTP anyday.
BeyondCompare is great, as is TortoiseSVN and/or TortoiseCVS if your a code monkey.
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion
Linux has a lot of good stuff, but Red Hat leaves out some goodies that I like to use (some of these are available in the main third-party repositories):
I used to install yafc (best CLI FTP client out there, with good colorization and, unlike lftp, the ability to interact with local files and pipe things to shell commands), but apparently the maintainer has just decided to stop maintaining it. Ack!
I like to install atool. This is basically an intelligent (text-based) frontend to all the archive-handling tools out there. You just type aunpack <archive-name> and it checks the type and decompresses the archive. If there are multiple files in the root of the archive, it creates a new directory and puts them all in it.
WINE. WINE may not be perfect, but when you want to use a Windows program, you'll be glad that you have it set up.
mplayer. It's the most capable video player out there for Linux, even if some of the more advanced capabilities might be a bit intimidating at first.
Two tools -- one a small C program that I wrote that runs the program and arguments passed it "as a daemon" -- detached from a terminal. This is useful for running something that you want to keep
running in the background without the ability to output crud to the screen. The second is a pair of scripts that provide a version of xargs' functionality, but escape spaces and the like, so that one can use xargs on files with spaces in their names.
Valgrind. Valgrind is a very good memory debugger. Red Hat does not include it in the base distribution because of patent issues (/me hates software patents and the damage they do to the software development area). Exclusion of valgrind is a significant factor in increasing software bugginess. God, I wish the US had EU-style patent law.
May we never see th
I feel blinding using a computer without DU Meter 2.21 (bandwidth graph) and Nullsoft Netmon FoX Version (ping graph) running. The two are simple apps, and I guess their functionality might be included in the GKrellM app you list.
Phillip
First, java development stuff:
1. Sun Java JDK (latest)
2. Eclipse (java ide)
3. GCJ (java compiler)
4. JEdit (awesome everyday editor)
5. Minq's DBVisualizer (database tool)
6. Apache Tomcat
From here I go to utils
7. Winrar or Winzip (prior is better. 7zip needs a better interface)
8. Thunderbird (best email client ever)
9. Adaware
10. Norton Antivirus
Ahh, another supporter of TightVNC. Has anyone ever used UltraVNC http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ ? Until this point I have never heard of TightVNC and I was looking for some opinions.
Nowadays when I reinstall 2k:
T rillian
Putty
Winamp
Firefox
Openoffice
UltraEdit
And I reinstall and update the patches about once every 6 months or so. Just about when my Norton AV expires and the system starts to get dirty. With Windows, a lot of times it's just easier to un-ghost or reinstall then try and figure out what's gone wrong with it.
Though I remember a time when I never reinstalled my PC. When I owned an Amiga, I had the same OS installed from... well I bought the 1200 in 92 and moved to the PC in 98 so almost 6 years. And back then I actually downloaded and installed more programs from BBSes and such than I do today from the internet. It's funny, I guess comparing computing then to computing now is like comparing sex in the 60s to sex now. Back then you could download things freely and nobody worried. Nowadays you have to watch yourself or you end up catching something nasty!
So the moral, always wear a rubber. And don't use Internet explorer unless you have the security turned WAAAAAY up.
- Brett
1. Norton Anti Virus
2. XP SP1
3. Opera
4. Yahoo Messenger
5. Half Life+Counter Strike
6. Bit Torrent
7. Ad Aware
8. Spybot Search & Destroy
9. Acrobat Reader
10. Palm Desktop
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
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1. Gvim ... and that's it. I don't need anything else because I do the rest through putty under my linux slices on vmware.
2. Firefox
3. Thunderbird
4. Java
5. Putty
6. Vmware
Believe with me, my saplings.
Zoom player works as well. I've found it to be slightly more stable
Is this the case with Ghost these days? I know when I used Ghost years ago it had both options, either copy the files it saw on a disk to an image file, or copy the entire disk to an image without caring what the filesystem was. I used to have to do exactly that before Ghost supported NTFS natively, and you could also tell it whether or not you wanted to do that with something it did support, like FAT.
It still does both (just used Ghost2003 a few days ago). Sorry, don't remember the command line flags to do it...
Wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?
First 10 things I install in Linux: 1) Binutils 2) GCC 3) Linux Headers 4) Glibc 5) TCL 6) Expect 7) DejaGNU 8) GAWK 9) CoreUtils 10) Bzip2 ....
The Bat! - An Email client
ZoomPlayer - A video player
FlashFXP - an FTP client.
UltraEdit - A text editor
PuTTY - A Telnet/SSH client
Yahoo Messenger - An IM program
Kazaa Lite - To get even more stuff
BitTorrent - A BT Client
Google Toolbar - A toolbar for IE to use google easily and quickly
ACDSee - An image viewer
Preferably Debian, and then `apt-get install popularity-contest` so we never have to endure a story as stupid as this one ever again.
1 - screen 2 - bzip2 3 - wget 4 - less 5 - gcc 6 - libncurses5-dev 7 - make 8 - kernel-package 9 - [updated linux kernel] 10 - [dist-upgrade to Sid]
Gnome2, Ximian Evolution, Galeon, Open Office, mldonkey, ssh, xmms, xine, ecasound and oggenc.
Admittedly, I go to bed when I start the Open Office install.
Leisure Suit Larry 1-10
Before you compress, run a defragger that zeros out all unused blocks (and, even better, the unused bytes at the end of the last block in each file).
The zeroed blocks/bytes will compress to almost nothing (relative to the 1Gb of data).
Also, you can dd to "a single image file, which can be much easier to work with."
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana
Windows:r bsdksh-1.6.cpio.gz)
- Volkov Commander (the nc clone)
- joe (the editor)
- lynx (the browser)
- Services for Unix 3.5 (was: Native GNU utilities for Win32, but Interix is better)
- mirbsdksh (http://mirbsd.bsdadvocacy.org/MirOS/distfiles/mi
- H+BEDV FreeAV
- Starcraft
- Diablo II
- Diablo II LoD
- CStrike 1.3
Unix (MirOS BSD, http://mirbsd.de/):
- joe (ports/editors/jupp)
- GNU screen (ports/misc/screen)
- GNU mc (ports/misc/mc)
- DJB Daemontools (ports/sysutils/daemontools)
- djbdns (ports/net/djbdns)
- pine (ports/mail/pine)
- mpg123 (ports/audio/mpg123)
- mplayer (ports/x11/mplayer,win32,aa,other flavours)
- rsync (ports/net/rsync)
- acroread (including Linux emulation), or gs
That's just my average.
My Karma isn't excellent, damn it! (And
The list is going to be bigger than 10 because I'm not sure what you want to consider. Is a patch the first install? A driver? An Upgrade? So, Until I get 10 apps, here's the order
0) Win XP Pro
0a) Motherboard Drivers (Raid, USB, Snd, etc.)
0b) Network Driver
0c) Win XP Updates (inclds IE6)
0d) Video Driver
0e) DirectX
0f) WMP 9 (up from 7 in XP)
0g) DivX, Xvid (gotta have my pr0n)
0h) IIS (an XP Pro option)
0i) Messenger 6.1 (up from 4.7)
1) Google Bar (gotta stop popups)
2) Dave's Quick Search Bar (can't live without)
3) Visual Slickedit
4) Perl
5) PHP
6) MySQL
7) WS-FTP Pro
8) WinRAR
9) mIRC (needed xbox updates)
10) Raphsody
-------
11) MS Office (I like Outlook, get over it)
12) Motino
13) Photoshop
14) Thumbsplus
15) Acrobat
16) Quicktime
17) RealPlayer (never had any problems)
All that is used almost daily. At some point I will also have to install all of the following
*) VC++ 6.0
*) VC++.NET
*) Sound Forge
*) Acid
*) Vegas Video
*) Maya
*) 3D Studio Max
*) Thumbs
*) DirectX SDK
*) Cygwin
*) JWPCE
*) Cool 360
Happy Hacking!!!
"UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity." -Dennis Ritchie
My first 10: - ZoneAlarm - Norton Anti Virus (Corporate) - AdAware (and apply all Windows patches (naturally)) - Total Commander - Firefox - Thunderbrird - OpenOffice - HTML Kit - MySql Front - TweakUI for XP ...
- PHP
- MySql
- CDex
- mIRC
-> More Tolerance Is Less Extremism <-
UBC, is ultibate boot cd, really good stuff.
and it contains G4u, ghost for unix, which is a tiny NetBSD boot image with a disk imager that can backup/restore over FTP too.
google it, no need to show the url
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
- ZoneAlarm (because I don't control our router!)
- Norton Antivirus (as long as it's not McAfee)
- WinRar (shareware zip util)
- Firefox (superior browser)
- Y'z Doc (like OSX's magnify bar)
- Editplus (text editor - c&p columns!)
- Irfanview (freeware image viewer - perfect)
- LeechFTP (old but does the job)
- EphPod (no bloat ipod software - sourceforge)
- foobar2000 (with the remote plugin)
There are lots of others but ten will do.Oh ok, here's some more:NetPerSec, Alcohol 120%, CopyToDVD, Forte Agent, MS Office,
Real Alternative, Quicktime Alternative, GAIM, VNC, Windows Grep,
Beyond Compare, Treesize and Ad-aware.
(not neccesarily in this order, though)
#1 - Cygwin ... Can't think of any others...
#2 - Some flavor of mozilla
#3
does anyone know of a good *free* and *trustworthy* antivirus software for windows? :))
(i'm hoping the various oxymorons will cancel out
many years ago, command on demand allowed comprehensive web based scanning for free. but then, those were pre crash days.
The first FIVE installs on any Windows system are in that order:
- a personal firewall, because you need one in order to connect an unpatched system to the net and survive
- all applicable service packs and security patches, approximately the size of the original OS install
- Antispy
- Ad Aware
- Anti Virus Program
That being finished, four hours later if you don't happen to have a prepared ghostable image, you can begin to actually install useful stuff.
On FreeBSD desktop:
m e depending on what it's for...
es, vim, cvsup, portupgrade, kde, xfce, wdm, eterm, opera, sylpheed-claws, setiathome
On FreeBSD server:
es, vim, cvsup, portupgrade, curl, lynx-ssl, tcl, nmap, cmatrix, apache/dbmail/postgres/neowebscript/bind/setiatho
On Windows: Putty, Opera, er... er... er... and that's it.
I then reboot into FreeBSD. Occasionally I'll boot back in, install the latest security updates, and boot out again. But that's about it.
Oh wait! On my laptop I had to install some partioning software to convert some of the NTFS to FAT32. Oh, and acroread, I think.
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Everything else I use is built into Windows, like Calculator, Windows Explorer, etc.
1. GNOME 2.6 - everything feels nice - from http://www.gnome.org/ or (for DEB packages) http://pkg-gnome.alioth.debian.org/
:-) But as I said, 6 months without booting into Windows, both in work and at home (that's three machines). DVD watching, DivX watching, music playing, web browsing, chat. What else do you need?
2. Totem - fullscreen capability, great GNOME-based interface, DVD playing - http://www.hadess.net/totem.php3
3. Video + sound codecs - DivX, Windows Media, etc. - http://mp.dev.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html or from a DEB source listed at http://marillat.free.fr/
4. muine - queue-style music playing interface - http://muine.gooeylinux.org/
5. gaim - multi-protocol IM - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
6. evolution 1.5 - much more stable for IMAP than 1.4, though a close call with Mozilla Thunderbird - http://www.ximian.com/products/evolution/
7. azureus - bittorrent client, essential for those anime fansubs - http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
8. im-ja - Easy to use Kana/Kanji input (Japanese), I'm learning Japanese so I like to add in bits of every so often - http://im-ja.sourceforge.net/
9. Acrobat Reader - PDF viewer, gpdf doesn't render fonts very well yet - from http://www.acrobat.com/ or (as DEB) from http://www.marillat.fr/
10. OpenOffice - Sometimes I need to do presentations at work... - http://www.openoffice.org/
This isn't a "morally pure" list - but really, using non-free software isn't a crime. And I do install Java as well - there are DEB packages available from http://z42.de/debian/.
And I do install Mozilla, but it's a dependency of GNOME 2.6 - I've been using Epiphany as my browser since 2.6 was installed.
Hmm, there are 8 pages of comments for this article, who's going to read this
Well for a complete geek machine, you need the latest 2.6 kernel, udev , D-BUS and hal - see http://www.freedesktop.org/ for details - there are, of course, Debian packages of all these, and they work quite well on all three desktop systems I use.
From a default Debian woody setup (or unstable)
1. ssh
2. mc
3. elinks
4. XFree86 (xserver, fonts and required tools)
5. xterm (hey, debian packages it seperatly)
6. sawfish
7. gcc
8. xmms
9. mozilla-firefox
10. mplayer
although last install was 2 years ago or so, I usually just throw a backup on new boxen
Putty for UNIX
Yes, I know that Proxomitron development OF THE MAIN PROGRAM has stopped. However, development of the Filter Sets goes on every day, which is the REAL power of Proxomitron. As you say, JD's set is quite simply awesome, and he's working on the next release (I have the beta and it rocks). Unless the main program stops working on a future OS for some reason, there's nothing inherently wrong with it; certainly it's not to be dismissed because it hasn't been updated for a while.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Remember, Proxomitron's only purpose is as a proxy filter for your browser, accepting filter sets using its own language. It hasn't stopped doing that yet, so why move to somthing else? Just be grateful it hasn't bloated into some monstrosity and remains sleek and simple, fulfilling it's stated purpose admirably even today. I won't surf without it!
Finally, if you have a good filter set you've customised over time, why not save it as a ZIP or EXE (which I do), and then if you need to reinstall you can simply install Proxomitron, install your own filter set, and you're done!
Visceral Psyche Films
Good list, pretty informative links and stuff too, thanks.
Brian
Are you a Candy Addict?
Here is what gets installed after Windows XP Home SP1a and all the patches:
Instead of Ghost or DriveImage, I use Knoppix to copy my Windows 2000 install to another partition. When I want a fresh install I just boot up in Knoppix and copy it back.
We must be alert to the danger that public policy could become captive to a scientific-technological elite. - Eisenhower
I suggest installing Gentoo Linux. THAT'LL break you of the "reformat every month" bug... Hell, it took me over a month just to get the base system installed on my laptop! And I still can't get the latest kernel version to work!
:wq
I've never used MultiDesk, but I've been VERY pleased with Deskwin
:-)
It's released under GPL, and I've been running it on multiple systems for 2+ years. VERY stable (not a single crash -- EVER) Hardly any overhead, simple to use, and no install. Just copy the file anywhere you'd like, put a shortcut in your startup, configure and you're done.
Bookmarking thread
For Win2K the registry files are in the %Systemroot%\system32\config directory, and I suppose it's probably the same for Windows 5.1 (aka; Windows XP). I have a second bare-bones installation of Win2K on a separate partition just so I can easily save and restore the registry on my primary installation and do other maintenance tasks that involve manipulating system files.
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Gator
Bonzi
any xxx dialer
HotBar
Comet Cursor
Date Manager
ezSearchBar
MySearch
E-mail Password Logger
MySearch
Precision Time
note: not necessarily in that order
You need people like me so you can point your fuckin fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So what that make you? Good?
In no particular order
M S
P layer
Linux:
Opera
Lopster
K3B
Mplayer
Grip
Gkrellm
XM
KMail
KNode
OpenOffice
Windows (Not counting the 10,000 security updates):
WinAmp
WinZip
DigiGuide
Opera
Real
PowerDVD
WinRAR
Then again its been a long time since I've had to install Windows, still have 98 on my dual boot machine.
I answered the fucking question so you better give me a one at the very least.
What, did I piss someone off?
no god is good
How about for a Unix machine?
... (list goes on until eternity)
what about it? linux comes on a few cd's (ranges from 1 to 7 or something) or a dvd and everything is already on there, nothing to install anymore! i'm done... finito...
oh yeah, i used to get the microsoft truetype fonts but since the bitstream fonts got released i no longer have to do that either...
on unix, like the wonderfull (not) hpux, i install: bash, ssh, lsof, tar, fileutils, tusc, tcpwrappers, sudo, screen, less,
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Forget Ghost.
Forget loosing mahine uptime for re-installs.
Go out to www.vmware.com and buy a copy.
I burn a CD or DVD once in awhile to store my images, but my base PC never gets any software other than VMWare installed.
Multiple OS's.
Multiple fun.
And my base OS (VMWare runs on Linux or Windows) is never down.
Opera, XMMS, GAIM, GIMP, w3m, pine, emacs, flashplugin, java, and the simple joy of "ls -al" :)
Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com
ieradicator is here,. Also, they use active-x in the download, so you need IE to download it before removing IE. But it works, so go figure...
warcraft3 (+ expansion) trillian winamp divx directX mozilla CS+ steam dc++ kazzaa lite++ peerguardian
We seldom regret saying too little but often regret saying too much.
This is my 1st post here. I guess this is basic, but here are my installs outside of XP/Favs/Motherboard/Graphics/Printer/Adobe/Java/Qu icktime...updates and software.
I only shut a few things off such as the recycle bin, system restore, auto updates, remote assistance, messenger, and power options. I leave most everything else alone because I don't see much difference when I tweak much further. It's a fast machine, and I don't need to waste my time trying to get bit extra out of it. I have done that for many years now, and it's just time for me to quit that path of rationalizing my compulsive obsessive habitual neurotic disorder.
Here is my list..
1. Windows Commander "Now Totalcommander." Because I have forgotten how to use windows explorer, and it was like Windows 3.1 at the time.
2. AVG Antivirus "It's free, but most important to me is it doesn't bog my system."
3. MS Word, because it's uncomplicated and easy for other people that use my computer. I have plenty of templates to get my work done. I got it for $20.00 in a Works2004 bundle.
4. Nero 6, I love it. "I will use shareware copies of other burning programs if needed such as Alcohol 120, but this rarely happens"
5. Daemon Tools and Fastmount
6. Codec Pack All in 1
7. BSPlayer, it does the job
8. PowerDVD, it does the job, and they seem to keep it updated.
9. WinRAR, it does the job fast.
10. Azreus bittorrent, it's so easy.
11. Grabit news reader. It's also easy.
12. I use Norton Ghost to image it all. I don't install it. I use a previously installed copy on a boot CD. http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#elghost This just saves me time if I have any problems with others using my system, or incompatibilities with newly installed software.
Opera Sylpheed Claws Emacs The Gimp WinSCP BookCAT X-Chat WinZip IrfanView PuTTY On my work computer it would currently be: Opera Sylpheed Claws Emacs WinSCP Cygwin WinCVS WinZip IrfanView PuTTY X-Chat
The knuckles, the horrible knuckles!
(I'm a girl, you know)
That was embarassing ... That's what I get for posting with HTML as default, and not previewing. *sigh*
On my work computer it would currently be:
The knuckles, the horrible knuckles!
(I'm a girl, you know)
Winrar XMPlay - a little-known player for my .mod / .xm files
Gaim - connectivity!
Firefox
PGP
ZoneAlarm
PuTTY
WS_FTP - hey, I like the interface
Alcohol 120% - for mapping ISOs and a range of other formats to a drive letter
Nero Burning Rom
"Ubuntu" - an African word meaning "Slackware is too hard for me."
My opinion? See above.
Install your OS once a month? Anyone who does that doesn't know how to use windows, and then I must wonder what real unix/linux skills you have if you can't even keep your windows xp running well. I'm on my second install(since release) and thats only because of a ibm deskstar failure and my os still runs very fast, but in regards to your post and trying to ignore stupid fact you reinstall your os once a month. These are apps i install, winrar, winamp, googlebar, ms office, msn messenger, nero, mirc, adaware, stylexp, sharaza.
What is the best freeware newsgroup reader out there? Once I get my OS up and going, I want to be able to access internet porn as soon as possible...
The progs I install after OS:
1. ZoneAlarm
2. McAfee VirusScan Enterprise
3. Windows Hotfixes (lump 'em all together)
4. SpyBot S&D
5. IZarc
6. iTunes
7. DC++
8. AIM
9. DeadAIM
10. Alcohol 120%
11. Photoshop CS
12. WS-FTP
13. Sibelius
14. Reason 2.5
15. LiteStep (alt. windows shell because Explorer sucks)
This is all followed by spyware/adware/virus checks and driver updates
I've used both Ghost and Drive Image Pro and found them comparable. The only difference is that we use Multicasting with Ghost and you have to be pretty careful with it because it'll suck up your networks bandwidth pretty quickly. We used to do it on the corporate LAN and watch all the lights on the switches go solid, but then we got yelled at so now it's on its own private network.
Drive Image Pro is good for making copies of Linux partitions, which I don't think Ghost supports yet.
(I've included mods for a specific program as only a single program)
diablo II
half-life
all the assorted half-life mods (including CS)
quake
all the assorted quake mods
quake III
starcraft
warcraft III
neverwinter nights
Alien vs. Predator 2
Windows 2003 Evaluation edition can be grabbed as a free ISO download as well:
u at ion/trial/evalkit.mspx. com/windowsserver2003eva ldl/
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/eval
https://microsoft.order-5
Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit
1: IglooFTP-PRO
2: latest nVidia driver
3: build latest trunk CVS of the one and only Mozilla Suite
4: install some native plugins (Java, Flash, RealONE)
4: Crossover Plugin + some alien plugins: Quicktime, MSMP, Shockwave for Director
5: Crossover Office + Mirc
6: Oh what the heck.. get Opera for Linux as well
7: xawtv
8: alevt
9: Xine
10: Lean back, find much pleasure in knowing that OpenOffice, Gimp, Ethereal and some insane number of other apps are already installed
As a webdeveloper, the first 10 programs I install are:
d ows 2003 Admin pack
Windows updates
Codecs
Media Player Classic
Winamp 2.8
Office
Photoshop
Dreamweaver
FireFox
Win
I install nothing.
I put my DVD in the drive and restart my system. Then I go back upstairs and watch Tivo.
58 minutes later, I have the following:
Windows XP - SP1a
All critical patches.
DX9.0b
ATI Drivers and control panel
All device drivers for my system.
WMP9
Office 2k3, customized for me, Outlook set for my accounts.
MusicMatch Jukebox
Everquest
Virtual PC
WinInstallLE
Quicken 2004 Deluxe
AVG Antivirus
PGP8
DVDShrink
TeamSpeak
Trillian Pro
Putty
Firefox
Dreamweaver
Fireworks.
Wanna know how? Check MSFN.org.
where is the "I feel for ya, but that's some funny ass shit" moderation?
Here's what I do:
I keep a 'persistent' folder on another partition than the one with windows, e:\install\
That's where I put all programs I need that don't need re-installation: Opera, Total Commander, Winrar, Winamp, ShareScan, DC++, EditPlus, GhostZilla, IrfanView, BSPlayer, Trillian etc.
Microsoft Office, Yahoo Messenger, Bit Defender, KlipFolio all need to be reinstalled.
ClamAv
http://clamav.sourceforge.net
or ClamWin if the Micro$oft banner has to fly high for you at
http://clamwin.sourceforge.net
Everybody mentioned Mozilla (cool)
Nobody mentioned a ramdisk or a customized hosts file.
Somebody mentioned spybot, but not Ad-Aware.
Why the Ramdisk? Point your internet cache to it. It really will speed up your browsing, etc, and the best part is you never have to clean your internet cache out again.
I believe somebody already mentioned the Gimp (It's at 2.0 now, and has some really nifty features, but TWAIN Acquire still DOESN'T WORK under the Microsoft flag. GIMP devs point the finger at the TWAIN people. The TWAIN people don't even know WTF GIMP is.)
Nobody mentioned Snort.
Best case I've ever heard for switching to Knoppix!
First...
2.6.5 Kernel
Nvidia Binaries
Latest SDL(build from source)
Mplayer and associated Codecs(build from source)
WineX
Azureus
quake3
quake2
ut2004
Warcraft III
1. Some form of firewall and AV
2. WinAmp
3. Serenade
4. Juno. (It sucks, but I don't have a choice.)
5. FireFox
6. Gaim
7. mIRC
8. WinRAR
9. Metapad
10. OpenOffice.org
I haven't really reformatted recently, after the last one I made a ghost image with all my base apps on it.