Windows XP Pro. How ugly you are when out of the box.
- Setup screen properly. Wondering if a 16:9 widescreen was such a good idea. It seems... small.
- "Secured" XP by doing probably a little too much of this: http://www.markusjansson.net/exp.html
- Fixed TCP IP (broke it with step 2). Disabled unused ethernet ports.
- Connected to router, added Mac Address to filter, re-enabled MAC filter. Turned on modem... we can haz Internetz!
- Windows Update (including Media Player 11, .NET install failed for some reason...)
- Fix Windows Installer (broke it with step 2)
- Firefox
- Zone Alarm, Avast AntiVirus, AdAware and Spybot Search & Destroy
- iTunes
- Steam (the whole point of the new computer)
Still to do:
- Download Half Life 2 + Portal via Steam and play with Google Earth (all need DirectX9 which I now finally have)
- Install MAudio Audiophile PCI card, hopefully disable onboard sound if I can figure out how (mmmm bios)
- Transfer data (photos and Picasa, iTunes songs, documents)
- OpenOffice
- IIS (eeep!) and mySQL for my CD Database (and try to secure them, plus URLScan and some creative firewalling)
- FTP, Mozilla Thunderbird, Java, Flash, Adobe PDF Reader, DivX, XVid
- .NET Framework 1.1 and 3.5
- WinZip, WinRAR
- CD/DVD burning software (ImgBurn? Nero?)
- DVD Playing software (??? Power DVD sucks)
- CD Ripping software (EAC and AudioGrabber)
- Audio editing (Audacity)
- FLAC tools
- MP3 creating software (RazorLame and LAME)
- MP3 tagging software (MP3Tag, ID3-TagIT)
- Get my Canopus Firewire video capture device running (with WinDV)
- DVD creation software (TMPGEnc 2.5, TMPGEnc DVD)
- Bittorrent
All of this before I start recording music again. Tempted to use Rudd's free cash to look into some proper recording hardware/software. Something firewire would be nice.
Or I could give it all to charity and claim it on tax. Does that "help the economy"?