{"id":946,"date":"2010-01-06T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=946"},"modified":"2010-01-06T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T04:37:00","slug":"my-minimal-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2010\/01\/06\/my-minimal-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"My Minimal Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a new netbook: an <a href=\"http:\/\/eeepc.asus.com\/global\/product1005ha.html\">Asus Eee 1005HA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As my old tablet got slowly older, I realized that I don&#8217;t really have heavy laptop demands: most of my use is a text editor and &#8220;hey look at this web page&#8221; in lectures.  Even when away from the lecture hall, I tend to work primarily in a text editor (for LaTeX, HTML, Python, etc.), Thunderbird, and Firefox.  I&#8217;m not exactly putting a big strain on the system, and can trade off power for small and light.<\/p>\n<p>As always, there&#8217;s a big difference between the average stock setup and what I need to get some work done.  Bridging this gap is a hassle, so I&#8217;m going to finally record what I need so I can look it up next time.<\/p>\n<p>The new Eee is dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu (Karmic netbook remix).  Yay to Asus for shipping with a second &#8220;data&#8221; partition on the drive that was dead-easy to put Ubuntu on.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m open to must-have software suggestions that I missed.  I&#8217;ll probably add more below as I find stuff I missed.<\/p>\n<h4>In Windows<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/firefox\/\">Firefox<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A text editor, usually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimsoneditor.com\/english\/download.html\">Crimson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/winscp.net\/eng\/download.php\">WinSCP<\/a> (or some other SCP and maybe SSH client)<\/li>\n<li>For 165: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.python.org\/download\/\">Python<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/downloads\/\">GIMP<\/a>, maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inkscape.org\/download\/?lang=en\">Inkscape<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tortoisesvn.tigris.org\/\">TortoiseSVN<\/a> (if there&#8217;s a possibility of development happening)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clamwin.com\/\">ClamWin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>In Ubuntu<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><code>rsync<\/code> (As far as I&#8217;m concerned it&#8217;s negligent to have an operating system install without rsync.)<\/li>\n<li><code>subversion<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>sshfs<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>ntp<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>thunderbird<\/code> (and <code>thunderbird-gnome-support<\/code>)<\/li>\n<li>If I&#8217;m going to be downloading pictures from a camera: <code>mmv<\/code>, <code>jhead<\/code>, <code>exif<\/code>, <code>gphoto2<\/code>, <code>python-pyexiv2<\/code>, <code>gpsbabel<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>ddclient<\/code> (with a <a href='http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ddclient.txt'>config file like this<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>In Firefox<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/3615\">Delicious Bookmarks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/433\">Flashblock<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/1237\">QuickJava<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/26\">Download Statusbar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/getfirebug.com\/\">Firebug<\/a> (if there&#8217;s any possibility of webdev on the machine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a new netbook: an Asus Eee 1005HA. As my old tablet got slowly older, I realized that I don&#8217;t really have heavy laptop demands: most of my use is a text editor and &#8220;hey look at this web page&#8221; in lectures. Even when away from the lecture hall, I tend to work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}