Michael Rice

• YAY all the parts for my new media center pc arrived while I was home for lunch!! #
• got my new pc built it runs like a champ. just finished watching I am Legend, it was a pretty good flick #

• why are simple things like showing both time and date in your toolbar on windows so difficult to make happen? Is it not common to want that? #
• watching righteous kill. #

• installing ESX Server on the SAN. Hoping this all works well as we really need something to go smoothly for a change #
• there is nothing quite as fun as following instructions that don’t work #
• @Ponderous76 better get a bucket to try to catch them in in reply to Ponderous76 #
• @Ponderous76 what kind of errors? in reply to Ponderous76 #
• Console servers.. they can be your best friends at times!! #

• @Ponderous76 Killer choice!! in reply to Ponderous76 #
• watching south park episodes on http://southparkstudios.com/ #

• Just left frys in austin #
• Envy me. Just left the salt lick #
• @Ponderous76 Yeah I picked up a new 1TB drive and a new video card while I was there. Frys is my walmart super store in reply to Ponderous76 #
• @Ponderous76 I thought about you and Joe while I was eating my brisket in reply to Ponderous76 #
• @calebgroom It was amazing. I love that habenaro sauce they have. We need to take a field trip over there some afternoon in reply to calebgroom #
• I think I am fixing to order an asus p5q3 delux and a q9550 and build a media center pc that will also be my new file server.. over kill? #
• ended up going with the Asus P5Q SE/R and the Intel Q8200 & 2GB of RAM #
• RMS is coming to town in April: http://tinyurl.com/dng9r4 Im planning on going. #

• getting ready to head to Mr. Luckys for a few hours of tattoo fun and excitement. My arm sure is gonna be sore tomorrow #
• Getting inked at Mr Luckys #
• home at lat. my arm feels like mush #

• Why cant IIS be as easy to configure and trouble shoot as Apache? #
• standing in line at chachos #
• just finished watching semi-pro. not as funny as I hoped. I think Ill hack on some python code for a while #

• need to go to bed, why do I do my best coding when I should be sleeping? #
• @calebgroom I think I used linux for 3 or 4 years before I knew you could echo hostname > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname #
• playing some mario kart wii!! #
• watching the education of sonny carson again. this is a good flick #

• yay new lost tonight!! #

These are listed in no particular order. Sure there are a lot more things I might install before its all over but these are the first 10 things I install on windows. I am currently using Windows Vista Ultimate both at home and at work.
So on to the 10 things..

• TortoiseSVN. I check out tons of code all the time. I needed something easy to useso some searching led me to TortoiseSVN. Easy to setup and it adds some functionality to your right click menu when in Explorer. I did have to reboot after installing it which I think is stupid but it seems like a normal thing in the Windows world.
• gvim. Thats right. What self respecting coder can honestly live with out vim? One thing I to note was my .vimrc from Linux I had to name _vimrc on Windows.
• python. I really enjoy writting python. When I get bored I can always kill a few hours making a new toy.
• Open Office. Coming from years of only having a Linux desktop all of my documents were in the native Open Office file types.
• Mozilla Firefox need I say more?
• Mozilla Thunderbird. I really like this email client. I have been using it on Linux for many years so using this only made sense so I could keep my profile from Linux.
• VLC If there is a better media player out there please feel free to comment and tell me where to aquire it
• Ext2IFS This is a nifty little tool. Again after years of Linux only all of my backups thumbdrives, etc are formatted with ext2 or ext3 file systems. This freeware tool allows me to read and write to those disks.
• putty I do still have Linux servers I need to connect to via ssh. This open source tool makes it possible.
• VirtuaWin. This open source tool allows you to have multiple desktops in windows just like you have in Linux. It has many features, and works really well.