To-do List
My hard drive is here, and I may start fixing my computer up today, so first I made this list. It is basically all of the things which I want to get sorted on my computer.
- Basic system installed and customised (re: security and optimisations)
- Graphical environment installed (make it look pretty but retain usability and speed)
- Sound
- Mp3 player/encoder/tagger/ (probably Pytone, lame and easytag, but I'm not so keen on the latter)
- Network (quick and easy to connect to other computers and transfer files)
- Internet
- Email (I like Mutt/fetchmail and whatever smtp I can get to work)
- TV card (unlikely to work, seems to conflict with the motherboard)
- Power management (computer turns off itself when I say shutdown - I thought my hardware was too old for this, but it works in default Ubuntu setup, so it must be possible)
- Games (Windows via Cedega, but I haven't had much success with this in the past, DOS games through dosemu [I'm still a big fan of a lot of DOS games and abandonware], and any good Linux games that don't need a stonker of a 3D graphics card (that includes Nethack/Slashem for certain).
- Printing via network (this has been temperamental in the past at best)
- Audio programs (tracker or synth type stuff so I can try my hand and composing without having to actually play the instruments. This makes sound setup harder, a lot of them require JACK which I've never gotten working)
- GNUCash or similar if I deem it's worth setting it up (it's not like I have a lot of money to manage)
- Decent productivity software, particularly spreadsheet which is compatible with Excel (NOT OO.O , I detest that program)
- Latex and shell scripts which will turn a plain text file into a beautifully formatted essay for me. (Makes schoolwork much easier as I don't worry about formatting, yet my work always looks better than everyone else despite spending no time doing the appearance)
- Decent program for using my Creative Zen. I've used Gnomad, but it's not that good.
More things will be added I'm sure. I also need to record all of my Mum/Dad's records and tapes to computer at some point. Well, not all of them, there's a fair bit of rubbish in their music collection.
- Basic system installed and customised (re: security and optimisations)
- Graphical environment installed (make it look pretty but retain usability and speed)
- Sound
- Mp3 player/encoder/tagger/ (probably Pytone, lame and easytag, but I'm not so keen on the latter)
- Network (quick and easy to connect to other computers and transfer files)
- Internet
- Email (I like Mutt/fetchmail and whatever smtp I can get to work)
- TV card (unlikely to work, seems to conflict with the motherboard)
- Power management (computer turns off itself when I say shutdown - I thought my hardware was too old for this, but it works in default Ubuntu setup, so it must be possible)
- Games (Windows via Cedega, but I haven't had much success with this in the past, DOS games through dosemu [I'm still a big fan of a lot of DOS games and abandonware], and any good Linux games that don't need a stonker of a 3D graphics card (that includes Nethack/Slashem for certain).
- Printing via network (this has been temperamental in the past at best)
- Audio programs (tracker or synth type stuff so I can try my hand and composing without having to actually play the instruments. This makes sound setup harder, a lot of them require JACK which I've never gotten working)
- GNUCash or similar if I deem it's worth setting it up (it's not like I have a lot of money to manage)
- Decent productivity software, particularly spreadsheet which is compatible with Excel (NOT OO.O , I detest that program)
- Latex and shell scripts which will turn a plain text file into a beautifully formatted essay for me. (Makes schoolwork much easier as I don't worry about formatting, yet my work always looks better than everyone else despite spending no time doing the appearance)
- Decent program for using my Creative Zen. I've used Gnomad, but it's not that good.
More things will be added I'm sure. I also need to record all of my Mum/Dad's records and tapes to computer at some point. Well, not all of them, there's a fair bit of rubbish in their music collection.
posted by shfbbm at 8:29 AM
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