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** <del>talk to ACS about newer/alternative (we currently have pc-cillin 2004)</del> | ** <del>talk to ACS about newer/alternative (we currently have pc-cillin 2004)</del> | ||
** <del>disable personal firewall</del> | ** <del>disable personal firewall</del> | ||
* MacAfee | * MacAfee AV 8 Ent. | ||
* Adobe Acrobat Pro | * Adobe Acrobat Pro | ||
* Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 | * Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 | ||
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* Oracle Calendar client - still discussing if Grads are eligible & would use | * Oracle Calendar client - still discussing if Grads are eligible & would use | ||
* Pantone Colorvision OPTICAL (colour-profiling) | * Pantone Colorvision OPTICAL (colour-profiling) | ||
** Mark: I don't think this is a good idea, the software asks the user to recalibrate every 30 days | |||
* PuTTY | * PuTTY | ||
** Defaults for fraser and our shell box? | ** Defaults for fraser and our shell box? | ||
* Quicktime | * Quicktime | ||
* RealPlayer | * RealPlayer | ||
* StarOffice | * StarOffice (2.0?) | ||
* Thunderbird email client | |||
* Thunderbird email client | |||
* WinSCP | * WinSCP | ||
** include defaults for connecting to tirpitz, surrey, and fraser | ** include defaults for connecting to tirpitz, surrey, and fraser | ||
Revision as of 19:08, 10 May 2005
This is the plan for a complete lab re-install in the Summer of 2005. Machines will be loaded with Windows XP and SUSE Linux. Each machine will be configured with the following applications.
Windows XP SP2
All latest patches.
- Software Update Services - Automated Windows Updates
PC-Cillintalk to ACS about newer/alternative (we currently have pc-cillin 2004)disable personal firewall
- MacAfee AV 8 Ent.
- Adobe Acrobat Pro
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 7
- Set this as default .pdf handler
- Adobe Photoshop CS
- Adobe ImageReady
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe GoLive!
- Adobe Illustrator
- ASUS Probe (motherboard monitoring)
- AtlasTi
- Firefox browser - set as default browser.
- iTunes
- Java
- at least JRE, preferably J2SE SDK
- Sun or one of the alternatives? IBM/BEA JRockit appears to be very good.
- K2 client
- Macromedia Dreamweaver
- Macromedia Fireworks
- Macromedia Flash
- Macromedia Freehand
- Microsoft Office - complete install
- Morae
- Nero (CD/DVD burning)
- NikonView (free download)
- Nikon Capture Editor, Camera Control (needs to be keyserved)
- nVidia video
- latest unified driver, for FX5200 / FX5600 cards
- Oracle Calendar client - still discussing if Grads are eligible & would use
- Pantone Colorvision OPTICAL (colour-profiling)
- Mark: I don't think this is a good idea, the software asks the user to recalibrate every 30 days
- PuTTY
- Defaults for fraser and our shell box?
- Quicktime
- RealPlayer
- StarOffice (2.0?)
- Thunderbird email client
- WinSCP
- include defaults for connecting to tirpitz, surrey, and fraser
BitTorrent client- Don't see a need for this, since OTS firewalls BitTorrent
- Lexmark T630-capable printer drivers
- HP 4600n-capable printer drivers
- printer-info needs to be added to Research web-info:
- IP-addresses, location, capabilities, where to get supplies, how to add them in Linux/Irix/OS-X/WinXP
- how to query the printer for int. info (IP-address, name, no. of pages, toner-levels, etc)
Linux
Complete install of SuSE 9.3 Pro.
- Auto-update.
- Both KDE and GNOME, maybe some other WMs too.
- Development tools
- Eclipse
- KDevelop
- Fortran stuff
- FireFox web-browser
- Oracle Calendar client - still discussing if Grads are eligible & would use
- totem, mplayer, vlc, xine?
- fully working!!! DeCSS, MP3, etc
BitTorrent client (Azureus?)- Don't see a need for this, since OTS firewalls BitTorrent
- will consider adding & opening FW only on a special-case basis
- K3B for cd/dvd writing
- Mark: add ldap users to cd writing group!
- Robin: SUSE9.3 should have pam_console, which is the proper solution.