So, with our core set of command-line tools installed, let’s get into installing something interesting, shall we?
Firefox was a bit difficult to unravel at first, but as with most things, once you know the trick, it’s fairly straightforward. First up, grab the latest Firefox 3 beta in your favorite language. You can unpack the self-extracting […]
An important tool in our command-line arsenal is a good archive extractor. I like 7-zip (downloads) for many reasons — it can handle a wide variety of files, it has good shell integration, it’s namesake compression algorithm is pretty good (if somewhat esoteric in the Real World), it comes with a command-line front-end, and it’s […]
A fairly high priority before getting further into installations on a fresh box is getting the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools installed. This package includes some rather interesting and useful command-line tools — a few of which (sleep, tail, …) should probably be installed with the OS by default. Doing a silent install of […]
I personally have already done the plain vanilla “creating a bootdisk” thing a zillion times already — there are plenty of references for how to make a plain-Jane bootdisk on the web, so I’ll save my breath on that until the end. Instead, I’m going to first focus on getting the essentials (and maybe a […]
So, as Windows XP is moving towards end-of-life, I’m collecting together bits and pieces of software and consolidating them together into a nice bundle. Why? Because that software might become unavailable at some point in the future — and not only is my hardware not doing Vista, but there’s a slew of old software that […]
