Windows doesn't have a nice package manager with software repositories all over the world like some other operating systems...
So with the new laptop and Windows 7 it's an all-day/night manual install job to get it up to speed:
Lenovo T400s drivers: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-72858.html
Thunderbird 3.0 http://www.mozillamessaging.com The official 0.9 Lightning release doesn't work with the latest Thunderbird, so I have to use the latest development version. Also remember English (or UK) , Swedish, and Finnish dictionaries.
Chrome http://www.google.com/chrome
Firefox http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/ including the essential Tab Mix Plus and DownThemAll.
Adobe Flash player get's installed once you visit youtube or a similar site and click install.
Adobe Reader http://get.adobe.com/reader/
VLC Player http://www.videolan.org
Avira Antivirus http://www.avira.com The University provides F-Secure also, but it can slow even the fastest machine down to a crawl. Looking at the Avira add once per day isn't too bad.
VirtualCloneDrive http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html I used Daemon-Tools on my old machine but now I hear that it comes with spyware and other bad stuff(?)
Picasa http://picasa.google.com
Stellarium http://stellarium.org/
Skype http://www.skype.com
Google Earth http://earth.google.com/
Putty http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
TrueCrypt http://www.truecrypt.org/ let's keep the 500 Gig USB-harddrive at least a little private...
iTunes www.itunes.com Not so much for the music, I never buy anything, but iTunes University is great!
uTorrent http://www.utorrent.com/
FileZilla http://filezilla-project.org/
VirtualDub http://www.virtualdub.org/
Garmin Connect http://connect.garmin.com/help/start/ant connects the 405CX GPS-watch for data-transfer.
RealPlayer http://europe.real.com/music/
Nokia PC-Suite http://europe.nokia.com/get-support-and-software/download-software/pc-suites/
OpenVPN http://www.openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/downloads.html
Then there's a bunch of commercial software my University provides:
Office 2007
CorelDrawX4
Matlab
Dreamweaver
PDF-Exchange.
Still on the ToDo list: DIVX/XVID codec pack (any suggestions?), eDrawings, an IRC-client (mIRC??).
What's your must-have software? Any essentials I've missed? Comment below!
Install Kubuntu Karmic Koala 64-bit
Reboot
Enable backports & partners repository, add https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install wajig yakuake
wajig install plasma-desktopthemes-artwork kdeplasma-addons plasma-wallpapers-addons htop supertuxkart extremetuxracer supertux kdegames palapeli kubuntu-restricted-extras build-essential openssh-server kphotoalbum skype googleearth scribus gimp inkscape language-pack-kde-fi language-support-fi x11vnc marble kaffeine firefox webkitkde subversion git-core
No ckliclickclikclickdownloadinstallrestartclickupgradedriverversionsclickclickCRASH!!restartclcickinstallantivirusclickdownloadclickinstallfirewallrestartclickclickc needed...
(congrats on the new laptop 🙂
The Finnish dictionary does not seem to work (yet?) with Thunderbird 3.0
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/3826
Sulta muuten puuttuu tommoonen plugin wordpressistä millä voi tilaa maililla kommentit siitä postista mihin itte kommentoi.. Eli mulle ei tullu maili-imoa tästä vastauksestasi. Tämmöönen siis: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/
Now I'm trying IZArc for opening arj rar and other exotic zip-like files
http://www.izarc.org/
on 64-bit windows 7 some good old DOS-applications refuse to run.
I'm trying dosbox as a workaround: http://www.dosbox.com/