The Hanover Collaboration

Remember last time I set up a windows machine? Well I found myself doing it again and doing it in a hurry. I’m pretty psyched I got something up fast that’s pretty usable. Major change: Keybreeze.

1. Firefox: obvs
2. Thunderbird: I hear Enigmail is working again
3. Cygwin: install everything, add cygwin/bin (etc) to your path, point “my documents” to ~
4. Dexpot: It gives you Expose, multiple desktops and an improved alt-tab. Can teach you German
5. Keybreeze: This one is big. Hands down, this beats all the other Windows launchers I’ve seen. I’m still waiting for the deal-breaker failing that all the Quicksilver wannabes have. If, like me, you are scorning your Windows machine for lack of QS, there is hope.
6. Windows Registry: remap caps lock to ctrl
7. Python: I found it a lot easier to just to download the newest python, scipy and numpy for Windows rather than compiling scipy and numpy in cygwin.
8. I think I’m going to bind Windows-c -x and -v to copy, cut and paste to make the OS switch less jarring. I’d do this as a Dexpot macro rather than figure out how to do this in the registry