!!!Introduction

This is a short check-point list for setting up new users in our teams. Please add missing points as needed.

!!!Hardware

* a portable Mac is our standard platform (portable because we do travel, Mac
  for a number of very good reasons, among them
  [SEE|http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/index.html])
* preferably an external monitor
* headphone w. mic
* a backpack or similar for the computer
* possibly an external HD for TimeMachine/backup purposes (that extra security
  is definitely worth the money!)

!!!Accounts needed

* e-mail at SD/UiT
* accounts on the following servers:
** victorio
** XServe
** G5
* Bugzilla account

!!!Services to enable:

* svn
* iCal Server (Jabber) on G5

!!!Software to install

!!Commercial software, local shop
* MS Office
* Divvun additions, for testing purposes:
** Parallells Desktop
** Windows XP
** Windows Vista
** MS Office for Windows

!!Commercial software, Internet download
* [SEE|http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/index.html]
* [Unison|http://www.panic.com/unison/] for reading news

!!Free or open-source software
* [XMLEditor|install-xxe.html] (personal edition)
* [Skype|http://www.skype.com/]
* [Thunderbird|http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/]
   - alternative to Unison
* [svnX|http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/community/subversion/svnx/]
* Xerox tools (no public link available, ask the administrator)
* [CG3|/doc/tools/docu-vislcg3.html]
* [Forrest|forrest-howto.html] - we need our own tailored version at the moment,
  but work is going on to make us able to use the standard distribution
* [Saxon B|http://saxon.sourceforge.net/]
* [QuickSilver|http://www.blacktree.com/]
* [Cisco VPN client|http://helpdesk.ugent.be/vpn/en/akkoord.php]
* [OpenOffice.org|http://www.openoffice.org/]
* XCode (on the CD that came with the computer, or available from
  [Apple|http://developer.apple.com] - registration (free) required)

!!Proofing tools to install
* our latest MS and OOo/hunspell tools / lexicons (see our
  [home page|/index.html])
* [Aspell|http://aspell.net/] / [Cocoaspell|http://cocoaspell.leuski.net/]
** speller lexicons for the required languages
* [hunspell|http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/] command line tool (use MacPort,
  see instructions on the OpenXSpell home page)
* [OpenXSPell|http://www.cygnusblack.co.uk/openxspell/index.html] - does also install Enchant, a multi-engine speller middle-man.
* [Soikko|http://users.tkk.fi/~pry/soikko/] (Finnish speller, good)
  - [Mac version here|http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/oarasane/soikko/]
* [Voikko|http://voikko.sourceforge.net/] (another Finnish speller,
  interesting comparison)
* for the Divvun team: PL command line tools

!!!Configurations

* Unix environment:
** [.bashrc|docu-setup-bash.html]
** ([.inputrc|docu-setup-bash.html#Setting+up+8-bit+input] - this is only
   required when setting up old computers running Tiger/MacOS X 10.4.x or older,
   in Leopard/10.5.x and newer, UTF-8 input/output is working properly in
   Terminal)
** [.emacs|setup-emacs-howto.html]
* SEE-modes - see {{gtsvn/gt/src/see-tools/}}
* XMLEditor - forrestdoc config available
  [here|http://divvun.no/static_files/XXE_forrest_config-1.4.zip]
* VPN setup - get the config file from your network admin

!!!Other setups

* [check out|/doc/tools/docu-svn-user.html] our svn repository
* set up svn mail
* iChat
* Mail
* admin and user accounts on the Mac
** for security reasons it is better to have a separate admin account
** which means that the regular user account should be non-admin
** it is ok that the user __knows__ the admin account name and password, to
   be able to install software, updates, tweak system settings etc. (the
   security benefit is that the normal processes, downloads, etc are done in a
   restricted user space, not in an administrative account; in the case of
   malware downloads, it will only affect that user, not the whole system)