Article by
Casper Manes.
I tend to go through computer builds, A LOT. Maybe I get a new
machine (please don't ask what happened to the previous one!)
or I want to format and reinstall to "get fresh" or maybe
something just stops working and it's faster (albeit less
manly) to just reimage than it is to try to spend a day and a half
figuring out what I broke and how to fix it. Whatever the reason, I
find myself installing a lot of the same tools again and again on
each new build that I have.
Some of these make life easier for me as a sysadmin, others I
wouldn't want to work without. All are things I make sure I
install ASAP, and I thought it would be good to share this list
with you in the hopes that I can share some cool stuff with our
readers, and that some of you may leave some comments to share with
the rest of us of what you can't do without. So, without
further ado and in no particular order, here are the ten IT tools
installed on my computer which I can't