Some computer tips

I use the DELL latitide D830. Windows XP and Fermi SL4 are installed as dual boot, and I run windows more of the time. On windows, I run cygwin to use the linux-like environment. Shown below are some tips / information I found useful to set up my laptop.

cygwin
which provides the linux-like environment to windows. Can be used as a free X system for windows (I like it better than xming)
mrxvt which runs on cygwin and provides a tabbed-version of rxvt.
keychain Easy use of ssh-agent. Allow the passwordless ssh login to hosts which do not support kerberos. Doesn't work well with openafs (i.e. lxplus.cern.ch)
Kerberos clients for cygwin
- Charles Plager's page
- Fermi's Kerberized ssh zip file (do not work well on my most recent cygwin)
- Axel Naumann's download directory (kerberos clients, kerberized ssh, etc)
Kerberos clients for windows (non-cygwin-based)
- MIT Kerberos Distribution, and get MIT Kerberos for Windows.
- Kerberized PuTTY
- Example krb5.ini
- More information on Fermilab USCMS at work page
  or the older page
- To use the tab feature and more for PuTTY, use putty connection manager.
  0.7.0.4780 alpha works ok (beta 0.6.0.4822 crashes).
- Or wintabber (but crashes a lot)
- Use the ssh-agent with PuTTY
  (type ssh password only once for many connections in the non-kerberos environment)
- Share the kerberos crendential caches between the windows network connection manager and cygwin
  - Network Identity Manager -> Options -> Identities
    Kerberos v5 tab. In the Credential cache box
    API:username@realm -> c:filename
  - On cygwin, KRB5CCNAME=FILE:/c/filename
andLinux+Xming
- andLinux
  Complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows.
  Good, but seems a little unstable yet. Printing is cumbersome.
- Xming
VMware & Parallel
- VMware.
  I use vmware server and Fermi SL4 installed, but heavy.
- Parallel.
EmacsW32 + wanderlust for email
- EmacsW32
- Wanderlust
- stunnel needed to connect to most of recent smtp servers
Ghostscript and GSview
Emacs with Thunderbird

Kenichi Hatakeyama

Last modified: Fri Apr 17 02:31:49 EDT 2009