UCSC Laptop

Procedure for gearing up the UCSC laptop:

Completed Tasks

First things first:

• Connect to guest network
• Download app to connect to eduroam network

Prep for terminal stuff:

• Fix caps lock (system preferences)
• Fix scroll direction (system preferences)
• Fix spotlight keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + Space instead of Cmd + Space)
• Divvy (https://mizage.com/divvy/)
• iTerm2 (https://www.iterm2.com/downloads.html)
• Thunderbird (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/download/)
  • Provider for Google Calendar addon (https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/provider-for-google-calendar/)
• Lastpass (https://lastpass.com/misc_download2.php)
• Homebrew (https://brew.sh/)
• Quicksilver (https://qsapp.com/download.php)
• Dropbox (https://www.dropbox.com/downloading)

Terminal stuff:

• Clone dotfiles
• Set machine name
• Install dotfiles
• (Joplin is a homebrew thing)

To Do List

Fix in mac dotfiles repo:

Updated:

• update the readme with steps
• update the pre bootstrap script to call the vim setup script
• add pathogen installation to vim setup script
• add message that host/machine name should be set before running pre bootstrap script (so ssh key will have correct machine name)

pre-bootstrap:

• Fix path to bash in pre-bootstrap
• don't make the swap and backup dirs for vim
• Add step to generate ssh keys
• Make the pre bootstrap script the entry point unless doing bootstrap

vimrc:

• Remove the vim backup and swap directories in .vimrc

set machine name script:

• Fix the set machine name script to check if sudo first

homebrew install script:

• Software to install (add to install list):
  • Joplin
  • AWS
  • adoptopenjdk - brew cask install adoptopenjdk
• Add a GNUBIN to your PATH PATH="/usr/local/opt/gnu-sed/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"
• Fix all the broken flags --with-iri --with-default-names --with-override-system-vi --with-gmp --with-webp
• Remove homebrew/php stuffJ

greenfield codes script:

• Remove

mac customization script:

• Just remove the whole terminal/iterm2 section of the mac preparation script

dotfiles:

• Fix the path to .pyenv (in .bash_profile) to point to HOME without hard-coding username

Readme/documentation:

• Add some notes on the order in which to do things (dependencies, tasks, etc.)