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On Monday 16 March 2009 22:20:37 Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> > I wouldn't really have minded the inconvenience, except that while all |
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> > this was going on, the largest data centre in the Southern Hemisphere was |
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> > dropping off the air one router at a time, my desktop machine was |
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> > panicing after 4 minutes of use (so that's why I stopped using it 6 |
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> > months ago!) and I had to use putty on the GF's Thinkpad to do my bit to |
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> > rescue all this. Putty sucks, really badly. The only thing that sucks |
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> > worse than Putty on Windows is Putty on Symbian, even on a Nokia |
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> > Communicator with a semi-decent keyboard (for a phone) :-) |
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> What sucks about PuTTY on Windows? I use it all the time and it seems |
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> to do everything... Granted, I just use it for simple serial port |
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> devices and SSH stuff, no exotic terminal emulations. |
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Putty itself isn't too bad if you look at it as a Windows app. It can never be |
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anything other than a Windows app and as such is restricted to how Windows |
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apps must behave. And therein is the problem - I'm way too used to openssh, I |
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want a command line to fire up my ssh client, I want to 'ssh me@there' in a |
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console and it must work. I don't want to have to poke around in a vast tree |
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structure to enter my options - I know what they are, I just want to type |
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them. Without a mouse. |
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So Putty doesn't really suck in isolation. It does work and can really operate |
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any different way. *Using* Putty on it's host platform sucks to someone who is |
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used to much more efficient way to accomplish the same task. |
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> PuTTY on Symbian only does SSH but it seems to do it well enough. |
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> Running it full-screen with the smallest font is actually not so bad, |
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> even on my 240x320 screen. Being able to connect to my computer |
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> wherever I have a cellular signal is convenient... typing with T9 on a |
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> numeric phone keypad, not so much... but that's the phone's fault, not |
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> PuTTY's. :P I've been meaning to set up a simple menu script that |
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> allows me to run all of my common tasks with phone-friendly |
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> keystrokes. emerge -uDvptN blah blah blah really sucks to tap out on |
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> the 0-9 keys :) Thank god for bash command history... |
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On Symbian it's a life saver when all other methods fail. Again, Putty is OK, |
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using the device is actually what sucks. I still can't find a pipe character! |
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And the screen is almost unreadable (it wasn't three years ago...) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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