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On 2009-03-16, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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. |
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> It can never be anything other than a Windows app |
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That's odd -- the Linux version works fine for me. |
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http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/putty-0.60.tar.gz |
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