[Cialug] LS ?

[Mark Hesseltine]

On 4/27/07, Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com> wrote:
> Aaron Porter wrote:
> > On 4/27/07, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> It's "PuTTY", an open source Windows program that allows one to SSH to
> >> another machine in flexible ways.  Unlike most Windows software, it's
> >> light, quick, self-contained, and works.  I've used it in the past to
> >> get into my home box from a public terminal that had no restrictions
> >> on downloading stuff, but did prevent the user from creating
> >> directories.  Because PuTTY is one solid executable, I had no problem.
> >>  PuTTY has many siblings.
> >
> > Putty is a lifesaver, but it's heavy reliance on the Windows Registry
> > (and my lack of experience getting stuff out of said registry) makes
> > me a bit squeamish. I've switched to using MindTerm for "public"
> > machines. It's not nearly as nice as Putty, but it leaves less trace.
> > With a little trickery, you can get a pretty nice OTP setup:
> > http://zork.net/motd/nick/nerdistry/opie.html
>
> there is portaputty[1], which stores keys in a file instead of the
> registry, and I've seen a script that will launch putty, then delete the
> reg keys when you close your terminal
>
> [1] http://socialistsushi.com/portaputty
>
> -barry
>
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For those of you forced to use Windows systems sometimes, there's also
a portable version of PuTTY, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. available at
http://www.portableapps.com

The applications are somewhat optimized for use on flash/read only
media. Firefox defaults to using no cache, for example, to save
read/write cycles on flash drives.
-- 
Mark Hesseltine
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