From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LjJon-0007gK-1Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:53:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A186E0458; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:53:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E78B7E0458 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B40564C22 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:53:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.032 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.032 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.500, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id B1DumgeQgp8U for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:53:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 482DB64585 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:53:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LjJoY-0007gL-AK for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:53:38 +0000 Received: from 69.34.67.62 ([69.34.67.62]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:53:38 +0000 Received: from grante by 69.34.67.62 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:53:38 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: udev-140 Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:53:24 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200903162119.34651.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200903162140.11506.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <58965d8a0903161320i21fa526dyc67d0859513116b5@mail.gmail.com> <200903162234.45021.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.34.67.62 User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 5719a027-b3c7-4cae-b218-0cbf994132cf X-Archives-Hash: 24e28a93d128be0da4dabc7d635514f6 On 2009-03-16, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 16 March 2009 22:20:37 Paul Hartman wrote: >> > I wouldn't really have minded the inconvenience, except that while all >> > this was going on, the largest data centre in the Southern Hemisphere was >> > dropping off the air one router at a time, my desktop machine was >> > panicing after 4 minutes of use (so that's why I stopped using it 6 >> > months ago!) and I had to use putty on the GF's Thinkpad to do my bit to >> > rescue all this. Putty sucks, really badly. The only thing that sucks >> > worse than Putty on Windows is Putty on Symbian, even on a Nokia >> > Communicator with a semi-decent keyboard (for a phone) :-) >> >> What sucks about PuTTY on Windows? I use it all the time and it seems >> to do everything... Granted, I just use it for simple serial port >> devices and SSH stuff, no exotic terminal emulations. > > Putty itself isn't too bad if you look at it as a Windows app. > It can never be anything other than a Windows app That's odd -- the Linux version works fine for me. http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/putty-0.60.tar.gz -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I hope I bought the at right relish ... zzzzzzzzz visi.com ...