Is there a client that has UTF8 as default and something different than the courier font?
PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
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Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#22It's 2013. Why the fuck is anyone still using Windows?
What does that have to do with anything? PuTTY is not windows-exclusive.
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#23Since starting to use Windows 8, I found that the grouping behavior of the taskbar combined with a dozen open PuTTY windows drove me insane. There's a multiple-tabbed PuTTY shell, but it was hard to get used to as well. I finally switched to the Chrome SSH client, which has been much better (though it doesn't have nearly the features of PuTTY, of course).
Regarding the grouping behaviour of Windows, I have long been using 7+ Taskbar Tweaker [0]. I believe it works with Windows 8 as well, but I have never used it on 8.
You can configure it in many ways. I have it always show small icons, but you can have it group icons by program and have them auto expand on mouse hover.
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#24Is there a client that has UTF8 as default and something different than the courier font?
It's two clicks after you install putty.
select Default, go change those two options (recommend the Mensch font, but that's purely personal). Go back to the sessions screen, save this as default.
done. now every session you create will have UTF8 and a decent font by default.
I also suggest you change scroll back to 999 or 9999. And change the color of bold blue to something readable.
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#25Since starting to use Windows 8, I found that the grouping behavior of the taskbar combined with a dozen open PuTTY windows drove me insane. There's a multiple-tabbed PuTTY shell, but it was hard to get used to as well. I finally switched to the Chrome SSH client, which has been much better (though it doesn't have nearly the features of PuTTY, of course).
If you've got a dozen open PuTTY windows, you should really look at SecureCRT. Tabbed sessions, tiling, configurable keyboard/mouse shortcuts, password encryption/automatic session login and best of all, scripting support for Perl/Python. It's $99, but I've easily saved 1000x that amount by being able to quickly script shell interactions that don't easily lend themselves to the regular scripting tools like 'expect'.…
yeah, because managing windows is not the problem a window manager would be responsible for... what then? you have a dozen word documents? and a dozen text files? and a dozen images? ... do you keep changing your tools everytime you pass a window number threshold?
just get rid of windows 8. as troll as this comment may sound...
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#26The security holes are not critical but of course you should upgrade anyways. 3 of the holes have the following notice: We are currently unaware of any way in which this can lead to remote code execution. 4th hole is that putty does not cleanup sensitive memory when it could.
3 better-safe-than-sorry-in-improbably-scenario ones and one that requires an attacker to have physical access to your machine (or just to your memory and a good freezer, if you remember that hack hack :)
Seems like the best time to upgrade is in a few weeks after the crypto community had some time to analyse the changes. Maybe upgrading in a rush is as bad nowadays than not upgrading, with all the ... terrorism?... going on.
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#27Is there a client that has UTF8 as default and something different than the courier font?
It's two clicks after you install putty. select Default, go change those two options (recommend the Mensch font, but that's purely personal). Go back to the sessions screen, save this as default. done. now every session you create will have UTF8 and a decent font by default. I also suggest you change scroll back to 999 or 9999. And change the color of bold blue to something readable.
Those are actually more than two clicks and sadly enough to frustrate me every time.
There must be a fork with sane defaults out there somewhere.
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's two clicks after you install putty. select Default, go change those two options (recommend the Mensch font, but that's purely personal). Go back to the sessions screen, save this as default. done. now every session you create will have UTF8 and a decent font by default. I also suggest you change scroll back to 999 or 9999. And change the color of bold blue to something readable.
Those are actually more than two clicks and sadly enough to frustrate me every time. There must be a fork with sane defaults out there somewhere.
You could probably export a Registry file that has all your settings and then import on a new machine.
Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#29It's 2013. Why the fuck is anyone still using Windows?
I know this is a troll statement, but I feel Windows does a lot of things well. * For large organizations, domain controls make managing a large number of desktops much easier. * I feel MS Office on windows is a better product than the mac version (if you do a lot of document work). * Gaming. Windows is still dominant for desktop games. * Windows isn't the walled garden that Mac is going towards. * Backwards compatib…
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Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMHO - it has the best windowing system. Trivial perhaps, but it's the one huge thing that continuously bothers me about Ubuntu and OSX.
Give KDE (maybe on Kubuntu) a try. It's pretty easy to make it look and behave a lot like Windows, and alt-right-drag to resize and alt-left-drag to move windows have saved me like a couple thousand hours in fiddly work.
I'd recommend Linux Mint with Cinnamon for the same reasons.