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On the contrary, it makes me think that every time something is working fine, somebody comes along to change it. Typewriter apostrophe has been around, well, since typewriters!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

MS-WORD doesn't even use the same quotation marks for English and French because of those printing inspired people that say that a symbol looks nicer than another depending on the language, establish trends etc. when the used symbol adds no value at all and everybody understands what the symbol means anyway.

MS-Word had problems implementing that functionality first and many people still have problems, it goes from language analyzer to syntax validation software. Here are a few examples after a very quick search:

https://tedclancy.wordpress.co...

http://www.fileformat.info/inf...

https://www.quora.com/Punctuat...

http://snowball.tartarus.org/t...

Serial support came out in .59 : http://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/putty-announce /2007/000014.html

Pretty cool though. It's nice to have a familiar interface for a Serial console.

Hyperterminal is miserable. It always seems to say 'Connected', even if the serial cable is the wrong kind, or the cable is split, or the serial port is disabled. What exactly is it 'Connected' to?

This is off-topic but... About that quote in your sig -

-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke

That line is widely quoted and attributed to Burke. Unfortunately, Edmund Burke never said or wrote such a thing.
An essay on the "Burke" quote.

Take care.

'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing' (or words to that effect) A study of a Web quotation

The root word is "spell," not "spelling." get yourself a stemmer bitch. /rant

Don't know about the Mac, but Window's shell (explorer) makes it fairly easy to write extensions. There's already one for WebDAV, for example, and a coworker once wrote a windows shell extension for file browsing over ssh, using pscp (or plink, I don't remember) to take care of the underlying ssh work. Surely someone could do the same for the Mac?

Wel I went looking for the place that made me view the "enough" as important to be there (I think it may have been a semantic discussion on a message board or something like that. I was thinking I might have gotten it from usenet, but I never read rec.guns and thats the only place the "enough" version turns up in groups.

In reading this I have had my eyes opened by his research and am open to his idea about it's life on the web.

I have no idea if this affects pscp too, but I've brought my pscp download resume patch up to date anyhow. Grabbed the source snapshot which I assume post-dates the 0.55 fixes.

Hmm.. further exploration found an alternative method for doing this here:

http://www.tartarus.org/~simon/puttydoc/Chapter4.h tml#S4.21

PuTTY stores all settings in the Windows registry; a deliberate (and, in some ways, reasonable) design decision that makes distribution of a pre-configured client a little more difficult. (There is a semi-hack way of doing this in the PuTTY docs.)

PuTTY seems to have better emulation defaults, and I prefer it for personal use.

I do truly hope that you are right. It would be a much better world in that view.

I have seen the Free software movement to be, at least in part, a backlash against the increasing oppression of poor protections of the public domain. I have concerns about the free software ferver waning should the legal intellectual monopolies ease their grip or worse yet, gain enough legal strength with such things as software patents to marginalize the movement.

I think that if all protections were removed, these same influences would exert their power in less controlled ways.

I have not seen enough legal pushback to open up the intellectual monopolies and shorten the time periods. I fear that the greater power to make those decisions lies with those receiving the money and that the populace won't be moved enough to stand against it. It is a matter of incentive. The populace with little understanding of it's loss gets outweighed by the greed incentive of a selfish individual(s) to lobby the law. I think that laws have been placed that will never be taken back.

I hope that I have just been made too cynical by recent news.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph [of personally incentivized detriment to society] is for uninformed/ignorant/concerned/apathetic men to do insufficient/ineffectual application of effort to restore their loss." - (my own twist of a fake quote attributed to Burke!)

The real quote:
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle"
Burke's quote

hmmmmm... Burke had the original idea for slashdot?

Putty for UNIX

Chessbrain is kind of a cool hack, and I would respect that, if they weren't filthy spammers. Here is a typical Chessbrain spam. Notice the spam body image is hosted off of chessbrain.net. (Filthy, filthy, incompetant, spammers.

That would be sweeeeeet!!

Seriously, that's about the best news I've read today. I love PuTTY under Windows, can't wait for the Mac version! According to the Mac Port Readme, the project is moving along smoothly and there are builds for MacOS X and for earlier versions (System 7 and up), both for PPC and 68k.

I think this one will be our answer once it's completed, I have high hopes!

Everyone's favorite SSH/Telnet program for Windows, PuTTY, is a possible future option. A MacOS port is forthcoming. If you're brave, preliminary support is in CVS right now.

(In other Non-MacOS-related PuTTY news, you can also get a PuTTY-based xterm replacement for X if you fancy its emulation better: pterm).

You could do it like a real caver (i.e. spelunker). Here are some links: Good summary of technique , Some relevant books, A cave surveying mailing list, Some software to reduce your raw data, Links of links to more of the above and cave equipment suppliers.

here's the source code via http, the source code via ftp, and the md5sum

all this and more including read-only cvs access, nightly cvs tarballs, and contacts for submitting your own patches can be found at putty's home page here

just getting the word out. they've apparently become inundated with support mail for their free product, and could use some more developers :)

here's the source code via http, the source code via ftp, and the md5sum

all this and more including read-only cvs access, nightly cvs tarballs, and contacts for submitting your own patches can be found at putty's home page here

just getting the word out. they've apparently become inundated with support mail for their free product, and could use some more developers :)

here's the source code via http, the source code via ftp, and the md5sum

all this and more including read-only cvs access, nightly cvs tarballs, and contacts for submitting your own patches can be found at putty's home page here

just getting the word out. they've apparently become inundated with support mail for their free product, and could use some more developers :)

... is the best in the world. It's wonderful, superb, fantastic, beautiful. By far the best assembler I've ever used (I've used 68k, PPC, x86, PIC, ZX80 and 6502, and perhaps some more). And RiscOS is/was a fantastic OS (font anti-aliasing from the late '80s, etc.), with the best editor ever, which is currently nearly completely ported to 32-bit status.

It's from Edmund Burke, an english politician/philosopher. However, the exact text of the quote is in some doubt, and there appear to be many variants of this phrase on the 'net.