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timothy
on from the ssh-don't-tell-anyone dept.
Mithix writes "Gizmodo is reporting that the popular (and free) SSH client PuTTY is now in beta for Symbian OS, the OS of choice for the Nokia Series 60, the Nokia 9200 Communicator Series, and the N-Gage. Finally, something redeeming for the N-Gage?"
Re:Ah, PuTTY
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 2, Informative
OpenSSH for Cygwin doesn't produce a log file. Instead, it writes to the event log, and it only writes diagnostic messages not the entire session output.
It's good
by
squiggleslash
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· Score: 4, Informative
I use PuTTY on my Nokia 9290 (and have done for a while.) It "just works".
One thing to be aware of though is that it is limited to SSH - the PuTTY client for Windows does telnet and rlogin too, but not this version.
-- You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
PuTTY for Windows is the best software of its kind. When I need an SSH/XTerm window to a Linux box, PuTTY is what I use, because I can't find an alternative that works nearly as well. That being said:
PuTTY insists that you use default XWindows conventions for cutting and pasting. Even most XWindows software is more flexible than that, never mind a cross-platform app. It's a pain for somebody who works primarily in Windows.
Configuration is horribly idiosyncratic. Options are not arranged in anything like a logical fashion, creating or modifying sessions is a pain, and it's too easy to make a bunch of changes and then lose them.
Either the PuTTY people are totally bored by UI design issues, or they just like to torture people. I hate to complain, because it's basically good (even excellent) software, and the price is right. But come on, guys!
Re:PuTTY Experience
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MS_is_the_best
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Putty's authors advise you too use a 3rd party app for transparency (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/transparency.html).
Adding a bitmap will bloat the binary too much, according to them. But forks of putty which do this, exist. (only they are most of the time outdated).
I am still waiting for the Tab support, nowadays my desktop at work is full of putty windows, what is a bit annoying. (Screen doesn't work good in Cygwin..).
putty doesn't need cygwin, but you need putty even if you have cygwin.
cygwin's ssh client has some annoying problems, expecially when using curses programs. They are just annoyances, but why put up with them when you can get putty that works nearly flawlessly.
Re:PuTTY is awesome!
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Anonymous Coward
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Not really sure what was informative about this parent but...
I recently got an N-Gage (two weeks ago at EB). It was $200 with three games and an extra battery.
I didn't buy it for the games in any way what so ever. I bought it because it was a cheap, high-end (bluetooth) phone. It also supported IMAP over SSL and SMTP-Auth over SSL which were neat. It has usable PIM functinality as well. There are also some neat free apps for it, such as this.
The games have been mildly entertaining (definitely more so than any other phone's) and I'm happy with them. I find it is an excellent platform for FIFA as I seem to be able to see more of the players I need to know about (I can see the width of the field) and Requiem of Hell looks to be good. I'm not interested in any others at the moment (although I did get Red Faction [still not opened] and Tony Hawk as the other two freebies).
It isn't a phone for everyone. Since I got my T610 last June(?), I've pretty much used a bt headset non-stop, and so I don't find the N-Gage unnatural at all. I usually cary it with my laptop (the N-Gage) and use it for pim functionality, and it's excellent in this regard. If I need something more portable I cary a smaller phone (usually my v60 if I want something rugged and easily replaced).
There are a lot of people who say all they want from a phone is basic voice communications. That's great. I wanted mobile data. I needed bluetooth for my phone to be usefull. The N-Gage fit those needs. YMMV.
[ fwiw, I'd previously swore of Nokia phones after having two 8290s in my family die after 18 months... I'm giving them a second chance with the N-Gage and hopefully in two years I might consider them viable options again. I don't like how most of SE's stuff is going towards memory-sticks and other Sony nastiness ]
some j2me midp1.0 phones do support sockets(google search says that t616 doesn't though), in fact, almost all the recent one's. midp1.0 doesn't require it though. however, I'd be very skeptical of it being feasible to do a ssh client in one of them.
the series60 putty has been out for months already.
but yeah, people should not mix up feeble j2me apps and native symbian apps, the native one's have so much more power and access that j2me seems like a joke in comparision.
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OpenSSH for Cygwin doesn't produce a log file. Instead, it writes to the event log, and it only writes diagnostic messages not the entire session output.
One thing to be aware of though is that it is limited to SSH - the PuTTY client for Windows does telnet and rlogin too, but not this version.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
- PuTTY insists that you use default XWindows conventions for cutting and pasting. Even most XWindows software is more flexible than that, never mind a cross-platform app. It's a pain for somebody who works primarily in Windows.
- Configuration is horribly idiosyncratic. Options are not arranged in anything like a logical fashion, creating or modifying sessions is a pain, and it's too easy to make a bunch of changes and then lose them.
Either the PuTTY people are totally bored by UI design issues, or they just like to torture people. I hate to complain, because it's basically good (even excellent) software, and the price is right. But come on, guys!putty doesn't need cygwin, but you need putty even if you have cygwin.
cygwin's ssh client has some annoying problems, expecially when using curses programs. They are just annoyances, but why put up with them when you can get putty that works nearly flawlessly.
Not really sure what was informative about this parent but ...
... I'm giving them a second chance with the N-Gage and hopefully in two years I might consider them viable options again. I don't like how most of SE's stuff is going towards memory-sticks and other Sony nastiness ]
I recently got an N-Gage (two weeks ago at EB).
It was $200 with three games and an extra battery.
I didn't buy it for the games in any way what so ever. I bought it because it was a cheap, high-end (bluetooth) phone. It also supported IMAP over SSL and SMTP-Auth over SSL which were neat. It has usable PIM functinality as well. There are also some neat free apps for it, such as this.
The games have been mildly entertaining (definitely more so than any other phone's) and I'm happy with them. I find it is an excellent platform for FIFA as I seem to be able to see more of the players I need to know about (I can see the width of the field) and Requiem of Hell looks to be good. I'm not interested in any others at the moment (although I did get Red Faction [still not opened] and Tony Hawk as the other two freebies).
It isn't a phone for everyone. Since I got my T610 last June(?), I've pretty much used a bt headset non-stop, and so I don't find the N-Gage unnatural at all. I usually cary it with my laptop (the N-Gage) and use it for pim functionality, and it's excellent in this regard. If I need something more portable I cary a smaller phone (usually my v60 if I want something rugged and easily replaced).
There are a lot of people who say all they want from a phone is basic voice communications. That's great. I wanted mobile data. I needed bluetooth for my phone to be usefull. The N-Gage fit those needs. YMMV.
[ fwiw, I'd previously swore of Nokia phones after having two 8290s in my family die after 18 months
some j2me midp1.0 phones do support sockets(google search says that t616 doesn't though), in fact, almost all the recent one's. midp1.0 doesn't require it though. however, I'd be very skeptical of it being feasible to do a ssh client in one of them.
the series60 putty has been out for months already.
but yeah, people should not mix up feeble j2me apps and native symbian apps, the native one's have so much more power and access that j2me seems like a joke in comparision.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.