Author: johayek
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emacs/tramp/win/putty: one of the pieces involved kept removing Unix file permissions — solved!
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html : 0.63 (released 2013-08-06) : Unix: PSCP and PSFTP now preserve the Unix file permissions, on copies in both directions. For quite a while whenever I edited a remote executable file (using emacs/tramp/putty on Windows), the file lost its executable privilige bit. Looks like that issue got solved with 0.63. What a relief! The very arrogant…
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since I have activated “Jetpack Comments” with WordPress, I have had almost no SPAM comments, and those look mostly Swedish
Well, it looks Swedish to me, if there are a lot of “å” involved (well, it’s actually more than that) – but that may also be Norwegian or Danish. It’s still just a little peculiar. I wonder, whether I will find out one day, why it is like that.
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I find “putty.org” a little suspicious
http://www.putty.org – looks like it points to “the right” PuTTY location, instead it diverts attention to commercial software; and the domain is not owned by the inventor of PuTTY http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ – “the right” PuTTY location https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PuTTY newsgroup: comp.security.ssh – https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.security.ssh newsgroup: comp.terminals – https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.terminals
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I just donated another time for NoScript and Michael Gundlach’s AdBlock
They are both rather important and valuable extensions. https://GetAdBlock.com for Chrome and Chromium http://NoScript.net for Mozilla Firefox
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emacs/tramp/win/putty: “Fatal: Received unexpected end-of-file from server”
Short story – what (released) versions to choose: The combination emacs/tramp/putty on Windows does not work with the released PuTTY-0.63. Use either PuTTY-0.62 or a PuTTY development snapshot, r10016 works for me. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ – the latest released version was fine for me: 24.3.1 – I am always happy to get the very latest released version tramp –…
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Wednesday afternoon / evening is my time scheduled for extended technical read-ups
But once again serious issues at work were in my way. This time my work PC’s WinXP->Win7 migration was the issue. emacs/tramp/putty in its newest (released) versions still did not want to work together as neatly as before. I will have to make use of putty-0.62 instead of 0.63, but the differences do not seem…
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a Windows paradigm: pressing the “Alt” key always makes the main menu bar appear
I didn’t know that, a colleague just told me that recently. I find that rather useful. So I created this note mainly for engraving this thing into my memory.
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a term in computer networking and security: APZ = Asset Protection Zone
I am not sure, whether this is a known term in I.T. outside my customer’s premises – I thought I look it up anyway and bookmark it here. http://www.aboutthehouse.com.au/switch/392-3902-1 An Asset Protection Zone (APZ) is often referred to as a fire protection zone and aims to protect human life, property and highly valued assets and values.…
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Google Chromium keeps creating “blue screens” on my Win7 PC at work
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death I am still suffering from getting the PC “on my desk at one of my customers’ site” migrated from WinXP to Win7. I did not expect Chromium to have problems with Win7. One of the messages appearing repeatedly was about a display driver, that mentioned Windows Vista somehow, stopped functioning and got restarted. I…
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startup PuTTY’s authentication agent “Pageant” with private keys
PuTTY’s authentication agent pageant combines the functionality of ssh-agent and ssh-add, and if you start it up, it makes sense to add the necessary private keys on its command line. You can do this using a script, but in Windows it’s convenient to does this through a “.lnk” shortcut. And if you place that “.lnk”…