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snugglekitty ([personal profile] snugglekitty) wrote2005-10-28 03:27 pm
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I win! I win I win!

At least, I think so...

A few days ago, [livejournal.com profile] mrpet backed up my desktop onto my laptop. Then, [livejournal.com profile] 7j reinstalled Windows, drivers, etc. It looks like my functionality is back. The computer is running so fast! No more weird error messages Also, now, finally I have XP Professional, so I can have features that are both secure and convenient.

So now I'm reinstalling the various things that I run on here.

Does anyone have an SSH program to recommend? It has to include SSH2, since that's how I access my email via pine. I've been using Absolute Telnet, but it's not my fave, because it bugs you to update to the newest version all the time. There's a new one every 13 months or so, just long enough for your update privileges to run out, so you have to pay for it again. I don't need something super-fancy, and I haven't even been able to tell the difference between the various versions.

Edit: And for that matter, what other freeware programs do you feel you simply can't live without?

[identity profile] sparkymonster.livejournal.com 2005-10-28 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Putty SSH (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) rocks and is free.

[identity profile] nchanter.livejournal.com 2005-10-28 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
What she said. [livejournal.com profile] darxus would agree, as would most of my ex boyfriends.

[identity profile] lady-anemone.livejournal.com 2005-10-28 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
*grin*

I was recently saying to [livejournal.com profile] 7j that I have two approaches to finding a solution to a new problem. One is to read a book about it. The other is to ask someone I'm sleeping with to fix it.

[identity profile] lady-anemone.livejournal.com 2005-10-28 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh excellent! The last time I was using Putty, it didn't have ssh2, so when my web host upgraded, I couldn't use it anymore. Helooo Putty! I missed you!

[identity profile] mrpet.livejournal.com 2005-10-28 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
For a graphical sftp I have been using CoreFTP. It's nice in that you can drag over a crap load of files and each file has it's own little progress bar so you can see where everything is at.

[identity profile] aillecat.livejournal.com 2005-10-29 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
I use SecureCRT, but the license is $99.00, but I have an old 3.x license, and the binaries, they would probably be useful for you. They're in the name of the old Walt Disney group I used to work for that no longer exists (Imagineering)