On Monday 16 March 2009 22:20:37 Paul Hartman wrote: > > I wouldn't really have minded the inconvenience, except that while all > > this was going on, the largest data centre in the Southern Hemisphere was > > dropping off the air one router at a time, my desktop machine was > > panicing after 4 minutes of use (so that's why I stopped using it 6 > > months ago!) and I had to use putty on the GF's Thinkpad to do my bit to > > rescue all this. Putty sucks, really badly. The only thing that sucks > > worse than Putty on Windows is Putty on Symbian, even on a Nokia > > Communicator with a semi-decent keyboard (for a phone) :-) > > What sucks about PuTTY on Windows? I use it all the time and it seems > to do everything... Granted, I just use it for simple serial port > devices and SSH stuff, no exotic terminal emulations.
Putty itself isn't too bad if you look at it as a Windows app. It can never be anything other than a Windows app and as such is restricted to how Windows apps must behave. And therein is the problem - I'm way too used to openssh, I want a command line to fire up my ssh client, I want to 'ssh m...@there' in a console and it must work. I don't want to have to poke around in a vast tree structure to enter my options - I know what they are, I just want to type them. Without a mouse. So Putty doesn't really suck in isolation. It does work and can really operate any different way. *Using* Putty on it's host platform sucks to someone who is used to much more efficient way to accomplish the same task. > PuTTY on Symbian only does SSH but it seems to do it well enough. > Running it full-screen with the smallest font is actually not so bad, > even on my 240x320 screen. Being able to connect to my computer > wherever I have a cellular signal is convenient... typing with T9 on a > numeric phone keypad, not so much... but that's the phone's fault, not > PuTTY's. :P I've been meaning to set up a simple menu script that > allows me to run all of my common tasks with phone-friendly > keystrokes. emerge -uDvptN blah blah blah really sucks to tap out on > the 0-9 keys :) Thank god for bash command history... On Symbian it's a life saver when all other methods fail. Again, Putty is OK, using the device is actually what sucks. I still can't find a pipe character! And the screen is almost unreadable (it wasn't three years ago...) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
