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Tabbed PuTTY

I found a great utility that can transform your PuTTY into a multi-tabbed programme. It’s called PuTTY Connection Manager. It is actually an add-on programme that can place your different instances of PuTTY sessions into tabs in a single window. It’s free for non-commercial use.

This is what you will get once you’ve completed the installation:

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Cool heh?

Download it here.

ScribeFire blog editor – the review

After spending some time using the ScribeFire 1.4.2 blog editor, here is the review. My review is made by comparing the built-in editor in WordPress with ScribeFire.

Hyperlink
In WordPress editor, you have the option to specify whether to open a link into a new window or tab. However, in ScribeFire, there are no such option. All links created in a post will be opened in the same window or tab. To me, this is not good. There is workaround to this, however, by using the “source editing” option:
By clicking the icon, you will see the source itself. In this option, you can manually add “target=”_blank”" in the hyperlink address of the link that you want.

Image
Once you put up an image in your post, there is no option to specify the alignment, border, vertical or horizontal space. The workaround for this is as per above as well, i.e. by using the “source editing” option. You can manually insert “align=”left” border=”0″ hspace=”10″ vspace=”10″ /” in the image tag.

Split post
There is no option to specify split post (… read the rest of this entry…). Again, by using the “source editing” option, you can manually specify “<!–more–>” at the point where you want to split your post.

Save as note
This option is very handy in case you want to save your post temporarily before posting. Simply click the “Save as Note” button at the bottom left of the screen to save your post and continue writing later.

Conclusion:
Other than the above, ScribeFire is a very good editor. I will use this as my blog editor from now on.

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Test post using ScribeFire 1.4.2

This is a test post using the ScribeFire 1.4.2 extension. I am experimenting this now. Now, I’ll try adding an image to this post. Here it is:

This is my son having his haircut last week.
More reviews after I test further on this add-on.

Now, I’ll publish this post. Gonna go up and watch 24.

Set multiple network settings – the review

My last entry titled “Set multiple network settings” refers. Here is the result of 2 days of using the utility.

In general, I must say that the program is absolutely fabulous. I have created mutiple profiles for myself: – (1) Home – using wireless network card, with dynamic IP setting. (2) Office (wireless) – also using wireless with dynamic IP. (3) Office (cable) – using dynamic IP with Local Area Connection. (4) Site XXX (Local Area Connection) – with fixed IP and proxy server.

Each time I’m at the various locations, I simply activate the relevant setting and all my network settings are configured automatically. For each profile, I can even set different map network drives and default printers. It works like a charm.

The only drawback that I found is that it is unable to specify local IP addresses when you specify the “Bypass proxy server for local addresses”. But I can live with that; it’s free anyway, so, cannot expect much.

Final verdict = 9/10

Set multiple network settings

In my line of work, I travel to a lot of customers’ sites. And at each of the sites, I need to manually configure my network settings accordingly in order to be able to access the network and/or internet. Currently, I’m maintaining the list of IP addresses, proxy server and what not in a notepad, nicely saved on the desktop. Everytime I go a particular site, I need to open up my network connection setting and punch in the IP addresses, proxy server, etc. This has been going on for years.

Alone & bored, etc.

Wife is not around…. she’s at her parents place in Taiping since Monday, with my 4 kids. For the past four nights, I’ve been sleeping alone, eat outside… damn bored. And I’ve been sleeping at 2am every single night since. They should be back tomorrow.

It has been a while since I last wrote here. Work has taken the max of my time and energy. My current project is coming to its end and a lot of things need to be taken care of.

At this moment (1:07am), I’m sitting on the floor, upstairs, in front of the .tv. Still not sleepy – must be the kopi ais just now. I guess, tonight, it’ll be 2am again…

How to calculate the number of days

The easiest way to find out the number of days between 2 dates is by using a spreadsheet program. Refer to the screenshot below:

How to get directory listing

Up until recently, the only way that I know to get the listing of files in a particular directory is by using the command in DOS command prompt. For example, type:

dir > list.txt

will generate a list of files in a particular folder and stored them in a text file called “list.txt”.