Tag Archives: Windows

Tortoise and SSH key authentication

While setting up Tortoise recently, I couldn’t easily find how to tell it I wanted to use keys for SSH authentication. This post helpfully described how Tortoise actually uses PuTTY for its SSH connections, and how to get key-based auth … Continue reading

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Apple keyboard with Vista

I have taken a definite liking to the newer style Apple keyboard. On the whole, this keyboard works just fine OTB on Vista. But some of the special keys, media ones for instance, do not. This guide introduced me to … Continue reading

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Focus follows mouse in Vista

This is a small feature that can nonetheless be a nice addition. Default in linux, not present in Vista. If you don’t know what it is: When you place your cursor over a window, this gives that window focus. So … Continue reading

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A new… Vista

Recently, my boss requested (read: required, but that’s ok, learning is good:-)) that I switch over to using Windows Vista. While I used to use Windows XP at work and home for a number of years, moving now from Ubuntu … Continue reading

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