Make working with PuTTY on Windows more bearable

Unfortunately, I had the „pleasure” of having to use „Enterprise” configured Windows machines extensively lately to connect to Linux boxes. One of the things that drove me crazy, is the akward way of pasting stuff into a PuTTY session.

Thankfully, the author of PuTTY, Simon Tatham, addressed this in the recent versions of PuTTY (which was surprisingly available to me in this „enterprise” environment).

So in Version 0.71 and higher, you can configure Ctrl+Shift+C/V to behave as Ctrl+C/V, which makes working with PuTTY „keyboard only” much more managable.

PuTTY Reconfiguration

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Resize A4 PDF for Moleskin Inclusion

Command to resize A4 PDF files so I can glue it into my Moleskin (Classic):

pdfjam --landscape --frame true --nup '2x1' --templatesize '{17cm}{27cm}' 
--noautoscale false  --outfile moleskin.pdf source_file1.pdf sourc_file2.pdf 

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Links from 2020-12-31

The sounds of (old) computer games loading

In the 8-bit age, data screeched slowly off tape decks. In the 16-bit era, floppy drives whirred, clinked and chunked according to the peculiarities of the system’s disk controller. For the BBC’s "Boring Talks"—podcasts about things most people would find boring—journalist Keith Stuart remembers.

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