If you live on the command line like I do, and you find that you're constantly SSHing into machines all over God's green earth, then you really must stop whatever it is you're doin' & go read this little piece on screen. Here's the link - The Antidesktop - but you'll need to scroll down a tiny lil' bit to find the section titled "screen". Basically, screen allows you to have virtual terminal sessions inside one terminal session. Don't know what I'm talkin' about? Read the little article!

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Now this is way cool, & it's a great example of innovation in the open source area. You've probably heard of PuTTY, the open source & free SSH terminal for Windows. Now there's PortaPuTTY, which is PuTTY hacked so that nothing goes in the registry, meaning you can keep a copy on a USB flash drive and use it with any machine. Now that, my friends, is pretty kick ass. That is definitely going on my USB flash drive!

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Of all the apps I rely on every day, it's guaranteed that I'll find myself using SSH to access one of my boxes, or a client's web site, or something eles on another machine. SSH is a secure way to access another machine & run programs, but it's so so so so so very much than that. It's one of those awesome apps that repays study, because the more you learn, the more there is to learn. "Getting started with SSH" is a guide to this amazing program that reminds me of a dark ale: it goes down smoothly and gives me what I want, but it leaves me wanting more. In this case, that's a good thing. Want to find out the basics about SSH, and maybe learn one of two new things if ya already know something? Then check "Getting started with SSH" out!

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