I unfortunately no longer have a Mac, since it was owned by my previous employer. Shortsightedly, I had bought music from iTunes on the Mac and formatted my iPod for Mac as well. When I plug my iPod in now, iTunes for Windows wants to reformat my iPod, and of course I don't have a backup of my purchased music.
I've found this free utility called HFSExplorer that lets you mount Mac formatted drives via Windows XP and maybe other Windows OS's. Right now, I'm copying my music from my iPod to my Windows XP laptop at home. I do notice that iPods format their drives differently and the naming convention doesn't allow me to know what I'm copying over. I'm hoping my music is still ID tagged so that iTunes will rename it and sort it correctly. I'll post a comment to this post if it's fully successful.
Showing posts with label win32. Show all posts
Showing posts with label win32. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Update on useful UNIX tools for Win32
A co-worker sent out this link that has ways to "turbocharge" PuTTY.
Finally looks like I can get my tabbed SSH/terminal sessions. It also mentions puttycyg (affirmation, baby!).
UPDATE (8/29/2008 10:33 EDT):
My comments so far trying out tabbed putty/ssh sessions.
- It doesn't look like PuttyCM supports Puttycyg, which is disappointing. If you use the original putty.exe, it does seem to work how I'd want it to.
- The Putty sessions aren't rolled up into the Putty Tabs program (they still show individually in my taskbar). This doesn't improve my workspace much.
Finally looks like I can get my tabbed SSH/terminal sessions. It also mentions puttycyg (affirmation, baby!).
UPDATE (8/29/2008 10:33 EDT):
My comments so far trying out tabbed putty/ssh sessions.
- It doesn't look like PuttyCM supports Puttycyg, which is disappointing. If you use the original putty.exe, it does seem to work how I'd want it to.
- The Putty sessions aren't rolled up into the Putty Tabs program (they still show individually in my taskbar). This doesn't improve my workspace much.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Useful UNIX tools for Win32
OK, it's been a while since I've posted. Being laid off and unemployed kind of hurts writing about work experiences. However, don't worry. I'm now at a new job in a new town.
Obtaining work responsibilities have been slow, so I've been reading and playing with software that I hope will help me in making my job easier later. One area I've been reading and trying to increase my knowledge in is remote access, predominantly SSH. I've found the following to be useful.
SSH Agent
I've known about shared-key authentication with SSH for a while, but I've been lame and not applied a passphrase to my key. Honestly, I wanted a quick way to log in, and skip the password. However, I finally was exposed to ssh-agent, which allows you to cache your key's passphrase so you only have to enter it once. After that, when you ssh into a host, ssh-agent will take care of your passphrase for you.
I'm using Cygwin for my shell on my PC, so I'm using the ssh-agent that comes with Cygwin. I hear you can use a program called Pageant to perform this for you PuTTY users.
Puttycyg
I hate the command window that Cygwin defaults to. The copy/paste is terrible, as I think it borrows from cmd.exe. So, I found Puttycyg that gives the Cygwin command prompt a better look and feel. Now I actually get a copy/paste behavior that I like.
Poderosa
I've been spoiled with Mac OSX's iTerm for having tabbed terminal windows. Unfortunately, PuTTY and Cygwin spawn new windows, and their management gets cluttered. Right now, I'm trying Poderosa, mainly because it appears to be open source and managed by the Apache license. It tabs your Cygwin sessions, and apparently other SSH/Telnet sessions as well (but I haven't tried the latter). I found another alternative in Wintabber, but I haven't tried it yet. It appears to be free and have more features I'd be interested in, but I believe is closed source.
I'd be interested in your experiences with tabbed command/shell windows and other useful remote access tricks.
Obtaining work responsibilities have been slow, so I've been reading and playing with software that I hope will help me in making my job easier later. One area I've been reading and trying to increase my knowledge in is remote access, predominantly SSH. I've found the following to be useful.
SSH Agent
I've known about shared-key authentication with SSH for a while, but I've been lame and not applied a passphrase to my key. Honestly, I wanted a quick way to log in, and skip the password. However, I finally was exposed to ssh-agent, which allows you to cache your key's passphrase so you only have to enter it once. After that, when you ssh into a host, ssh-agent will take care of your passphrase for you.
I'm using Cygwin for my shell on my PC, so I'm using the ssh-agent that comes with Cygwin. I hear you can use a program called Pageant to perform this for you PuTTY users.
Puttycyg
I hate the command window that Cygwin defaults to. The copy/paste is terrible, as I think it borrows from cmd.exe. So, I found Puttycyg that gives the Cygwin command prompt a better look and feel. Now I actually get a copy/paste behavior that I like.
Poderosa
I've been spoiled with Mac OSX's iTerm for having tabbed terminal windows. Unfortunately, PuTTY and Cygwin spawn new windows, and their management gets cluttered. Right now, I'm trying Poderosa, mainly because it appears to be open source and managed by the Apache license. It tabs your Cygwin sessions, and apparently other SSH/Telnet sessions as well (but I haven't tried the latter). I found another alternative in Wintabber, but I haven't tried it yet. It appears to be free and have more features I'd be interested in, but I believe is closed source.
I'd be interested in your experiences with tabbed command/shell windows and other useful remote access tricks.
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