The Free Emulator called KiTTY: Registry Setting

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At this time of the year, majority in our team has already been given a laptop in exchange for the old desktops we have been using for years; it is a mixture of GX280s and GX520s.

For our group, who makes use of WRQ Reflection to access PROMIS running in VMS, we found some problem when doing remote access from home. The Reflection apps doesn’t run. Or if it does, it is only for one time – the first time – and then it is gone forever.

A supposedly workaround to this is installing a virtual machine where WRQ Reflection will run in.
That also is its own problem – very unstable and very dependent on network performance. And when at home, who can guarantee that?

We were all struggling with this, our team, and as for me, I was simply doing a remote access to the other desktops that we have in the office – through VNC. For that, I use both Real VNC and UltraVNC; these two are working nicely in Windows 7 and of course, in Windows XP.

Then one day, I thought of checking out PuTTY, which is the emulator being offered in our Citrix farm. Consequently, in my surfing and browsing, I stumbled upon KiTTY, the younger sister, and which is advertised to have some, wait, more offerings than it older brother PuTTY.

I tried it, and I liked it.

Then the agony.

For PuTTY, there are numerous help articles that can be found scattered all over the web. Not quite for KiTTY. Or at least, even if there isn’t much, at least we should have those that will take us up and running with this free emulator software.

A few more days after, and I kept on searching and browsing.

I finally found what I am looking for.

You see, PuTTY comes with a registry setting, so if you would want to migrate your own settings, or in my case, let my colleagues share with the discovery, I would just need to export my registry data for PuTTY, and that’s it!

It took me some time, but not very long, to discover that KiTTY also have a registry setting. And as it was leveraging from its older brother, whose registry path I already know, it was enough for me to get the path for KiTTY and can follow on from there:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\9bis.com\KiTTY

The pot of gold I found, and I immediately set to work on my other desktop that ‘s just waiting to receive KiTTY as its one and only terminal emulator.

I guess we can say goodbye to WRQ Reflection, which costs an arm and a leg for each user. I hope they’ll just give us that amount, now that we have an alternative, which costs nothing.

Hope this is a big help to all KiTTY users out there.

This is my source on the registry setting for KiTTY:
KiTTY: Automatic saving

The download site for the KiTTY is also from 9bis.com:
KiTTY: Download

Till then!

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Microsoft posts modest search gains with Bing

Posted: 02 July 2009 0849 hrs

WASHINGTON: New search engine Bing helped Microsoft increase its share of the search market in the United States in June but, still lags behind Yahoo! and Google, a Web analytics firm reported Wednesday.

StatCounter said Microsoft carved out an 8.23 per cent share of the US search market in June, up from 7.21 per cent in April and 7.81 per cent in May.

Yahoo!'s share of the search market was 11.04 per cent in June, up from 10.99 per cent in May but down from 11.27 per cent in April.

Google continued to dominate the search market with a 78.48 per cent share in June, down slightly from 78.72 per cent in May and 79.07 per cent in April.

"At first sight, a one percent increase in market share does not appear to be a huge return on the investment Microsoft has made in Bing, but the underlying trend appears positive," said StatCounter chief executive Aodhan Cullen.

"Steady if not spectacular might be the best way to describe performance to date," Cullen said in a statement.

StatCounter said that globally, Microsoft increased its search market share from 3.08 per cent in April to 3.30 per cent in June.

Yahoo! fell from 5.48 per cent in April to 5.15 per cent in June while Google remained steady at 89.80 percent.

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer earlier this month downplayed expectations for the success of Bing, but said the company was committed to challenge Google over the long-term.

The initial response to Bing has been "very good" Ballmer said, but it will not displace Google anytime soon.

"I don't want to overset expectations. We're going to have to be tenacious and keep up the pace of innovation over a long period of time," Ballmer told an economic summit in Detroit, Michigan.

Bing replaces MSN Live Search, which has languished in a distant third place behind market-leading Google and second-place Yahoo!

- AFP/il

From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.

Online obsession

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A computer's many good use, being one below…

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Steven Chia, stevenchia@channelnewsasia.com

THESE days, if you are not online, you are definitely out of the game - meaning, you are pretty much out of the real world. Ironic, isn't it? You'd think the world we live in is the real one and the other, virtual. But I think the lines have blurred and the real world is somewhere in-between - one that has us living partly online, partly offline.

The Internet has become our yellow pages, our encyclopedia, our dictionary ... I could go on, but in short, it's our window to the world both literally and metaphorically.

On Tuesday, we had a chat with Scott Goodstein on the show. He is one of the staff members who helped run the online aspect of Barack Obama's presidential campaign. And we all know how Obama's presence online really gave him an edge over John McCain. It was new school versus old school, and new school won big time. The difference, Scott said, was that Obama himself was the one who wanted to get "online", so instead of just a passive presence, he turned it into an active tool to engage people.

A quick check of Obama's facebook account (he has many) showed that he's got over 6 million fans on just one of them!

For a long time, I had stayed off blogging, but now that I've got the hang of it, I actually quite enjoy the experience and recognise its usefulness. I used to think you could not control what comes out on the Internet and now I know it's true.

The difference is I now understand that most people are able to discern between what is meaningful and what is rubbish. So there isn't a need to fear the medium, since rubbish doesn't get an audience. But there is a need to embrace it and to learn how to use it to your advantage.

Singapore is slowly opening up to the idea of politics online. The Government is concerned because they know there is no way to truly control it and yet they can't prevent it. But the way I see it, for the next elections here, the contender who is media savvy will have the ultimate edge.

From TODAY, Plus – Weekend, 13/14-Jun-2009

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