Tabbed filePro-ing

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Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Walter Vaughan been jivin' 'bout like:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> 
> >FWIW, filePro runs just fine behind screen(1L) in a putty window, and
> >you can even disable Alt-F4 capture by putty so that you can define
> >Alt-F1 through Alt-F12 to switch 'windows' in the PuTTY window you're
> >in.  And it's about 300KB, instead of .net2.0's, what, 185MB?

Gee, either I'm running a -really- old version of PuTTY (0.58), or I've
just never played with the feature to switch windows like that.  How long's
that been in there?

> Okay it's eye candy. The login macros are kinda cool.

Who needs login macros?  I define a connection, give it my key, and I'm
logged in as soon as I launch the connection.

> But you know .NET 3.5 and later will become manditory for anything 
> Microsoft pretty soon. I can't remember what for (probably VS2008  
> tools), but it's time to accept that .NET is going to stay here for a 
> long time.

Unless they're putting 3.5 on XP, I won't be running it.  I refuse to
touch Vista as long as there's an alternative version that sucks far less.
New server hopefully going soon will be running a fresh copy of XP SP2.
Support should be good through 2017 at a minimum, and the system won't even
live that long.  There's no reason to burden a system with Vista and
deprive the apps of system resources.

You want to see bent design, cajole VNC into running on Vista, then watch
exactly how the screen is redrawn.  That Aero interface takes so damned
much because it really draws in about 3 layers, and the top layer is -just-
for the glass look.  Instead of making one solid bitmap, they actually
shake and bake in realtime.  No wonder it's resource-hungry.  Let me put it
this way...  Looking at World of Warcraft over VNC is actually a fair bit
faster than Vista's desktop over VNC.  And I've done both.  That's wrong on
so many levels.

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