PuTTYJL

After putting up with the lack of support for Windows 7’s jump lists in PuTTY for a while, I finally got tired enough of it to do something. Nothing as cool as patching PuTTY to do them itself, but I wrote a wrapper which indexes the saved sessions, allowing the user to select which ones should be included in the list. From the project page: PuTTYJL is a wrapper and patch for PuTTY written in C# for .NET 3.5 and Windows 7, adding support for the new Jump Lists, allowing you to create jump list entries for saved sessions in the registry and optionally just launch the wrapper to start a default session in PuTTY.

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CPU Comparison Shopping

I’ve been slowly working towards putting together a new PC build to replace my current one, a Core 2 Duo- based system I built about three years ago, which is starting to show its age. In the interest of comparison shopping, I put together a spreadsheet and some charts looking at the newer Intel (i5/i7) and AMD (Phenom X4/X6) processors. Turns out that Intel’s Core i5-750 seems to be the best deal in processors for what I’m looking for in a system at the moment. Raw Data Clock speeds are in MHz, TDP in Watts, and cost is price in USD at newegg as of 5/3/2010.

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