[Gllug] Problems reading Rev Rumble's posts

Ian Norton bredroll at darkspace.org.uk
Wed Jul 30 21:52:31 UTC 2003


On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:12:22PM +0100, Mark Lowes wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 13:46, Tethys wrote:
> > The best thing about putty is that it can be used by anyone, even on
> > a locked down machine. Since it doesn't need installing, it can be
> > run from wherever you'd normally store your word/excel documents[1].
> 
> It's a program, and while it doesn't need 'installing' in that bits need
> shuffling all over the system it is still a program which has been added
> to the system without permission.  In some offices that's a sacking
> offence.

Putty is my most used win32 program, its great, however at work the admins have
little knowledge of such things as 'routing' and offer no default route.

:-/

Ian

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