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April 4, 2004

Computer Hardware at 09:26:51 PM MT (link) | Cygwin and it's X server don't seem yet to be made to be run 24/7 on a Windows box. Weird, unreproducible problems (I can't say bug, because saying bug implies it's reproducible) just keep popping up and annoying me. Otherwise, I've been loving to use xterm (along with the nice, small, readable X bitmap fonts) to manage my Windows system and easily being able to run any X program from my UN*X machines.

So, forsaking the X server, I've moved to just using PuTTY along with Pageant for key management and WinSCP for file transfers. Since I don't run X apps that often anymore, this setup seems a lot less buggy, is just as secure, and uses much less memory.