How often do you use PuTTY and how many times have you prayed to god that its developer will add tabs management in the next version? Many? Yes, same here. We all use this lovely piece of software, which misses only key feature. Not anymore.

A nice guy has created a software, which adds this important piece. You can get it here. The version marked as stable 0.06.11.26 only works on XP, but the newer one (07.07.04) works great with both Vista and XP and no bugs have appeared yet. Be sure to check it out.

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This is quite an easy one. Even for a newbie. Here we will show the quickest way to create an openVPN tunnel between your safe home Linux/BSD router and your Windows client. Very useful for mobile computers, which do not always use the same secure network. Mind that this only shows you the quickest way to connect your Windows to your newly installed VPN. For detailed documentation, you should check openVPN’s official site here.

NOTE: make sure your clock and timezone on your linuxbox are set correctly or you will end up with certificates, which have expired or will be valid in a week

Prerequisites:

1. a linuxbox with a static IP address or domain name

2. root access to it

3. administrator access to the Windows computer

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Windows Vista is the new OS product from Microsoft. As everything new, this one includes some not so pleasant surprises. For example the keyboard layouts are drastically changed. Here is a short guide on how to edit these in Vista for your convenience.

First off, you will need Microsoft’s The Microsoft Keybard layout Editor Install the application and load it. Then go to File -> Load Existing Keyboard. Locate the layout, which is going to be edited, mark and click OK. Edit keymappings as desired (do not forget to do the same for the Caps lock and Shift key combinations. When done save the project file with .msklc extension.

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