Select sub-section of putty buffer only

Are you sick and tired of waiting for your terminal to scroll down when dragging to select a large portion of the scrollback buffer in putty?

The putty developers already thought of that!

1. Go to Putty Configuration window
2. Choose "Selection" from category on the left of the window.
3. Under 'Control use of mouse', choose 'Compromise (Middle extends, Right pastes)' if not already chosen.

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Email me that information, don't tell me out loud!

Why I want you to email me that information instead of telling me out loud. There are so many reasons:

Speaking is inefficient:

• I could mis-hear and copy it down wrong
• I have to spend time listening to you and writing it down somewhere
• If I'm not in front of a computer then it's written on a piece of paper, I have to store it somewhere for future reference, or spend more time typing it up

Email is efficient:

• You've got a record of the information for the rest of your life, with no further effort (you are using a web-based email system, right?)
• You can search for and find the information instantly
• You can forward it to someone else for their reference
• You can copy and paste with no chance of error
• Email is so fast that someone can email you while you're speaking on the phone, and you can receive it and verify that it's correct before they hang up

How to paste a table into a thunderbird email with correct formatting

How:

• Copy table from web page
• Paste into OpenOffice Calc (Excel)
• Copy from Calc
• Paste into email

done.