Home & End don't work when login to OpenSUSE 11.2 with Putty

solution is to edit /etc/inputrc

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< $if term=xterm
---
> #$if term=xterm
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< $else
---
> #$else
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< $endif
---
> #$endif

Cannot Copy Text in Vim While Using Putty

vim automatically sets visual mode when you click mouse buttons

solution is to stop vim from interpreting the mouse clicks

set mouse=


or add this to ~/.vimrc

Correct Putty settings to connect UTF-8 environment

Window -> Appearance -> Font settings
  Fixedsys, 12-point
Window -> Translation -> Character set translation on received data
  UTF-8

SOCKS Forwarding With OpenSSH on Linux

Run ssh on linux

ssh -D port user@host

-D Specifies a local ``dynamic'' application-level port forwarding.
This works by allocating a socket to listen to port on the local side.
The SOCKS4/5 protocols are supported, and ssh will act as a SOCKS server.

Run putty on Windows

1. Connection -> SSH -> Tunnels
2. type port number into "Source port" then add to set up dynamic fowarding for a listening local port
3. leave Destination blank
4. select Dynamic and Auto
5. fill Hostname and Port of ssh eonnction then Open
6. if you wanna keep the session alive by sending null packets periodically, go to Connection then input seconds

Connect through SSH tunnel on Windows

1. Download Plink (a command-line interface to the PuTTY back ends)
2. Execute it with parameters on a windows machine

# -C enable compression
# -N don't start a shell/command (SSH-2 only)
# -v show verbose messages
# -ssh force use of SSH protocol
# -L [listen-IP:]listen-port:host:port
# Forward local port to remote address
plink.exe -C -N -v -ssh -L local_port:remote_ip:remote_port -l ssh_username ssh_server_ip

3. Then you could have localhost:port forwarded to remote server with encryption