Peter's Blog 12.2.2004

Set up SSH server on home pc but cannot connect to..

Set up SSH server on home pc but cannot connect to it from work. I suspect the SSH port out is blocked by the firewall. I'll try this http://old.homeip.net/martin/ssh-firewall.html and see if I can tunnel through the SSL port, round the proxy server and out to freedom.

On a whim I tried out IDLE, the python IDE.

On a whim I tried out IDLE, the python IDE. I haven't used it or the python windows IDE thing since I played with wxWindows a while back. wxWindows seems to upset IDEs as both try to be the windows main window while debugging (or something like that). Up till now I have been using VIM.

It's nice:

• being able to set breakpoints

• seeing output as it is generated, not having to wait till the script has finished.

• seeing tool tip help for functions in modules

Ideally I would use this and VIM but IDLE does not reload files edited outside it like modern windows editors do (if it suffers from anything it is the 1970's unix aura that most linux derived stuff gives off).

Surely there is a way to display tabstops at something other than 8?