Five Travel Aids

During my Milan trip, there were five things that were a great help where it relates to planning the trip and keeping in touch:

  • Map24, which despite having one of the most obnoxiously banner-filled sites known to Man, has a tremendously useful -based map viewer with street-level search and route planning (and yes, I am aware that 's datum is woefully inaccurate - even isn't worth a damn for planning European trips...)
  • for corporate access (tremendously useful, and able to automatically reconnect to ongoing sessions when the link went down)
  • Cygwin (for and pretty much everything else)
  • autossh, which automatically re-connected all my tunnels, SOCKS proxy, etc.
  • And, of course, my .

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