Just as I expected, with the rise in gas prices public transit ridership is on the rise!
Someone at Trillium Solutions (probably Aaron) posted here, a good synopsis of the situation.
I also appreciate their discussion of how technology (Google Transit) is impacting accessibility to schedule data and how that accessibility positively impacts ridership.
ShareThisThe Goal: Instead of using the Windows command line, use a Putty terminal that connects passwordlessly to an sshd server running on localhost.
Anybody who has used ssh on Linux for any period of time has probably done something like this to allow passwordless logins between systems. The concept is pretty much the same, but the tools are different. By the way, these instructions are for XP, and I have no idea whether they would work with Vista.