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Improving cygwin console (even more)

17 Sep 2009

As I stated out in one of my last posts I am using cygwin a long time now and I am using it more and more within the last months. This is mainly caused by switching to git as my new favorite source code management tool and using maven for every Java project I am [...]

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Tags: bash, cygwin, vi

BitDefender failed me (again)

In: Security|Software|Windows

16 Sep 2009

Today I had problems running my newly installed cygwin 1.7 beta and minTTY after updating BitDefender. It only took me some minutes to find out that BitDefender was the cause of the problem (much faster than the last time). After fidling around with some settings and trying some workarounds from various web resources I decided [...]

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Tags: antivirus, cygwin, Windows

Improving cygwin console

In: Software|Tools|Windows

9 Sep 2009

I am using cygwin for a long time now. It is one of the first tools I install on the Windows systems I am working on. The bad thing about cygwin is that it uses the Windows Command/Console to run the bash. Selecting text, copy and paste are really hard to do inside the Windows [...]

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Tags: cygwin, puttycyg, Windows

git under Windows 7

In: Software|Windows

24 Aug 2009

There are already some posts out there discussing this issue which git in cygwin has under Windows Vista. It will be no surprise if I tell you that the same problem still exists under Windows 7. Microsofts UAC looks for executables with “install”, “update” or “setup” in their name and requires user account elevation to [...]

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Tags: cygwin, git, Windows

Perl problems under cygwin

In: Software|Windows

19 Aug 2009

Cygwin is one of the first things I install on my Windows systems and lately I added some more tools to my cygwin setup for the use of distributed SCM systems. Luckily both mercurial and git are included in the cygwin packages and I hope I find the time within the next days to write [...]