By doing some more internet research I found out that the deamon syslog-ng could be installed for cygwin. I gave it a shot. You’ll find it in the Admin category in the Cygwin setup:

Once the setup has finished you can install the syslog-ng daemon by typing:

/usr/bin/syslog-ng-config

and answer yes to all questions (or no if you should disagree on something)
Before starting the daemon you might have to edit the file /etc/syslog-ng.conf.
The following configuration file worked for me:

options {
keep_hostname(yes);
chain_hostnames(no);
owner("system");
group("root");
perm(0664);
sync(0);
};source applications {
unix-dgram("/dev/log");
internal();
};

source kernel {
file("/dev/kmsg", log_prefix("kernel: "));
};

destination messages {
file("/var/log/messages");
};

destination sshd { file("/var/log/sshd.log"); };

filter f_sshd { program(sshd); };

log { source(applications); filter(f_sshd); destination(sshd); };

log {
source(applications);
destination(messages);
};

log {
source(kernel);
destination(messages);
};

cp /usr/share/vim/vim71/vimrc_example.vim ~/.vimrc

The problem disappeared.

This is usually no problem if you have a router. All modern routers have the possibility to forward ports. If you have a shared internet connection on a computer running Windows, you can still achieve this. This is applicable if you have two network cards on your computer. One connected to the internet and the other connected to another computer which can access internet through this computer.

Choose:

Control Panel -> Network Connections 

Right click on your shared internet connection, and choose Properties

Click on the tab Advanced.

The click on the Options button in the Internet connection sharing section. You should see the following window.

Now, let’s say you want another computer with IP address 192.168.0.34 be able to use a bittorrent client on port 6881. We have the following network scenario

We have to tell Windows to forward port 6881 to this computer on our network.

In the window just opened:

Choose Add.

In the description field, enter Bittorrent (TCP)

In the IP address field, enter 192.168.0.34 or whatever is the address of the computer using the bittorrent.

Make sure TCP is choosen

In the external port number field, enter 6881.

In the internal port number field, enter 6881.

Click OK

Choose Add once more

As name, type Bittorrent (UDP)

Enter the 192.168.0.34 once more in the address field.

This time, choose UDP.

Enter the same external and internal port number, i.e. 6881.

Click OK.

Repeat this for any other port you want to use for bittorrenting.

>svn move lib/*.dll .

but to no avail

svn: Client error in parsing arguments

What? I read somewhere that this is caused by the way the wildcard is interpreted. On unix based system,
apparently, the wildcard is expanded by the shell to the matching files. Hence the command sent to subversion is svn lib/liba.dll lib/libb.dll lib/libc.dll .

This won’t work since the move command only takes two arguments.

On Windows however, I’m not sure whether or not the wildcard is expanded or not but something goes wrong. One solution is to create a simple loop:

FOR %f IN (lib\*.dll) DO svn mv %f .

 However, in the meantime my solution was to install version 8.0.0812 which can be downloaded here.

 This is a temporary solution but I hope it helpes someone else too.

On Windows based system, type:

>dir /S /AD /B

• /S makes it search recursively
• /AD only list directories
• /B no leading/trailing information

If you can use the unix based tool find you may prefer

$find -type d

where d stands for directory.

I received an error with lynx on a Debian etch installation when I tried to access www.google.com. I couldn’t possibly understand why. It worked some days earlier and I hadn’t done any major changes to my system.

In my case the solution was to reset the DISPLAY environment variable.
Try starting lynx with

$lynx -display=

If this solves your problem you might want to create an alias in your ~/.bashrc file:

alias lynx=’lynx -display=’