http://blog.thenullest.org Techrants Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:36:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently installed the ssh daemon on cygwin and it works very well. However, by default to the windows event log. This annoyed me. By doing some google/Internet research I found out that this could be "solved" by starting the ssh daemon with the command line flag "-e" which tells ... http://blog.thenullest.org/2007/06/01/cygwin-how-to-make-sshd-log-to-syslog-in/ I experienced some problem with the arrow keys on Cygwin. In insert mode, pressing the arrow keys just inserted a new line and some random character (which probably wasn't random but had some meaning - anyway,  that character  didn't say anything to me). Furthermore, the tab didn't work as I was used to in the Windows version of VIM. More precisely, I couldn't use tab completion on commands in command line mode (I think shift-Tab worked ... http://blog.thenullest.org/2007/05/30/problem-with-arrow-keys-an-tab-in-vim-7-on-cygwin/ There is an wonderful program called A-Patch that lets you remove the advertising from Windows Live Messenger. In fact, it lets you remove any annoying feature you can ever think of in Windows Live Messenger, like search bars, buttons, links et cetera, et cetera. http://blog.thenullest.org/2007/05/26/how-to-remove-advertising-in-windows-live-messenger/ Sometimes its necessary to forward a port. One example is when you want to use a bittorrent client behind a firewall. Incoming connections will be blocked. It's neccessry to tell the firewall that a certain port should be forwarded to a certain host. This is usually no problem if you have ... http://blog.thenullest.org/2007/05/26/how-to-enable-port-forwarding-on-a-shared-internet-connection-on-windows-xp/ I recently tried to move multiple files with subversion using a wildcard on windows: >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 ... http://blog.thenullest.org/2007/05/19/trying-to-move-multiple-files-with-a-wildcard-on-windows/ Microsoft seems to have some problems wih Live Messenger in Vista. Version 8.1.0178 didn't work for me. Infact, the program started and the process showed up in the Windows task bar but no login window showed up. Nothing showed up. Launching it another time created another process but still no window. ... http://blog.thenullest.org/2007/05/18/msn-live-messenger-810178-doesnt-work-on-windows-vista/ For some reason I needed to get a list of all directories recursively and here is the solution: 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. http://blog.thenullest.org/2007/05/18/how-do-i-get-a-list-of-all-directories-in-a-folder-and-all-its-subfolders/ The text based browser lynx can be really useful 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 ... http://blog.thenullest.org/2007/05/17/400-bad-request-accessing-google-with-lynx/ This is a technical blog addressing programming and development but also some society and financial analysis. http://blog.thenullest.org/2007/05/17/about/