I recently found myself working at a company that uses Windows as the desktop environment. I was used to Linux, however, and wanted to have that on my desktop instead. Should you find yourself, for ...

Emulates Unix sudo in cygwin. You can use this like: $ sudo vim /etc/hosts $ sudo cp foo.txt /cygdrive/c/Program Files/ $ suco cygstart cmd # open elevated standard command prompt $ sudo cygstart ...

Since this issue is related to rysnc, I'm asking this in the Linux group. Hope I'm right -- -- Essentially, I've written up a backup script copying data from an internal HDD to a firewire drive, using ...