It is really a pain when you go into a conference room and the projector doesn’t seem to work on your laptop. You dial support and wait for 5 minutes or so before the techie arrives. By the time things are fixed, 15 minutes has lapsed.

During the wait time with the technician, you stare at that oversize projector that cost a fortune and tinkering trying to find out how to make it work. I find myself wishing I had my own projector together with my laptop and get things going right away. That wish list can now become a reality …read more

One of the greatest advantages of using Cygwin is the vast array of softwares at your disposal. There is a lot of choice, perhaps too much of choice. And we will have to get used to that.
Take text editors for instance. A text editor is a very basic software and there has been such evolution in them. Line editors, text editors, GUI editors,… and with various advanced features.
ed is the GNU line editor. cat used to concatenate files can be seen as an editor as well.
Joe, Pico and Nano are screen editors with more features than the plain line editors. …read more