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Dec. 28, 2009
A Better Cygwin Console with RXVT
Cygwin 1.7 was just released a few weeks ago, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to share an old trick for making Cygwin's terminal window a little nicer by using RXVT and 'screen.'
RXVT is a console emulator; basically it replaces the 'cmd' executable that displays the native Windows terminal. You can also specify the font and use screen to get multi-terminal support ...
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Aug. 24, 2009
Serial Console Monitoring without HyperTerminal
Although I'm a software engineer, I do, occasionally *gasp* have to interact with hardware. Of course that's an oxymoron, but what I mean is there are of course, a large number of programmers work on mainly client-server software that runs on commodity hardware (i.e. UNIX,Linux/Windows) and their biggest worry is which direction the directory slash faces - windows\ or linux/ - Aah!
So, let me ...
