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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:49:36 +0100
From: "Robert Latest" <boblatest AT googlemail DOT com>
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Subject: Cygwin is saving my ass
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Hello friends,

Years ago, I heard of cygwin and installed it on a Windows PC that I
occasionally had to use -- just to have access to bash and find,
actually. Well, I liked it OK but viewed it as a more or less
superfluous toy. I mean, why use cygwin when you can have a native,
full-blown Linux system for free?

Which is what I had ever since. Never really used Windows much.

Enter corporate IT. For four weeks now I've been holding my first real
industry job. And I'm locked into a M$ Windows PC. God, I hadn't known
just how much Windows sucks. Everything around here is done with
Access and Excel and lots of ultra-slow VBA glue to hold it more or
less together. Lotus Notes for appointments and email. Well, that's
not going to change, but who helps ME to get MY work done?

Enter Cygwin. Finally, things flow again. What a relief. Thanks, guys.

Well, what cygwin is saving here isn't so much my ass as my mental health.

robert

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