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Git for Windows – comes with a nice minimal GNU shell environment
- https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/FAQ
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mingw-w64#MSYS2 – GfW is based on MSYS2; MSYS2 provides a Unix environment to Windows
- https://www.msys2.org – …
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#windows – MSYS2 users can install GNU Emacs using a pacman command line
- http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ – I wonder whether I can get this GNU Emacs for Windows to cooperate with the MSYS2 provided by GfW
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Microsoft-Windows.html
- I guess the ordinary way to start GfW is through “Git Bash” in the “Git” group, that you reach through “Start”
- but I like ConEmu better than mintty, and I can start “C:\Program Files\Git\bin/bash.exe”
2021-07-15
IPAM = IP address management
2021-07-13
my 2021 Windows working environment
I would actually rather prefer Windows Terminal over ConEmu, because I assume it will be the new standard in the Windows world – but then in my professional Windows environment Group Policies do not allow “apps” – and then … ConEmu is quite nice.

Windows Terminal (CAVEAT: did no achieve it):
ConEmu – a Windows console alternative, where you can paste text w/o using the mouse 😎
- https://ConEmu.github.io
Last not least: WSL resp. WSL2:
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
My WSL is still a pre-GUI WSL, because my Windows 10 is not new enough – I can’t get my Windows admins to update my Windows 10 in order to achieve that.

Within WSL I run CentOS-7, because it makes me more used to what I need these days.

And …:
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html
- MSYS2 (Emacs for Windows uses a minimal set of MSYS2) (CAVEAT: did no achieve it)
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/efaq-w32.html#MinGW
- 7-zip
- …
2021-07-07
how do I turn spellcheck off on Microsoft OneNote?
- https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/how-do-i-turn-spellcheck-off-on-onenote/f3455ca0-cbeb-4ba3-b4c1-3d382603e44e
2021-06-29
GitHub and SSH authentication
- https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/testing-your-ssh-connection
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46337566/why-is-github-asking-me-username-password-although-i-setup-ssh-authentication
SSH authentication only works with URL-s like this one: “git@github.com:<user>/<repo>.git“. Username (or anything like that) is not considered, just the public key.
2021-06-29
how to set default user for manually installed WSL distro?
- https://superuser.com/questions/1566022/how-to-set-default-user-for-manually-installed-wsl-distro
My preferred approach: /etc/wsl.conf inside the distro.
2021-06-16
disable colours in Emacs
To disable colouring in your current buffer, toggle font-lock-mode off with this command (my ad-hoc solution):
```
M-x font-lock-mode
```
To disable font-lock-mode “permanently” – see above!

You may still find coloured remainders – but it’s not as bad any longer.

Continued:

One day I suddenly noticed what should have been obvious from the beginning (in that environment):
```
$ echo $TERM
xterm-256color
```
Now it was clear how to disable colours effectively in a non-GUI Emacs:
```
$ env TERM=xterm emacs
```
2021-06-10
RBAC = role-based access control
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-based_access_control
2021-06-09
the “less” utility and UTF-8
```
$ env LESSCHARSET=utf-8 less …
```
2021-06-06
how to access a Linux desktop from Windows via RDP
2021-06-06