Why can't we have nice things?
07 February 2016
According to Verizon, 9.4% of breaches last year occurred through vulnerabilities in web applications. A lot of these vulnerabilities were SQL injections and the like, which really shouldn't happen these days, especially when you consider that most professional companies should be using a framework for development. However, many of the other potential vulnerabilities can be reduced by tightening the scope of your server config.
08 January 2016
This isn’t really a cygwin post, but this site has now been given an encryption certificate via letsencrypt. The whole process on debian, from investigating what had to be done, cloning the git repo, and running the single command to create, retrieve and install 5 security certificates took about 3 minutes. Easily the most impressive security service I’ve seen.
12 July 2015
Mintty is a fantastic terminal program; it’s now the default with Cygwin for some time. There are a range of others such as xterm and rxvt, but mintty does the trick for me. You can change all the settings by right-clicking on the window and going into ‘options’, but that modifies a file called .minttyrc in your home directory, so you have the alternative of using a text editor if you wish. Mine goes like so:
05 July 2015
28 June 2015
MySQL is a well known database, which you will need if you plan on setting up a locally hosted site for web development, or similar. MariaDB, a fork of the project which came into existence after Oracle purchased MySQL, is not yet available on Cygwin as of 2015 or on Cygwin Ports, but watch this space.
21 June 2015
Occasionally you may want to check your diskspace, and via cygwin, you can see all the drives mounted on your computer via the ‘df’ command line utility. A slightly nicer approach however is pydf, a python-based replacement.