I use PuTTYcyg, which lets you use Cygwin with PuTTY's own terminal.

To me, this is by far the best way; PuTTY does pretty much everything I want, and is *miles* better than cmd.exe.

It's more analogous to counting people as drivers of cars when in reality they're only ever passengers.

Nobody's saying that Linux servers aren't used. What the GP is saying is that you can't count *every single user* of some popular site as a user of the OS that site runs on.

Or to put it another way: Let's say 70% of the Web-browsing public uses GMail. (which, of course, is a number I pulled straight out of my ass.) Does that mean 70% of the Web-browsing public are Linux/GoogleOS/whatever-OS-GMail-runs-on users? No, and to try to say otherwise is just outright skewing the numbers. They're GMail users, and that's all you can say about them. It makes no sense in this case to say that Linux use is up from a user perspective.

Now, had you framed it in the context of the servers themselves - with more users of the service equating to needing more Linux servers to cope with the load - then you might have a point. (though even then, it's still only use by one company.)

It was a joke on number types - integer vs. real. It didn't actually have anything to do with this discussion.

But in the long run, you get lots *more* spam, since each address you give out can count as a separate entry in some spammer's email address list.

Depending on where I'm tracking, I generally use either FastTracker 2.08 or SoundTracker - not the original, but a new program that is basically an XM editor for Linux.

Most people in the US do.

Except that the standard way of storing times as a POSIX timestamp (number of seconds since the epoch) specifically doesn't include leap seconds.

Being able to inspect the source isn't the be-all and end-all. In some cases there may be more than you bargained for.

It depends very much on specific circumstances, of course, and with the fast progress of software nowadays you'd really need to be in control of both the compiler source and the target's source to pull this off. But the possibility is there.

The best first programming paradigm is one that doesn't involve the word "paradigm".

(You should watch out, you'll become a manager that way.)