LaTeX tikz main_memory problems on OS X
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Since my current job forces me to work on Windows most of the time, I desperately tried to get any shell/terminal on Windows shell to the same level as all other *nix shells in the 20th century. It turned out to be an endeavour but with a decently working bash in the end. After trying MinGW, Cygwin, MKS ToolKit, and supplementary terminal emulators like Console2 and ConEmu, I finally stuck with Cygwin. The best terminal emulator (the application that runs the shell) for me is the mintty.exe that is shipped with Cygwin. It supports copy paste (even though through weird short cuts), window resizing (yay!), terminal colors, and different terminal fonts - you see I became pretty frugal over time. ...