(Large portions of this content from http://www.giffmex.org/twfortherestofus.html)

1. Create the template tiddler. Put text and tables and formatting exactly the way you want your new tiddlers based on this template to appear.
2. Create a macro that will open a new tiddler based on your template.
   

I use Unlocker and UltraEdit.  Each of them attaches itself to the context menu for all items in Explorer.  UltraEdit uses HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\Shell\Ultraedit\Command to do so.  Unlocker dynamically adds its entry from its DLL file.

My fingers are used to right-click followed by U to start UltraEdit.  Unlocker adds itself with U as a hot-key in the menu.  Here's how to change it.

From http://www.c3b.co.uk/?p=16

Portions from: http://blog.andrewbeacock.com/2009/03/how-to-move-existing-cygwin.html 

... also relevant for backing up Cygwin.

Here are the steps to move your Cygwin installation:

I started getting the "Firefox is already running but is not responding," message when starting Firefox.  Firefox was not already running when I attempted to start it.  Windows Task Manager confirmed it.  No, Firefox had not crashed the last time I used it.

Why I use Slickrun instead of Launchy

Launchy is pretty, and aesthetics are important, but Slickrun carries command-line history with it.  For example, if I have a macro named "do" and I enter "do blah bleh floo", the next time I enter "do " it remembers "blah bleh floo", where Launchy remembers only "do".

Slickrun uses about half the memory, but since that is only about 10 MB, that's not a major consideration.

I bought a TonidoPlug, which is a wall-wart with an embedded Linux server (running Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty).  Out of the box, sudo gave the error:

sudo: must be setuid root

This message means exactly what it says -- the sudo command is not setuid and it must be setuid (and owned by root).

chown root:root /usr/bin/sudo
chmod u+s /usr/bin/sudo

will correct the 'problem.' (I put quotes around 'problem' because there are some who will say that this is a security feature.)

There are hundreds of reports on the net about "sudo: gem: command not found".  Out of the dozen or so I looked at, the suggested resolution amounted to "ensure that 'gem' is in your PATH."

Yep.  It is in my path.  That is to say, the following works:
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gem --help

but the following fails:

sudo gem --help

Further confusing matters, gem is in the path shown by:

Here is a side-by-side of Bort and Suspenders.  Both are Rails starter applications.

September 10, 2009