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How to fix "No access" error when changing Windows file permissions

Yesterday I helped my father to install his new computer with Windows 7. For several reasons I shall not mention, it was in the best interest to take the hard drive of the old (broken) computer and copy all the data from it to the new. What he (and me)

Having problems to install CPAN modules that use Module::Install on Windows?

I have been discussing this problem with Adam Kennedy and some other people at #win32@irc.perl.org today: Line 388 of Module/Install/Makefile.pm is a blank line, but the line after it is a simple two-arg open(). open MAKEFILE, "> $makefile_name" or die "

X11 forwarding to Ubuntu server not working with PuTTY and Xming?

I was stumped why I couldn't run X11 software on my Ubuntu server installation and have it forwarded through my SSH connection to my desktop Windows machine running Xming. The solution was to install the xauth package from the Ubuntu repositories: $ sudo aptitude install xauth Apparently installing an