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Windows – “Bad owner or permissions” error using Cygwin’s ssh.exe

I’m trying to use ssh.exe in Cygwin (in Windows 7). I copied a config file into c:cygwinhome[USERNAME].ssh. When I run ssh (for example, ssh -vT git@bitbucket.org) I get the following error:   OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011  Bad owner or permissions on /home/[USERNAME]/.ssh/config How do I get ssh to read my configuration file? Solution:

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Windows – add “text” to end of multiple filenames

Using the code below I add text to end of file names which are: 1.mp32.mp3 and should be: 1text.mp32text.mp3 but it changed to: 1.mp3text2.mp3text Code: @ECHO ONFOR %%A IN (“C:Usersuser123Desktopmp3*.mp2”) DO (    CALL :RenameFiles “%%~A” “%%~NXA”)GOTO EOF:RenameFilesSET fname=%~2SET renname=%fname=%REN “%~1” “%renname%text%”GOTO E Solution: How do I add "text" to the end of multiple filenames. Before:

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Windows – Apostrophes and double quotes don’t show up until I type the next letter

in Windows XP, when I type an apostrophe ‘, or dumb/typewriter quote “, no character is displayed.  If I type another character, the apostrophe or dumb quote and the next character appear at the same time.  This happens with double quotes “, apostrophes ‘ and tilde ~ characters. What could possibly be causing this? This

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