I'm working on an open-source Pivotal Tracker. I just started a week ago but if anyone is interested in following please checkout the repo: https://github.com/bendangelo/Iterator
I'll have a working project in about a month. But for now it's just a readme.
Ruby itself works okay on bare-metal Windows, but virtually guaranteed any decent size Rails project will use some native gem that's a nightmare to get to build on Windows.
Most gems with native extensions won't work. Gems that listen to filesystem changes like guard can be buggy. I recommend using Mac or Linux for Ruby on Rails development.
I believe that's how LinkedIn works, but it's also the case even when attempting to permanently delete your account. I finally managed to successfully delete my LinkedIn account around 8 months ago, but then recently I accidentally followed a link to a LinkedIn page on my work machine, and apparently there was still a cookie around, so LinkedIn was kind enough to reactivate my account without warning. And oh how the spam did flow.
To be extra careful, I think you need to unsubscribe from all email, deactivate your account, delete all LinkedIn cookies from all your machines, and you might as well kill linkedin.com in your hosts files.
Might be faster to just sue. If it's spam then there's laws to stop that. Plus juicy cash incentive if you win, and they might settle to stop the wave that follows if you win.
Does the settings page itself show all the options there set to "No Email"?
If any item is not showing "No Email", then there might be something wrong with the script/bookmarklet for you. If all the items show "No Email", then LinkedIn does not provide options to unsubscribe some emails.
In my experience only Tantivy can index this much data. Check out Lnx.