From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'The Vulgar and Unprofessional and HORRIBLY BIASED AGAINST
MICROSOFT O NOES WHY O Y DO YOU HAET US SO because you sux0r
sooooo very much hahahahah cry n00b! Cygwin-Talk List'"
<cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: FW: setup.exe --quiet-mode
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <014601c91427$d4741ff0$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C939B5.9090808@etr-usa.com>
Warren Young wrote on 11 September 2008 16:31:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> Phil Betts wrote on 11 September 2008 13:41:
>>
>>> even Windows'
>>> programmers never expected uptime to exceed 2^32 milliseconds.
>>
>> Oh look! A valuable antique!
>
> There are just some things MICROS~1 will never be allowed to live down.
There are just lots of things MICROS~2[*] will never be allowed to live
down, but seeing as they're busily adding a host of new things to the list
every single day of the week, year in, year out, my scrollback buffer doesn't
extend that far!
cheers,
DaveK
[*] - The ~1 entry already got taken by "microsnot" in my directory[**].
[**] - See? Who says Microsoft never does anything right? After all, where
would we be today if they hadn't invented files that randomly change their
names according to the context you place them in[***]?
[***] - Probably still exactly where we are[****].
[****] - But at least we'd still have our paddle.
--
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
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2008-09-11 13:34 Dave Korn
2008-09-11 15:31 ` Warren Young
2008-09-11 16:03 ` Dave Korn [this message]
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