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* FW: setup.exe --quiet-mode
@ 2008-09-11 13:34 Dave Korn
  2008-09-11 15:31 ` Warren Young
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Dave Korn @ 2008-09-11 13:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Thread TITTTL'd!

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!

;-)

    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....

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* Re: FW: setup.exe --quiet-mode
  2008-09-11 13:34 FW: setup.exe --quiet-mode Dave Korn
@ 2008-09-11 15:31 ` Warren Young
  2008-09-11 16:03   ` Dave Korn
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Warren Young @ 2008-09-11 15:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List

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.

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* RE: FW: setup.exe --quiet-mode
  2008-09-11 15:31 ` Warren Young
@ 2008-09-11 16:03   ` Dave Korn
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Dave Korn @ 2008-09-11 16:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  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'

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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