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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: cyg/lib DLL naming
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050616162918.GR10382@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0506161225280.4978@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:26:23PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
>>----Original Message----
>>>From: Christopher Faylor Sent: 16 June 2005 16:13
>>
>>>This thread was the classic example of "I'm trying to port my
>>>application.  Please change the cygwin distribution to make that
>>>possible."
>>>
>>>It reminds me of a commercial we have in this area where someone is
>>>trying to sell their house so they ask the police to temporarily
>>>reroute the interstate highway by the house so they get maximum
>>>visibility.
>>
>>Damn fools! Everyone knows they'll never be able to sell their house as
>>long as the bike-shed is that horrible colour! They should have got the
>>cops to repaint it while they were there!
>
>And besides, doesn't having a house right next to the interstate
>highway decrease its value dramatically?

It was just supposed to be a temporary detour...

But, actually I really hate the commercial, so I don't know why I should
be explaining it...

cgf

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-16 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1118925021.42b170ddc88c7@email.fit.vutbr.cz>
2005-06-16 13:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2005-06-16 14:42   ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-16 14:48     ` Dave Korn
2005-06-16 15:00       ` Corinna Vinschen
2005-06-16 15:14       ` Brian Dessent
2005-06-16 15:28         ` One Angry User
2005-06-16 16:24           ` Brian Dessent
2005-06-16 15:20       ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-17  3:29       ` Charles Wilson
2005-06-17  9:22         ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-17  9:58           ` Dave Korn
2005-06-17 16:08             ` Dave Korn
2005-06-17 16:32               ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-17 19:24                 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-18  0:07             ` Shankar Unni
2005-06-18  6:49             ` Cary Jamison
2005-06-20  1:11               ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-22  9:27                 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-16 15:17   ` Christopher Faylor
2005-06-16 15:37     ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-16 16:26     ` Dave Korn
2005-06-16 16:28       ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-16 23:00         ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2005-06-16 16:29       ` Christopher Faylor

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