From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22519 invoked by alias); 18 Apr 2006 17:57:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 22511 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Apr 2006 17:57:51 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp103.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (HELO smtp103.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com) (68.142.198.202) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with SMTP; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:57:47 +0000 Received: (qmail 76086 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2006 17:57:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO home) (d1945@sbcglobal.net@69.104.191.121 with login) by smtp103.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Apr 2006 17:57:45 -0000 Received: by home (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:57:45 -0700 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:57:00 -0000 From: George To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: Not being given the option of installing packages on setup Message-ID: <20060418175744.GA1576@home> Mail-Followup-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List References: <6.2.1.2.2.20060418001159.01ddb6b8@calmail.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List X-SW-Source: 2006-q2/txt/msg00048.txt.bz2 On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 01:11:07PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Natalia M. Belfiore wrote: > > > [snip] > > Tasha > > Well, actually, what he wrote is unimportant. What is interesting (and > really unsettling to anyone who grew up in Russia) is that Natalia (or > Natasha) is a purely female name (c.f. "War and Peace"), and this person > is clearly male. > > No point here, just venting... :-) Maybe it's Natasha just on the weekends? What may be just as interesting to those that *may* read something along the lines of War and Peace and similarly didn't grow up in Russia, is that the name Sasha is a not the name given to a female, pure or otherwise. It's the dimunitive of Alexander. Which, in English, is ... Alexander. Sasha, Tasha. Go figure. Bob's yer uncle. Actually, 'e's my aunt, but we don't talk about 'im any more. Speaking of dimunitive, thought I'd pass along another bit of trivia. An rsync of a Cygwin mirror yields a whopping 2.9GB, substantially larger (and slower) than the 2GB figure that what was quoted in a recent message. -- George