From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: spotting cygwin ml trends
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060713181104.GA8759@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e96200$o5f$1@sea.gmane.org>
On Jul 13 13:04, mwoehlke wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >It seems like this type of email is on the rise:
> >
> >"<some program in the cygwin distribution> is <describe strange behavior>
> >since I last updated Cygwin."
> >
> ><send several messages expressing confusion and consternation>
> >
> >"Oh, I found the problem. I had previously done <describe unusual and
> >hard-to-forget thing>. When I reverted that, things started working
> >fine."
> >
> >I wonder if that's a sign of anything. It might mean that there is an
> >increase in people/organizations using cygwin and they are including
> >stupid instructions to work around real or imagined problems.
>
> There is *NEVER* a shortage of stupid people doing stupid things. :-)
Wait, doesn't that mean stupidity is the perfect perpetuum mobile? Wow,
finally endless energy for everybody! Unfortunately the engineers are
too stupid to get it working...
Corinna
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-13 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-13 17:01 Christopher Faylor
2006-07-13 18:05 ` mwoehlke
2006-07-13 18:11 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2006-07-13 18:24 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-07-13 19:49 ` Shankar Unni
2006-07-13 19:54 ` Christopher Faylor
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