From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Removing the hippo
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081006182114.GA12452@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bfc52fe00810060928m438c3417p69da8b42e6c63853@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 10:28:26AM -0600, Aaron Humphrey wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 04:24:27PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>Mike Marchywka wrote on 06 October 2008 16:09:
>>>>>OCX is fairly far from the core goals of Cygwin.
>>>>
>>>>Everything is about wierd graphics download. That hippo would look
>>>>better as a 32bit BMP animated even better, charging into the linux
>>>>penguin. Otherwise my CPU is just wasted, and what good is VM unless
>>>>that disk drive is thrashing about. LOL.
>>>
>>>cgf error: Needs more coffee.
>>
>>No, I was thinking that with the PCYMTNQREAIYR that it was possible
>>that the OP would actually think that OCX documentation was needed and
>>didn't want to let the assertion go by. But I was really thinking
>>about the children. They love to read archives and might think that
>>OCX documentation was really something that Cygwin needed.
>
>Yes, there's nothing worse to hear from my eight-year-old son than the
>words "Daddy? Why doesn't Cygwin have OCX documentation?" Except
>perhaps "Daddy, what is that mean hippo doing to that nice penguin?"
Exactly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-06 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <dc87e9960810030902k20aa7bf0w20208f70f998c7f4@mail.gmail.com>
2008-10-03 19:25 ` Matthew Woehlke
2008-10-03 19:59 ` Warren Young
2008-10-06 7:17 ` Danilo Turina
2008-10-06 11:27 ` Dave Korn
2008-10-06 12:02 ` Mike Marchywka
2008-10-06 15:02 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-10-06 15:09 ` Mike Marchywka
2008-10-06 15:26 ` Dave Korn
2008-10-06 15:31 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-10-06 16:29 ` Aaron Humphrey
2008-10-06 18:22 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2008-10-06 19:17 ` Dave Korn
2008-10-07 1:16 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-10-07 2:56 ` Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
2008-10-07 3:16 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-10-07 12:16 ` Dave Korn
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