From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17397 invoked by alias); 14 Mar 2011 02:03:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 16637 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Mar 2011 02:03:56 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm25.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (HELO nm25.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com) (98.139.52.222) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:03:51 +0000 Received: from [98.139.52.192] by nm25.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Mar 2011 02:03:49 -0000 Received: from [74.6.228.32] by tm5.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Mar 2011 02:03:49 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp101.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Mar 2011 02:03:49 -0000 Received: from cgf.cx (cgf@98.110.183.159 with login) by smtp101.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2011 19:03:49 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0262813C0C4 for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:03:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id C86F92B352; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:03:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:03:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Starting XWin from a portable CD Message-ID: <20110314020348.GE16234@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com References: <4D7C86BF.6060305@bonhard.uklinux.net> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A209DAA10088@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> <20110313230719.GD16234@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A209DAA10089@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A209DAA10089@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-q1/txt/msg00038.txt.bz2 On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 09:36:29PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >Christopher Faylor sent the following at Sunday, March 13, 2011 7:07 PM >>>Fergus sent the following at Sunday, March 13, 2011 4:57 AM >>>>... Oh woe woe woe. I've >>>>lost count of the things that worked so easily on 1.5 and somehow >>>>don't on 1.7, ... >>> >>>As I once wrote, 1.5 is the new B20! ;-> >> >>On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 06:06:59PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) >>[E] wrote: >> >>And I warned you about this heresy! Why won't you stop? You're upsetting >>all of the children and farm animals. > >I stand corrected and humbled. B20 will never be surpassed. Use 1.5 only >if B20 is unavailable. 1.7 exists only so we call tell people forced to >use 1.5 that at least it's not 1.7, so what are they complaining about? > >And let's not forget that downloading a zip file (over dial-up) every time >something is updated is clearly better than using setup. Thanks for the clarification. cgf