Re: Removing the hippo

Re: Removing the hippo

[Matthew Woehlke]

Nick Rogness wrote a message with the subject "Removing the hippo":

...am I the only one that took one look at the subject and thought 
"wrong list"? ;-)

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Re: Removing the hippo

[Warren Young]

Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> 
> ...am I the only one that took one look at the subject and thought 
> "wrong list"? ;-)

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Re: Removing the hippo

[Danilo Turina]

Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Nick Rogness wrote a message with the subject "Removing the hippo":
> 
> ...am I the only one that took one look at the subject and thought 
> "wrong list"? ;-)
> 

You are not alone...

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RE: Removing the hippo

[Dave Korn]

Danilo Turina wrote on 06 October 2008 08:16:

> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Nick Rogness wrote a message with the subject "Removing the hippo":
>> 
>> ...am I the only one that took one look at the subject and thought
>> "wrong list"? ;-) 
>> 
> 
> You are not alone...


  Actually, I thought "Wrong subject line" - it should have been "Unleashing
the hippo", not "Removing" it.

  Well, that's the email that I was hoping to read, anyway :)


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RE: Removing the hippo

[Mike Marchywka]

> From: dave.korn@artimi.com
> To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Removing the hippo
> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:26:54 +0100
>
> Danilo Turina wrote on 06 October 2008 08:16:
>
>> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>>> Nick Rogness wrote a message with the subject "Removing the hippo":
>>>
>>> ...am I the only one that took one look at the subject and thought
>>> "wrong list"? ;-)
>>>
>>
>> You are not alone...
>
>
> Actually, I thought "Wrong subject line" - it should have been "Unleashing
> the hippo", not "Removing" it.
>
> Well, that's the email that I was hoping to read, anyway :)


Unfortunately, there are probably many people who can't appreciate the
difference between a few lines of text and an animated Flash ad that
somehow manages to use up an entire Pentium to animate snow flakes
or zoom in on a product of no interest to me.


Does the hippo try to download an OCX or put viruses on my machine?

BTW, the cygwin documentation is very light on OCX support.

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>
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Re: Removing the hippo

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:00:58AM -0400, Mike Marchywka wrote:
>> From: dave.korn
>> To: cygwin-talk
>> Subject: RE: Removing the hippo
>> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:26:54 +0100

FYI, none of the above duplicated information is particularly
interesting in the body of an email message.

>BTW, the cygwin documentation is very light on OCX support.

OCX is fairly far from the core goals of Cygwin.

RE: Removing the hippo

[Mike Marchywka]

> 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.

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RE: Removing the hippo

[Dave Korn]

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.

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Re: Removing the hippo

[Christopher Faylor]

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 somthing that Cygwin needed.

Re: Removing the hippo

[Aaron Humphrey]

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 somthing 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?"

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Re: Removing the hippo

[Christopher Faylor]

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.

RE: Removing the hippo

[Dave Korn]

Christopher Faylor wrote on 06 October 2008 16:31:

> 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.  

  The mark of a skillfull troll: include one genuinely clueless yet minor
statement in each post to divert attention from the obviousness of the
blatantly obvious "nobody-could-possibly-think-that-so-it-must-be-a-troll"
statement.  A subtle piece of stage magician's misdirection IMO.

> But I was really thinking about the
> children. 

  Is that still even allowed these days?  I thought congress was about to pass
another one of those online decency protection acts...

> They love to read archives 

  Say, that's why there's chocolatey fingerprints and biscuit crumbs all over
them!  I blame the parents!  Or maybe the hippos!


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Re: Removing the hippo

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:15:27PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Is that still even allowed these days?  I thought congress was about to
>pass another one of those online decency protection acts...

You know that's actually kind of tasteless, even for this mailing list.

cgf

Re: Removing the hippo

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Mon, October 6, 2008 6:15 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:15:27PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>> Is that still even allowed these days?  I thought congress was about to
>>  pass another one of those online decency protection acts...
>
> You know that's actually kind of tasteless, even for this mailing list.

Mailing list?  I thought this was a Nabble board.

Re: Removing the hippo

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 07:55:42PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>On Mon, October 6, 2008 6:15 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:15:27PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>Is that still even allowed these days?  I thought congress was about to
>>>pass another one of those online decency protection acts...
>>
>>You know that's actually kind of tasteless, even for this mailing list.
>
>Mailing list?  I thought this was a Nabble board.

Just to take this even further from the realm of on-topicness, I just
noted that Nabble now has a New! Nabble2.  The excitement is tangible.

(I say this knowing full well that I'm feeding Dave another straight
line)

cgf

RE: Removing the hippo

[Dave Korn]

Christopher Faylor wrote on 07 October 2008 02:16:

> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:15:27PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> Is that still even allowed these days?  I thought congress was about to
>> pass another one of those online decency protection acts...
> 
> You know that's actually kind of tasteless, even for this mailing list.
> 
> cgf

  Well, don't blame me, I didn't vote for 'em! 

 <rimshot />


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