From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27438 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2003 07:14:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 27426 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2003 07:14:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO redhat.com) (66.30.22.225) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 9 Jan 2003 07:14:06 -0000 Received: by redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 201) id 25CD71C110; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 02:14:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 03:23:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup.exe Message-ID: <20030109071437.GB13507@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <51789.213.38.17.50.1042046662.squirrel@raq299.uk2net.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00433.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:05:57PM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >[snip] > >> >> > Isn't the change from downloading to installing info enough? >> >> Some people won't notice that. A larger issue is if you go away and make >> some tea. I for one don't stare at setup.exe while it downloads >> eighty-six megabytes of information on a 33.6K modem. (I do sit and watch >> defrag for hours on end though, but that's just me) >> > >Oh, it ain't just you man, it ain't just you! Sometimes I even play a little >game: I try to guess which cluster will be moved next, and where it will be >moved to. If I get both right, I win! YAY!!!!! It's like watching hundreds of >chess games all at once at 1000x real-time. Sublime. Wow, is this off-topic or what? However, I can't tell you what a relief it is to hear that I'm not the only person who does this. I've tried to get my wife to appreciate the beauty of a defrag screen but she never does. And, so, I sit for lonely hours watching the flashing rectangles while a slow drip of drool escapes from the side of my mouth. I admit that sometimes I purposely make random copies of my directories and delete them, just to purposely defragment the disk so I can watch the visual display again. I've been doing this since the early MS-DOS defragmenters. Do you suppose there's a support group for this somewhere? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/