typical cygwin bug communications (long)

Robert McNulty Junior bobbymcn@bellsouth.net
Mon Dec 6 15:32:00 GMT 2004


Dave Korn wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of One Angry User
>>Sent: 06 December 2004 14:13
>>To: Talk Amongst Yourselves
>>Subject: Re: typical cygwin bug communications (long)
>>
>>On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
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>>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>      
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>>>>I am trying to compile openoffice and it says "syntax error".
>>>>
>>>>Please help!
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>>>>
>>>When will the port be finished?
>>>
>>>Gerrit
>>>      
>>>
>>Yeah, I want my OpenOffice NOW!  You Cygwin guys SUCK!  Why 
>>can't you be
>>more like LINUX?!!!  And don't tell me that you're MEAN -- I 
>>KNOW you are!
>>
>>O. A. User
>>The Lusers Forum
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>>`. The 50-line signature with a meaningless legal disclaimer 
>>goes here .'
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>
>  Your socks are showing!  You can't hide from me behind an X-X- header!
>
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>  Heh, you didn't even bother to use an open proxy in Argentina or Korea.
>Amateur!
>
>  Damn, M$ Outlook is clueless[*].  If I hit "Reply all" to that post, I get a
>reply with just one address in the To: header, "Talk Amongst Yourselves".  But
>if I only hit the single "Reply" button, I get a reply with two addresses in it,
>"Talk Amongst Yourselves" and the "Blaaab Babble Boogle Bop" one as well.
>
>  So Microsoft must reckon 1 > 2.
>
>  Maybe it's going to be part of their new advertising campaign:
>
>     Freedom is Slavery.
>      War is Peace.
>       Ignorance is strength.
>        Reply to author is Reply to all.
>
>   Bill Brother is watching you!
>
>    cheers, 
>      DaveK
>
>[*]  Ok, ok, I know that's stating the obvious: what I mean is "..even _more_
>clueless than we already knew it to be..."
>  
>
Use Moxzilla. Its better and updated daily.
I use it now.
I feel more secure.
Outlook is outdated and unneeded.




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