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RE: proftpd not run, and is gcc4 for cygwin coming?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:51:56 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: RE: proftpd not run, and is gcc4 for cygwin coming?
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- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> >Sent: 21 February 2005 16:09
>
> > This may be a temporary convenience as a fish giving exercise but it
> > doesn't do much as a fish teaching exercise.
>
> As far as I can see, fish-teaching exercises are highly overrated.
>
> I once spent an entire month trying to teach Shakespeare to a school of
> guppies. By then end of it I was soaking wet,
Don't guppies usually live in aquariums? This probably says something
about your hands-on teaching methods...
> but not even one of them had mastered the "To be or not to be..."
> soliloquy from Hamlet.
You must've missed that one lone bulge-eyed guppy wildly gesticulating in
the corner every time it said "the slings and arrows of outrageous
fortune"...
> That's the last time I try to teach a man to fish ...
>
> ... don't suppose they'd do any better with female authors either,
> though.
Heh, I heard sharks just *love* Martha Stewart's autobiography...
Igor
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