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RE: problem with libgnomeprint22 setup.hint
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:47:27 -0500
- Subject: RE: problem with libgnomeprint22 setup.hint
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
> From: Brian Dessent
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > You really should make it a little longer though, add some
> irrelevant
> > personal details about how hard you found qmail, invent something
> > about something that postfix does but qmail doesn't, and maybe even
> > share some postfix configuration files that you are
> especially proud of.
>
> Oh, that well never runs dry. When you include the DJB
> factor into any otherwise tame technical discussion, the
> result is almost always a long and drawn out thread that
> spans all sorts of topics, from licensing issues to secure
> programming practices to personal flames. Sometimes you can
> even devolve into debating completely unrelated topics, like
> sendmail bugs from the 80s, the design of Unix, how Paul
> Vixie and ISC are evil, and so on. Pure gold.
>
> Brian
What's a "Paul Vixie"? Was he the guy that invented the Vixie tube, the
vacuum-tube predecessor to 7-segment vacuum-flourescent displays?
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Hehhehehe, "Vixie tube"! I am HI-LARIOUS!