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RE: FW: setup.exe --quiet-mode
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'The Vulgar and Unprofessional and HORRIBLY BIASED AGAINST MICROSOFT O NOES WHY O Y DO YOU HAET US SO because you sux0r sooooo very much hahahahah cry n00b! Cygwin-Talk List'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:02:45 +0100
- Subject: RE: FW: setup.exe --quiet-mode
- References: <013801c91413$080b9240$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <48C939B5.9090808@etr-usa.com>
- Reply-to: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
Warren Young wrote on 11 September 2008 16:31:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> Phil Betts wrote on 11 September 2008 13:41:
>>
>>> even Windows'
>>> programmers never expected uptime to exceed 2^32 milliseconds.
>>
>> Oh look! A valuable antique!
>
> There are just some things MICROS~1 will never be allowed to live down.
There are just lots of things MICROS~2[*] will never be allowed to live
down, but seeing as they're busily adding a host of new things to the list
every single day of the week, year in, year out, my scrollback buffer doesn't
extend that far!
cheers,
DaveK
[*] - The ~1 entry already got taken by "microsnot" in my directory[**].
[**] - See? Who says Microsoft never does anything right? After all, where
would we be today if they hadn't invented files that randomly change their
names according to the context you place them in[***]?
[***] - Probably still exactly where we are[****].
[****] - But at least we'd still have our paddle.
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