Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

2010-06-21 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Sometimes when I open a terminal window, and Fortune promptly displays an appropriately witty saying, I then see the quote from Star Trek surface. That's okay I created a script to do so based on one used by my Linux system. However this time when I invoked one using the bash as a command w

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

2010-06-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 06:30:43PM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: >Hello! >Sometimes when I open a terminal window, and Fortune promptly displays >an appropriately witty saying, I then see the quote from Star Trek >surface. That's okay I created a script to do so based on one used by >my Linux system.

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

2010-06-22 Thread Gregg Levine
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 06:30:43PM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: >>Hello! >>Sometimes when I open a terminal window, and Fortune promptly displays >>an appropriately witty saying, I then see the quote from Star Trek >>surface. That's okay I

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

2010-06-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 06:10:14AM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: >On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Christopher Faylor > wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 06:30:43PM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: >>>Hello! >>>Sometimes when I open a terminal window, and Fortune promptly displays >>>an appropriately witty

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

2010-06-22 Thread Alexander T
> You're exaggerating. Most of the time when maintainers receive private > email they redirect it to this list with a polite request to keep the > discussion public. There is no "head handing". O RLY? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

2010-06-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 07:40:50PM +0200, Alexander T wrote: >On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:35:30AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>You're exaggerating. Most of the time when maintainers receive private >>email they redirect it to this list with a polite request to keep the >>discussion public. T

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

2010-06-22 Thread Alexander T
> Lets all say it together > One more time > Now cover your eyes and see if you can say it without reading it > Close enough. Humorous? To me, as a newcomer, no. Funny? Hardly. Insulting? I would say so. I don't mind jokes and hints, but I must say that that is a pretty depreciative answer to some

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

2010-06-22 Thread David Eisner
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > You're exaggerating.  Most of the time when maintainers receive private Not by much. When Gregg had the temerity to even suggest informing a package maintainer, you threw a public tantrum. Are you aware how obnoxious you sound to oth

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

2010-06-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 02:56:21PM -0400, David Eisner wrote: >On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>You're exaggerating. ?Most of the time when maintainers receive >>private > >Not by much. When Gregg had the temerity to even suggest informing a >package maintainer, you

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

2010-06-22 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Alexander T <> wrote: >> Lets all say it together >> One more time >> Now cover your eyes and see if you can say it without reading it >> Close enough. > > Humorous? To me, as a newcomer, no. Funny? Hardly. Insulting? I would > say so. I don't mind jokes and hints,

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

2010-06-22 Thread Stacey Campbell
Paraphrasing: >[C]haracter flaws [of Cygwin project participants] have nothing to do >with cygwin itself. I'd disagree with that. The Cygwin project is a volunteer effort, correct? Potential developers are more likely to volunteer if they see respect and cooperation on lists such as this. I'v

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

2010-06-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 04:14:54PM -0700, Stacey Campbell wrote: >Paraphrasing: >>[C]haracter flaws [of Cygwin project participants] have nothing to do >>with cygwin itself. > >I'd disagree with that. Doesn't matter. This is not a democracy where random people who figure out how to send email to