Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <001101c23d9b$ba4da0b0$6401a8c0@bobby> From: "Robert McNulty Junior" To: "Max Bowsher" , , References: <3D4F2391 DOT 17116 DOT 80BD4BCF AT localhost> <004f01c23d9a$93cdef40$0100a8c0 AT wdg DOT uk DOT ibm DOT com> Subject: Re: Mysterious gdb behavior. Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 17:50:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Die, Thread. Die. Every poster to this post needs to quit. Paul, I have a feeling about you. Not hatred, but like we know each other. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Bowsher" To: ; Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 5:36 PM Subject: Re: Mysterious gdb behavior. > Paul Derbyshire wrote: > > On 3 Aug 2002 at 11:13, Max Bowsher wrote: > > > >> I simply stated that your assertion was false. At no point did I > >> target you. My aim was simply to prevent the other people from > >> learning incorrect information. > > > > Like hell it was. If that was your aim, it wasn't well served, since > > the assertion *you* made was false. > > No, it was correct, as confirmed by other posters. > > > Besides, it's obvious from your > > tone here that your intent is to smear me. > > My tone was terse, that is true, but it reflects lack of inclination to type a > long reply, not any evil intent. > > > Go find something more > > constructive to do. > > > >>> The problem is that you are trying to tar me some kind of idiot! > >> > >> No. I'm not. As above. > > > > Deny it all you want. Besides, regardless of what you are *trying* to > > do, what the hell do you think it looks like??? > > I think it looks like I'm irritated about an incorrect statement phrased as > total truth, without an 'I think...' or 'Aren't ... ?' > > >>> No, the difference is that someone has taken a personal dislike to > >>> me, for whatever reason. The reason is irrelevant. > >> > >> I just gave the only possible reason above! > > > > Which reason amounts to, I'm being treated differently because I'm an > > idiot. > > Not really. I'd say because of a tendency to misinterpret impatience as dislike, > and respond in kind. Also, because a lack of willingness to experiment and > research. > > > Well, I refuse to accept that. I have strong defenses against > > being tricked into negative self-beliefs. Messages that are > > insulting, or make insulting insinuations, are not trusted and nor > > are their authors for some time after. If only M$ mail clients were > > that secure. > > > > Take your insults and your toys and go back to your own back yard to > > play. > > > >>> Then why didn't you just say so, instead of appearing to disagree > >>> and insulting my intelligence with every posting? > >> > >> I was not discussing changing windows usernames as applied to this > >> situation. I was simply arguing that, should you want to do it, it > >> would be substantially less difficult than you suggested. I'm sorry > >> if I gave you the wrong impression about this. > > > > Substantially less difficult as in three hours of pain and nitpicking > > followed by one week of catching more omitted changes, instead of > > five hours and three weeks? > > As in 1 minute to change your username, rename your _Cygwin_ home directory, and > change /etc/passwd, followed by a need to re-edit /etc/passwd if you regenerate > it with mkpasswd. > > >>> Bull. If I change my username to Zaphod Beeblebrox, to make things > >>> consistent I'd have to rename my home directories (Windows and > >>> cygwin both) to Zaphod Beeblebrox. > >> > >> Cygwin, maybe. Windows, no. Windows intends for you to access stuff > >> in your home directory through things like My Documents. > > > > C:\Documents and Settings\\My Documents, to be exact -- can > > you imagine the chaos when the path to *that* changes?! > > > >> Yes. You are not required or supposed to change Windows home dirs. > > > > Nor, I'd expect, unix ones. > > Can if you like. No particular hangups. > > >> Indeed. The one and only place we told you to edit in the first > >> place. > > > > Without deigning to tell me whether or not anything *else* needed > > doing along with that. Besides the obvious. > > I would imagine it was a spur of the moment reply, not a carefully crafted > educational document. > > > [Various snippage] > > > >>> But when I dismissed it as too much pain and hardship you lambasted > >>> me. > >> > >> No. I attempted to correct some points on which you were > >> misinformed. You took this very badly, for some reason unknown to me. > > > > Umm, would you like being bluntly contradicted ina public forum? The > > result is to appear foolish. > > If I stated that X was true, when in fact X was unequivocally false, I would not > be annoyed at someone who corrected me. > > My standing in the eyes of anyone who already knew the correct information > regarding X would be unchanged, and anyone who did not, deserves not be misled. > And I would deserve to know the truth, for future use. > > > Especially with what's going on > > elsewhere in the thread especially with Greg and Kim that is the LAST > > thing I want or need. > > > > Especially under the circumstances, that is a lambasting. The implied > > judgment is pretty clear and unwelcome. And undeserved. > > I did not go out of my way to polite - true. But it was not intended as such, > only as a correction, in the minimum number of keystrokes possible. > > Max. > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/