Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/08/31/11:04:34
> Hmm... 9 lines of content, 10 of disclaimer... *sip!*
> Eew, and the disclaimer isn't even line-wrapped...
> (How come PCYMTNILOAUD is not on the OLOCA yet? ;-))
Ah. You think I typed that, myself? I didn't. It was automatically
appended by the local email system. Many corporate email systems do this
kind of thing, because (IMHO) the people that run them are more
concerned with posturing within their own value system (which does not
map to reality) than they are with doing anything useful.
Another example of this is the existence of the idiot virus checker
industry. The virus checkers are useless (I have to run SpyBot at least
once a week), and impact performance to a chronic level. If I run Cygwin
setup.exe to install from a directory on the same computer, parsing the
ini file takes over an hour, because of the %$$#$^ virus checker. And I
can't do anything else during that time, because it single threads this
2.8 GHz 1GB box to approx. 1990 vintage. The same virus checker, by the
way, is buggy and actually breaks when trying to download Cygwin - as
this mailing list archive confirms.
If I could influence the people that installed it at all, getting rid of
the damn virus checker, which costs me more time each week than viruses
have cost me in a 25 year career, would be my first choice.
The culture is sick. See
http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2006/08/murder_in_samar_7.html for
a canonical example. But don't forbid idiot disclaimers that posters
have no control over unless you want to forbid posting from people on
corporate sites.
Thank you ;-)
Alan Carter
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