Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:30:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Lex Ein cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: THANKS for a fantastic product In-Reply-To: <40D15BAE.1090507@f-m.fm> Message-ID: References: <40D08F9D.80701@wisc.edu> <40D15BAE.1090507@f-m.fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Lex Ein wrote: > Guy Stalnaker wrote: > > Figure cygwin developers rarely get kudos, but here's one! > > Here's another: (Imagine Michael Moore reading this aloud:) > > I'm using Cygwin for remote sshd/vnc access to a four-armed > triple-jointed servopneumatic robotic system which could fatally stab or > crush someone if they were standing in the wrong place during a software > glitch. It can also demolish the ceiling and rip itself up by the > anchor bolts. When the lease is up, de-installation will be easy. > > For safety we decided that a water-filled moat around the machine was > cheaper than fixing the software. Besides, the bug budget and insurance > carrier allow one catastrophic flail/kill failure every 4 years, and > we're only operating it for 3. > > Count me one happy Cygwin user. > > Next contract: medical monitoring devices. > > Lex > > (Relax folks, it's all true.) WOW! Now, that makes us all feel so-o much better... New slogan: "Cygwin: because it doesn't matter what your ssh client runs on!". :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/