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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:46:03 -0500
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On 02/17/2010 12:57 PM, mike wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just a jerk user so be gentle with me. I've looked at the user guide
> and searched the mailing list but I may have missed something. I don't
> know what information is relevant so this is long. Sorry.
>
> I've been running some version of Cygwin 1.5 for many months now. I
> would always just double-click on the "XWin Server" icon and then export
> the display variable and ssh into what is currently an F11 box.
> Typically I then only run thunderbird, emacs, firefox and oowriter. This
> all worked pretty well.

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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