proftpd not run, and is gcc4 for cygwin coming?

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Feb 22 15:55:00 GMT 2005


On Feb 22 16:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 22 15:42, Dave Korn wrote:
> >   As far as I can see, fish-teaching exercises are highly overrated.
> > 
> >   I once spent an entire month trying to teach Shakespeare to a school of
> > guppies.  By then end of it I was soaking wet, but not even one of them had
> > mastered the "To be or not to be..." soliloquy from Hamlet.
> > 
> >   That's the last time I try to teach a man to fish ...
> > 
> >   ... don't suppose they'd do any better with female authors either, though.
> 
> Maybe you tried the wrong literature.  You know how important the
> right entry is to stay interested.  Perhaps some more fishy story
> like Hemingway's "The old man and the sea" or Melville's "Moby Dick"
> would have attracted them.

...or maybe a movie like "A fish called Wanda".


Corinna



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