Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

[Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>]

At 10:34 2003-02-14, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > ...
> >
> > Can anyone offer any explanation about this?  Or maybe convince me that
> > I'm wrong in noticing this trend?  I suppose that it is possible that
> > we are now hitting a newer stupider brand of user who just can't be
> > bothered to read the cygwin web site and click on a link to download
> > but I'm wondering if there is another explanation.  Maybe there is
> > a popular web page out there with wrong advice or something...
> >
> > cgf
>
> Well, guess what comes up first on a Google search for "cygwin install"?
> See for yourself: <http://google.com/search?q=cygwin+install> (just in
> case, the first match I get is 
> <http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/ORKiD/basic.htm>,
> last updated on March 24, 2000). :-(
> I don't know if there's anything that can be done about it, though...
>     Igor

Wow. Classic Cygwin humor, number 1 on Google!

Did you notice the copyright holder for these pages?

I still think APHC's joke show is funnier.


RRS 

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