<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Unix is very user friendly. It's just particular about with whom it makes friends with.</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>-- <br>Jesse Becker<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Brian Sobolak <brian@planetshwoop.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ufo@ufo.chicago.il.us <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, October 31, 2012 9:28 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> [UFO Chicago] Most annoying way to promote Linux<br> </font> </div> <br>
<br><br>I have been messing around with a program called 'remind' to provide <br>terminal reminders. I do this on cygwin because a) I have to run <br>windows and b) calendar doesn't have a package on cygwin and remind <br>does.<br><br>However, EVERY time I use it, it comes up with this nonsense:<br><br>You appear to be running Remind on a Microsoft system. I'd rather that <br>you didn't. Remind execution will continue momentarily.<br><br>--<br><br>It pauses for 5 seconds to do this.<br><br>Considering the man page is 24000 words (vs 4200 for grep), this person <br>had a little too much time on their hands to decide what a user-friendly <br>program is.<br><br>brian<br>_______________________________________________<br>UFO Chicago -- Users of Free Operating Systems<br>Free Software Rules -- Proprietary Drools!<br>http://ufo.chicago.il.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ufo<br><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>