From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lee Sau Dan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: desktop height? Date: 31 Jan 2003 09:07:00 +0100 Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=cn-big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044006335 28709 80.91.224.249 (31 Jan 2003 09:45:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:45:35 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18eXjp-0007Sl-00 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:45:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18eXjy-0001Sk-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 04:45:42 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!btnet-peer1!btnet!newsr1.ipcore.viaginterkom.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!feed.news.nacamar.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-freiburg.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: savona.informatik.uni-freiburg.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109629 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6146 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6146 >>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Ingalls writes: Bruce> The Unux philosophy is that you have to spend hours Bruce> customzing, which makes bosses nervous, because you've Bruce> started the project, and they don't see you getting any Bruce> work done yet. You should teach such bosses a Chinese proverb: To do job(s) well, polish the tool(s) first. (I put (s) here because Chinese doesn't distinguish between singular and plural.) -- Lee Sau Dan §õ¦u´°(Big5) ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ) E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee