From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NgBgF-0002f3-3I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:40:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E09D8E0863; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:40:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD20E0863 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:40:18 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAEvYdUtMCpbj/2dsb2JhbACbHHW9M4RaBIMTh2I X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,466,1262581200"; d="scan'208";a="55988340" Received: from 76-10-150-227.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([76.10.150.227]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 13 Feb 2010 01:40:17 -0500 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:39:53 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:39:53 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? Message-ID: <20100213063953.GB7731@waltdnes.org> References: <20100208222047.GA6553@muc.de> <20100209021708.GA7876@waltdnes.org> <20100209102732.188d2125@digimed.co.uk> <20100210125757.GB11270@waltdnes.org> <20100210141843.6777b7c7@digimed.co.uk> <20100211073121.GA14006@waltdnes.org> <20100211165308.7d60980d@digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100211165308.7d60980d@digimed.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: f43b278d-f9e8-4d39-989c-d21562d9bb5f X-Archives-Hash: ad3e2e73c0674387189d11aae1638b25 Sorry about the delay replying. I'm having major problems upgrading to kernel 2.6.31-r6. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 04:53:08PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:31:21 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > > XMMS followed > > the original Unix philosophy... it did one thing did it right, namely > > playing audio. > > Yes, and if you have a number of programs, each doing one job only, > they need to be able to communicate in order to do the larger > job. Imagine a building site where the bricklayers, plasterers, > electricians an plumbers didn't talk to each other or the project > manager. - I run Firefox - I go to live365.com and log in - I click on an icon, and Firefox starts up an audio player, and passes it the appropriate URL. - I start reading/writing emails, whilst enjoying music in my headphones The audio player needs to communicate with my email client because...? > Neil Bothwick > > If it isn't broken, I can fix it. No comment. -- Walter Dnes