Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-14 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 14:00 -0400, Mail Lists wrote: > And if you want your music without interruptions (os or mail beeps) > - I assume that is easily configurable? Even on the old one-thing-at-a-time sound system, you couldn't really do that. e.g. You'd start playing music, and at some stage a

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-14 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 20:23 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Craig White wrote: > > > Of course a blog is exactly the right forum for those kinds of broad > > based, opinion diatribes while the list is exactly the wrong place but > > one thing that seems to be consist

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-14 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Craig White wrote: > Of course a blog is exactly the right forum for those kinds of broad > based, opinion diatribes while the list is exactly the wrong place but > one thing that seems to be consistent between people like Karl and > Marcel (and his previous ident

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-14 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 14 March 2010 06:00:08 pm Mail Lists wrote: > On 03/14/2010 01:41 PM, Craig White wrote: > > Linux has had sound devices and drivers since way back but the software > > had always laid claim to the devices directly which didn't permit things > > like alert sounds sent by the OS when you w

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-14 Thread Mail Lists
On 03/14/2010 01:41 PM, Craig White wrote: > > Linux has had sound devices and drivers since way back but the software > had always laid claim to the devices directly which didn't permit things > like alert sounds sent by the OS when you were say playing music or > watching youtube or whatever.

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-14 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 12:48 -0400, Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: > On 03/13/2010 06:26 PM, Russell Miller wrote: > > I use Fedora. I even somewhat like Fedora. Apart from the fact that I'm > > taking my data into my hands with every release (from 11 to 12 I lost all my > > data on trying to upgrade)

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-14 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 16:43 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sunday 14 March 2010 03:29:40 pm Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 17:19 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > In another post, Tim has pondered if we aren't seeking the emergence of > > > "Karl 3.0". An update, Karl is ali

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-14 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
On 03/13/2010 06:26 PM, Russell Miller wrote: > On Saturday 13 March 2010 02:21:35 pm Marcel Rieux wrote: > >> In thread starting with >> >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-March/367987.html >> >> I stated a skewer of bugs. Geeks answered it was normal to have bugs >> like,

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-14 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 14 March 2010 03:29:40 pm Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 17:19 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > In another post, Tim has pondered if we aren't seeking the emergence of > > "Karl 3.0". An update, Karl is alive and well and dispensing > > questionable advice on the Ubuntu l

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 17:19 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I've reported a number of bugs to the Fedora BZ and most of them have > > been resolved. None of them have been ignored. Without knowing exactly > > what bugs you reported or how you documented them, there's not m

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-14 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 14 March 2010 09:19:34 am Ed Greshko wrote: > For my part, the OP may end up in the same file as Karl did. But I'm of > 2 minds. I really don't read any of his rants...I gloss over any actual > requests for help (see above) yet it is kind of like watching NASCAR. > Sure the race in inte

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-14 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 14 March 2010 05:07:53 am Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 04:56 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Sunday 14 March 2010 04:10:42 am Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 15:26 -0800, Russell Miller wrote: > > > > Unresolved. IE, still broken three re

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-14 Thread Ed Greshko
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I've reported a number of bugs to the Fedora BZ and most of them have > been resolved. None of them have been ignored. Without knowing exactly > what bugs you reported or how you documented them, there's not much else > one can say. > I wish some people were able to

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 04:56 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sunday 14 March 2010 04:10:42 am Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 15:26 -0800, Russell Miller wrote: > > > Unresolved. IE, still broken three releases later. > > > > IE? > > Short for "Id Est". You know, Latin acr

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-13 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 14 March 2010 04:10:42 am Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 15:26 -0800, Russell Miller wrote: > > Unresolved. IE, still broken three releases later. > > IE? Short for "Id Est". You know, Latin acronyms... ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases:_I#id_e

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-13 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Russell Miller wrote: > On Saturday 13 March 2010 02:21:35 pm Marcel Rieux wrote: > I use Fedora.  I even somewhat like Fedora. I suppose we do. Otherwise, we'd be using another distro. Does this mean that, because maybe 20% of the 1% Linux users on the net use R

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 15:26 -0800, Russell Miller wrote: > I no longer bother submitting bugs to Fedora. > It is true that in some of the bugs I submitted I did not provide > enough > information. However, in the bugs that I did, they just languished > completely > until the software was EOLed

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-13 Thread Russell Miller
On Saturday 13 March 2010 03:24:09 pm David wrote: > Perhaps you should search for a distribution that works for your needs > if you are so dissatisfied with Fedora? It's like capitalism. it's the worst distro out there, except for all the others. I didn't say I was dissatisfied with Fedora.

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-13 Thread David
On 3/13/2010 6:26 PM, Russell Miller wrote: > On Saturday 13 March 2010 02:21:35 pm Marcel Rieux wrote: >> In thread starting with >> >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-March/367987.html >> >> I stated a skewer of bugs. Geeks answered it was normal to have bugs >> like, for at l

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-13 Thread Russell Miller
On Saturday 13 March 2010 02:21:35 pm Marcel Rieux wrote: > In thread starting with > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-March/367987.html > > I stated a skewer of bugs. Geeks answered it was normal to have bugs > like, for at least 2 years now, "New Files" entering the clipboa