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Sorry about the delay replying. I'm having major problems upgrading |
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to kernel 2.6.31-r6. |
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 04:53:08PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote |
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> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:31:21 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > XMMS followed |
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> > the original Unix philosophy... it did one thing did it right, namely |
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> > playing audio. |
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> Yes, and if you have a number of programs, each doing one job only, |
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> they need to be able to communicate in order to do the larger |
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> job. Imagine a building site where the bricklayers, plasterers, |
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> electricians an plumbers didn't talk to each other or the project |
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> manager. |
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- I run Firefox |
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- I go to live365.com and log in |
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- I click on an icon, and Firefox starts up an audio player, and passes |
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it the appropriate URL. |
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- I start reading/writing emails, whilst enjoying music in my headphones |
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The audio player needs to communicate with my email client because...? |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> If it isn't broken, I can fix it. |
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No comment. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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