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On 28 Mar 2008, at 22:01, Hal Martin wrote: |
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> Michael Schmarck wrote: |
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>> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> Now, onto your actual problem. It is exceptionally hard to even |
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>>> attempt |
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>>> to provide a solution unless someone else fixed the exact same |
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>>> problem |
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>>> before, as you have not provided any configuration at all and very |
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>>> little useful information. |
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>> What would you have wanted to see? I wrote that sound works. You |
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>> don't need more information. |
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>>> Hence your post was as much noise as mine |
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>>> was. |
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>> That's why other people, or at least Andrey, was able to help, |
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>> where as |
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>> you were just a moron. |
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> Not to dig up this unpleasantness again, but there are some things I'd |
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> like to point out for future reference (for all people, including me, |
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> who will post questions with hopes of getting useful answers.) |
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> Great, and now you've noticed that Totem, another GStreamer program, |
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> isn't outputting sound. Therefore, instead of just blowing off the |
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> previous poster, you could actually include that information. |
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Hi there, |
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I, too, thought about saying something like this at the time. I'm |
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glad you have done so and I agree with all your points. |
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Michael: |
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Alan's reply was harmless. You're not entitled to pick on him unless |
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you posted correctly in the first place. |
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You're asking for help - provide as much information as possible and |
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please don't antagonise people (especially because they may be able |
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to help you!). |
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If you want help then it's YOUR responsibility to provide as much |
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information as possible. Help people to help you, and make it easy |
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for them to do so. Providing a dearth of information requires |
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respondents to type more, making suggestions which accommodate all |
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the possibilities which you've failed to eliminate. |
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Oftentimes, just making the effort to demonstrate your problem |
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correctly - for example showing permissions with `ls -l /dev/audio` |
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and `grep audio /etc/group` - will show you the problem lies. You'll |
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slap your forehead, curse yourself, take a little pride in having |
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solved the problem yourself, learn something, and save you troubling |
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others with your problem. |
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Othertimes making a post can take hours, compiling relevant |
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information from a terminal window. But I speak from experience when |
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I tell you that this may provoke a very quick response which |
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immediately diagnoses your problem and provides a resolution that can |
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be applied in minutes. |
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I, too, know what it's like to receive a reply to one of my questions |
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which I find to be unhelpful and aggravating. However, "two wrongs |
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don't make a right" and no-one benefits from an angry response. |
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Stroller. |
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