LOL! Thanks for the morning blast, Tim. :) tim hall wrote: >Just in time. > >Last Friday 01 April 2005 02:01, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen was like: > > >>tim hall Wrote: >> >> >>>Have you never noticed the tendency on all mailing lists for the original >>>question to always get about 2 or 3 relevant replies, then the next >>>half-a-dozen postings wander off into some personal discussion or flame >>>war. I mean, how many Linux Audio Users does it take to change a >>>soundcard? >>> >>> >>Ah, I see you have laid the ground for a light bulb joke here... Let me >>try to organize it from your data above: >> >>Q: How many linux audio users does it take to change a light bulb? >>A: 10. One to change it, 3 to instruct the person changing it, and >> half-a-dozen to wander off into some personal discussion or flame war. >> >>Hmmm, its not there yet, but its a start. I think this can be a good joke >>with some work though... >> >> > >I made it 42 ;-] > >Here goes: > >---- > >One to explain that there's probably a patch in Pd that would do all of that. > >One to explain that lightbulbs are pre-digital technology and therefore not >likely to be even supported by OSS. > >Two to argue that ALSA should be deprecated in favour of OSS, or vice-versa. > >One to explain the function of all the different parts of the lightbulb, their >relationship to each other and the respective values that can be passed to >various of its functions. > >One to lead a seminar to discuss the importance of the lightswitch. > >Three posters complaining that Klightbulb is a KDE-only implementation. > >Two posters to explain exactly which part of 'standards compliant' the >lightbulb doesn't understand. > >One enthusiastic newbie who has just written in to say lightbulbs are great, >but I just can't seem to get this one to work when I plug it in to the >amplifier. > >Three developers to write patches correcting the lightswitch behaviour. > >Two newbies to ask whether their version of 'lightbulb' is currently supported >by UNIX sockets. > >Two enraged missives pleading for glassblowing tips from members who are >attempting to 'blow their own'. > >Three to post useful hyperlinks to favourite lightbulb changing sites. > >Five experienced developers to discuss whether now is the right time to >implement their plans for a general domestic robot and state categorically >that the question of how many lines of function code it takes to change a >lightbulb should be carried over to the developers list. > >One reply from a SusE user asking how to configure that with Yast. > >One bemused Debian user to reply they don't know, they just >edit /etc/lightbulb using vi. > >Two GNU hackers to demonstrate how the same thing can easily be achieved using >a LISP-based language from within emacs, given enough memory. > >One to ask if there's a Gentoo e-build for this. > >Three experienced coders to argue that we really need a new format for >lightbulbs, which would allow users to change them under the GPL. > >One user to comment that they can see perfectly well by the light of their >computer screen anyway. > >One hardware developer to announce that they have successfully embedded >lightbulbs in several commercial sockets with great success. > >Two replies to ask the newbie which version of 'mains socket' they are using. > >Two users to post screenshots of lightbulbs they recently installed. > >One experienced developer to write in and say that they only ever use natural >light, so they've never really experienced these difficulties, but they >really sympathise (plus a link to their homepage). > >---- > >You asked for that, ;-] > >Happy Fools Day! (I know I am) > >tim hall >http://glastonburymusic.org.uk > > >
