Cesare wrote: > Florian Schmidt wrote: > >> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:42:13 +0000 >> Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi Georg. Does that really work, or are we going into the realms of >>> sheer fantasy (Twilight zone) . Nigel. aka mekon, farpoint, and many >>> other sci-fi characters and places. >>> >>> >> >> >> well, it works only if you either >> >> a] have OSS drivers installed or >> >> b] have the ALSA OSS compat. module loaded.. >> >> Nonetheless, here's an alsa version: >> >> cat foo.pdf | aplay >> >> ;) >> >> Have fun, >> Flo >> >> >> > It's annoying that you can't make a joke with linux users. They've > always an answer to show you that what you're joking about is not that > ridicolous (rather it is indeed possible). > But Peter wanted to generate sound from an image. > > So my question is: how can he use this software to accomplish this > task if there's just the paper, and not yet the software? > but there IS software: http://www.ipd.uni-karlsruhe.de/~reuter/soundpaint/ sure the joke is funny, and i DID chuckle (a bit), but the cool thing is that we tend to take the absurd and say, "hmmm.... we could probably do something with that"!
