-------------------------------------------------------------------- ASUS m3a78 mothorboard AMD Athlon64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ 3.1Ghz Gigabyte NVidia 9400gt Graphics adapter Kworld ATSC 110 TV Capture Card Kworld ATSC 115 TV Capture Card -------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:00 PM, CityK <cityk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Matthias Schwarzott wrote: >> I don't get you. > > I was having a little fun. My remarks contained references to Lewis > Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". > > Nowadays, the expression "follow the rabbit" (which, stemming from > Alice's Adventures, is actually abbreviated from the act of following > the rabbit down the hole) implies that one will discover something by > following the metaphorical rabbit (which, in this case, was the link to > wiki article on firmware, which itself contained links to the xc3028 IC > family article). > > Though perhaps not a particularly common expression, I'm sure that most > are familiar with it or have come across it in other forms and > presentations. Pop culture, for example, has many such references -- > take the movie "The Matrix", for example, in which, IIRC, the character > Morphieus invites Neo to "follow the rabbit" > > >> What do you want for Gentoo? checking the wiki content about firmware? > > Gentoo is, typically, not associated as a beginners distro. It, > generally speaking, requires or, at the very least, affords the user > the opportunity to become more familiar with the underlining > architecture and mechanics of the OS. One might be tempted to call that > a discovery process. There is an ebuild "media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware" that may have the required firmware. > Hence, when a Gentoo user like Michele states that they require a > firmware entitled "xc3028L-v36.fw", I'm (rightly or wrongly) making an > implicit assumption that they would be perceptive enough to make the > relevant connection(s) and press forth when presented with a > metaphorical rabbit. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
