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
>
>
>
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