Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 13:08:09 -0500 From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2R pcm/sbc AWE records noise, not audio: 16 bit bug?; gus broken? Message-ID: <20010202130809.D92405@netmonger.net> In-Reply-To: <003101c08d3b$c9eb45c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 09:15:49AM -0800 References: <003f01c08d12$657a5e60$0504020a@haveblue> <003101c08d3b$c9eb45c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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I have already apologized for my remarks and clarified my position, but I'm foolishly going to respond to this personal attack. On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 09:15:49AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Please don't get bothered by idiotic comments like that. Yes, calling me an idiot definately helps to improve the state of FreeBSD's sound drivers. > There are people in the world that you can give everything > to, hell go set up the PC for them, and they are still going > to be complaining. That may be true, but it's completely irrelevant. I don't remember Cameron coming to my house to set up my PC. With your little metaphor, in fact, in fact, he is the guy who came by uninvited and trashed my working PC. (Which is why I dislike metaphors - I don't feel this way at all and as I said in a previous message I am not looking to bash or blame Cameron.) > Besides that, people love complaining about the things they like - That doesn't make any sense at all. You are acting like my statement that there are problems with the sound drivers is an opinion. It's not an opinion that I can't record audio. It's not an opinion that it plays static instead of music half the time. I don't understand why you're so threatened by a statement of fact. If it worked correctly, why would I complain? > if this guy really and truly thought that the sound support sucked > he wouldn't be using FreeBSD at all. That is also nonsense. Have you considered that not being able to record audio is far outweighed by all of the things I CAN do with FreeBSD? Perhaps I have a substantial investment in learning to configure, administer, and hack on FreeBSD? What do you mean, if I "really and truly thought" - again, I am not making this up. Why would I lie about the problems I'm having. (And I'm not the only one - my message was in reply to someone else HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM.) > His problem is that he just likes complaining. You sure know a lot about me. My problem is that two years ago, I could record, and what I was hoping was just another temporary problem went on for months and months. I do not at all enjoy complaining. Most of all, I enjoy not having anything to complain about. > For every one person out there complaining there are thousands, > such as myself, who are perfectly satisfied with the sound > support in FreeBSD Because it works for you. Or should I use your bizarro-world logic and claim that you're just saying it works, and if you really and truly thought that it worked, you would be complaining too. > View comments like his as a compliment I tried to respond to that, but I couldn't avoid the use of sarcasm. > he obviously has come to use FreeBSD so much that he considers it no > different than "commercial" software You don't understand the categories of software. But that aside, if you knew anything about me at all, you'd realize that you could not be more wrong with that stupid remark. > of which people take complaining about to a high art form. You give me too much credit for a couple of sentences I hardly put any effort (or thought) into. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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