22 Apr
2005
22 Apr
'05
1:10 a.m.
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
I think it's a low-power CPU like other PowerPCs I have worked with, but
I don't see any problem with putting a little fan in the box. My goal is
not to have a fanless box on my desk, but an OSless one, or more precisely
without a user-accessible OS that needs system administration.
MS
Do you need audio at all?
No. Audio does not belong in X and I actually never even suspected that
there was an audio extension for X until I heard people on this list complain
that Classic X terminals don't have it. Spoiled kids! :-)
My tentative
PowerPC CPU choice is MPC8250.
Does that need a cooling fan? 
22 Apr
22 Apr
1:38 a.m.
Michael wrote:
No. Audio does not belong in X
I think you're going to find a lot of people disagree with that.
X is supposed to provide network transparency for the user interface,
and audio is part of the user interface.
It may well be the case that audio doesn't conveniently fit into the
X protocol, but that's due to short-sightedness, not because it doesn't
conceptually belong there.
If the user interface included smell (intentionally), that should be
handled by X as well.
Eric
10:11 p.m.
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:38:52 -0700 (PDT)
"Eric Smith" <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
Michael wrote:
Well, what about the fact that *my* user interface sometimes includes
the whine and rattle of the fixed disk (helps you know if a data-I/O
intensive program is actually live, or if something has siezed up).
Does that mean that X needs to include hard drive noise?
No. Audio does not belong in X
I think you're going to find a lot of people disagree with that.
X is supposed to provide network transparency for the user interface,
and audio is part of the user interface.
It may well be the case that audio doesn't conveniently fit into the
X protocol, but that's due to short-sightedness, not because it
doesn't conceptually belong there.
If the user interface included smell (intentionally), that should be
handled by X as well.
7:11 p.m.
On 4/24/05, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
Umm 37 ... that's old shoe leather :)
Is there an ANSI standard yet for the smell-o-vision numbering?
Or an RFC? (1-April or not)
Perhaps one needs to develop a smell-o-wheel in the same vein as a
color wheel? Before one dismisses it out of hand as being friviolous,
think of ester combos as a set of intersection in a grid/orthogonal
packing shape (butyric/acetic/etc acid plus
methanol/ethanol/butenol/propanol/etc). It won't cover all possible
odors, but it would at least allow one to generate a coordinate for
certain smells.
-ethan
If the user
interface included smell (intentionally), that should be
handled by X as well.
xodor: flowers not available. Substituting random smell 37.
2:32 p.m.
On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 20:26 -0400, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 4/22/05, Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com>
wrote:
Except that then you need a different app name for those countries that
spell it 'odour' :-) (it's like people who prefix app names with
'ez',
which is of course meaningless in countries that use zed instead of
zee :-)
cheers
Jules
If the user interface included smell
(intentionally), that should be
handled by X as well.
xodor: flowers not available. Substituting random smell 37.
22 Apr
22 Apr
10:08 p.m.
On Fri, 22 Apr 05 05:10:44 GMT
msokolov at ivan.Harhan.ORG (Michael Sokolov) wrote:
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at
yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
I remember that when the hype about 'Broadway' was coming out of the X
Consortium, which was right before the X Consortium closed shop, that an
audio layer was one of the things being hyped. I remember reading about
it in a 'Broadway' article in that old X Window magazine, probably in
the last, or one of the last, issues that came out.
Do you need audio at all?
No. Audio does not belong in X and I actually never even suspected
that there was an audio extension for X until I heard people on this
list complain that Classic X terminals don't have it. Spoiled kids!
:-)
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