Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 15:59:00 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> Cc: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de>, kline@tera.com, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@freebsd.org, multimedia@rah.star-gate.com Subject: Re: Hm...vat not working :( Message-ID: <199601092359.PAA00579@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jan 1996 18:15:46 EST." <Pine.SUN.3.91.960109181215.4800C-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu>
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Must say that lately I have been getting better support from the
OS center folks on the hackers lists -- the formula which has work
for me is to isolate the problem strictly to the OS and post on
the hackers anything else related to multimedia to this list.
Even then sometimes the support is not that great. I posted help
for the PnP stuff and I believe that must of them either didn't
have a clue what PnP stuff was or where not interested till
it became obvious that PnP was good to identify and configure
ISA devices. In contrast the Linux crowd have a full fledge
PnP project with an API :(
At the time that I started this list I was not too pleased with the
hackers list -- they looked to me like a bunch of ... well let me
stop is all in the past 8)
What is interesting is as we move on to the mbone and post relevant
material on web pages there is going to be less and less need
for this mailing rather odd but I guess thats the way it ought
to be.
It is much cooler to lean back on your chair and chat with the guys
in the MBONE with something like vat -- sound activated tool 8)
Peace and Enjoy,
Amancio
>>> Chuck Robey said:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Thomas Graichen wrote:
>
> > hasn't Chuck Robey said ? ...
> > >
> > > I moved this to a better place, Amancio's list at rah.star-gate.com. To
o
> > > many FreeBSD-er's complained they were bored to death by multimedia
> > > discussions, and you're going to get better answers here.
> > >
> > just one question - why is there an empty FreeBSD multimedia list if
> > all the traffic about that topic goes over amanicos list - why not
> > using multimedia@freebsd.org ?
>
> Obvious at the time. Amancio and several of his compadres do most of the
> multimedia work (not all) and were getting some unkind heat from folks
> who were bored by multimedia stuff. Amancio reacted by setting up his
> own list, which was active (hours before) a similar FreeBSD list was
> activated. Amancio keeps his machine full or ftpable multimedia code,
> and if he wants to run it, no one involved with it disagrees.
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