On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 04:34:03PM +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: > 1. In what sense am I not listening to what people are telling me ? Who > said anything about using standard guis like nautilus to display audio > files ? The discussion to date was about whether the necessary > functionality to directly read audio fioles should be in the kernel or > user space, if I understand correctly, and various standalone utilities > were recommended to access the audio cd contents as files.
You were griping about how Windows has such a brilliant and consistent UI, and how Linux should do that too. I was merely pointing out that it had already been done. > 2.I was not annoyed about anything until you piped up with your sarcasm. Sarcasm? Where? "A satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt". There was no scorn or contempt in my original e-mail. > I didn't actually suggest any method.. I was exprssing my opinion that > the typical user expected consistency despite the fact that behind the > scenes different things may actually be happening. There is consistency if you use a consistent UI. > 3?Until now I wasn't aware of a dir command. I tried as you suggested > dir d: and it returned dir: d\:: No such file or directory. man says dir > lists directory contents. If I can't mount the cd as a directory how > does the command list its contents ? Run that command under windows, you nitwit. See, *now* there's scorn and contempt. > So.. if you really want to help be constructive, otherwise keep quiet. I > have no time for petty nitpicking. *plonk* - Matt
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