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The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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Re: The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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Post by pohl »

preek wrote: post #12
Spidler wrote: post #10

Why am I getting a talk on Openstack at Cern, and not the Greg KH talk?

CTO of voicerepublic.com here All talks have unique URLs, so when you click the link from HN, you shouldn't find yourself at another talk. If you can reproduce that problem, I would be very interested in a detailed bug report, though. However, we have multiple talks on Openstack[1], if you were interested(; 1. https://voicerepublic.com/search/1/Openstack

I had the same problem. All I did was follow the link, then I fumbled trying to click on the white "play" triangle in the lower-left corner of the video-rectangle, until I realized that the teal-blue octagon was the way to start the playing...and, after a while, I realized I was listening to the Openstack audio, even though the title displays as "The Linux Kernel..."

Re: The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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Post by awidegreen »

preek wrote: post #12
Spidler wrote: post #10

Why am I getting a talk on Openstack at Cern, and not the Greg KH talk?

CTO of voicerepublic.com here All talks have unique URLs, so when you click the link from HN, you shouldn't find yourself at another talk. If you can reproduce that problem, I would be very interested in a detailed bug report, though. However, we have multiple talks on Openstack[1], if you were interested(; 1. https://voicerepublic.com/search/1/Openstack

for me too, talk is about CERN and openstack for about 21min. btw. that has already been the case for me on wednesday evening ...

Re: The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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Post by nanofortnight »

preek wrote: post #12
Spidler wrote: post #10

Why am I getting a talk on Openstack at Cern, and not the Greg KH talk?

CTO of voicerepublic.com here All talks have unique URLs, so when you click the link from HN, you shouldn't find yourself at another talk. If you can reproduce that problem, I would be very interested in a detailed bug report, though. However, we have multiple talks on Openstack[1], if you were interested(; 1. https://voicerepublic.com/search/1/Openstack

Page claims it's on Linux kernel, actual player plays something about CERN.

Re: The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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Post by Dewie »

preek wrote: post #3
kyberias wrote: post #2

Why on earth doesn't that player have a volume control?

Because most machines these days have volume control built in. You can pause the talk, though, if you want it to shut up for a moment.

Applications tend to disagree about how loud volumes 1 to 10 should really be. So I tend to adjust youtube videos, music players etc to certain volumes using their "internal" volume control, so that I don't have to risk bleeding from my ears when I turn off the music to watch a video with a video player that sets the volume to 15 by default.

Re: The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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Post by Dewie »

teraflop wrote: post #19
tormeh wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But they're completely redundant. What would you use it for?

A web page shouldn't act like it has exclusive ownership of system resources like audio; there may be other pages or applications running, and it's often useful to be able to control them independently. For instance, if I have Gmail open in the background, there's no reason that adjusting the volume of whatever's in the foreground should also force me to change the volume of incoming chat notifications.

You said the same thing that I posted just now, only better. Web pages and applications should never assume that they are being used in isolation and without any switching between them.

Re: The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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Post by XorNot »

preek wrote: post #12
Spidler wrote: post #10

Why am I getting a talk on Openstack at Cern, and not the Greg KH talk?

CTO of voicerepublic.com here All talks have unique URLs, so when you click the link from HN, you shouldn't find yourself at another talk. If you can reproduce that problem, I would be very interested in a detailed bug report, though. However, we have multiple talks on Openstack[1], if you were interested(; 1. https://voicerepublic.com/search/1/Openstack

Also getting this problem in Chrome on Linux.

Everything says "Linux kernel" but I get the Openstack talk. Which, well, I'm interested in what they do at CERN too but is definitely not the kernel.

Re: The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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Post by preek »

Spidler wrote: post #10

Why am I getting a talk on Openstack at Cern, and not the Greg KH talk?

UPDATE: The correct talk is online now. Thank you very much for this content bug report.

Also big thanks to all reporters in this thread! Your constructive help is much appreciated!

Original Post:

My deepest apologies. The conference LinuxTag (where both talks had been held) had a couple of unannounced room changes. These two talks must have been switched in that fashion.

LinuxTag had six tracks[1], we are currently searching for the right talk to correct this mess!

1. https://voicerepublic.com/users/linux-tag-berlin#venues

Re: The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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Post by wtracy »

tormeh wrote: post #11
dktbs wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think most people would expect for an audio player to have volume control. I can't think of another web audio player that doesn't offer it.

But they're completely redundant. What would you use it for?

It would be nice to turn down the volume on the video I'm playing now, but still have my VoIP app ring loud enough for me to notice it if I'm not paying attention.

Re: The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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Post by binarycrusader »

preek wrote: post #5
temuze wrote: post #4

I'm using Chrome on Linux and I got "You are using an outdated browser - You are using an old version of Chrome whis is 28." That's a little snarky. Chrome on Linux doesn't have automatic updating and I tend to forget to update. Here's a mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LWDDNOb...

CTO of voicerepublic.com here. Sorry for coming off snarky. We develop and run VR using Debian Stable which ships Chromium 33 right now. We are a very small team building voicerepublic.com and did launch just last week. To offer a perfect experience, we only allow browsers that we actually could test. Whence the team grows, we certainly will test and support more browser versions.

You shouldn't keep people out that have older browser versions.

Instead, you should prompt the user and warn them that their browser has not been tested and is not supported, but they may continue.

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