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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 Spidler »

preek wrote: post #27
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…

Excellent! thankyou

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

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Post by yeukhon »

Dewie wrote: post #24
preek wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My exact thought. Some Youtube videos already amplified so I must adjust the system. Some are not so I must max Youtube and then increase system until reaching the comfort level.

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

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Post by yeukhon »

I really prefer to have a transcript available. This is for users who prefer to get a feeling of the talk (is it interesting enough for me to stay on it for 30 minutes?) and also for accessibiliy. People who cannot hear should be able to read the transcript, even though I can safely the # of deaf users using your service is so low, but still a transcript would be really nice. I don't expect 100% accurate, which means i am okay with it done by a machine (much like Youtube's transcript). Knowing half of the content is good. This surely is a big project but consider it at some point.

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

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Post by comex »

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.

On this note, it's annoying that OS X doesn't provide an external per-app volume control like Windows has. For example, Gmail's voice chat doesn't have a volume control; if I'm watching an iTunes video at the same time (along with the person I'm voice chatting with) and want iTunes to be louder than the chat (due to background noise from the latter), the best I can do is turn the iTunes volume up, but setting it to maximum is insufficient. With such a feature, I could just turn down the browser's volume, though I suppose it's still worthwhile to have volume controls directly embedded in video players for convenience.

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

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Post by bnastic »

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...

Neither does it work under OSX 10.8 + Safari 6. I'm used to games asking for latest&gratest in everything, but a website?

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

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Post by stigt »

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.

Very shortsighted to block a site visit based on a browser. Guess I'll never see your website.

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

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Post by ripter »

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?

I know it sounds weird, but sometimes I have more than one thing on my computer at a time! And some of those things have audio. So it's nice to control the volume of a specific thing, like a video, without having to change the audio for everything else on my system.

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

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Post by lawl »

I'd really like to listen to that talk. But first it didn't work on firefox 29, it does though on Chromium 34, for me. But the audio quality is HORRIBLE, my ears are bleeding, I had to give up at 1:21.

I tried to search youtube, but no luck so far. If anyone has a better recording, please share.

Edit: Since it seems there are no slides anyway and others are having problems with the site, if it doesn't work in your browser, you can try http://voicerepublic.com/vrmedia/982-clean.m4a with a media player, vlc works for me. still doesn't change a thing about the quality of the recording though.

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

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Post by jqm »

Is firefox 20 really that old that this should not work?

(ah, well according to you yes, they are now on 28). But is there a reason it shouldn't work? I mean, I understand not supporting I.E6 but it wasn't that long ago I installed this. Or else time is running together on me.

Just a tip from a user perspective. If you can avoid forced browser upgrades it's a good idea. I generally don't go any further unless I really really want to see the content.

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

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Post by vertex-four »

dktbs wrote: post #8
preek wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

Bandcamp's doesn't.
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