<OT> Re: Making Music with FOSS

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 13:18 -0700, Seattle Chaz wrote:
> Last week, opensource.com hosted a web-cast, Making Music with FOSS.
> I missed it, but I was confident that the media would be archived,
> which is indeed the case.  However, the media file is in the
> proprietary .arf format from WebEx.  Though I searched extensively, I
> was unable to locate a method for converting the file to a more usable
> form.
> 
> Of course, I COULD just view the materials on-line, but where's the
> fun in that?  The download-able media player supports only Windows and
> Mac.  I was about to hold my nose and install the player when I was
> inspired to attempt a Wine installation.  I downloaded the WebEx .arf
> Player, set the executable permission on the .msi file and booted it
> under Wine.  Wine happily took it and installed it and the downloaded
> media played without a hiccup.  

I just checked and don't find the promised OGG file. 7 days after. So, I
chided them a bit. The last thing I would want to do, is use wine to
view a proprietary format from a Red Hat fanzine that purports itself to
be all about Open Source, from my Linux box. Somehow, that just doesn't
work well in what's left of what I call my brain. "Back in the Old
Days<tm>" at Red Hat, someone would have been tossed bodily out the
door, by a jeering fist-shaking mob ,and their Red Hat taken away to be
stepped and stomped on, for pulling that one. "We use a third-party
service for the actual function of doing the webcast." 

Well, there you have it. Linux ain't up to the job, OpenSource.com ain't
either. We're doomed. <battling depression> :( Ric
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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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