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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!vyzynz!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.misc Subject: Re: what use does a soundcard have? Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 16:58:26 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 21 Message-ID: <318FE3A2.237C228A@FreeBSD.org> References: <HAFNER.96Apr25184039@suncog2.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de> <4m5n78$3u5@sanson.dit.upm.es> <3189C4FC.167EB0E7@sprynet.com> <4ml9i2$e5d@trotsky.cig.mot.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Kevin Kadow <kadow@msg.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18929 comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.misc:17028 Kevin Kadow wrote: > It's also fun to use sox and an audioplayer to associate sounds with various > system activities. For example, my X-terminal at work barks when I get Let us also not forget the immortal "xboing", which does indeed use the sound card. Also, on the serious side, we've got the MBONE utilities for sound (as well as speak_freely for IPHONE style chatter). The current FreeBSD installation has "Express, Novice and Custom" as installation options. For a couple of years now, I've been toying with the idea of adding "Silly" - an installation method which would make liberal use of graphics and sound in the process of installing your FreeBSD system. If you made a mistake, it would also insult you gratuitously for it. Any interest? :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project