From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <788982ab6dbaaf41faa4ab2b145cac75@csplan9.rit.edu> To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:32:38 -0400 From: john@csplan9.rit.edu In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] sad commentary Topicbox-Message-UUID: d2c30a42-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Eris Discordia wrote: >> >>> Plan 9 is not for end users. Plan 9 is for programmers. >> > > Maybe more appropriate in your case - Plan 9 is not for Windows sys admins. > > Please describe the process of accessing an audio device on a computer > across the room with windows and describe how you can do it from the > shell... > > -eric Eric, I don't know what this "audio" thing you CS/CE type researchers are using but us lowlifes just need Firefox and Excel before we can use Plan 9. I'm afraid that until you can provide those, Joe Public will never use Plan 9 and it will be forever doomed to run only on supercomputers and storage systems and in research settings. John "Bob Dobbs" Floren