On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 08:07 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 09:42 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Craig, you are being purposely difficult, I've made it plain several times > > that what I'm concerned with is the ability to play the videos in any > > link I might run into off of a site such as /. or cnn.news. > > > > You keep treating me like a damned pie-rat that wants to make wholesale > > copies of a popular movie & hawk them on a street corner or flea market. > > The only copying I might do is a fair use copy, like putting it on my > > hard drive and the dvd back in its shell on the shelf. But I have not > > done that to the half dozen movies I do own on dvd yet. So stuff it > > someplace dark please, I'm tired of the accusations. > ---- > this was your original post... > > > What can I replace totem with that will work? > > > > I'm plumb out of patience with its I can't play this messages that do > > not > > tell you what it can't play. > > this was my reply... > > > you mean kind of like the vague information that I see here? > > > > Just taking a wild ass guess at your problem, I would guess that you > > need to install an unlicensed version of libdvdcss so you can decrypt > > encrypted commercial DVD movies. > > you can interpret my reply any way that you wish I would suppose but > given the information presented in the question, I am certain that it > was an appropriate and helpful answer. > > I agree that you clarified your problem 4 hours later - probably after > getting a number of replies from others who were similarly unable to > deduce what you were trying to accomplish any more than I could. > > The follow up post to which you are replying here was a reply to Kurt > Wall. It had no consideration about what you intended to do with > libdvdcss as that clearly is none of my concern. It wasn't directed > towards you at all so the inferences that you have drawn concerning your > activities were clearly your own. Maybe not but look at the thread you are writing in. "Reply to Kurt Wall" notwithstanding, with this rhetoric, if I was Gene, I'd be making it clear that any copies I were making would be fair use copies, period. > If I had a complaint to make about your questions/posting, they would be > about being vague and not specific and the fact that you seem to find it > too easy to merely ask the list the questions that get asked at least > every other week and don't bother searching the archives - just like > your follow up questions about rebuilding rpm db. I would expect that > someone who has been on the list as long as you have and using RHL/FC as > long as you have, that you would know how to ask specific questions and > demonstrate what research that you have done to solve the problem. > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Which is a good place to go, but not necessarily indicative of any shortcomings in Gene's posts. You yourself might benefit from a meticulous re-read of Raymond's work; since your starting approach is not one that I think ESR would have taken. WWESRD LX -- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it. -- Winston Churchill Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
