On Friday 01 September 2006 02:24 pm, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 13:57 -0700, Mike Pogue wrote: > > I propose that OpenSolaris create an audio "identity" for install/boot > > time. > > I nominate a excerpt from John Cage's (in)famous 4'33" > > (for those not familiar with it, it's an avant-garde piece consisting of > 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence).
Has been one of my favorite pieces of his, ever!;-) I used to see Cage when I used to visit at Cal Arts, he was on staff there at the conservetory. He also used to do strange thing with a deck of cards, throw them up and how they landed represented specific notes that needed to be used in the composition. > I fail to see these "oops I just rebooted" noises played by various > other operating systems as anything other than an annoyance for others > and an embarassment for the computer owner. > > We can do better by keeping the speaker silent by default. Come on Bill, let your mind go. How about if we add a idendityctl or indendityadm, would that work?:-/ Easy enough to ship with it off by default. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group
