What a horrendous name!
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| Author | Content |
|---|---|
| caitlyn Nov 12, 2010 10:36 AM EDT |
DeadBeef? Really? Very appealing to vegetarians, people in India, and people who just don't like gore and blood in their music player name. Lightweight music player? XMMS still does fine. |
| hkwint Nov 12, 2010 1:17 PM EDT |
I think just "db" was already taken as a package name? |
| herzeleid Nov 12, 2010 2:51 PM EDT |
Deadbeef has the interesting property that it's a hex number. You have to be a geek to appreciate it. |
| jezuch Nov 12, 2010 3:55 PM EDT |
Yeah, read it as 0xdeadbeef.Quoting:Very appealing to vegetarians, people in India, and people who just don't like gore and blood in their music player name. I'm vegetarian and still Carcass is one of my favourite bands, I see no conflict ;) (The band members are (ex-)students of medicine and vegetarians themselves.) |
| gus3 Nov 12, 2010 5:01 PM EDT |
0xdeadbeef is the magic number for Linux binaries, right? |
| azerthoth Nov 12, 2010 5:52 PM EDT |
*edit* Never mind, just some base36 silliness |
| tracyanne Nov 12, 2010 6:33 PM EDT |
Quoting:DeadBeef? Really? Very appealing to vegetarians.. I'm not a vegetarian, we raise our own animals for slaughter - Chooks, ducks, goats - and I'm not at all enthused by the name. It's just plain stupid, I guess that makes me not a geek. |
| flufferbeer Nov 12, 2010 9:02 PM EDT |
@tracyanne, Could have been an equally geeky 0xD3ADB33F and STILL caitlyn might have found something to complain abt. I'm guessing that she'd somehow object to the "AD" for its Anno Domini yr-dating, instead of her preferred "CE" (Common Era as opposed to the hexed 206). just my own geeky and hexed 44 on this ; ) |
| tuxchick Nov 12, 2010 9:36 PM EDT |
The name that bothers me is Con Kolivas' BFS. That really wasn't necessary (brain f*** scheduler) |
| hkwint Nov 12, 2010 10:37 PM EDT |
Unless it was written in that particular language, of course. [[+++>+++++.< ahem |
| tracyanne Nov 13, 2010 1:22 AM EDT |
@fb
Quoting:Could have been an equally geeky 0xD3ADB33F and STILL caitlyn might have found something to complain And I would still have thought is was a d@mned stupid name to give a media player. |
| montezuma Nov 14, 2010 10:35 AM EDT |
Tuxchick, The explanation for BFS is rather simple. Con is an Australian. Australians are larrikins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrikinism He would be pleased you disapprove. |
| tuxchick Nov 14, 2010 1:06 PM EDT |
Thanks for the reference, montezuma. It's still dumb. Anyone can be vulgar and crude; that's no achievement. Creating something cool like this scheduler is the real achievement, and cloaking it behind a juvenile name does it a disservice. |
| hkwint Nov 14, 2010 2:22 PM EDT |
In the past, Linus, Ingo & co did Con's scheduler an even greater disservice, hence the name doesn't bother anymore. |
| tracyanne Nov 14, 2010 5:36 PM EDT |
Quoting:Thanks for the reference, montezuma. It's still dumb. Anyone can be vulgar and crude; that's no achievement. Creating something cool like this scheduler is the real achievement, and cloaking it behind a juvenile name does it a disservice. In the interests of proprietary, not a word shall escape my lips... er fingers. |
| caitlyn Nov 14, 2010 5:36 PM EDT |
Thank you tuxchick and tracyanne for being voices of reason here. I do find the name vulgar and crude and that enough is reason for me to stick with other music players. |
| helios Nov 15, 2010 11:28 AM EDT |
This is glaringly indicative of the larger problem... It's been said often that most Linux app developers and coders write software for other Linux app developers and coders. Few if any are going to find the hex reference amusing. In this case and others, it's almost like the authors wrote a decent app then wrapped it with a user repellent. Since I watch programs like Supernatural and The Walking Dead, the reference to carnage doesn't bother me near as much as the general propensity to name Linux apps with the most obscure or inane ways possible. Yeah...we'll gain mainstream notice by naming our apps after stuff like this. On the other hand... I have, ahem...acquired a rather large and eclectic music collection over the years and like an application that helps me manage that collection. I like to keep my Gnome environment clean so I rarely if ever drag KDE dependencies into it so my choice of music apps are limited by this choice. The exact reason I downloaded this app was for the unique name. And no, it didn't suite my needs, I find it a bit kludgy, but still...I did try it out. Bad app names in Linux seems to be the norm instead of the exception. Don't make me start a list... h |
| tuxchick Nov 15, 2010 11:40 AM EDT |
Or to put it another way, in-jokes don't migrate gracefully to a general audience. |
| hkwint Nov 15, 2010 12:39 PM EDT |
Ah, so Linux needs a way to Alias apps to the real world... Bounties for a deadbeef-wrapper? |
| gus3 Nov 15, 2010 1:46 PM EDT |
SteaK: the Simple Tunes Encapsulator and Archiver for KDE. |
| tuxchick Nov 15, 2010 2:09 PM EDT |
*applause" Good one gus3! |
| hkwint Nov 15, 2010 3:21 PM EDT |
Yeah, sounds much better! (Would that translate to 57EAC?) |
| gus3 Nov 15, 2010 3:46 PM EDT |
Potato: Playing Our Tunes At The Odd-itorium Please, someone stop me before I embarrass myself. EDIT: The name "Odditorium" is already taken, several times over, starting here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripley's_Believe_It_or_Not!#Mus... |
| bigg Nov 15, 2010 3:49 PM EDT |
> Please, someone stop me before I embarrass myself. Unfortunately I don't have a time machine. |
| tracyanne Nov 15, 2010 5:28 PM EDT |
We could call it The Beat, and gain a gay male following. |
| tuxchick Nov 15, 2010 9:15 PM EDT |
Gay male what? Though I guess Scott et al don't care what species read LXer. |
| hkwint Nov 15, 2010 9:57 PM EDT |
gus3: "Here's news for ya': Microsoft just took over the world!"
Read about it in the Reliable Times - http://tipotheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/reliabletim... (if I smile - please give me some bad news - before I laugh - and act like...) |
| tracyanne Nov 15, 2010 10:34 PM EDT |
@TC Gerbils, of course. Very happy male Gerbils. |
| Scott_Ruecker Nov 16, 2010 2:35 AM EDT |
@tuxchick; Any species capable of accessing LXer is ok by me..by hoof, foot, snout or hand..;-) |
| jacog Nov 16, 2010 4:04 AM EDT |
"We will fight for... bovine free-ee-dom,
and hold our large heads high. We will run free... with the buffalo, or diiiieeeeeeeeee.... Cows with guns!" |
| tuxchick Nov 16, 2010 11:17 AM EDT |
Chickens in choppers! |
| helios Nov 16, 2010 1:56 PM EDT |
Hippos with howitzers. sorry... h |
| tuxchick Nov 16, 2010 4:11 PM EDT |
You don't look sorry. |
| gus3 Nov 16, 2010 6:11 PM EDT |
Yes, he does. He always looks that way. |
| dinotrac Nov 17, 2010 8:10 AM EDT |
Personally, I would skip all the jokes and just call it something like StayTuned. |
| helios Nov 17, 2010 11:20 AM EDT |
You don't look sorry. Busted...I'm not. I just find that a quick apology sidesteps anyone from digging into my anti-social personality. Dexter is my friend. h |
| KernelShepard Nov 17, 2010 11:24 AM EDT |
I remember back in the day there was a gtk news reader called The Pimp-Ass News Reader, which later became known as Pan. |
| gus3 Nov 17, 2010 1:27 PM EDT |
@KS, I figured the name "Pan" just had to do with all the pr0n in the alt.* newsgroups. |
| helios Nov 17, 2010 4:10 PM EDT |
"Pan" just had to do with all the pr0n in the alt.* newsgroups. Are you saying there's anything else there? Probably need to look into that. or not... h |
| hkwint Nov 17, 2010 7:48 PM EDT |
KS: And then, they "backwards change" the acronym, to something like "Popular Astonishing News Reader" or something; don't you just love that! But SAP also did it BTW. |
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