mergeto Preved date November 2011 discuss Talk Preved How does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD? How does one patch KDE 2 under FreeBSD ? is an internet meme in Russian Internet culture . lang ru KDE2 FreeBSD . The question was originally posted on the anime channel of the RusNet IRC network on May 8, 2004. ref http irc.perm.ru wwwlogs anime.RusNet.2004.05.08.fragment.koi8 r.txt IRC log with the original phrase Ru icon ref Its text can be translated as follows Hello, is this an anime channel? Yes. How do I patch KDE2 under FreeBSD? The phrase was meant to satirize the disproportionate amount of technical geeky conversations often occurring on that channel, having nothing to do with anime . Later it was popularized and became widely cited in Russophone chats. In 2006, the phenomenon first received public attention when it was asked by many people prior to the July 6 online conference with the Russian president Vladimir Putin . Due to provoking campaigns, it became the third most popular question proposed to be asked during the conference, the first being PREVED , Vladimir Vladimirovich How do you regard MEDVED? However, the hosts did not ask him the question. ref http president.yandex.ru question.xml?id 194536 Original question for Vladimir Putin , 2006 07 03, Yandex ref In 2007 it was revived to be the number one most frequently asked question in a similar conference with the president of Kazakhstan , Nursultan Nazarbayev . Nazarbayev answered the question seriously ... at his Secretariat of the President of Ukraine secretariat are able to help patch KDE2 under different ... answers 4773d0049fef9 , KDE2 FreeBSD? Ukrainian conference log ... of Ukraine Category Political satire Category 2004 in Russia bg KDE2 FreeBSD? ja FreeBSD KDE2 ? pl Jak mo na spatchowa KDE2 pod FreeBSD? ru KDE2 FreeBSD? uk KDE2 FreeBSD? ... more details
Refimprove date July 2008 lowercase title aRts Infobox software name aRts logo Image arts icon.png 48px screenshot caption developer Stefan Westerfeld latest release version 1.5.9 latest release date release date and age 2008 02 19 status inactive operating system Unix like genre Soundserver Sound Server license GNU General Public License website http www.arts project.org aRts http kde.org KDE aRts , which stands for a nalog R eal t ime s ynthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE series KDE 2 2 and KDE 3 3 to simulate an analog synthesizer . A key component of aRts is the sound server which mixes several streaming media sound stream s in Real time computing realtime . The sound server , called artsd d for daemon computer software daemon , is also utilized as the standard sound server for KDE2 3. However, the sound server is not dependent on KDE and can be used in other projects. It is a direct competitor to JACK Audio Connection Kit , another real time sound server, and an indirect competitor to the Enlightened Sound Daemon ESD . It is now common to use Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA s software mixing instead of artsd. The aRts Platform computing platform also includes aRts Builder an application software application for building custom layouts and configurations for audio mixers, sequencers, synthesizers and other audio schema Disambiguation needed date June 2011 via a user friendly graphical user interface . aRts is free software , distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License . End of project On December 2, 2004 aRts creator and primary developer Stefan Westerfeld announced he was leaving the project due to a variety of fundamental development and technical issues with aRts. In KDE 4 developers chose to replace aRts with a new multimedia API known as Phonon KDE Phonon . ref http dot.kde.org 2006 04 27 phonon multimedia kde 4 Phonon Multimedia in KDE 4 , dot.kde. ... more details