Thanks for your e-mail and we are sorry you have experienced playability issues with the new [CD removed] and your PC.
It would help us a lot if we could get the model details of your PC so that we can make sure that the compatibility issue will be resolved as we continue to evolve this technology.
If you could attempt the following and send the resulting file to us, it would help a lot. Go to START -->Programs-->Accessories-->System
Tools-->System Information. Please save this information as a text or
nfo file and send that back to us.
Please note that you will require at least "Power Users" access or higher to install the application on Microsoft Windows NT operating systems and above.
With these details we can forward your query onto our European technology partner.
Please be aware that, if you prefer, you can return the copy controlled CD to the place of purchase to obtain a refund.
(my emphasis)
sincerely
[name removed]
IT & New Media Director
> Hi
> I recently bought [CD removed], with your copy control stuff on it. When I try and play it on my computer, it uses 100% CPU, and also sounds terrible. There is a lot of high pitched screeching, and it cracks and sounds scratchy. All normal CDs sound fine.
>
> What should I do? I play most music on my computer, and your label says it works fine, but it doesn't at all.
I can really only talk about my own experience here.
I've recently become development manager for one of our company's products. As such, it has taken a while to find my feet, both when interacting with sales & consulting internally, and when interacting with customers. I certainly erred on the side of saying yes too often, because I wasn't sure about saying no.
Not anymore. For me, it took mistakes, stress, and all sorts of complaints directed at myself or the company, whether or not it was my responsibility. It is this realisation that sometimes, I need to say no. People do get pissed off at you when you say no. But your job isn't to please people, it's to get a product out the door (well, for me it is, anyway).
So, you learn to say no when from the experience of getting a yes thrown back in your face.
Why do people keep saying this? It's not even vaguely true. Heck, on windows there isn't even a root user equivalent. There are things that no user can do, at all (ever tried killing a system process as an admin, you can't do it). Perhaps when you last used win95 and discovered you could click cancel on the login box security was a little less well thought out but it is quite different these days.
Next history lesson: Unix was not designed to be secure. It's quite old. Security has been added over time, in much the same way that it is happening with Windows. You see this in the flaws in the Unix security model (there are too many things you need to be root for, the poor implementation of groups, etc).
This is a troll, you twits. The point he is making is how usable it is, and then follows it up with a very long explanation of how difficult the whole process was.
Since Windows 2000 symlinks have been supported. THere is no method in the GUI for interacting with them, however. You will need to go to www.sysinternals.com and download the junction utility from there. It works fine though. You will need to be using NTFS.
Nobody has had a problem with 8.3 for years. That's just a non-issue these days.
NTFS doesn't require the file extension. You can embed the executable information (I think it's a clsid for the executable application) in a separate resource stream within the file.
Don't know if these things transfer by email, tho.
Microsoft is one of the few major players that doesn't use lawmakers and the government to get its way. It is only *very* recently that they have started to give large donations, only after the government got involved with them.
Yes, they do some bad things, but being lawhappy is not one of them.
Microsoft already has network transparency support. It rocks. I can use my desktop half way round the world over dial-up. It takes about 2 seconds to open Outlook and display that on my screen. Remote Desktop Connection is pretty zippy.
We're not talking about "normal" programming problems here- this is Real Life stuff.
I assure you, for those of us that write medical software, normal programming problems become real life stuff. I've been on a support call when they told me "The emergency departments wants their orders to come through, so could we get up and running soon?".
OK, so maybe I'm lucky and I have a work subsidized gym membership at the gym which is on the otherside of the carpark, but I find there's nothing quite like a bit of exercise (swimming is my cardio of choice) to get the blood pumping, gives you some alone time in the zone to toss around those ideas for sexy code.
The NT Boot loader supports dual booting. There isn't even a necessity to replace that. All you gotta do is resize the windows partition, then configure the nt boot loader, install and Bob's your uncle you have both.
Of course you can't reinstall Windows but seriously how often do you need to do that? We have moved on from Win98 now you know.
New Zealand legalised prostitution a few weeks ago. The funniest part was when an owner of a brothel complained that the givernment's job placement program was refusing to refer the jobless to prostitution.
You don't know much about kernels, do you. Just because you don't know much about how non-linux kernels work, doesn't mean they don't have functionality. Linux has one of the least feature complete of the unix kernels.
Also, due to its threading model (As you say though, this is getting fixed) highly multi-threaded apps such as Java server side software tend to suck ass on Linux.
Bush will invade shortly to prevent the construction of these weapons. You can't have these dangerous WMDs. I hear there are nucular facilities in the same country too.
Windows NT used to run on many different architectures, only x86 sold.
Windows CE runs on many different architectures
Being free or open source doesn't protect you from the whims of others. MySQL have changed their licensing meaning that we can no longer ship MySQL with a product which we sell. Instead, we're considering replacing it with MSDE.
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Thanks for your e-mail and we are sorry you have experienced playability issues with the new [CD removed] and your PC.
It would help us a lot if we could get the model details of your PC so that we can make sure that the compatibility issue will be resolved as we continue to evolve this technology.
If you could attempt the following and send the resulting file to us, it would help a lot. Go to START -->Programs-->Accessories-->System Tools-->System Information. Please save this information as a text or nfo file and send that back to us.
Please note that you will require at least "Power Users" access or higher to install the application on Microsoft Windows NT operating systems and above.
With these details we can forward your query onto our European technology partner.
Please be aware that, if you prefer, you can return the copy controlled CD to the place of purchase to obtain a refund. (my emphasis)
sincerely
[name removed]
IT & New Media Director
> Hi
> I recently bought [CD removed], with your copy control stuff on it. When I try and play it on my computer, it uses 100% CPU, and also sounds terrible. There is a lot of high pitched screeching, and it cracks and sounds scratchy. All normal CDs sound fine. >
> What should I do? I play most music on my computer, and your label says it works fine, but it doesn't at all.
> Regards, [name removed]
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
JStamp make native java hardware. Never used them though.
Is that you, Spartacus?
You sound like you know my job :-)
I've recently become development manager for one of our company's products. As such, it has taken a while to find my feet, both when interacting with sales & consulting internally, and when interacting with customers. I certainly erred on the side of saying yes too often, because I wasn't sure about saying no.
Not anymore. For me, it took mistakes, stress, and all sorts of complaints directed at myself or the company, whether or not it was my responsibility. It is this realisation that sometimes, I need to say no. People do get pissed off at you when you say no. But your job isn't to please people, it's to get a product out the door (well, for me it is, anyway).
So, you learn to say no when from the experience of getting a yes thrown back in your face.
Why do people keep saying this? It's not even vaguely true. Heck, on windows there isn't even a root user equivalent. There are things that no user can do, at all (ever tried killing a system process as an admin, you can't do it). Perhaps when you last used win95 and discovered you could click cancel on the login box security was a little less well thought out but it is quite different these days.
Next history lesson: Unix was not designed to be secure. It's quite old. Security has been added over time, in much the same way that it is happening with Windows. You see this in the flaws in the Unix security model (there are too many things you need to be root for, the poor implementation of groups, etc).
Mod parent down.
Nobody has had a problem with 8.3 for years. That's just a non-issue these days.
You don't need Citrix anymore. There's a linux client for Terminal Services these days. It's pretty zippy, too.
Don't know if these things transfer by email, tho.
Yes, they do some bad things, but being lawhappy is not one of them.
Microsoft already has network transparency support. It rocks. I can use my desktop half way round the world over dial-up. It takes about 2 seconds to open Outlook and display that on my screen. Remote Desktop Connection is pretty zippy.
The universe is being restarted. Please save your work.
I assure you, for those of us that write medical software, normal programming problems become real life stuff. I've been on a support call when they told me "The emergency departments wants their orders to come through, so could we get up and running soon?".
Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?
That, or coffee.
*sigh* 64k of RAM. Now that's a computer.
Of course you can't reinstall Windows but seriously how often do you need to do that? We have moved on from Win98 now you know.
Dumbest. Post. Ever.
That's one paranoid puppy, right there.
New Zealand legalised prostitution a few weeks ago. The funniest part was when an owner of a brothel complained that the givernment's job placement program was refusing to refer the jobless to prostitution.
Also, due to its threading model (As you say though, this is getting fixed) highly multi-threaded apps such as Java server side software tend to suck ass on Linux.
Bush will invade shortly to prevent the construction of these weapons. You can't have these dangerous WMDs. I hear there are nucular facilities in the same country too.
Windows CE runs on many different architectures
Being free or open source doesn't protect you from the whims of others. MySQL have changed their licensing meaning that we can no longer ship MySQL with a product which we sell. Instead, we're considering replacing it with MSDE.