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Microsoft Woes
Oct. 14th, 2005 01:40 pmI am about ready to go to Seattle and kick MS' managers in their corporate assets.
I wanted to take a music file to work on CD. I copied the file to CD, everything fine. But then I couldn't get the disk to eject. I tried pushing the button. I tried right-clicking on the drive in Windows Explorer and selecting Eject. I re-opened and re-closed every Application even remotely connected with the task. Nothing. I finally shut all applications and rebooted. Then the CD drive would open. By this time I'm already late for work.
On my work machine I check to make sure the file really is there. Yep. I try to play it. WinMP doesn't recognize the file format (M4P). Microsoft's online help can't find anything on the file format; never heard of it, sorry.
So not only does Windows make me late getting back from lunch, when I finally do get to work I have this piece of music which is perfectly playable, but Windows refuses to even admit it exists.
Guess I'll have to wait until I get back home this afternoon and try to convert it. (I'm not allowed to install software on my work machine.)
Stickmaker
I wanted to take a music file to work on CD. I copied the file to CD, everything fine. But then I couldn't get the disk to eject. I tried pushing the button. I tried right-clicking on the drive in Windows Explorer and selecting Eject. I re-opened and re-closed every Application even remotely connected with the task. Nothing. I finally shut all applications and rebooted. Then the CD drive would open. By this time I'm already late for work.
On my work machine I check to make sure the file really is there. Yep. I try to play it. WinMP doesn't recognize the file format (M4P). Microsoft's online help can't find anything on the file format; never heard of it, sorry.
So not only does Windows make me late getting back from lunch, when I finally do get to work I have this piece of music which is perfectly playable, but Windows refuses to even admit it exists.
Guess I'll have to wait until I get back home this afternoon and try to convert it. (I'm not allowed to install software on my work machine.)
Stickmaker
