On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 00:23, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 17 Sep 2003 3:55 am, Philip Webb wrote: > > 030916 Anne Wilson wrote: > > > Is anyone prepared to talk to me off-list about this. > > > > why off-list ? we're all interested in M$ horror stories (grin). > > > Except when you have to scrape family off the ceiling <g> > > > > My daughter wanted to watch dvd's on her win98 computer. > > > Then she got a message that said > > > 'The DVD key exchange for copy protection has failed. > > > Playback is not possible.' > > > Now she not only can't play any dvds, > > > but she can't play audio disks on that drive either. > > > > so cd she avoid such catastrophes, if she used Linux ? > > She's the original technophobe, and certainly wouldn't consider > learning something new right now - she has a 14-hour a day job and is > near the end of a PhD. Nevertheless I am seriously considering > putting in an old hdd and installing Mandrake to get xine running, > and telling her to boot to that just to play dvds. > > Anne
Or go the other way.... Install Linux + win4lin....
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