On Wednesday 17 Sep 2003 9:19 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > 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....
I think that would be step 2. Once her thesis is finished there would be slightly less pressure. Then she is going to be moving within the next few months, and job pressures would be slightly less - she will have more control over her time. She is very dependent upon Lotus SmartSuite, but w4l runs that well, so she could get to all her old docs, and new things could be introduced to her one at a time - verrry slowly <g> Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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