cygwin on Vista
Christopher Faylor
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Tue Mar 27 17:41:00 GMT 2007
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 01:39:03PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:13:48AM -0400, Robert Pendell wrote:
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>>Dave Korn wrote:
>>> On 27 March 2007 06:54, Robert Pendell wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> A co-worker brought in their laptop and their sound wasn't working. I
>>>> took a look at it. The drivers appeared to be loaded properly and it
>>>> was definately trying (the sound meter in the sound control panel
>>>> updated) but nothing was coming out of the speakers or headphones. I
>>>> honestly didn't know if I should blame the drivers, the sound card, or
>>>> the speakers.
>>>
>>> Neither. Blame Vista. It's notorious for sound-driver problems. Still,
>>> only another six months or so and there'll be a service pack I have no doubt,
>>> and anyway, you're probably only trying to listen to pirated music anyway, so
>>> you probably deserve whatever you get, because remember that Microsoft hate
>>> and despise all their customers and are continually engaged in actions
>>> deliberately aimed at harming our interests.....
>>>
>>
>>Well a few points here.
>>
>>1. This wasn't *my* laptop. This was a friends laptop.
>>2. I found an identical laptop at the store where the sound was working
>>fine.
>>3. I run vista on my desktop where the sound works perfectly fine
>>4. I listen to all legal music. I rip and encode my own mp3's from my
>>own cds. Last I checked that was perfectly legal. Otherwise stuff like
>>iPods wouldn't exist. ;)
>
>Are you actually contradicting Dave's psychical abilities? I mean, come on,
>the man just provided an in-depth diagnosis of a problem report which contained
>no useful data.
i.e., the problem report contained no useful data. I assume that Dave's diagnosis
was very useful since it was so precise.
>I'd tread very carefully if I were you. Dave knows all.
cgf
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