A fellow teacher at school was showing off his new Vaio with XP. He was wondering if he could watch TV with it ... well ... a newbie ... not bad to start using a computer at 52.
We were checking out the M$ version of (...what ever it is that is like RealAudio) and Quicktime. He loves music so I told him to pop a CD in. Interesting bulky interface ... but ... anyway, he's like ummmm ... HOW do you hide it ??? Good Question ... no close to task bar button, just the little X to close it out. I tried to pull it into the task bar ... HEY I'm a mac user ... the Dock let's you do it ... No luck ... So he tried and dragged it way below the task bar ... window gone - no way to pull to top -- and restart wouldn't go ... I did control-alt-del and got a quit task or something or another window ... killed the PIDs and tried to shut down ... machine froze.
that was fun!
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OK, granted the system is new, on a sony vaio, and in Japanese ... jeez can't M$ copy better???
openoffice + gimp + sketch ...
We were checking out the M$ version of (...what ever it is that is like RealAudio) and Quicktime. He loves music so I told him to pop a CD in. Interesting bulky interface ... but ... anyway, he's like ummmm ... HOW do you hide it ??? Good Question ... no close to task bar button, just the little X to close it out. I tried to pull it into the task bar ... HEY I'm a mac user ... the Dock let's you do it ... No luck ... So he tried and dragged it way below the task bar ... window gone - no way to pull to top -- and restart wouldn't go ... I did control-alt-del and got a quit task or something or another window ... killed the PIDs and tried to shut down ... machine froze.
that was fun!
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OK, granted the system is new, on a sony vaio, and in Japanese ... jeez can't M$ copy better???
openoffice + gimp + sketch ...
I found a bug in XP within 3 minutes.