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Re: cygwin on Vista
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
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- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:39:03 -0400
- Subject: Re: cygwin on Vista
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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:
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>>> 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'd tread very carefully if I were you. Dave knows all.
cgf