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 -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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