Question for dual users?
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Mon Oct 19 14:16:46 UTC 2009
On Monday 19 October 2009, Tim wrote:
>Tim:
>>> If they can watch MP4 files already, then yes.
>
>Gene Heskett:
>> Well, not being a windows user, and figuring that it it wasn't wmv or
>> flv, the approved windows codecs according to the muttering on the
>> street, I have no idea if windows even knows what an .mp4 is.
>
>I don't think XP would, out of the box. But if they've played with
>iTunes, or one of the other similar things, they've probably added
>what's needed.
>
I took the chance, made a box out of 7/16 OSB for the cd and put it in the
box with the re-machined starter parts. Goes out in an hour or so, as soon
as I find my round tuit. Good frost here last night.
>>> This question sounds awfully like, "Doctor, will I be able to play the
>>> piano after this operation?" And the doctor asks, "Could you play it
>>> before?"
>>
>> Just barely. I took lessons at mothers insistence when I was in the
>> 2-3-4th grades. I can read music well enough to pick out the melody, but
>> that's about it. My wife, an elementary school level music teacher, now
>> retired for several years, thinks that is amazing. Shrug. :-)
>
>I only had about a couple of years of lessons, my music teacher stopped
>teaching for quite some time after his daughter was murdered.
Ouch. And he never got a chance to say goodby. Very Sad. I did, in a
round-about way, get to say goodbye to my oldest daughter Barbara, about a
week before she passed from cancer. That helps. But only somewhat.
>I play keyboard instruments.
And I play at playing them. :)
>>> You'll have forgotten to put the backshell on if and when all the wires
>>> solder onto the plug easily...
>>
>> Only a tech could come up with that, and I'm a C.E.T.
>
>I was thinking that mantra, over and over, yesterday. And I still
>managed to do it twice. And you just know that when you try to fix it
>up, the wires will get mangled.
Yup, so I long ago quit trying to salvage, cut it off & redress them from
scratch.
>> I don't think, in 60 years of it, that I have managed a year without
>> doing exactly that. Maddening...
>
>Me either, and it is.
>
>There's an extra clause: If it's a multi-pin, you'll notice you've done
>it just before you finish.
>
Yes, there will be one wire left to solder when you discover the back shell
laying on the bench. :(
--
Cheers, Gene
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