[geeks] How low?

[Dave McGuire]

On June 25, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> Eek.  I'm sitting at a Win2k machine with one of those fancy EMU10k1
> based sound cards in it (read SBLive or SBAudigy), and despite having
> paid for a premium card (well, someone paid, not me), Creative feels
> the need to insert banner ads into their PlayCenter2 applet (the
> default for playing CDs on this machine). 
> 
> What next, pop under ads?
> 
> And while I'm bitching about the sound on this machine, why the heck
> does muting the audio via mixer have to cover a quarter of my screen
> with the word mute in ugly green?
> 
> I had brand name machines (it is a Dell).

  The root of your problem was apparent from the first line of your
email, Josh. ;)

  You're one of the brightest people on this list.  Why did you walk
up to a Win2K machine?  Was it at gunpoint? ;)

        -Dave

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Dave McGuire                  "Needing a calculator indicates that
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