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From: Darren New
Subject: Hint for the day...
Date: 19 Mar 2008 23:31:14
Message: <47e1e892$1@news.povray.org>
Do not uninstall your DVD device driver in Windows while you are in the 
process of burning a DVD.  It makes Windows ... sad. Or should I say, blue?

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."


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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Hint for the day...
Date: 20 Mar 2008 00:35:00
Message: <web.47e1f69ce7de57521034fcd80@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Do not uninstall your DVD device driver in Windows while you are in the
> process of burning a DVD.  It makes Windows ... sad. Or should I say, blue?

you know, I enjoy bashing Windows as much as the next guy, but this was really
awful...

Why in hell would anyone do that anyway?!


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Hint for the day...
Date: 20 Mar 2008 03:57:17
Message: <47e226ed@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Do not uninstall your DVD device driver in Windows while you are in the 
> process of burning a DVD.

  Why would anyone even want to do that? (In fact, why would anyone want
to uninstall the DVD device driver at all, regardless of the situation?)

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Hint for the day...
Date: 20 Mar 2008 04:58:51
Message: <47e2355b@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> Do not uninstall your DVD device driver in Windows while you are in the 
> process of burning a DVD.  It makes Windows ... sad. Or should I say, blue?

What kind of DVD drive requires a specific device driver?

-- 
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*


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From: Bill Pragnell
Subject: Re: Hint for the day...
Date: 20 Mar 2008 06:20:00
Message: <47e24860$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> Do not uninstall your DVD device driver in Windows while you are in the 
> process of burning a DVD.  It makes Windows ... sad. Or should I say, blue?

I imagine the DVD you were burning doesn't come off too well either.


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From: Mike Raiford
Subject: Re: Hint for the day...
Date: 20 Mar 2008 07:09:27
Message: <47e253f7$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> Do not uninstall your DVD device driver in Windows while you are in the 
> process of burning a DVD.  It makes Windows ... sad. Or should I say, blue?
> 

Inquiring minds want to know ...

Then again, I did manage to blue screen WinXP yesterday purely by 
accident. Create enough .NET controls with a size of 
(Int.MaxValue,Int.MaxValue) and it'll eventually blue screen somewhere 
in the video driver.

Please don't ask how I managed this. Suffice it to say, I had a gross 
misunderstanding of the documentation for the GetPreferredSize function.


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From: somebody
Subject: Re: Hint for the day...
Date: 20 Mar 2008 09:59:29
Message: <47e27bd1$1@news.povray.org>
"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote

> Do not uninstall your DVD device driver in Windows while you are in the
> process of burning a DVD.  It makes Windows ... sad. Or should I say,
blue?

Tomorrow: Do not cut the branch you are sitting on...


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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: Hint for the day...
Date: 20 Mar 2008 10:50:27
Message: <47e287c3$1@news.povray.org>
"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
news:47e1e892$1@news.povray.org...
> Do not uninstall your DVD device driver in Windows while you are in the 
> process of burning a DVD.  It makes Windows ... sad. Or should I say, 
> blue?
>
> -- 
>   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
Come clean, Darren. Exactly why did you do that?

John
-- 
This is not a sig block


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From: St 
Subject: Re: Hint for the day...
Date: 20 Mar 2008 11:22:37
Message: <47e28f4d$1@news.povray.org>
"Doctor John" <doc### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message 
news:47e287c3$1@news.povray.org...
> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
> news:47e1e892$1@news.povray.org...
>> Do not uninstall your DVD device driver in Windows while you are in the 
>> process of burning a DVD.  It makes Windows ... sad. Or should I say, 
>> blue?
>>
>> -- 
>>   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
> Come clean, Darren. Exactly why did you do that?

  I had the impression that a user did that, and that Darren was fixing it? 
<shrug>

     ~Steve~


>
> John
> -- 
> This is not a sig block
>


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From: St 
Subject: Re: Hint for the day...
Date: 20 Mar 2008 14:27:41
Message: <47e2baad@news.povray.org>
"somebody" <x### [at] ycom> wrote in message news:47e27bd1$1@news.povray.org...
> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote
>
>> Do not uninstall your DVD device driver in Windows while you are in the
>> process of burning a DVD.  It makes Windows ... sad. Or should I say,
> blue?
>
> Tomorrow: Do not cut the branch you are sitting on...

      Yes, don't.  ;)

    And also, don't stand under the branch you're cutting springs to mind 
too.

      ~Steve~


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