Ghost in the XP machine

[The PIT]

Okay I'm a little scared

Can you guys explain this?

My wonderful XP machine thats being grumpy lately. No internet connection and I don't own any police cd's neither have I borrowed any.
I've been playing CD's all evening and suddenly windows media decides I'm playing the polices greatest hits according to it's playlist.
Where has it got the listing from? How does it know police records

Whats going on Dave ??

[Greebe]

Dave's not here

[ayoub_ibrahim]

Originally posted by Greebe
Dave's not here

think he calls his pc Dave!

[Wombat]

I think you completely missed a 2001 reference. If anything, the computer would be called HAL.

[Greebe]

Are you sure that wasn't a Cheech and Chong reference?

(yes it's a 2k1 reference but I felt like posting that anyway)

[Dr Mordrid]

Don't you just love it when M$ charges you to be part of a public beta?

Dr. Mordrid

[dZeus]

talking about ghosts, I connected an USB keyboard to my linux server with i440ex chipset and BIOS from '98... I enabled OS USB Keyboard - Enabled, so that I could change bios settings and manually enter commands at the lilo command line, but somehow the BIOS wasn't 100% compatible with my USB HID...

as soon as I entered the BIOS, it froze... if I didn't enter the BIOS, but tried to boot, it would say 'verifying DPMI Data Pool..... and Building DPMI Data Pool....' and freeze as well

After I disabled USB Keyboard support it worked fine again, but I have to go through some trouble whenever I need to change a BIOS setting :/

took me a frigging hour to find out what on earth was going on (I changed several other hardware related stuff as well, so when it showed up it could have had several possible causes).

[The PIT]

Why am I called Hal Dave?

[Fat Tone]

Maybe the CD has CD-Xtra info or something on it?

"I'm afraid I can't let you play that, Dave"

T.

[Jammrock]

Windows Media player has the capability to read CD-text. If the Police's Greatest Garbage CD has CD-Text on it, WMP can read it to make the playlist.

Jammrock

[The PIT]

Yes but the Cd hasn't got any info about the police and I haven't got any police cd's so where has it got the info from.

Dave I want you play Police CD's Dave.

[dZeus]

maybe it downloaded tracklisting from cddb... sometimes when I pop in a CD and winamp tries to get the track listing, I get several possibilities, sometimes of completely different audiocds than the one I put in the drive

[Wombat]

Just make sure you don't try to do simple stuff, like <A HREF="http://zappadoodle.com">use printf</A> in XP.

[Ali]

I think all XP boxes are possesed. This Laptop always brings up the Office 2000 Premium installer everytime I press 'Windows key' +F to do a search (why did MS change Find to Search, and not change the hot key?).

This computer has never had office 2000 on it, as I spent far too much on office 97, and only ever use about 2% of what thats capable of, so dont see any need to give Billy G more $$ so I can use 1% of the next version.

Strange things eh?

Ali

[The PIT]

How did download a playlist when it wasn't connected to the internet??