sigh....

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

"yeah, i have a training course and when i put the cd in the drive nothing happens."
(k, cd isn't autorunning. yes, tard problem, but not really ultra tard, kinda run of the mill tard)
"okay, double click on your my computer"
(after a min finds it)
"okay, now what?"
"double click on your cd rom drive."
"okay, nothing shows up. it just says cd-rom drive"
".... oookay, try right clicking on your cd-rom drive and select "open""
"okay, still doesn't show anything."
"you dont see a list of files or folders there?"
"no, nothing."
"hmmmmmmm...."
"this is a dvd disc by the way, does that matter?"
................. well... yes... that would be the problem.... you need a dvd drive to play a dvd"
"the cd drive wont play it?"
"nnnnoooo, the cd drive isn't physically capable of reading a dvd disk"
"do you guys had a converter or something that would get it to run?"
"yeah, a dvd drive."

ciggy time...

Valis

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[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

"do you guys had a converter or something that would get it to run?"
"yeah, a dvd drive."

PWNED!

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

I've got all these callers today.

one lady I had to tell put the shiney side down.

[daerlyn.livejournal.com]

Hee. In one of my classes last semester the AV dept flaked out on us for a DVD player. One of my fellow students was convinced that we could somehow rewire the CD-rom on the aged classroom pc to run DVDs. *sigh* It took me about twenty minutes to get through to her.

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

sigh... ;)