More technical "fun"
Dec. 24th, 2005 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrBusily installing drivers and software on new machine.
Lost sound for a bit when I tried the "upgrade" Windows update offered for the sound hardware drivers. All it did was nuke the old one. Yeesh.
But most of the stuff is going well. Turns out that the free CD burning software that came with the DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive is the "basic" version of a program I bought a few years back. So I'm upgrading that.
Meanwhile, the DVD player software wanted to run some tests on a copy protected DVD. So I grabbed my Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Collector's Edition. I bought it just before Thanksgiving, and when I'd opened it I'd found that the "fancy" box holding the DVDs and stuff had been poorly assembled. The glue holding the "cover" to the "box" hadn't bonded well (and in fact had been applied in the wrong spots).
Okay, I could live with that, and since Lin & Kermit didn't want to watch it, I'd just put it away until I got back home. And hadn't felt like watching it. But since it was on the top of the stack I grabbed it....
...and I then discovered that the way the DVDs were "held" in position was such that I can't see any way to get them *out* without either mutilating the case or risking *breaking* them!!!!!
Guess I'm going to take them back and give CostCo a piece of my mind. Unless they can prove to me that a replacement copy *isn't* messed up the same way (and the bit with the way the DVDs are held seems to be the way the case is *designed*) I'll be getting a refund, not a replacement.
This is *very* annoying. And I don't need the aggravation today. Really.
Lost sound for a bit when I tried the "upgrade" Windows update offered for the sound hardware drivers. All it did was nuke the old one. Yeesh.
But most of the stuff is going well. Turns out that the free CD burning software that came with the DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive is the "basic" version of a program I bought a few years back. So I'm upgrading that.
Meanwhile, the DVD player software wanted to run some tests on a copy protected DVD. So I grabbed my Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Collector's Edition. I bought it just before Thanksgiving, and when I'd opened it I'd found that the "fancy" box holding the DVDs and stuff had been poorly assembled. The glue holding the "cover" to the "box" hadn't bonded well (and in fact had been applied in the wrong spots).
Okay, I could live with that, and since Lin & Kermit didn't want to watch it, I'd just put it away until I got back home. And hadn't felt like watching it. But since it was on the top of the stack I grabbed it....
...and I then discovered that the way the DVDs were "held" in position was such that I can't see any way to get them *out* without either mutilating the case or risking *breaking* them!!!!!
Guess I'm going to take them back and give CostCo a piece of my mind. Unless they can prove to me that a replacement copy *isn't* messed up the same way (and the bit with the way the DVDs are held seems to be the way the case is *designed*) I'll be getting a refund, not a replacement.
This is *very* annoying. And I don't need the aggravation today. Really.
