Re: Question for dual users?

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On Monday 19 October 2009, Tim wrote:
>Tim:
>>> If they can watch MP4 files already, then yes.
>
>Gene Heskett:
>> Well, not being a windows user, and figuring that it it wasn't wmv or
>> flv, the approved windows codecs according to the muttering on the
>> street, I have no idea if windows even knows what an .mp4 is.
>
>I don't think XP would, out of the box.  But if they've played with
>iTunes, or one of the other similar things, they've probably added
>what's needed.
>
I took the chance, made a box out of 7/16 OSB for the cd and put it in the 
box with the re-machined starter parts.  Goes out in an hour or so, as soon 
as I find my round tuit.  Good frost here last night.

>>> This question sounds awfully like, "Doctor, will I be able to play the
>>> piano after this operation?"  And the doctor asks, "Could you play it
>>> before?"
>>
>> Just barely.  I took lessons at mothers insistence when I was in the
>> 2-3-4th grades.  I can read music well enough to pick out the melody, but
>> that's about it.  My wife, an elementary school level music teacher, now
>> retired for several years, thinks that is amazing.  Shrug.  :-)
>
>I only had about a couple of years of lessons, my music teacher stopped
>teaching for quite some time after his daughter was murdered.

Ouch.  And he never got a chance to say goodby.  Very Sad.  I did, in a 
round-about way, get to say goodbye to my oldest daughter Barbara, about a 
week before she passed from cancer.  That helps.  But only somewhat.

>I play keyboard instruments.

 And I play at playing them. :)

>>> You'll have forgotten to put the backshell on if and when all the wires
>>> solder onto the plug easily...
>>
>> Only a tech could come up with that, and I'm a C.E.T.
>
>I was thinking that mantra, over and over, yesterday.  And I still
>managed to do it twice.  And you just know that when you try to fix it
>up, the wires will get mangled.

Yup, so I long ago quit trying to salvage, cut it off & redress them from 
scratch.

>> I don't think, in 60 years of it, that I have managed a year without
>> doing exactly that.  Maddening...
>
>Me either, and it is.
>
>There's an extra clause:  If it's a multi-pin, you'll notice you've done
>it just before you finish.
>
Yes, there will be one wire left to solder when you discover the back shell 
laying on the bench. :(

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