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slimCODE, aka Martin Plante

Try again later

I used to sync my Dell DJ within Windows XP, but since I rarely boot in XP anymore, I decided to sync it in Vista. So I booted in XP, opened Windows Media Player, and cancelled the "partnership" with my Dell DJ.

Then I tried rebooting in Vista, but the XP shutdown step froze. Bah, must be a glitch I told myself. I forced the reboot, logged in Vista, opened Windows Media Player and selected a new partneship with my Dell DJ:

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What? Can you be less precise please? When is "later"? In a few minutes maybe? Or an hour? How about a day?

As a developer, it's not the fact that it failed without clues that affects me the most. It's knowing another developer or technical writer deliberately wrote that message in Windows Media Player's code.

 

Published Wednesday, August 15, 2007 3:07 AM by slimcode
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