Windows appreciation

QUOTE (RobertF @ October 27, 2009 01:25 pm)

Oh god, I feel awful posting that.. brownswood/2_2.png

...Slashdot is particularly awful though, I think I found that on reddit or somewhere..
Don't hate me!

At least you lot are discussing it, right? And I'm finally making a contribution to this forum instead of just reading it...

we love you rob. be cool daddio brownswood/2_1.png

HOW THE FUCK do i copy a file from a dc onto my desktop (or anywhere). whatever i do it just creates a shortcut.

i will piss on this computer

(cut) ctrl+x or (copy) ctrl+c and then ctrl+v

tried it it just creates a 44 byte shortcut

Right click the file, keep the button held down and drag the file to the desktop. A menu will appear asking whether you want to copy it or create a shortcut.

thanks, but nope.
the 'menu' options were 'copy here' or 'cancel'. 'copy here' produces a 44 byte shortcut, cancel does nothing.

hate.

QUOTE (nikey @ October 28, 2009 10:51 pm)

thanks, but nope.
the 'menu' options were 'copy here' or 'cancel'. 'copy here' produces a 44 byte shortcut, cancel does nothing.

hate.

Is it a music CD?

QUOTE (James @ October 28, 2009 10:53 pm)

QUOTE (nikey @ October 28, 2009 10:51 pm)

thanks, but nope.
the 'menu' options were 'copy here' or 'cancel'. 'copy here' produces a 44 byte shortcut, cancel does nothing.

hate.

Is it a music CD?

now we're getting places, yes i think it's an audio cd.

QUOTE (nikey @ October 28, 2009 11:03 pm)

QUOTE (James @ October 28, 2009 10:53 pm)

QUOTE (nikey @ October 28, 2009 10:51 pm)

thanks, but nope.
the 'menu' options were 'copy here' or 'cancel'. 'copy here' produces a 44 byte shortcut, cancel does nothing.

hate.

Is it a music CD?

now we're getting places, yes i think it's an audio cd.

If you drag a file from an audio CD onto your desktop on OSX it creates an AIFF file, perfectly logical.

On Windows it creates a shortcut you're saying. Seems you have to rip the CD first, Windows Media Player can do that but can it do it as a WAV? I don't know because I can't remember.

This is probably your best option.

QUOTE (James @ October 28, 2009 11:12 pm)

QUOTE (nikey @ October 28, 2009 11:03 pm)

QUOTE (James @ October 28, 2009 10:53 pm)

QUOTE (nikey @ October 28, 2009 10:51 pm)

thanks, but nope.
the 'menu' options were 'copy here' or 'cancel'. 'copy here' produces a 44 byte shortcut, cancel does nothing.

hate.

Is it a music CD?

now we're getting places, yes i think it's an audio cd.

yes, and you see it's made a .wma file. beautiful, isn't it. windows again making the wrong decision without even asking me what i wanted. where do you want to go today? to the industrial waste compactor.

i don't really want to do any converting of the file. as i understand it audio cd tracks are in fact aif files already.

as for hackingtosh, i think that would be madly frustrating for me to implement and maintain.

thanks for the input, if i disappear assume i've injured myself trying to 'kill' this laptop.

QUOTE (nikey @ October 28, 2009 11:29 pm)

as for hackingtosh, i think that would be madly frustrating for me to implement and maintain.

Get someone else to install it and don't bother doing updates.

QUOTE (James @ October 28, 2009 11:30 pm)

QUOTE (nikey @ October 28, 2009 11:29 pm)

as for hackingtosh, i think that would be madly frustrating for me to implement and maintain.

Get someone else to install it and don't bother doing updates.

yup

On Windows you need CDA to WAV software.

CDex is supposed to work and it's free. You want the installer for Windows NT Series. I haven't tested it because I don't have Windows on any of machines any more.

FreeRIP will rip your CDs for you - WAVs or MP3s. Not sure if this is what you wanna do - nice easy (and free) piece of software though:

http://www.freerip.com/download.php

QUOTE (nikey @ October 29, 2009 12:29 am)

as for hackingtosh, i think that would be madly frustrating for me to implement and maintain.

i was thinking about hackintosh, but you have to be very careful to have compatible hardware (especially mainboard chipsets) to get a fully running system. as i didn't want to order my hardware from 10 different shops, i gave up the idea.

however, i've seen it running perfectly on some netbooks - can be done without much work.