Tales from the Datacenter » Humor http://www.pburch.com/blog Tales from the Datacenter Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:51:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 DVD Region http://www.pburch.com/blog/2009/06/10/dvd-region/ http://www.pburch.com/blog/2009/06/10/dvd-region/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:21:33 +0000 Patrick http://www.pburch.com/blog/?p=202 In my playings-around with Windows 7, I’ve really loved the fact that it plays DVDs and AVIs nativly with no extra codecs or applications.  I have to tell you, it’s really nice to be able to just pop a DVD in and have it play automagically.  Until this happens:

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Now, if you don’t get it at first, read it again.  Anyway, I was forced to reset my region to 1 (from 1), taking up one of the five changes that I’m allowed.  Not that I’m going to be changing my region to anything else, but still, I find this dialog box humorous.

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The post.

And an excerpt:

So, I’m sitting there today working on something for a client when I received an unsolicted Skype Message with an “Important Business Proposal”.

I normally mess with these guys a little, just to waste their time , but as I was on the phone to a client I just decided to get rid of him quickly.

As you can see – he was suprisingly honest about his ultimate intentions.

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