On 2/4/2014 2:25 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 23:52:19 -0500, KC wrote:

On 2/3/2014 9:54 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:42:59 -0600, Boating All Out
wrote:

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What is a 'hard reset'?

When you have to power off your PC because it doesn't respond to
keyboard or mouse input.

I can't remember the last time I had to do that on XP. It was not
uncommon on W/98 but usually when you were screwing with new hardware
and drivers.
I just loaded a W/98 machine Saturday. I had one of those.
It turned out to be a bad, on board LAN adapter.
I just plugged in a card and epoxied a blank RJ45 in the board hole so
I would not forget ... again. ;-)
It is my new MP3 player.

BTW if someone finds a newer technology MP3 player that will run from
my Seeburg wall box I'm listening.
It needs to run from a num pad.


Don't know about that, but I bet there is a 4 dollar and 99 cent MP3
player on Amazon that will run, *despite* your Seeburg Wall Box... I
know you guys love to see who can be the biggest Luddite, but there is a
point where it isn't much more than folly.. Not that there is anything
wrong with that..

The wall box is just a novelty thing but I like it.

http://gfretwell.com/ftp/judybar.jpg

I have a bunch of commercial MP3 players. (3 in vehicles and 3 pocket
style. I even had an Ipod for a week before we gave it to my father in
law. They are all a pain in the ass if you want to hear a particular
song.

My wife has the "sync" in her Lincoln that you can talk to but it is
set up to recognize her voice, not so much mine.
I don't think it is any more distracting to punch a number into a 10
key than to try to get the Sync to understand what you want.


I have 1800 songs or so and not one I don't like so I don't go
searching.. Just like listening to a radio station with no commercials,
and no **** music:0


Running MPXPLAY you can just punch up a song by number.
I know there is a plug in for Winamp to do that too but it was pretty
clunky and I gave up on it.

BTW I looked this evening and there os a version of MPXPLAY that runs
on XP now. I tried the Beta a while ago and it wasn't ready for the
public yet.
I may reload at least one of my W/98 machines to XP and take it for a
spin.
I played with it a little tonight and it looks good so far.
14 years ago when I first started with PC based players I had a pretty
long Email exchange with Atilla the Hungarian (the developer) and at
least one of my suggestions made it to the field. I have been running
that version for 13 years or so. I ran native DOS 6.3 machines in my
vehicles and in the W/98 DOS box in the tiki bar. (just for the
improved networking)
The DOS machines were great in a car because they went from "key on"
to music in about 10-12 seconds
The Blaupunkt in my car now takes that long and still does not have
keypad support.