<div dir="ltr">Man, I would love to have talks about what Microsoft has been doing with linux lately. The Ubuntu on Windows system is surprisingly stable and makes for a good development environment. Also, the chakra core is linux friendly to the extant that microsoft distributes Ubuntu binaries. It is getting to be difficult to stop rooting for them these days (not forgetting the alphabet though).</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Charles Dayringer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dayringer@izzy.net" target="_blank">dayringer@izzy.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Andika">Maybe a fresh install of
17.10 next week will fix it. I've been thinking of ditching Ubuntu
Studio for a while, anyway, as it is a metapackage & I
can't try out any new interfaces with it. It's been working
reliably for me for several years, though, & I like the
xfce interface fine.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span></font></font></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Andika">-cd</font></font></p></font></span><div><div class="h5">
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Andika"></font></font><br>
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<div class="m_120162450219166267moz-cite-prefix">On 10/16/2017 11:45 AM, Richard Green
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<div dir="ltr">to: <span style="font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;white-space:nowrap">Charles
Dayringer</span>
<div><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:nowrap">- IMO: Your
backend is confused.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:nowrap">Your
initials are CD and you are asking it to play CD.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:nowrap">I fear
there is one inference too many, and that is interfering
with the interface.</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 2:20 PM,
Charles Dayringer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dayringer@izzy.net" target="_blank">dayringer@izzy.net</a>></span>
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Andika">Ubuntu Studio 17.04
- HP laptop</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Andika">I suddenly cannot
play cd's, either on my built-in cd/dvd tray, or on
my usb cd/dvd device.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Andika">I get a gstreamer
backend error.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Andika">Anyone else
encounter that or have any ideas about that?</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Andika">Searches don't turn
up much for it.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Andika">Yesterday I put a
cd in, and it stuck, wouldn't show up on the
filesystem, wouldn't eject, didn't play. It was
inserted properly. I ignored it & watched a
movie on TV. 1 1/2 hours later, while watching a
movie - the CD suddenly started to play! I finally
was able to eject it. Now the cd tray will not open,
even though it is empty. I tried using my external
cd/dvd usb drive, but only get a gstreamer backend
error - "cannot open the cd device for reading". If
I mount the cd & try playing one of the .wav
files I get a different error. I can play local
files from my hard drive OK. I can copy the .wav
files from the cd to my disc drive OK, & play
them from there.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Andika">It was all working
OK in the morning before this happened.<br>
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Andika">Huh?<br>
</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Andika">-cd</font></font></p>
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<blockquote type="cite">I am looking for talk for Oct 19
meeting. <br>
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Does anyone have something that they are willing to talk
about ? <br>
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