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Down with XP!
Bateluer:
The MP3 ENcoders are not supposed to be free. Fraunhofer<sp> owns the patents and charges royalties. The players are free though.
Ogg Vorbis is a dang fine audio codec, IMO, and I looking forward to Ogg Tarkin.
I seriously doubt WinXP will be pulled off the shelves. Its not worth the headache to government, MS, or the customers.
silverking:
It is my understanding that when you used the XP Mediaplayer to watch a DVD disc, XP sends a report back to Microsoft to tell it which movie or movies you may have watched.
Is this just an XP abomination or have other versions monitored our viewing habits?
Master of Reality:
quote:Originally posted by silverking:
It is my understanding that when you used the XP Mediaplayer to watch a DVD disc, XP sends a report back to Microsoft to tell it which movie or movies you may have watched.
Is this just an XP abomination or have other versions monitored our viewing habits?
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no, its true, its true, windows sends back what you watched and what music you play.
Ctrl Alt Del 123:
No it's NOT true that WMP sends info back to MS about what you watch/play. I have ZA on and WMP NEVER connects to the internet unless I watch a streaming video.
Master of Reality:
either you have ZA set up wrong or you let WMP connect or you have it permanently blocked by ZA or you are lying.
I just fucking (6 hrs ago) listened to "Home for a Rest" by Great big Sea after dling it from WinMX and after i was finished listening ZA poppedup and said
quote:Windows media player (WMPLAYER.EXE) wants to access DNS 192.***.***.*** (its my network DHCP server, which uses DNS forwarding.) Do you wish to grant this program access?
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then in the log it shows right now:
quote:PE,2002/03/31,18:08:29 -5:00 GMT,WMPLAYER.EXE,192.168.0.1:80,N/A
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:cool:
check out this:
http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/wmp8dvd.htm
[ April 01, 2002: Message edited by: Druaga ]
[ April 01, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]
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