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Wed Mar 16 10:34:04 CST 2005
In article <423855b5.3030103@news.virgin.net>, Jane Tipton says...
> I am a buffoon (I am!)
> In Windows Explorer I was clicking around too quickly and must have
> hit "disconnect network drive" or whatever, well I assume I did,
> because since then my D: drive (CD player) has disappeared! It goes
> from C: to E: (CD writer).
> I clicked on "map network drive" to see how to get it back. It asks me
> to fill an a screen (pre-filled with D:) and asks for a "path"......?
> I looked at the Windows Help facility, and it advised me to put in:-
> \\computername\foldername, or something? Huh......?!
> There isn't any folder that was on D: drive before...... I just used
> to use it for playing CDs!
> Have I cocked up big time or is there any easy solution? Thanks in
> advance to anyone who can point me in the right direction!
Your CD drive should not be a mapped network device. I believe that Windows
XP has some other way to move the logical drives around; but I am not
familiar with that OS. Or likely to be, given MSFT's track record.
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Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry
and stated, =3FIf GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry
has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the
gallon.=3F
In response to Bill=3Fs comments, General Motors issued a press release
stating:
If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars
with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy
a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You
would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut
off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue.
For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause
your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to
reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable,
five times! as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five
percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be
replaced by a single =3FThis Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation=3F warning
light.
7. The airbag system would ask =3FAre you sure?=3F before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out
and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle,
turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how
to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the
same manner as the old car.
10. You=3Fd have to press the =3FStart=3F button to turn the engine off.
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The guy on the following site simply says, "This has been floating around
the =3FNet for a long time...":
>
http://www.rds.com/blogs/doug/index.php/archives/2005/01/07/if-cars-worked-like-windows/
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Norman
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