Hi all,
This evening I received a PM from a member asking me to join in the Chatroom. I replied that I would after I finished cooking my dinner.
As I was eating dinner, I tried to enter the chatroom but got the old problem of the blonde girl in the green dress not loading the proper files to let me in. This has happened before and I know the fix is to download the Realnetworks Player that chat requires. I'm doing that now as I type this.
But why do I need to do this? I was in the chatroom several times last week, but nobody was there at the time. Why am I unable to enter the chatroom now?
Well, earlier this week I downloaded Apple's latest QuickTime player. I can't prove it, but since Apple is publically warring with Real, I strongly suspect that they are disabling parts of Real Player.
Reminds me of when Microsoft would do anything to control the access of their corporate clients to other companies' products. (I got in lots of trouble by telling the Microsofties that I was going to impliement UNIX DNS servers instead of their NT based ones - never had a chat with my boss, his boss, his bosses' boss and the chief of IT before...)
Anyhow, if you download Quicktime and have trouble getting into chat, you may want to download a new copy of Real Player...
Best,
Melody
<p><span style="color: #800080;">Girls will be boys and boys will be girls It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola Lo-lo-lo-lo Lola</span> - Ray Davies, The Kinks</p>
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