Linux saves the special day!
My wife planned a special party for her parent's milestone anniversary and birthdays. I brought a laptop because it needed to accomplish a few things:
-be a flexible jukebox for the meal and dance
-take mic audio in on the microphone jack and boost it out to the speakers
-output a DVD presentation to a projector
Because other people were going to be using it I booted it into Windows and did some testing to make sure everything would work for them....
-Winamp and WMP worked well as a jukebox
-hooking up a mic worked pretty well, albeit a bit quiet.
-the presentation on DVD played on the laptop, but.... the DVD content would not display on the projected screen.
*SIGH*
This was bad. Someone had worked hard on making this presentation and it was a key part of the evening.
...then I remembered, I have Linux on here too.
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