Blame the Operating System
If you are like me, you still include some Microsoft Windows use in your work or habits. Not that I am particularly keen to disclose this information about myself. But it's true and I needed to air it before I make my point.
As I finished watching a DVD movie on my Windows system, I decided to press the drive button and forgo the formalities of stopping the program, ejecting the disk, closing the program etc. With my Linux system I don't get nearly as much pressure to follow specific tasks. My mistake. I could not get my disk to eject, nor did the program continue to respond.
No big deal, I've had similar issues with Windows dozens of times. I just open the task manager, choose the silly DVD player application and end the task. WRONG! Instead, not even task manager worked. I kept telling it to end task. I was stuck. My DVD drive would not release the disk, the software would not listen to me and close. And Windows would not allow me to do anything anymore including rebooting!
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