{"id":606,"date":"2008-05-02T15:25:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T14:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=606"},"modified":"2008-05-02T15:25:16","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T14:25:16","slug":"napster-crashed-my-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/606-napster-crashed-my-pc.html","title":{"rendered":"Napster crashed my PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear. I&#8217;m writing an article on DRM and was trying out Napster. The way this works begins with installation of the Napster application. I ran setup on my Vista Business machine, and got a blue screen. Undeterred, I restarted and ran setup again. This appeared to work, although the PC demanded a restart and took ages to shut down. Unfortunately, when it did eventually restart, something was not right. I could log on, and the desktop appeared, but I could do nothing more than move the mouse pointer; even Ctrl-Alt-Delete could not pull up its menu. Solution: restart in safe mode, remove Napster, restart. All fine now.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I was just unlucky; but it&#8217;s a nice illustration of why Apple owns this market &#8211; though iTunes can be problematic too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:01e74518-d096-4118-9c40-8223c219b950\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/napster\" rel=\"tag\">napster<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/drm\" rel=\"tag\">drm<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/apple\" rel=\"tag\">apple<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/itunes\" rel=\"tag\">itunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/vista\" rel=\"tag\">vista<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear. I&#8217;m writing an article on DRM and was trying out Napster. The way this works begins with installation of the Napster application. I ran setup on my Vista Business machine, and got a blue screen. Undeterred, I restarted and ran setup again. This appeared to work, although the PC demanded a restart and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/606-napster-crashed-my-pc.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Napster crashed my PC<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,27,58,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-drm","category-multimedia","category-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}