Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music (2009)

A while back I was playing Half-life on Steam, and every so often a classical madrigal would start playing, with oddly familiar voices. A truly strange bug; I couldn't think of any good reason for it.

Months later, I opened my computer's DVD drive for once, and discovered the reason: my sister, a professional classical singer, had sent me one of her recordings, and I had put it in the computer to listen and forgotten about it for the next year.

Somehow the game was--from its original on-cd release--assuming the proper soundtrack was on track N of the CD, instead of the Steam install.

Remarkably simple in the end, but a very baffling bug at first.

See, it's little things like this that made Windows 2000 my all-time favorite version of Windows. It has as much personality as Windows 98 SE minus a ton of unreliability. By the time XP rolled around, they had made the OS so corporate and safe that while it had class, it was less 'personable'

Hahaha, some coder had a field day with this one.

Good example how volatile is information on the web. Link provided as more info point to completely different company as many of my bookmarks.