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On 02.02.2012 08:54, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Wed, February 1, 2012 6:36 am, Dale wrote:
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke
wrote
Sweet. I had 15
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:54 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
You should've tried installing MS Office back then...
45 (Or there-abouts) floppies and the installer asking for them in a
random order. With some of those being asked several times...
The guy asking for it paid a lot for
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote
Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office how long before someone makes a
pointless,
Michael Mol wrote:
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote
Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office how long before someone makes a
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 07:41:29AM -0600, Dale wrote
[...major snippage...]
So basically, WINDOZE SUCKS LOL
Actually, some Windows *DEVELOPERS* suck. It's equivalant to some
linux developers assuming that /usr is mounted at the very beginning of
the boot process, so that their code
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 07:41:29AM -0600, Dale wrote
[...major snippage...]
So basically, WINDOZE SUCKS LOL
Actually, some Windows *DEVELOPERS* suck. It's equivalant to some
linux developers assuming that /usr
On Wed, February 1, 2012 6:36 am, Dale wrote:
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote
Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office how long before someone makes
a
pointless, unrelated Windows insult
Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office how long before someone makes a
pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post pool; I just won $5.
I was using Win95 - and was happy with it
I was using WinNT4 - and was happy with it
I was using Win95 - and was happy with it
I was using Win95 - and
Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office how long before someone makes a
pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post pool; I just won $5.
I was using Win3.1 - and was happy with it
I was using Win95 - and was happy with it
I was using WinNT4 - and was happy with it
I was using Win2000 -
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote
Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office how long before someone makes a
pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post pool; I just won $5.
I was using Win3.1 - and was happy with it
I was using Win95 - and was happy with
Hey, WinME was a killer app!
MS were really smart with it and if they used the same philosophy with vista,
how different things could have been!
WinME killed so many systems, user experiences and expectations that when 2k
came along every one was so pleased to upgrade (nt4 was never really
On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote
Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office how long before someone makes a
pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post pool; I just won
$5.
I was using Win3.1 - and was
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote
Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office how long before someone makes a
pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post pool; I just won
$5.
I was
On 1/29/2012 1:14 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
2) On PC clones, floppies never had auto-insert detection. (Though
maybe you'd get something like that if you used a superfloppy or
LS-120 drive to read them)
Technically, they did, it was just impossible for an OS to
make it actually work:
Technically, they did, it was just impossible for an OS to make it
actually work:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/04/02/9528175.aspx
Quote
And you certainly don't want to make the user go through this
training session when they unpack their computer on Christmas
morning.
On 30 January 2012 13:09, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote:
Technically, they did, it was just impossible for an OS to make it
actually work:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/04/02/9528175.aspx
From the comments:
Barry Kelly: Win95 Setup *does* make the floppy drive
Michael Hampicke wrote:
Technically, they did, it was just impossible for an OS to make it
actually work:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/04/02/9528175.aspx
Quote
And you certainly don't want to make the user go through this
training session when they unpack their
On Monday 30 January 2012 21:20:59 Dale wrote:
I had to replace a mobo and hard drive for a friend once. For some
reason the drive and controller went out. Anyway, when we reinstalled
winders, it said we had to call M$ to get some long freaking number.
While on the phone with them, I told
From: Michael Hampicke [mailto:gentoo-u...@hadt.biz]
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 8:10 AM
Technically, they did, it was just impossible for an OS to make it
actually work:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/04/02/9528175.aspx
Quote
And you certainly don't want to
From: James Broadhead [mailto:jamesbroadh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 8:15 AM
On 30 January 2012 13:09, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote:
Technically, they did, it was just impossible for an OS to make it
actually work:
Howdy,
I got a friend that wants me to put Linux on his rig. It has a floppy
drive and he does use it for files he has on floppies. I haven't used a
floppy in a long time. How good is support nowadays? I will be putting
KDE on it. Does it sort of automount or anything? Does it function
120129 Dale wrote:
I got a friend that wants me to put Linux on his rig.
It has a floppy drive and he does use it for files he has on floppies.
How good is support nowadays?
I haven't used diskettes for a couple of years,
but when I did, 'mtools' was the pkg I used to use to manage them.
Like
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote:
120129 Dale wrote:
I got a friend that wants me to put Linux on his rig.
It has a floppy drive and he does use it for files he has on floppies.
How good is support nowadays?
I haven't used diskettes for a couple of
On Sun, January 29, 2012 2:16 pm, Dale wrote:
snipped
The little green light stayed on all the time so I unplugged it. I'm
hoping someone here may still have one of these and can shed some light
on this.
The light staying on could also be because the floppy-flatcable is plugged
in
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Sun, January 29, 2012 2:16 pm, Dale wrote:
snipped
The little green light stayed on all the time so I unplugged it. I'm
hoping someone here may still have one of these and can shed some light
on this.
The light staying on could also be because the
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Sun, January 29, 2012 2:16 pm, Dale wrote:
snipped
The little green light stayed on all the time so I unplugged it. I'm
hoping someone here may still have one of these and can shed some light
on this.
Michael Mol wrote:
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Sun, January 29, 2012 2:16 pm, Dale wrote:
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The little green light stayed on all the time so I unplugged it. I'm
hoping someone here may still have one of these and can shed
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
I'm going to try to talk him into letting my transfer them to CD. Tell
him it is time to catch up with new and better things. CD drives has
autodetect and just plain work better anyway.
At least I know there is a
On Sunday 29 Jan 2012 19:09:59 Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
I'm going to try to talk him into letting my transfer them to CD. Tell
him it is time to catch up with new and better things. CD drives has
autodetect and just
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
I'm going to try to talk him into letting my transfer them to CD. Tell
him it is time to catch up with new and better things. CD drives has
autodetect and just plain work better anyway.
At least I
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