On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:54 AM, J. Roeleveld 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 it, so it wasn
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On 02.02.2012 08:54, J. Roeleveld wrote:
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> 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
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, unr
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 08:01:09PM -0500, Walter Dnes 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.
Reminds me of the “Ballmer peak”: http://xkcd.com/323/
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On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Walter Dnes 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 is mounted
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 cod
Michael Mol wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:36 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
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:36 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
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
>>>
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.
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 push
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 hap
> 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 -
> 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 $5.
I was using Win95 - and was happy with it
I was using WinNT4 - and was happy with it
I was using Win95 - and was happy with it
I was using Win95 - an
> From: James Broadhead [mailto:jamesbroadh...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 8:15 AM
> On 30 January 2012 13:09, Michael Hampicke wrote:
> >> Technically, they did, it was just impossible for an OS to make it
> >> actually work:
> >>
> >> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive
> From: Michael Hampicke [mailto:gentoo-u...@hadt.biz]
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 8:10 AM
>
> > Technically, they did, it was just impossible for an OS to make it
> > actually work:
> >
> > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/04/02/9528175.aspx
>
>
> Quote
> > And you certainl
On Monday 30 January 2012 21:20:59 Dale wrote:
> I had to replace a mobo and hard drive for a friend once. For some
> reason the drive and controller went out. Anyway, when we reinstalled
> winders, it said we had to call M$ to get some long freaking number.
> While on the phone with them, I tol
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 unpa
On 30 January 2012 13:09, 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
>From the comments:
Barry Kelly: "Win95 Setup *does* make the floppy drive grind, tho
> 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
> mo
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:
http://bl
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Dale wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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 the
On Sunday 29 Jan 2012 19:09:59 Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Dale wrote:
>
>
> > 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 an
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Dale wrote:
>
>
> 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 chance. ;-)
>
> Dale
Michael Mol wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Dale wrote:
>> J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, January 29, 2012 2:16 pm, Dale wrote:
>>>
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 lig
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Dale wrote:
> J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, January 29, 2012 2:16 pm, Dale wrote:
>>
>>> 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 l
J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
> On Sun, January 29, 2012 2:16 pm, Dale wrote:
>
>> 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-flatc
On Sun, January 29, 2012 2:16 pm, Dale wrote:
> 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 incorrectly. T
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Philip Webb 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 years,
> but wh
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.
Lik
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
anyth
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