On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 00:42 +0100, Ian Chapman wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > 1. Newer computers do not have floppy drives (which I think is a shame). > > Really, that surprises me. I'd like to see them disappear altogether to > be left in the halls of computing history. :) Well I guess we have different philosophies. If I want to save 1 or a few small files and take them to another machine (where there is no Internet connection to the first) or just place them in a filing cabinet for backup I don't see the advantage have to use expensive memory stick or to burn a CD, etc. I use the floppy drive extensively for this purpose and there is no other way to do it so easily. At the risk of being personal and too specific , I am a diabetic, Every week I produce a list of my glucose readings. I save them to a floppy and put them into a filing cabinet. To be up to date I also place the file on a CD-RW (so we have a 700M CD with a single 400K file). Once out of every 10 times when I write to the CD it complains that the CD is no longer writable. Never mind that Fedora (as far as I know) has no program to format a CD-RW. And this is progress. No way. -- ======================================================================= You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham, "The Circle" ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
