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Farewell To the Floppy Disk
s31523 writes "Those of us who have been in the IT arena for a while remember installing our favorite OS, network client, power application, etc. by feeding the computer what seemed an endless supply of 5.25" soft floppy disks. We rejoiced when the hard 3.5" floppies came out, cutting our install media by 1/3. We practically did backflips when the data CD-ROM arrived and we declared: we will never need any other disk than this! It is with sadness that I report the beginning of the end for the floppy: computer giant PC World has announced it will no longer carry the floppy disk once current supplies run out."
I see the A+Cert. education has served you well. pfft
700,000,000 floppies were sold last year.
Windows machins can blue screen in such away that they won't allow access to the CD-ROM. Even when the bios tries to use it to boot causes complete system lock up.
First stand up straight. That loud popping noise will be your head coming out of your ass.
Second, stuff your A+ Cert in the place now left vacant by your head.
Third. Start to think. The new fresh air should make this easier then your used to.
If you are throwing 'certificates' around to prove you know what your talking about, then the type of 'Certidicate' had better be a doctorate.
When people stop buying floppies, then it will be dead and not a momment sooner.
Instead of just stating triviality, you could actually back up your claim with a link or two explaining how. Not that I give a crap, since I just use Linux, but obviously there are plenty of people oblivious to this triviality.
About 90% of the world's computers runs Windows. Still a majority of small to mid size servers runs Windows. If you don't like the comments people make regarding to Windows still needs floppy and discuss this in an open forum objectively, please move along to the next link. We don't need someone telling us to switch to Linux (we already know how great they are). We are discussing in a condition where running Windows is a REQUIREMENT at present situation. We will address the convertion to Linux when we can get to it.