I had the cable right. I remember a thing or two from the 90's, folks. I even triple-checked the cabling with as much googling as I could stand. The BIOS simply does not support more than one floppy drive.
The suggestion someone else posted regarding a USB 3.5" drive is the best, and I wish I could have found such a drive for my parents. I may suggest it the next time I visit them.
Wrong backwoods - we're not grits people up here in the Midwest.;)
No, for whatever reason my dad prefers floppy disks. He is slowly getting used to flash drives for Quicken backups and the like, though. However, the desire to back up all of his 5-1/2" diskettes onto a CD (with room to spare, for sure!) still exists.
I recently tried to put an old 5-1/2" drive in my parents' home computer so that they could copy their old diskettes. As it turns out, modern PC motherboards only support at most one floppy drive, so it would have cost them their actually-useful 3-1/2" drive.
There is actually a market for this. Anyone know a good provider?
Emacs only has an editor because the default keybindings, purely by luck or possibly because that seemed convenient at the time, happen to implement one. The problem is that none of the Emacs developers can come to any kind of agreement on better default keybindings.
There's a big difference between Hillary and Bush. Bush sticks to his guns no matter how wrong or unpopular he is. Mrs. Clinton sticks to everyone else's guns no matter how foolish it makes her look.
Of course, if you were to assign each of them a number for quality, scaled 0 to 10, neither one would get above about a 2... just for different reasons.
I don't think that anyone claimed that taxes are the only factor contributing to the level of freedom. They do, however, make up a pretty significant factor.
American law is more open to interpretation on these matters. Basically, whatever fits the circumstances tends to work out. If you type your name at the bottom of an e-mail with the intent that it act as your signature, then a good lawyer can usually convince a smart judge that the e-mail is a signed writing.
I find it incredibly amusing that that was one of the first connections you looked for... I don't know about that. I find it really quite credible, on the whole.
California would be the best state in the Union if it were entirely unpopulated. Beaches, mountains, rivers, etc. Just way too many Californians for my taste.
Pate in the break room as a normal occurrence? Where do you work, and are you hiring? I do love the break room phenomenon, though, where any item that remotely resembles food can be left in the break room and will end up being eaten.
You forget that the guy works a job for a decade at a time. I'm fairly confident that he's not leaving this one to start bouncing around from employer to employer every 3 months.
Mix cat food in with Chex Mix and leave a bowl of it in the break room - see how much is gone at the end of the day. You bastard! Pretty much, yeah. =)
I thought about going with the Cuba Libre, but the G&T has a more interesting story with more twists than the Cuba Libre does, and it also gets the HHGG reference bonus points.
I almost forgot one. Give seminars/lessons/tutorials on various, purely trivial topics. Teach the history of the ampersand or the origins of the Gin and Tonic.
I'd get way more creative than that. Misuse all the office supplies you can. For instance, write a lengthy daily report and print it in as many formats as you can (Babelfish it into every language, print it in landscape, use funny fonts, etc.), and then use at least 20 or 30 paperclips to hold it together.
Waste others' time the way they are wasting yours. Request frequent meetings with superiors to go over your daily reports. Hold very frequent meetings with random groups of underlings to discuss strange topics. For example, you could have an 8:15 meeting with the receptionist, an entry-level programmer, and a sock puppet regarding the situation in Myanmar, followed by a 9:00 meeting with the same entry-level programmer, a different sock puppet, and the janitor regarding your detailed synopsis of the new Indiana Jones movie.
Make loud phone calls about your internal organs. Bring cake every day and insist that it's someone's birthday. Mix cat food in with Chex Mix and leave a bowl of it in the break room - see how much is gone at the end of the day. Etc.
Just because you aren't allowed to do any work doesn't mean you have to be bored or watch grass grow to pass the time.
When you saw Star Wars in the theater in 1977, did it say "Episode IV: A New Hope", was that part of the intro scroll left out, or was the intro scroll missing or different in other ways? I'm reading this e-book and had never realized this before, as I was born between V and VI.
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I had the cable right. I remember a thing or two from the 90's, folks. I even triple-checked the cabling with as much googling as I could stand. The BIOS simply does not support more than one floppy drive.
The suggestion someone else posted regarding a USB 3.5" drive is the best, and I wish I could have found such a drive for my parents. I may suggest it the next time I visit them.
Wrong backwoods - we're not grits people up here in the Midwest. ;)
No, for whatever reason my dad prefers floppy disks. He is slowly getting used to flash drives for Quicken backups and the like, though. However, the desire to back up all of his 5-1/2" diskettes onto a CD (with room to spare, for sure!) still exists.
I recently tried to put an old 5-1/2" drive in my parents' home computer so that they could copy their old diskettes. As it turns out, modern PC motherboards only support at most one floppy drive, so it would have cost them their actually-useful 3-1/2" drive.
There is actually a market for this. Anyone know a good provider?
Emacs only has an editor because the default keybindings, purely by luck or possibly because that seemed convenient at the time, happen to implement one. The problem is that none of the Emacs developers can come to any kind of agreement on better default keybindings.
There's a big difference between Hillary and Bush. Bush sticks to his guns no matter how wrong or unpopular he is. Mrs. Clinton sticks to everyone else's guns no matter how foolish it makes her look.
... just for different reasons.
Of course, if you were to assign each of them a number for quality, scaled 0 to 10, neither one would get above about a 2
I don't think that anyone claimed that taxes are the only factor contributing to the level of freedom. They do, however, make up a pretty significant factor.
American law is more open to interpretation on these matters. Basically, whatever fits the circumstances tends to work out. If you type your name at the bottom of an e-mail with the intent that it act as your signature, then a good lawyer can usually convince a smart judge that the e-mail is a signed writing.
There's probably not. =)
I actually hacked a Selectric to speak USB for that purpose.
Am I the only one here who thinks that milestone and high point are not synonyms? Windows 95 was definitely one, and definitely not the other.
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Screw that. Tag it touchmymonkey. Do it, you know you want to!
California would be the best state in the Union if it were entirely unpopulated. Beaches, mountains, rivers, etc. Just way too many Californians for my taste.
Web servers scale better with the number of CPU cores, whereas database servers tend to scale better with the speed of each core.
Pate in the break room as a normal occurrence? Where do you work, and are you hiring? I do love the break room phenomenon, though, where any item that remotely resembles food can be left in the break room and will end up being eaten.
Also, modern tonic water does not have a medically significant amount of quinine, and actually tastes good on its own if you ask me.
You forget that the guy works a job for a decade at a time. I'm fairly confident that he's not leaving this one to start bouncing around from employer to employer every 3 months.
I was hoping for insightful mods. Apparently, the moderators think I'm not serious.
I thought about going with the Cuba Libre, but the G&T has a more interesting story with more twists than the Cuba Libre does, and it also gets the HHGG reference bonus points.
I almost forgot one. Give seminars/lessons/tutorials on various, purely trivial topics. Teach the history of the ampersand or the origins of the Gin and Tonic.
I'd get way more creative than that. Misuse all the office supplies you can. For instance, write a lengthy daily report and print it in as many formats as you can (Babelfish it into every language, print it in landscape, use funny fonts, etc.), and then use at least 20 or 30 paperclips to hold it together.
Waste others' time the way they are wasting yours. Request frequent meetings with superiors to go over your daily reports. Hold very frequent meetings with random groups of underlings to discuss strange topics. For example, you could have an 8:15 meeting with the receptionist, an entry-level programmer, and a sock puppet regarding the situation in Myanmar, followed by a 9:00 meeting with the same entry-level programmer, a different sock puppet, and the janitor regarding your detailed synopsis of the new Indiana Jones movie.
Make loud phone calls about your internal organs. Bring cake every day and insist that it's someone's birthday. Mix cat food in with Chex Mix and leave a bowl of it in the break room - see how much is gone at the end of the day. Etc.
Just because you aren't allowed to do any work doesn't mean you have to be bored or watch grass grow to pass the time.
When you saw Star Wars in the theater in 1977, did it say "Episode IV: A New Hope", was that part of the intro scroll left out, or was the intro scroll missing or different in other ways? I'm reading this e-book and had never realized this before, as I was born between V and VI.