All of the drugs that are currently being used to treat AIDS are expensive, but for a very good reason. The expensive part about the drug indrustry is not (usually) the making of the drug, but rather all the years of research that go into figuring out which drug to make. That company has probably been devoting research into this for 10-15 years, and just now have a halfway decent solution, which is still far from an actual cure. To find an actual cure may take another 10-15 years, or even longer, and that requires a whole lot more money. Where do you think this money comes from? Certianly not the government of Brazil.
Not only can you still buy them, but my Pentium III has a drive for them! It was in the 486 that I was using before then, and the 386 before that. I still use them sometimes, why move the stuff off of the disks?
root # mount -t msdos/dev/fd1/mini-floppy
What would be a good novelty gift is those 8in disks. They looked like 5.25"'s but were bigger.
8" = floppy
5.25" = mini-floppy
3.5" = micro-floppy
Weird Sony things that nobody ever used
Or how about those really small ones Sony was pushing for a while, they looked like 3.5" but were even smaller (2" I think, but my memory is very foggy about these).
I'll tell you what I'm doing on my personal system. Every day, I type
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade and my system is updated to the latest version of Debian. No charge, ever, and the software quality is best-of-class.
Why don't you just set it up as a cron job?
crontab -e Just a suggestion.
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All of the drugs that are currently being used to treat AIDS are expensive, but for a very good reason. The expensive part about the drug indrustry is not (usually) the making of the drug, but rather all the years of research that go into figuring out which drug to make. That company has probably been devoting research into this for 10-15 years, and just now have a halfway decent solution, which is still far from an actual cure. To find an actual cure may take another 10-15 years, or even longer, and that requires a whole lot more money. Where do you think this money comes from? Certianly not the government of Brazil.
root # mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /mini-floppy
What would be a good novelty gift is those 8in disks. They looked like 5.25"'s but were bigger.
- 8" = floppy
- 5.25" = mini-floppy
- 3.5" = micro-floppy
- Weird Sony things that nobody ever used
Or how about those really small ones Sony was pushing for a while, they looked like 3.5" but were even smaller (2" I think, but my memory is very foggy about these).Even my mom has heard of napster on the news, and she doesn't know how to turn on the computer.
I'll tell you what I'm doing on my personal system. Every day, I type
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
and my system is updated to the latest version of Debian. No charge, ever, and the software quality is best-of-class.
Why don't you just set it up as a cron job?
crontab -e
Just a suggestion.