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I use a program called nformat which will just endlessly format floppies in a loop while also checking them for bad sectors and other problems. I run it in the background while I work and there is no deadline, so the time I spend on it is already being wasted on such bullshit as working
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Because I have a lot of old computers that cant use a floppy emulator so sometimes I need floppies
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I had an X10 floppy drive my dad bought in like 1999, and it could read an entire floppy in some crazy fast speed of like 2 seconds to read the entire disk. It had an onboard RAM that it read the disk into and then made it available to the controller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_accelerated_floppy_drive Always found it odd that he got his hands on one as apparently only 1,000 were ever made?
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I need floppies
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:sometimes I need floppies when i'm in this situation i just look at a picture of your mom!!!
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Sagebrush posted:when i'm in this situation i just look at a picture of your mom!!! rude!
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Sagebrush posted:when i'm in this situation i just look at a picture of your mom!!! O_o
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Contoso fabrikam
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the gangbang meme but the guys behind the couch have floppy disks for heads and the smiling lady on the couch is a compaq
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:the gangbang meme but the guys behind the couch have floppy disks for heads and the smiling lady on the couch is a compaq
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Chank Diesel's Chank Fonts I definitely used one of his free ones in a professional project at least once which reminds me of having to preflight files to print, like there was the quark file but also the original image files, fonts, vector graphics, etc. weren't embedded in the document just for position only placeholders and if any of it was missing you could waste thousands of dollars on a misprint. there used to be multi-hundred dollar quark extensions [er, XTensions] to help you check everything was in place and your trapping and color profile settings were correct because showing up at 10pm for a press check and the headline is in times or everyone's skin looks slightly green was a real bad time sure pdf sucks but it sucks so much less than the alternative
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WilWheaton posted:running reiserfs and having to balance the fact that you support wife murdering in exchange for slightly faster btree fs performance in your linux install Fueled by Wife blood.
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FMguru posted:quark setting itself on fire was the funniest goddamn thing. they had an unimpeachable hold on the entire publishing industry, an incredibly deep moat filled with piranhas, and anyone switching off of quark would have to junk and rebuild their entire print workflow at enormous expense in time and money and hassle and training and ruined output - and they were so awful and greedy and unresponsive that adobe came in and rather effortlessly swept up their entire customer base. just incredible i was a dorky kid and spent time on computer forums like 18 years ago and i still to this day remember one guy endlessly complaining about using quarkxpress on a 1.8ghz single socket g5, funy tech poo poo
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Beeftweeter posted:someone could try and do the same thing to adobe but it'd be pretty difficult to pull off today
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FMguru posted:ive heard that adobes chokehold is explained by the fact that they hold alllll the patents for pretty much every kind of digital imaging algorithm and technology i'm sure they have an absolute rear end ton of patents but the only ones i'm familiar with being actually problematic are the PDF related ones since it's also an ISO standard, the situation is kinda similar to quicktime/MP4 or h.264 licensing. thats not to say that i think it's good, but it's certainly possible to develop stuff with the technology really couching patent covenants and liability promises as "corporate goodwill" instead of just viewing it as a way to head off antitrust concerns is a dumb as poo poo system anyway
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Beeftweeter posted:that said i think a lot of adobes might be close to expiring. lol gettin' mad about patents they can afford to buy off a couple of congresspeople to get the terms extended like everyone else does.
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