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#16 Visentinel

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Posted 20 October 2005 - 07:01 AM

View PostShaun, on Oct 20 2005, 04:11 AM, said:

I havent had one in about 3 years. They did annoy me lol, half the time by the time i got to school the floppy was corrupt - not sure if they dont like the cold or not :P - You inserted the disk and it'd tell you, Disk in drive A is not formatted, format now?

My Floppy Nightmare included that one allot.

View PostShadowFox, on Oct 20 2005, 02:15 AM, said:

and to think they still put two spaces for floppy drives in newer computers... phased out? I dunno.. they look alive to me, if they were no longer necessary then they would eliminate them in new machine models... but what about when you don't have a CD-Rom drive that auto boots... you need those setup disks.

LoL like that even exists anymore ?
Floppy's are Useless

Cases still come with 2 Bays for them coz of the Case Mods that use them like Fan Controlers and Case meters.

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Posted 20 October 2005 - 02:29 PM

so? they could be aftermarket if they are so obsolete.

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Posted 20 October 2005 - 07:49 PM

I'm surprised your on the floppy disks side :S

their absolutely obsoleted by USB Flash Drives, they massively out-capacity the floppy and their 100x more reliable, not even magnets effect them and their much smaller, and every PC has a USB port.

#19 RedInferno

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Posted 20 October 2005 - 08:28 PM

View PostShadowFox, on Oct 19 2005, 10:17 PM, said:

LMFAO magents are your friends... but not if your a computer :P

Know what's weird though? In order to wipe a hard drive, the magnet would be strong enough to pull the iron out of your blood.

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Posted 21 October 2005 - 03:26 AM

-.- I said I use floppies because I am in a 98 environment A LOT... peopel here chan't afford XP so they don't support fash drives... you have to d/l the drivers... then restart, in school buildings and in libraries they have that damn Deep Freeze on them.

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Posted 21 October 2005 - 10:33 AM

View PostShadowFox, on Oct 21 2005, 01:26 PM, said:

-.- I said I use floppies because I am in a 98 environment A LOT... peopel here chan't afford XP so they don't support fash drives... you have to d/l the drivers... then restart, in school buildings and in libraries they have that damn Deep Freeze on them.

:) ;) ;) :P :lol:

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Posted 21 October 2005 - 11:54 AM

No i actually nearly used mine today but....floppy disk was for my old Acorn arch...nothing happening, i only read the label after :P

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Posted 21 October 2005 - 01:28 PM

I found a cool background I made while at school on an old floppy and used a floppy to format that 200GB ATA/133 harddrive too.

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Posted 21 October 2005 - 03:47 PM

View PostVisentinel, on Oct 21 2005, 05:33 AM, said:

:o :lol: :( :lol: :P

Yeah, they have that on my library also...me and gamer want ti crack it though :P

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Posted 21 October 2005 - 04:41 PM

I hacked the principles pc and looked through confidential files when i was in year 9, i made it look like it came from a PC from the seniors block, some dude over their got suspended for a week

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Posted 22 October 2005 - 05:36 AM

Umm here's something you probably don't know about deepfreeze... it takes an 8 byte password fiel and encrypts it to 8 mb... good luck cracking it.

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Posted 22 October 2005 - 01:51 PM

Floppys won't never die!!!

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Edited by wolft, 22 October 2005 - 01:51 PM.


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Posted 22 October 2005 - 08:07 PM

havent used mine in a loooong time.
i remember before i had a network connection between some of my pcs, i'd have to span a 20mb file into about 10-15 zips and then the last would be corrupted and had to do it all over!
glad i'll never have to do that again :rolleyes:

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Posted 22 October 2005 - 08:09 PM

View PostVisentinel, on Oct 21 2005, 11:41 AM, said:

I hacked the principles pc and looked through confidential files when i was in year 9, i made it look like it came from a PC from the seniors block, some dude over their got suspended for a week

Really? Detail, details please. :P Seriously though..I'm curious

View PostShadowFox, on Oct 22 2005, 12:36 AM, said:

Umm here's something you probably don't know about deepfreeze... it takes an 8 byte password fiel and encrypts it to 8 mb... good luck cracking it.
Sigh...twas a joke...

Even if we used a brute force cracker the librarians would notice...

Edited by RedInferno, 22 October 2005 - 08:22 PM.


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Posted 22 October 2005 - 08:16 PM

Floppies die, die die. I think they will not even be installed on newer PCs by 2008 and I only have 1 floppy disk that I dont even use




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