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XKCD
« on: October 12, 2007, 06:14:08 AM »
Does anyone else here read XKCD?  I thought yesterday's comic was priceless:



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Re: XKCD
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2007, 06:17:53 AM »
LOL! grin
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Re: XKCD
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2007, 06:54:22 AM »
Okay, that was worthy of being passed on to my co-workers.  cheesy
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Re: XKCD
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2007, 07:46:08 AM »
He he!

Makes me think.  I don't think they teach DOS in school any more.  I think it's time to bring back the old "To fix your problem, boot to this disk and then type FORMAT C:\" gag.

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Re: XKCD
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2007, 07:48:28 AM »
Brad, it's hard to even find a bootable floppy with the required DOS utilities on it anymore.  Heck, two of my 4 computers don't even have floppy drives (and I can't remember when I last used the floppy drives I do have).

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Re: XKCD
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2007, 08:11:52 AM »
I can make you one... <evil grin>

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Re: XKCD
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2007, 08:30:13 AM »
That's absolutely hilarious.  I had to remember my SQL for a second, but that's hilarious.
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Re: XKCD
« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2007, 08:45:01 AM »
XKCD is one of my daily reads.
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Re: XKCD
« Reply #8 on: October 12, 2007, 04:34:19 PM »
You should burn the floppy disks. grin
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Re: XKCD
« Reply #9 on: October 23, 2007, 02:35:37 PM »
Quote from: Nick1911 on October 12, 2007, 05:14:08 AM
Does anyone else here read XKCD?  I thought yesterday's comic was priceless:



 grin

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Re: XKCD
« Reply #10 on: October 23, 2007, 07:24:38 PM »
Does anyone remember the initial release of WordPerfect 5.0?

(or maybe it was 4.2...).

The installation instructions assumed you had a Brand New Computer, and started off with formatting the hard drive... Bad, bad instructional designer...

Idea, if you get stuff stolen from your cube a lot... Leave a disk sitting out with the autorun file set to trash things...

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Re: XKCD
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2007, 08:58:47 AM »
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Does anyone remember the initial release of WordPerfect 5.0?

(or maybe it was 4.2...).

Yep.  That was my first foray into real wordprocessor-dom.  Fortunately for me it was already loaded.

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Re: XKCD
« Reply #12 on: October 24, 2007, 09:09:27 AM »
I've been working with Word Perfect since version 3.5 or so, roughly 1985-86.

I have absolutely no recollection of the installation being either difficult or out of the ordinary for any version of WP that I ever loaded.
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Re: XKCD
« Reply #13 on: October 24, 2007, 12:01:00 PM »
In this case, it was only difficult for anyone who RTFM... You probably tossed it in the corner...

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