I have never seen a 5-1/4 floppy in a usb form factor. 5-1/4 disc had
all but died ...and everyone moved over to 3.5...by the time USB firmly
took hold.
On 4/7/2010 1:07 AM, gibney wrote:
I've a couple also, just not in a machine with network, usb, etc. I was
hoping for something with usb
I know. I've been hanging on to parts until someday, I'll try to network
the an old box with 5 1/4 and recover my dad's files from old disks. I was
hopeful when this thread popped up.
-Original Message-
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-
I have a sealed box of new 5.25 disks... (Somewhere close by.)
And a Dell combo drive, 3 1/2 + 5 1/4 in.
I gave a couple 5 1/4 (single) drives to a tech at Microcenter.
He was all excited to get them...
One would ONLY do the really older lower density disks too...
Rick Glazier
From: Michael
I did this. I plan on going back to school in late 2010 and wanted to
get my hands dirty with some newer Microsoft technology. I'll make
good use of it.
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Winterlight
winterli...@winterlight.org wrote:
Thanks Greg, sounds like something I will do. I would like
What monopoly? Apple's products don't represent any kind of
monopoly...it's just apple product specific..
On 4/7/2010 11:25 AM, maccrawj wrote:
Which is exactly why I'd never buy in, even if I needed it, too much
of a monopoly.
On 4/5/2010 7:23 AM, Brian Weeden wrote:
Gotta love Apple's
When the market get's behind them as the defacto choice, the are a monopoly. Same
goes for their PC's, after all who makes hardware than runs OSX besides Apple?
If all the app development and content ends up primaryily or even solely supporting
this device we have a real issue. Kindle is in
If anyone has their heart and mind set on using their 5.25 floppy
drive and does not have a serial port available they can try a
Serial/USB converter.
http://www.monoprice.com/Monoprice.com has Serial/USB converters for $5.54.
Maybe (???) you'll succeed in hooking a 5.25 floppy to a USB
It depends on definitions. If you define the market as OSX, then of course
Apple has a monopoly. But if you define the market as laptops, then there
isn't any monopoly.
---
Brian Weeden
Technical Advisor
Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org
+1
True, but choices would dry up if OSX manages to gain enough market share. Since the
buying public is mostly non-technical this is a real issue as their buying choices
could force such a condition.
It's not enough to academically discuss the definition of monopoly, one has to look
at the real
How can you say such about a Kindle? I can read my Kindle stuff on 1)
my PC, 2) My phone, 3) my iPod, 4) on the iPad if I had one. Then there
are other ebooks.
There is no monopoly with Apple. Anyone can get in on the App writing.
Even third parties can develop stuff for it, like covers,
But choices haven't dried up because they don't have enough market share
and likely never will. Real-world implications need to exist, not be
speculated about based on what could possibly happen.
On 4/7/2010 12:34 PM, maccrawj wrote:
True, but choices would dry up if OSX manages to gain
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 03:41:50 gibney wrote:
I'd still like to hear if anyone runs across such a thing in a 5
1/4 :)
Certainly not commercially. I've never seen one.
Hacking the wiring is quite easy. A five minute job !
Whether or not the USB interface recognises the drive as a
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 09:21:43 gibney wrote:
I know. I've been hanging on to parts until someday, I'll try to
network the an old box with 5 1/4 and recover my dad's files from old
disks. I was hopeful when this thread popped up.
Most if not all machines that support a 3.5 floppy drive
Thanks, I'll give it a try soon. First, I have to rebuild the box that went
toast after 8 years of service.
-Original Message-
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-
boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Gaffer
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 12:13 PM
To:
Agreed. That is why they call it jail-break.
When you are in the Apple prison they have the Monopoly.
It is no different than when you buy a car and need a SPECIFIC hard to replace
part.
Ford made my door handle out of plastic and then beat my brains out when it
broke.
At least Apple seems to
I have a COX cable Premium account and I pay though the nose for it.
Their basic entry level account is 19 bucks a month and I pay 56 for
10 down and 2 up. But this week they upgraded my area to doc3.
Surprisingly they will be able to update the firmware in my Motorola
Surfboard doc2 modem
Rick, I jailbreak all my Apple devices. But you're still confusing things.
Ford demanding Ford parts for their own cars is not a monopoly - it is a
closed ecosystem or walled garden . A monopoly would be if Ford dominated
the entire auto market and you could only buy Ford vehicles (or at least
Keep in mind that Cox has PowerBoost. It's a temporary increase in speed for
the first few seconds/MB of a stream. It's mostly BS to make speed tests
look good without providing any real material increase.
Comcast developed the technology, and everybody else licenses it--including
Cox and Time
So that's why it drops off. I've always wondered why that happens. Thanks
for that tidbit, Greg.
Jeff
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [H] cable upgrades
Keep in mind that Cox has PowerBoost. It's a temporary increase in speed for
the first few seconds/MB of a stream.
Exactly. Sometimes we get over focused on hype (see today's article on
slate.com). Apple just sold 320,000 ipads. A good number. They hope to sell
500k this month to 750k. Great numbers. Nintendo sold 500k Wiis last month,
3+ years after introduction.
Selling volumes in the
Ahh so that’s how it works. I always thought it worked by caching certain
content on their cache boxes and serving the cached content at faster speeds
than if you were to download it over the normal non cached version. I should
have known better.
Thanks,
Yeah, I had cable problems recently and TW had to come out and replace my
modem, but I was talking to a knowledgeable L3 TW tech (she was very good) and
she indicated that yeah, on the speed tests I'd see up to 30 Mbps down at
first, but that was just the boost crap they did for the first part
Best benchmark of speed I've found is prolonged usenet article body downloading from
Giganews, YMMV.
On 4/7/2010 1:56 PM, Bino Gopal wrote:
Yeah, I had cable problems recently and TW had to come out and replace my
modem, but I was talking to a knowledgeable L3 TW tech (she was very good)
If you're in school there is always:
https://www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:14 AM, GPL hardwarelistrea...@gmail.com wrote:
I did this. I plan on going back to school in late 2010 and wanted to
get my hands dirty with some newer Microsoft technology. I'll make
good
I purchased a refurbished HP Blade server, Proliant DL140 with dual 3.06 GHz
Xeon CPUs. It worked just fine and I was able to install Windows Server
2008. I had a slim format HP laptop DVD I was going to utilize, but the
interface was different. In addition, the server was LOAD! So I decided to
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