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> I'm also reminded of the story of the user who religiously kept all her 
> files on floppy disks so that she wouldn't "fill up" the hard drive in her 
> PC. (Which had a capacity of many gigabytes.) Flawless logic - until you 
> comprehend the fact that a HD holds many times more data than a floppy...

Once I had a secretary who never used the HD at all because she had been 
told that hard discs were not reliable.

Everything she wrote was stored in a single Word file kept on a single 
floppy. Every letter was a new page.

G.

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scott wrote:
> I'd use CDs too if I were her, otherwise I wouldn't know who else was 
> looking at the files or where they were getting backed up etc.

I would have recommended a USB memory stick, myself.

> Anyway, I would be more concerned, as the IT dude, exactly what sort of 
> files she doesn't want to have on the network.  

Is there anyone here who *doesn't* think it's porn?


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Invisible wrote:
> you comprehend the fact that a HD holds many times more data than a 
> floppy...

I had an amusing thought the other day. If you had an entire Apple ][ 
for every byte of memory an Apple ][ could address, you could fit all 
the memory of all those machines on one DVD.

You can't even buy a hard drive that won't hold five Commodore Pet 
computers worth of memory for every *bit* of memory a Commodore Pet 
could address.

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>> I'd use CDs too if I were her, otherwise I wouldn't know who else was 
>> looking at the files or where they were getting backed up etc.
> 
> I would have recommended a USB memory stick, myself.

That only works if you *have* a USB stick. :-P

>> Anyway, I would be more concerned, as the IT dude, exactly what sort 
>> of files she doesn't want to have on the network.  
> 
> Is there anyone here who *doesn't* think it's porn?

Far more likely to be pictures of her baby girl paddling on the beach.

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Gilles Tran wrote:

> Once I had a secretary who never used the HD at all because she had been 
> told that hard discs were not reliable.

Oh, the irony!

HDs were once of questionably reliability, but floppies are so 
hopelessly unreliable it's not even worth thinking about!

> Everything she wrote was stored in a single Word file kept on a single 
> floppy. Every letter was a new page.

Wow.

That's really special.

I mean, forget for a moment the fact that editing a Word document stored 
on a floppy is 97% guaranteed to result in file corruption... A new 
document for each page?

I'm... stunned.

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Darren New wrote:
> Is there anyone here who *doesn't* think it's porn?

	Dunno. I have loads of files on my computer that I wouldn't want to put 
on a shared drive. Financial documents, scripts with passwords embedded 
in them, drafts of letters, etc.

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dates certain motion pictures were copyrighted." -- Mrs. Krabappel in 
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> I would have recommended a USB memory stick, myself.
> 
> That only works if you *have* a USB stick. :-P

	If the files are that important, I'm sure he can buy one. They're cheap.

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scott wrote:
> 
> I'd use CDs too if I were her, otherwise I wouldn't know who else was 
> looking at the files or where they were getting backed up etc.  At least 
> she can take the CDs home or burn them or shred them or whatever and be 
> 100% sure nobody else has used them.
> 

And if it's a company laptop, normally connected to the company network, 
she should know that admins can access all that data at any time. 
Without her noticing.

Admins need to be people you can trust, because they actually can read 
your files/emails ;).

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 
> HDs were once of questionably reliability, but floppies are so 
> hopelessly unreliable it's not even worth thinking about!

That (HD's unreliability) is what RAID is for.

> 
> I mean, forget for a moment the fact that editing a Word document stored 
> on a floppy is 97% guaranteed to result in file corruption... 

I don't recall so, but if you'll take the floppy out before closing the 
document (and won't put it back in quickly enough), you'll have 100% 
sure corruption.

> A new 
> document for each page?

No, a new page for each document, ie. 5 letters on a floppy means a 
5-page document.

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>> HDs were once of questionably reliability, but floppies are so 
>> hopelessly unreliable it's not even worth thinking about!
> 
> That (HD's unreliability) is what RAID is for.

Yeah, but I mean I can remember being warned not to move a computer 
while it's turned on for fear of causing a head crash. Now they put them 
in PORTABLE MP3 PLAYERS! (I must admit, I feel happier with the 
solid-state ones...)

>> I mean, forget for a moment the fact that editing a Word document 
>> stored on a floppy is 97% guaranteed to result in file corruption... 
> 
> I don't recall so, but if you'll take the floppy out before closing the 
> document (and won't put it back in quickly enough), you'll have 100% 
> sure corruption.

Yeah, that too.

But according to the Word MVP site, it's a very bad idea to edit files 
on a flopy. Copy them to the HD, edit them, save, close, then copy back 
to floppy. That's the recommendation anyway... [This probably only 
applies to new versions of Word. Older ones were less accident-prone.]

>> A new document for each page?
> 
> No, a new page for each document, ie. 5 letters on a floppy means a 
> 5-page document.

Gah. I typed that the wrong way round... although thinking about it, 
what I actually typed would be really weird too!

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