Posts by RingtailedLemur

UK PM promises faster justice for Post Office Horizon victims

Re: No Justice

Superb, just what I needed to be properly informed about this.

The Novell NetWare box keeps rebooting over and over again yet no one has touched it? We're going on a stakeout

Had the same thing happen that destroyed an inventory database which was hosted on said Netware server. A user plugged in a kettle to the only spare socket they could find which happened to be on a multiblock that the tower server was plugged into that was then plugged into a small APC UPS. The UPS didn't take kindly to having to supply enough current to boil a kettle and keep tower server going and went bang spectacularly. The server was located behind a desk in a pantry, the database was the inventory of the pantry for stock control.

Attack of the cryptidiots: One wants Bitcoin-flush hard drive he threw out in 2013 back, the other lost USB stick password

Re: Hard drive disposal

Best fridge magnets ever. My fridge door is littered with them.

He's coming for your floppy: Linus Torvalds is killing off support for legacy disk drive tech

Apple's SWIM controller

I remember Apple's 800Kb 3.5" floppies that couldn't be read on PCs as they actually changed the spindle speed depending on where the data was on the disk to pack a massive 80Kb of extra data on a disk. They didn't bother when 1.44Mb HD floppies became the norm.

Apple's motorised floppy drives that sucked your diskette in and then spat it out again much like the cassette in a car stereo or video cassette in a VCR were great but when they failed (thanks to idiots forcing an extra diskette into the apparently empty slot) they were expensive to replace or repair.