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And even if you had a computer that could read a 5 1/4" floppy, do you have software that could read the files on those floppies?
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re: Why are programs allowed to use normal characters as hotkeys?
Heavy clipboard users like myself might similarly ask "why are programmers allowed to use things like the IPv4 control in place of ordinary text boxes?" You know, the kind that support both copy _and_...
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re: I thought I was so clever, salvaging an old floppy drive from a dead...
Personal confession: Never seen a 5 1/4" floppy and I was always wondering why the hell those thingies in a hard plastic encasing were called "floppies". Now I'm feeling really young, ha. Should I get...
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re: What does INIT_ONCE_CTX_RESERVED_BITS mean?
Is the internal data masked by INIT_ONCE_CTX_RESERVED_BITS guaranteed to be 0 after initonce or do you have to mask them off every time you use the pointer?
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Look here: www.icomp.de/.../indexde.htm en.wikipedia.org/.../Individual_Computers_Catweasel
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re: Why doesn't the Version tab show up for very large files?
@JamesJohnston: I think, 32 bit systems in general (not only Windows) will no die that fast, because of the many "smart" phones, tablets and the whole world of embedded devices. Also, as far as I know,...
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"Nobody makes motherboards with 5¼″ floppy drive connectors!" To my knowledge (and at a former workplace I had the privilege to use an original IBM AT), nobody ever did. The motherboard had one floppy...
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re: I thought I was so clever, salvaging an old floppy drive from a dead...
@voo: in retrospect, calling 3.5" disks floppies sounds weird, but they were talking about the disk, not the casing, in all cases. The disk itself is just a piece of flexible plastic.
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re: How do I prevent users from opening TIF files?
Am I the only one wondering what did the poor tiff filed do to the customer so that they didn't want people to (easily) view them?
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re: How do I prevent users from opening TIF files?
Probably scared due to an exploit in some application they were using that associated with TIFFs. Yeah this is a case where it would be nice to know what the customer's ACTUAL problem is before...
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re: How do I prevent users from opening TIF files?
Maybe a security problem with the viewer, maybe the extension was another one and they didn't want to explain.
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re: How do I prevent users from opening TIF files?
I do love "lock the windows but not the doors" security measures.
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re: How do I prevent users from opening TIF files?
The real problem here is a separation between creation of company policy and its implementation. Those who created the policy didn't understand its consequences. Those who implemented the policy didn't...
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re: I thought I was so clever, salvaging an old floppy drive from a dead...
I pulled a dual (3.5"/5.25") floppy drive from one of my older computers and put it in my current "main" machine. Surprisingly, it actually has a floppy controller, but it seems either the controller,...
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re: How do I prevent users from opening TIF files?
Perhaps the employee analogy is quite apt. There are plenty of reasons I wouldn't want employees (even trusted ones) from sneaking around in ventilation shafts, but few reasons I wouldn't want them all...
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re: I thought I was so clever, salvaging an old floppy drive from a dead...
Yep, the biggest problem with reading data from the old floppies is that the disks themselves seem to develop unreadable sectors after sitting in one place for 10 or 15 years or more. I think the...
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re: How do I prevent users from opening TIF files?
Maybe they saved their Highly Confidential documents as tiff and the not so confidential ones as bmp or jpeg, so they had to make sure that only qualified employees could see the tiffs :) Security by...
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re: How do I prevent users from opening TIF files?
Well, maybe it's not really a security requirement, since policy allows them to set their own associations; maybe it's just a handy reminder to think about what they're doing when they do so. It's a...
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re: How do I prevent users from opening TIF files?
I suppose that you could break Windows' auto-repair by explicitly putting deny-all write permissions on the registration keys, but I don't see any good coming from that method. Tinkering with system...
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