> > This example reminds me of one of my early lessons in IT humility: a
long
> > long time ago, I was doing tech support for a University and we had this
one
> > machine with two 5.25 floppy drives. For some reason people kept on
putting
> > their floppies between the drives, instead of into the top one.
>> Someone that didn't like effort would have solved this with some duck
> tape.
Which is exactly what I did, but only after it happened to me. Before that
it was always one of those problems that was at the end of my to-do list.
Duck tape is also not a very elegant solution. I was trying to come up with
a chewing-gum-free approach, like replacing the machine with a much faster
486-66 for example... :)
- Matthew
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