Win98 -- all kidding aside

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- Jimmy Montague <rhetoric102 at iowatelecom.net>
wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 21:13 +0100, norman wrote:
> > I have come into this after the discussion has
> been going on for quite a
> > long time. As I understand it a GUI approach to
> the use of floppies is
> > being asked for which, in my opinion, is very
> reasonable. I seem to
> > remember that the first version of Ubuntu had,
> under accessories, a menu
> > for formatting floppies. I was prepared to put up
> with that and to use
> > the icon on the desktop when a floppie was put
> into the drive. Somewhere
> > in the development of Ubuntu the facility to
> format floppies got lost
> > and I have always regretted that.
> > 
> > Norman
> > 
> 
> Thank you, Norman. You are right -- as long as
> there's one floppy drive
> in use (in the Third World, there must be many
> such), the power to
> format floppies should be available to Ubuntu users
> through the GUI.
> 
> Thanks to you for your intelligence and your
> perception and thanks to
> Zack Powers, who showed me how to solve my problem.
> 
> Jimmy
> 
> For the rest of you -- You know who you are -- I
> call to your attention
> the fact that you've just been shown up and
> outclassed. It happens to
> the best of us once in a while. It must happen to
> you guys more
> often. . . .
FWIW, I've been reading you posts from the start and
it's beyond me why anyone has bothred with you. I've
been plonked by one of the best on this list and for a
much more amenable attitude.  You should have a long
time ago. BTW, I've read all the replies to your posts
and found the info good, reliable and to the point. 
You just have a bad attitude and a very long stubborn
streak.  Some suggestions:

Learn Linux both GUI and terminal a little bit before
you tell everyone they can't answer a direct question
and don't know what they are talking about.  You are
the one who doesn't know what they are talking about.
I haven't been using Ubuntu all that long(~ 2 yrs) and
haven't had a problem using the floppy or a zip drive
on the machine that still has them.  Try reading the
drop downs under System or System Settings(KDE) to
find what you are looking for or failing that use Apt,
Synaptic, Adept whatever you prefer to search for the
programs that do what you want and install them
yourself.
If you can't do that or wont then do back to windoze
and quit tieing up the bandwith on this list as I am
getting tired of deleting your posts.

Get it?

Len

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net