Chapter the Twenty-second: But I Requested a Storm
I'm at work right now, but I do have my computer back. It's just been too hot in the last few days to even TRY to do anything sensical like write blog posts (though I did make icons...fancy that).

Anyhow, work is a good place, though people tend to ask the same questions over and over, or expect to be able to do things that are impossible on the computer/platform that they're using.

That, and the fact that everyone wants to use floppy drives.
For some reason, the people who bought the computers (The Powers That Be at ITS; I heard Lisa complaining about them after I talked to her about this issue) decided that 1.44 Mb floppy disks are going out of style. Therefore, none...yes, NONE...of the computers that were bought in the last year have those drives. ZIP drives, yes. CD-R/RW drives, yes. 3.5 inch drives? Bitch, please!

Anyhow, the people for the School of Social Work are, to some degree, equivalent to my mother in terms of computer savvy. Therefore, floppies are what they know how to use. And teaching them any different is like talking to a brick wall, though I did convince someone to use her Smith account to keep her files, which is what most of the BA students do anyway.

So we now have four USB floppy drives floating in the lab, and one lab consultant ready to tear her hair out when she is asked by four people within three minutes, 'Where's the disk drive?' Some people have been sticking them in the ZIP drives. Fortunately none have gotten stuck. Yet.
- posted by Paige @ 6/10/2004 02:02:50 PM