From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 17 11:40:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB71214C1B for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 11:40:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id LAA01222; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 11:39:33 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id LAA05005; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 11:39:32 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn0.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA29342; Wed, 17 Nov 99 11:39:30 PST Message-Id: <38330472.6DD7A7D7@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:39:30 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Hibma Cc: Jay Nelson , chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Support for USB floppies like Y-E Data FlashBuster-u ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nick Hibma wrote: > > > >Most hard drives are made of aluminum, aren't they? Aluminum doesn't > > >deflect bullets, at least not the kind I shoot. ;^) > > > > Wad cutters or .22s might be a problem;) > > Guys, hold your horses, I've found that I can much more easily pester > the drives by actually still using them. The machine is the crash > machine and I only need about 50Mb of disk space on it, and that is > left on all of them before the first bad sector. > > I'll use them till they screatch to halt! I'll abuse them, pester them, > make them feel sorry for their pathetic attempts at ruining my work! > I'll make them work till they bleed! > > And _then_ I will shoot them. This reminds me, what does a sadist say when a masochist asks him for a beating? "No." ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message