Win98 -- all kidding aside

[Bart Silverstrim]

Jimmy Montague wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:59 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>> Jimmy Montague wrote:
>>
>>> No. The message is "use another system." The Mac, for example, handles
>>> floppies with ease. But your response probably indicates why Linux does
>>> not.
>> Macs probably *did*. Back then. Macs haven't *had* floppy drives 
>> since...when?
>>
>> The ones that *did* have them had sensors that did alert the OS to media 
>> changes. Didn't I say that already, or are you not quite understanding 
>> what I'm saying here?
>>
> No. You didn't say that already 

Um...yeah, pretty sure I did.

7/30/2008, 9:57 PM:
"MacOS, as I recall, was tied to the hardware, which at the time did 
have sensors to alert the OS that media was inserted. "

>and even if you did, it doesn't speak to
> the question. 

You keep bringing it up. Would you like that quoted too?

>The question is: Can you or can you not tell me how to
> make the Ubuntu GUI administer my floppy drive correctly without my
> having to learn the command line? 

Your turn to quote where you asked that question previously. You started 
out ranting about having a mis-named floppy icon stuck on your desktop 
and not being able to rename it.

What I can tell you is I could look it up, but I at the moment I'll 
leave it to someone else because I'm not so sure I'd want to go out of 
my way to help someone who can't even read what I had told him 
previously so it would be a waste of time.

>It's a Yes or No question, but you
> won't answer it.

I can look it up or use the floppy admin utility someone else *already* 
suggested.

> Instead you have from the get-go belittled both me (I'm
> unreasonable) and my hardware (it's creaky tech) for asking the question
> in the first place.

Um...reread your first post. You threw the first grenade.

Again, as others have pointed out.

And you don't seem to have the cajones to come back and say, "Sorry, 
guys, I was blowing off some steam at being frustrated about it. Can 
anyone tell me why it's doing XYZ?"

If anyone comes back pointing out where I'm wrong in the facts I've 
pointed out to you, I'm more than willing to apologize and take my 
lumps. So far your responses have consisted of insults and more bitching 
instead of using actual facts.

> I asked you nicely once -- remember I said "please"? -- answer my
> question or butt out of this thread. 

Real nice! "I don't have a clue why this is happening. Tell me why or 
STFU." I can't imagine your clean character not in a Disney costume in 
the magic kingdom, you're oozing with such friendliness.

> Well, I don't WANT a command-line solution. I'm not INTERESTED in a
> command-line solution -- unless it fixes the GUI so it does what it's
> supposed to do, e.g.: allow me to read, to write, to format, and to
> rename floppy disks, and to perform those tasks with the mouse.

I'd recommend others not give you anything involving the command line, 
seeing how you resorted to petulance last time I had a series of 
commands to try.