[rescue] The best 'rescue' workstation

[Zach Lowry]

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Wes Will wrote:
| I just spent half an hour, with a typical student:  "If I don't get this
| stuff turned in, I won't graduate in two weeks." and then, "Backups?
| What's backups?"

Wow, you went to the extreme. I run a lab at our school, and we just put
up signs in huge bold black letters reading "DO NOT USE FLOPPY DISKS, IF
YOUR DATA IS LOST WE WILL NOT HELP YOU, BUY A USB KEY INSTEAD". If
course, no one will read them, but no matter. When soemone comes to me
and says "Hey, my disk won't read here but it read at home" my response
is, Well, that's floppy disks for you. They do that. Especially when
slung in a backpack, then left in a hot car, then drug around all day
long. Everything you had on there is gone. I make no attempt to
resurrect the data, and I tell the assistants that actually sit in the
lab not to either. Life's tough with you're tech-illiterate.

On the other hand, for 'real' problems, even silly problems like getting
paper out of the printer, I am likely to go to the ends of the earth to
help fix the problem. But the floppy thing is inexcusable.


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Zach Lowry
MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN
zach at zachlowry.net
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