Re: Sic transit gloria floppi
I used one last year when I got hit with a virus. Found a solution on the Internet, downloaded the file to a PC, put it on a floppy, and booted the infected box from the floppy. Since I was unable to get into the BIOS menu when I powered up, I couldn't set the boot order to go to a USB first.
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."
-- E.L. Doctorow
