19 Dec
2004
19 Dec
'04
1:31 a.m.
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Nico de Jong wrote:
Ahh, the Inexorable March of Progress. It must be better -- it's newer!
PS:
As I was getting vietnamese food to go tonight, a counter kid had
a Univ. Southern. Calif. T-shirt on, the obverse of which said
"So and So Famous Person
department for the
commercialization of technology"
So stupidity has gone institutional. And people think I'm crazy!
Then
there's issues with @#$%^ IBM (or m'soft) looking for
text in the boot sector and not just that FATid (the 1st byte
of each FAT) to ID disks, rendering otherwise-proper MSDOS
diskettes unusable.
A related "bug" is the following (maybe even the same?)
When I format 3.5" disks on my present conversion system, and insert them in
an IBM or Windows system with virus check software, it will speak up and say
it found a Kitty virus. Extensive forensic work has shown that this is not
the case; the problem is that there is a byte somewhere (can't remember if
is is bootsector or FAT), which according to MS-DOS is un-used.