[Year 12 IT Apps] R.I.P. Floppy

[Roland Gesthuizen]

There are many legacy systems which rely on them and oddly enough, there are
still Chinese factories are still pumping out writable media.

Just had a chat to confirm that we still have our single USB FDD player
around to help people here migrate media. A timely investment if anybody has
not yet purchased one. ;-)

Regards Roland

On 27 April 2010 14:28, Donna Benjamin <donna at cc.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 12:25 +1000, Brett Groves wrote:
> > But of course if you were using Ubuntu it's built in to the desktop;
> > right click and resize images!
>
> not to mention the power of imagemagick on the command line!
> http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
>
> never underestimate the power of a good shell script ;)
>
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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