[Rant]
So the problem with technology... is when technology isn't upgraded to keep up with current standards.
This is NOT a rant about my computer being too slow, this is rant about not being able to remove information from one computer and put it on another because I lack a medium through which this transfer may occur. My computer has a CD RW/DVD drive, USB connection and internet, running Windows XP.
I am trying to work with a computer that runs Windows 98, has a CD drive and no connection to the internet. Another computer has CD and a Zip drive...
To get media from a Zip drive you have to put it on a Zip disc and take it to a 3rd computer, which happens to run XP... and can transfer between Zip and Flash drives.
Windows 98 is not compatible with plug and play Flash drives... so went and looked up the website for my flash drive manufactuer... downloaded a driver for my flash drive. Of course I can't transfer it to the other computer via flash drive, I have to transfer it via CD. Now it appears I don't have the right driver... further investigation reveals the driver for my Flash Drive probally doesn't exist - it's too new. The driver I was downloading was for a an older, discontinued version of this model.
Long story short, I need to get information off of another computer and I can't, because it is too old and my media is too new.
Of course this doesn't even go into how I want to open an pdf file on the old computer but can't because it doesn't have Adobe Reader... and how the driver was a ZIP file that I couldn't unzip on it, I had to go back to the new computer, unzip it and reburn the CD...
****ing pain in the ***
[/rant]
So the problem with technology... is when technology isn't upgraded to keep up with current standards.
This is NOT a rant about my computer being too slow, this is rant about not being able to remove information from one computer and put it on another because I lack a medium through which this transfer may occur. My computer has a CD RW/DVD drive, USB connection and internet, running Windows XP.
I am trying to work with a computer that runs Windows 98, has a CD drive and no connection to the internet. Another computer has CD and a Zip drive...
To get media from a Zip drive you have to put it on a Zip disc and take it to a 3rd computer, which happens to run XP... and can transfer between Zip and Flash drives.
Windows 98 is not compatible with plug and play Flash drives... so went and looked up the website for my flash drive manufactuer... downloaded a driver for my flash drive. Of course I can't transfer it to the other computer via flash drive, I have to transfer it via CD. Now it appears I don't have the right driver... further investigation reveals the driver for my Flash Drive probally doesn't exist - it's too new. The driver I was downloading was for a an older, discontinued version of this model.
Long story short, I need to get information off of another computer and I can't, because it is too old and my media is too new.
Of course this doesn't even go into how I want to open an pdf file on the old computer but can't because it doesn't have Adobe Reader... and how the driver was a ZIP file that I couldn't unzip on it, I had to go back to the new computer, unzip it and reburn the CD...
****ing pain in the ***
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