http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/floppydisk Questions tagged with 'floppydisk' at Ask MetaFilter. Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:37:31 -0800 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:37:31 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/67867/Rectangular%2Dpeg%2Din%2Dlarger%2Drectangular%2Dhole AACK! Accidentally, put old 3 1/2" floppy disk into the zip disk drive on my desktop. I can't get it out and the clicking sound is making me crazy. Yes, I am an idiot. I am moving offices and cleaning everything out. I had a stack of old 3 1/2" floppies that I wanted to be sure didn't have anything important on them. I was speeding my way through and then accidentally fed one of them into the zip disk drive that is right below the floppy drive. I cannot seem to pry it out (although I don't have any tools, e.g., pliers, here at work) and the drive reader WILL NOT STOP driving to read the disk, making the most annoying clickity-click sound. Please help me before I have to tell my department administrator who will berate me endlessly before helping. Taking suggestions for how to either: 1) get disk out or 2) stop computer from trying to read it. (I never use the zip drive, obviously.) tag:ask.metafilter.com,2007:site.67867 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:37:31 -0800 computerfuckup floppydisk humanerror picklebird http://ask.metafilter.com/31750/2DD%2Dfloppies Does anyone still make 720K 2DD floppies? If so, where can I get some? tag:ask.metafilter.com,2006:site.31750 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:35:14 -0800 2dd diskette floppydisk monkey closet http://ask.metafilter.com/7240/Alternative%2Dto%2DFloppy%2DDisk%2DAuthentication%2Dfor%2DClientServer%2DNonWeb%2DSystem Looking for advice for replacing the floppy disk as an authentication factor for logging onto a client-server non web-based system. Anyone have any bright ideas? [Details within] Currently, we are using floppy disks to store Entrust (PKI) information that users must have in order to access the system (an older system and architecture written in C++, I think). I want to ditch the floppy, but can't think of a better alternative. Anything else, it seems to me, would require a drive letter, and the application would have to search through all the drives in order to find the user's file, adding time to the login. Also, it would be nice to limit the types of media users could access the system with (as in, no iPods and the such). Only real limit is that the file cannot be local, as in residing on the PC, and that the application requires write access to the file, so no CD's. Does anyone have experience with this sort of thing? Any brilliant ideas spring to mind? Any help would be greatly appreciated! tag:ask.metafilter.com,2004:site.7240 Thu, 13 May 2004 15:01:52 -0800 authentication computers floppydisk internet login networking server loquax