Zip Drives - Help me navigate this mare incognitae

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framstedt
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i am going to pose a stupid question - how do zip drives work. i mean, do they actually compress the data so 1 gig because x megabytes, or is it akin to a cd-rom or floppy disk?

i need to free up space on my hard drive - too many pornos, you know - and i'd like one or several of the more computer savvy members to provide guidance. recommendations would be nice, too. at the moment, i am favoring iomega's zip 750 mb.

or, is what i want, a portable hard drive? please, please, with sugar on top, give me an answer.

thanks.

frammy

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a zip drive is just a storage device
before the usb revolution
it was useful for eg. design students
who may need to jump from computer to computer
and use large files, graphics files
unlike word docs. that most ppl use
and those ppl can use a floppy or email to save their work

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my advice is, burn all your spare shit to CDs

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or DVDs, they take about 4 gig

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awww...wes you a sweetie for answering
i was starting to worry there (for frammy)

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that's what i do
but then i forget about them

yeah i can probably delete all my mp3s and i probalby wouldnt miss them...

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zipping used to be part of my college routine doll

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and now you make me feel all young and ignorant..
we;re the same age goddamit!@

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really? how did i do that pray tell?

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used to be part of your college..
we';re the same age
you live in a penthouse..working

i'm in 3rd year

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nah nah, its ok
its all a progression
its all a process

cos i have these things
doesnt mean that i dont have problems
i have a whole stack of shit to deal with
and im getting by, slowly
occasionally mental, but generally with it

im putting things that have happened favourably for me
in the last 3-4 years down to alot of luck
its not like ive acutally worked for or deserve anything ive got.

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no you do deserve it..dont be so hard on yourself
it just amazes me how life is so, i guess fastforwarded there..and in UK as well...here, after the highschool thing, you do the university thing...its just so different

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1. lets clear one thing up
no im not being hard on myself
im being nakedly honestly confessional
ps. and im right

2. bollocks
your ( north americans ) life seems on fast forward to us a helluva lot.
we dont have 13yo mothers on talk shows
every 2nd child is packing a handgun over here.
etc etc.

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you crack me up
i missed that
we hardly ever talk about more

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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by origamiLips [/i]
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we hardly ever talk about more [/B][/QUOTE]

heh?

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you know

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no, i dont, that sentence makes no sense to me.

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i had an half of hour of sleep in 2 days..i make no sense to my self

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ok, so what does this mean?
what tone is this?
how should i interpret it?

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oh you crack me up
you're starting to sound like me

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Mickey: 'What tone is that?'
Eddie: 'Well i dont know, i dont have to interpret my fucking tone for you Mickey'

isnt Hurlyburly just the best

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lol

i can feel...me...getting...tired..
but ....stupid.....cp...net.....stuff.....need...to....work....

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thanks very much wes and rita. i was beginning to feel unloved, unwanted and entirely insignificant.

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yeah see my first post thanking wes cause i was beginning to sense that you were unloved

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