Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] excuses, excuses

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Mikhail Kovalenko wrote:

> Jonathan King wrote:
> 
> > 2) Student comes in on the day when the short paper is due waving
> >    a floppy disk that is alleged to contain a paper that is now
> >    unreadable.  I am suspicious, but graciously offer to help 
> >    recover the paper on the disk since I have some amazingly 
> >    effective disk and file repair tools available, geek that I 
> >    am, and, hey, office hours are right now!
> 
> That's nothing. I was given a floppy disk once that had been
> apparently stepped on and almost folded in two. I did attempt to
> read it anyway, and even though we could read the FAT, the
> actual needed files were, of course, missing. Which resulted in
> late points...

Now that's a lucky student.  Challenging your 3733t $ki11z and
only getting late points deducted?

:-)

jking

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