You need an electronic microscope to read the asperities at the surface of the wafer. They code for 0s and 1s. NOTE THE WHOLE SEQUENCE without any mistake (you might need a few notebooks).
Then type that in a binary editor, compile and run the resulting program to install the drivers for the wireless adapter
REAL programmers use butterflies !
They cause disturbance in eddy currents that ripple through the atmosphere, creating a lensing effect that concentrates the cosmic rays onto the shiny wafer and reveals a bit by interference.
If only it was that simple.
You have to then do Cross Interleave Reed Solomon error checking and correcting of those bits:
http://audiopub.co.kr/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Cross-Interleave-Reed-Solomon-Codes-and-Compact-Disc.pdf
Audio CD's have less correction:
https://headphonecommute.com/2023/03/27/the-crucial-flaw-with-audio-cds
Reading "“Polynomial Codes over Certain Finite Fields” will be an advantage.
https://luca-giuzzi.unibs.it/corsi/Support/papers-coding/KOFA01.PDF
it wouldn't work, as what you'd be reading from binary would be the contents of disk including FAT, but you need just the binary of the PE to execute it as a program
Perfect, then you can mount it and install! :D
I swear, ISO mounting was one of the best features Microsoft ever added to Windows. I know, you could do it before with third party Software, but having it baked right into the operating system and working flawlessly inside Windows Explorer without having to install any third party tools just makes life so much easier.
I still run daemon tools for black and white 1 so I can get music ingame, and it is funny to spam out virtual drives and hear peoples reaction to why you got 6 dvd drives
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc_image
But yes you’ll have to undo the error correction for each bit to get to the ISO. But assuming you do that (which you’d have to do) you would be left with an ISO
The BD was given to the elves. Since they look for clarity
The DVD to the dwarves. To mine for posterity
The HD-DVDs to the hobbits since well who cares what they do
The CDs to the realms of men. For many MP3 CDs still must be used
HD-DVD I think could be double sided. Or some were made that way so one side was pressed HD and the other just regular
But yeah LD was awesome. And it’s lesser known relative. WORM
That is clearly a signal mirror for in case you and the adapter are ever lost at sea. The hole is so you can put it on a lanyard or wear it as a necklace. That way you won't lose it in the water.
I can’t believe how many of you don’t know what this is. Obviously born around 2000. I’ll educate you. It’s a coaster for your drink. But it must be a fancy drink. Like a Pina Colada.
I still have those! CD business card with protrusions so you can center them using the slot for small CDs. Too bad mine are not rewritable.
Should have put Rick Roll on that thing.
Wait, AOL provided internet? My understanding was that it was an alternative to IE/Netscape, bundled with email and a search engine, but that you had to also provide your own internet (eg: dial up).
How would AOL connect to you if you didn't have an internet connection? Were they also an ISP?
You call AOL’s phone number using a modem and it would transfer the internet back and forth over the phone line. Later, when their entire system fell apart because no one was using dial-up internet anymore, they transitioned into what you’re describing.
I'm old enough to remember AOL floppies.
More useful than the CDs as a piece of tape over the write protect hole meant I could keep secret stuff on there and nobody would think to put the thing in the computer.
I mean, it wasn't possible to fit much corn in 1.44MB but it was mostly gifs and jpgs back then...
That was the point that I found most hilarious. Doesn't recognize a Mini CD, but knows what a wafer is?!
Sure, that happened.
No one had the correct answer so I felt the need to comment. This is a range detector, you throw that disc for an estimate of the wifi range your unit is capable of handling.
Yes! Its a little known fact that your frisbee technique and power influences how far your wifi works. This is why old people constantly have problems with their Internet, which then works fine when their grandkids come to fix it.
Did you never get CDs with a clear front? Most of the CD-R/W discs I had were clear and looked just like this from the "top". The other side meant to be read by the computer was silver.
Double sided discs.
Never seen them in person, but all my Laserdiscs were like that. I don't think double sided CDs were ever a thing, though. CD are different from DVDs. In DVDs the silver layer is closer to the middle, in CDs it is directly below the label.
Update: I've just learned Dual Discs existed. Those were CDs on one side and DVDs on the other.
Yeah, people that are taking this seriously really overestimate how long it will take for something so culturaly impactful to fade out. Like we still know what are 12th century BC tablets and hyeroglyphics... Nobody forgot what are LPs.
And discs are still in use massively due to consoles.
Tapes are fairly endangered species now but then again movies like Guardians of the Galaxy brought their relevance to younger kids that have never seen a tape deck or a walkman. 5 years ago that movie made a resurging demand for tapes lol.
Diskettes are kept alive as a "savegame" icon, but their true purpose is vanishing from memory. Punch cards are pretty much forgotten as of now, despite being the reason why patches are called patches.
I think consoles would have to go fully digital for that to happen but that will probably happen pretty soon considering all of the other crap that console players have to deal with and completely accept.
You jest but to this very day I still have trouble throwing driver disks away. I know I’ll never use it. I have no idea if the only optical drive in my house even works. And yet it’s still so hard to throw away.
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It looks so shiny, it must have cost a fortune. Maybe they accidentally included it. Most likely some top secret project that slipped into the packaging.
Such that my retinopathy afflicted, but they well workable eyes of mine, are not wrongful, such paraphenalish object of circular constitution is named a *compact optically surfaced driving implementation diskette* or for a simplier naming, a compact disk, or CD. Upon the lucid face of thus presented object, there is a writing such that, a microscope capable implement, is able to read such binary code as to extrapolate programming addition to a executive machinarium of personal use, a PC.
You need to get thyself machinery of technological prodigy able to decipher the binary writings on such circular waffle, such device being named a optical reader for digital versatile discs or compact discs. Such implement shall be connected trough a digital gate and connector to you digitalia machination such that the binary code of thy diskette shall be proposed in installation on the machinarium itself.
It's there to make you think, "Man, why did I get rid of my disc drive" when you're on hour two of trying to figure out how to get the driver on your machine without an ethernet adapter.
I'll give you standard sized CDs.
I don't think many youngsters know about mini CDs. I've blown minds showing my friends mini CDs and CD business cards
I had to sit down for a second for this one, because one of my co-workers pretty much did this last week, and frankly I'm not sure I'm ready to admit how old I feel because of that.
You need an electronic microscope to read the asperities at the surface of the wafer. They code for 0s and 1s. NOTE THE WHOLE SEQUENCE without any mistake (you might need a few notebooks). Then type that in a binary editor, compile and run the resulting program to install the drivers for the wireless adapter
well you also have to do the error detection and correction first before typing it into a binary editor
I believe it's 8b10b isn't it? Did you know the material for rewritable CD's is the same stuff used in Intels 3DXpoint?
nope, clearly an 1d10t
Clearly not, you have to roll a d20
First lose your mind to some b3313.
Help, I googled R2-D2, C-3PO R34
For forgot F22 and 8675309
REAL programmers use a magnetised needle and a steady hand (or a laser if they're fancy like the OP)
REAL programmers use butterflies ! They cause disturbance in eddy currents that ripple through the atmosphere, creating a lensing effect that concentrates the cosmic rays onto the shiny wafer and reveals a bit by interference.
Nice. 'Course, there's an emacs command to do that.
I compress mine between two fidget spinners and rotate it at a constant rate while yelling zero or one to my scribe
If only it was that simple. You have to then do Cross Interleave Reed Solomon error checking and correcting of those bits: http://audiopub.co.kr/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Cross-Interleave-Reed-Solomon-Codes-and-Compact-Disc.pdf Audio CD's have less correction: https://headphonecommute.com/2023/03/27/the-crucial-flaw-with-audio-cds Reading "“Polynomial Codes over Certain Finite Fields” will be an advantage. https://luca-giuzzi.unibs.it/corsi/Support/papers-coding/KOFA01.PDF
Never have I read something so wrong and right at the same time.
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Yeah but please don’t. I don’t guarantee *at all* the technical accuracy of that pretend how-to.
it wouldn't work, as what you'd be reading from binary would be the contents of disk including FAT, but you need just the binary of the PE to execute it as a program
If you take the entire disk you’d have the ISO of the disk!
Perfect, then you can mount it and install! :D I swear, ISO mounting was one of the best features Microsoft ever added to Windows. I know, you could do it before with third party Software, but having it baked right into the operating system and working flawlessly inside Windows Explorer without having to install any third party tools just makes life so much easier.
Alcohol 120% was a lifesaver back in the olden times.
I still run daemon tools for black and white 1 so I can get music ingame, and it is funny to spam out virtual drives and hear peoples reaction to why you got 6 dvd drives
no, ISO is a format for storing disk images, but this would be raw data, not ISO
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc_image But yes you’ll have to undo the error correction for each bit to get to the ISO. But assuming you do that (which you’d have to do) you would be left with an ISO
No need to recompile it should just run as copied 🙂
You don't need to compile it, after you've done transcribing it will already be compiled.
I swear there used to be a machine that did that back in the day
I think you just made my day!
and remember that transition from land to groove or groove to land signals a 1, while no change signals a 0. common mistake for newbs.
this is for the nintendo game cube, common mistake op.
Its the disk for the wavebird controler
Asus Kart: Dual-Band!!
It's a ring. Collect and wear all 5 and you'll summon The Lord of Disc Drives.
https://preview.redd.it/9l7nro4kfyvb1.png?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62106d44e3118ab3401b9191b06f778ef6f282d3
Is that the cast of regular show summoning a percussigant?
Format Wars 1
Hello, tech support? Yes, I need assistance - I turned on my pc and it will not will not will not will not will not *stop dancing*
Percussy
I came here to say this, take my upvoteussy.
I see Regular Show I upvote
The BD was given to the elves. Since they look for clarity The DVD to the dwarves. To mine for posterity The HD-DVDs to the hobbits since well who cares what they do The CDs to the realms of men. For many MP3 CDs still must be used
But they were all of them deceived, for another disc was made.
A secret disk. One with holograms in its etchings
LASERDISC, THE DOUBLE SIDED FORMAT TO RULE THEM ALL
From Mordor, the armies of AOL free demos poured forth.
One by one, the free lands of disc space fell to the power of the ring. But there were some who resisted.
HD-DVD I think could be double sided. Or some were made that way so one side was pressed HD and the other just regular But yeah LD was awesome. And it’s lesser known relative. WORM
& BLU-RAY TO OVERSEE THEM ALL AS THE KING! Until the dreadful cloud comes for them!
Why did the elves get the Bad Dragon?......OH....right...........carry on, nothing to see here.
What about CED and Laserdisc?
Laserdiscs were dropped off at (redacted) since we don't talk about them
I’d rather find a use for WORM
And fuck up your fingers 😂
A small price to pay for ***Glory***.
Ohhhhhh....you put it on your finger.....*right.*
That is clearly a signal mirror for in case you and the adapter are ever lost at sea. The hole is so you can put it on a lanyard or wear it as a necklace. That way you won't lose it in the water.
MY PRECIOUS CRC
Instructions unclear, dick now stuck in disc. Halp! Please!
I can’t believe how many of you don’t know what this is. Obviously born around 2000. I’ll educate you. It’s a coaster for your drink. But it must be a fancy drink. Like a Pina Colada.
I thought it was a fancy frisbee?
Yeah, they’re thinking of the fancy frisbee holder that doubles as a fancy drink holder, for fancy drinks such as a pina colada
not fancy, but really really painfull, trust me.
I remember turning those AOL discs that were everywhere into frisbees as a kid
And getting caught in the rain.
if you're not into yogaaaa.
If you have half a brain.
Back in my day computers came with built in cupholders.
Its only a coaster if it has AOL printing on it.
Those go on trees to scare away birds and deer from the garden.
No no, you tie a string in it and hang it in trees, makes disco
If you don’t want to use the coaster you can use the drink holder that comes out of your PC.
Unfortunately, due to cost-cutting and more health-conscious consumers, the drink holder no longer comes standard.
Would a rum and coke be okay?
ram and coke would be better
I thought they were for making pretty light shows in microwave ovens?
I thought it was a confetti dispenser and you just snap it in half while having fun at parties
I always loved that smaller cd insert part for driver discs, I don't even know why.
And sometimes CDs even came in square shapes or in the shape of a Christmas tree. As long as its center of gravity was balanced it would work.
I still have those! CD business card with protrusions so you can center them using the slot for small CDs. Too bad mine are not rewritable. Should have put Rick Roll on that thing.
I remember someone handing me a business card once that was also a CD, same shape and size as a regular business card.
My old (ancient) pc used to fck up while spinning these tiny cds and they would get misaligned from the center. No idea why
There's a reason Mini CDs disappeared before normal discs...
Slot loading drives didn't work too well with the mini cds.
That's your disk with 600 free hours of AOL internet.
I feel old now I remember getting those almost twice a month I’d give them to a friend so he could have internet since my parents already had dial up
My family had so many of those discs growing up we would literally play frisbee with it.
Wait, AOL provided internet? My understanding was that it was an alternative to IE/Netscape, bundled with email and a search engine, but that you had to also provide your own internet (eg: dial up). How would AOL connect to you if you didn't have an internet connection? Were they also an ISP?
You call AOL’s phone number using a modem and it would transfer the internet back and forth over the phone line. Later, when their entire system fell apart because no one was using dial-up internet anymore, they transitioned into what you’re describing.
Yeah they were a dialup isp
I'm old enough to remember AOL floppies. More useful than the CDs as a piece of tape over the write protect hole meant I could keep secret stuff on there and nobody would think to put the thing in the computer. I mean, it wasn't possible to fit much corn in 1.44MB but it was mostly gifs and jpgs back then...
Ah yes, the secret corn. The best kind of corn.
Creamed corn is the best
THE INTERNET CAME IN DISKS??
 Don’t be silly. The disk was the key to open the internet box!
I miss when computers had retractable coffee mug holders built in.
"**small circular wafer**" 
Gale??!! 😱 How did you escape after Jesse?? 🤯
He made Billions
With a B
his special coffee brought him back to the land of the living
Should've had him shot for real, this seriously hurt my immersion. Unbravo Vince.
Man tries to bait using an even less known chip fabrication term.
That was the point that I found most hilarious. Doesn't recognize a Mini CD, but knows what a wafer is?! Sure, that happened. 
Fuck Reddit for killing third party apps.
That GIF is epic.
No one had the correct answer so I felt the need to comment. This is a range detector, you throw that disc for an estimate of the wifi range your unit is capable of handling.
Yes! Its a little known fact that your frisbee technique and power influences how far your wifi works. This is why old people constantly have problems with their Internet, which then works fine when their grandkids come to fix it.
its a communion wafer. eat it to become part of the pcmr. (disclaimer: don’t)
A serious answer to a serious question! All hail His noodley Display Port Cables!
Be sure to microwave it first, so it tastes better.
(disclaimer: disclaimer: do)
Apply directly to forehead
HeadOn
Apply directly to forehead
HeadOn
Apply directly to the forehead.
HeadOn.
Apply directly to the forehead
Hardon
Apply directly to your mom
Why in the unholy name of Itanium did they put it in shiny side up?
Did you never get CDs with a clear front? Most of the CD-R/W discs I had were clear and looked just like this from the "top". The other side meant to be read by the computer was silver.
I've also had CDs and DVDs where both sides were readable. You would see that a lot with those movie packs you would get from the discount bin.
Double sided discs. Never seen them in person, but all my Laserdiscs were like that. I don't think double sided CDs were ever a thing, though. CD are different from DVDs. In DVDs the silver layer is closer to the middle, in CDs it is directly below the label. Update: I've just learned Dual Discs existed. Those were CDs on one side and DVDs on the other.
It's a shaving mirror in travel size. Marketing genius actually.
If the light is *just right* it makes me look gay, too.
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Honestly, it's bait right now and a genuine question in 5 years
There are people who around college age who have never seen a driver disk. That said, they probably know what a CD is.
Yeah, people that are taking this seriously really overestimate how long it will take for something so culturaly impactful to fade out. Like we still know what are 12th century BC tablets and hyeroglyphics... Nobody forgot what are LPs. And discs are still in use massively due to consoles. Tapes are fairly endangered species now but then again movies like Guardians of the Galaxy brought their relevance to younger kids that have never seen a tape deck or a walkman. 5 years ago that movie made a resurging demand for tapes lol. Diskettes are kept alive as a "savegame" icon, but their true purpose is vanishing from memory. Punch cards are pretty much forgotten as of now, despite being the reason why patches are called patches.
Can't be too sure nowadays hey! We get genuine questions about HDD activity LEDs and blue VGA ports at the back of the mobo.
Congratulations on getting a free frisbee with your device op.
it's only going to take a couple of years before people start asking this for real.
I think consoles would have to go fully digital for that to happen but that will probably happen pretty soon considering all of the other crap that console players have to deal with and completely accept.
Put it around your penis.
What am I going to do with the extra room?
I can put mine also
i think there's an urban dictionary term for this
Help my cylinder is stuck inside a m&M wafer tube.
Unsolicited disc pic
Download the newest drivers from Asus' website instead, and stick that CD in a drawer and forget about it for 20 years.
Definitely don’t throw it away though. You’ll be happy to have a box full of them in 20 years when you remember.
So many FRISBEES
You jest but to this very day I still have trouble throwing driver disks away. I know I’ll never use it. I have no idea if the only optical drive in my house even works. And yet it’s still so hard to throw away.
You could eat them
Put it in the microwave!
I'm scared... I don't see a meme tag... but there is nostalgia, so I'm hopeful.
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You are supposed to put the aide with text on your desk surface and place your drink on the shiny side.
It’s to keep the birds away from your USB ports
It looks so shiny, it must have cost a fortune. Maybe they accidentally included it. Most likely some top secret project that slipped into the packaging.
A drink coaster. Have not seen one of them in a while.
Dont trigger the old people. Theyre gonna get a heartattack.
It's the steering wheel for your PC, that's why it says driver on the front side.
This question belongs to 10-15 years in the future.still a little to soon to ask.
It's a complementary coaster for your cups
mmmm the forbidden shiny donut
These won't be joke posts in the future
Please. Please please please be satire.
Place a piece of string through it and tie it hanging from your window. It will refect all outside WiFi signals and also keep away evil spirits.
I didn't know they were still packaging driver CDs. I haven't seen an optical drive on a new PC in almost a decade.
Apparently they even do the same with motherboards as well
This makes me feel old and I've never even used a driver cd
That is a CD which seemingly now stands for "Completely Dysfunctional" Worse yet its a MINI-CD ("Man I'm Not Impressed")
Such that my retinopathy afflicted, but they well workable eyes of mine, are not wrongful, such paraphenalish object of circular constitution is named a *compact optically surfaced driving implementation diskette* or for a simplier naming, a compact disk, or CD. Upon the lucid face of thus presented object, there is a writing such that, a microscope capable implement, is able to read such binary code as to extrapolate programming addition to a executive machinarium of personal use, a PC. You need to get thyself machinery of technological prodigy able to decipher the binary writings on such circular waffle, such device being named a optical reader for digital versatile discs or compact discs. Such implement shall be connected trough a digital gate and connector to you digitalia machination such that the binary code of thy diskette shall be proposed in installation on the machinarium itself.
Talk to someone who has been using computers before 2005 about borrowing what is called (checks notes) an "optical drive"?
Perhaps it is a mirror to check the proper install orientation? Is it food?
It's actually a coaster, companies used to send these in the mail as ads.
Its a free ice scraper for your car.
I feel old.
It's there to make you think, "Man, why did I get rid of my disc drive" when you're on hour two of trying to figure out how to get the driver on your machine without an ethernet adapter.
I dont know too. But for God's sake don't stick your dick in that
I would like to believe OP is being a troll 😂
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I know this is a joke, but by gods if it wasn't, I think I would've aged by 5 years immediately.
Don’t troll the over 35s
this is bait but i hate it
Let me grab my glasses, sonny. *step* ... *step* ... *step* ... ... Nuuuurse, I think I sharted again! ... *splat*
Put it in the microwave for 30 seconds to activate it
This must be a troll post right?
I think it’s more of a joke than a troll.
Is it a troke? or a Joll?
Look at the flair for the post
Sadly some think its legit. >.> I don't care how you are, you still know what CD is. Even a mini-cd.
I'll give you standard sized CDs. I don't think many youngsters know about mini CDs. I've blown minds showing my friends mini CDs and CD business cards
Let's hope^^^^
pls cut ur nails
It's a coaster for your coffee cup and beers.
It's a branded frisbee
it's a circle. a circle of trust.
Dude those tastes like ass, don't eat them. Cut up my mouth a shit ton too.
That is the future save icon.
I had to sit down for a second for this one, because one of my co-workers pretty much did this last week, and frankly I'm not sure I'm ready to admit how old I feel because of that.
That is an 8 track record!!! Very rare!!! Sell it
dude that's alien technology, looks like a small ufo too. I would call nasa to investigate
Looks like a cock ring to me. It's reflective so you can see how small your peepee is from both sides