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Re: New Laptop Polices
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon () cox net>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:47:57 -0500
Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (that is me) wrote:
Christopher L. Morrow wrote:On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Joseph S D Yao wrote:Do modern laptops have disk drives that are that hard to remove?one screw and 'pop' out comes all dell laptop harddrives... or boot from cd, usb->copy all data, slide back into case and move on to next.you have 2 hours between baggage arrival and load-plane time so you do themath! :)I guess I mis-understood his intent. [1]In any case, it occurred to me that in today's throw-away commodity computer world, why don't we return to those thrilling days of yesteryear where we expected the destination to have all the stuff we needed, pretty much? All the files on a central server (where, like the old central file room they will be safer) accessed from appliances installed everywhere like lights and telephones. Maybe give them a catchy name like "minitel" or something.
Forgot the footnote. Hate it when people do that! [1] Only the (was first,now...) second mistake since dinner. -- Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio http://members.cox.net/larrysheldon/
Current thread:
- Re: New Laptop Polices, (continued)
- Re: New Laptop Polices Neil J. McRae (Aug 11)
- Re: New Laptop Polices Chris Riling (Aug 11)
- Re: New Laptop Polices Roland Perry (Aug 12)
- Re: New Laptop Polices Neil J. McRae (Aug 11)
- Re: New Laptop Polices Randy Bush (Aug 11)
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- Re: New Laptop Polices Randy Bush (Aug 11)
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- Re: New Laptop Polices David Lesher (Aug 11)
- Re: New Laptop Polices Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 11)
- Re: New Laptop Polices Joseph S D Yao (Aug 11)
- Re: New Laptop Polices Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 11)
- Re: New Laptop Polices Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Aug 11)
- Re: New Laptop Polices Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Aug 11)
- Re: New Laptop Polices Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 11)
- Re: New Laptop Polices Joseph S D Yao (Aug 11)
- Re: New Laptop Polices Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Aug 11)
- Re: New Laptop Polices Jim Popovitch (Aug 11)
- Re: New Laptop Polices Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Aug 11)
- Re: New Laptop Polices Joseph S D Yao (Aug 11)
- Re: New Laptop Polices joelja (Aug 11)
- Re: New Laptop Polices Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 12)
- Re: New Laptop Polices Michael Nicks (Aug 12)
- Re: New Laptop Polices Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Aug 12)