Re: New Laptop Polices

["Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon () cox net>]

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 
> > the
> > math! :)
>
> 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.
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