New Laptop Polices

Sat Aug 12 02:47:57 UTC 2006

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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