New Laptop Polices

Sat Aug 12 02:48:13 UTC 2006

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. 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]

not sure of his intent, but I know mine :) boot off cd, copy your HD, walk
away... I just know there is some juicy goo on Joe's laptop, he works for
OSIS! (I kid, of course)

>
> 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

you haven't had that discussion with an exec have you? I'd love to, my
laptops are, for all intents and purposes a ssh terminal... apparently
people need 'VPN access' and 'powerpoint' (is that what it's called??) and
what-not. I don't get it, but then again, I'm just a chemical engineer.

> 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.

are you in marketting? :)