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? :)