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? :)
