[91777] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Laptop Polices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Fri Aug 11 22:48:52 2006
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:47:57 -0500
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <44DD3ED2.1020407@cox.net>
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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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